Posted By: hippiegirl
I'm a grandma...again! I'm not happy about this!!! - 01/30/09 04:08 AM
Last night I realized an egg apparently hatched since I could hear the familiar baby sounds coming from the cage and sure enough there's a baby. I went through this a month or so ago with disasterious and heart-breaking results.
I'm already freaking out and worrying about the baby.
The good part is that this baby is from a different mom and dad. The dad is very attentive, whereas the other ignored mom and baby altogher.
The bad news is that mom has layed all her eggs in a hollowed out parakeet toy - I think it's called a cozy keet - it's basically a small log where the birds can chew out the soft wood interior. It's about 9 inches long and 3 1/4" wide. Mom's in there with baby and about 5 other eggs. Does anyone have any ideas? There's a empty nesting box in the cage but for some reason no one ever wants to nest in it.
I'm afraid if I move mom and baby and eggs she might abandon it alltogher. I'm also afraid of the baby getting trampled and squished in the cozy keet log - and there's diffentely not room for more eggs to hatch. Oh boy....I can't take another baby dying..
Sorry for whining...this has been an emotional week anyways- my seventeen year old son went to live with his dad (his choice) and I feel pretty useless.
I'm already freaking out and worrying about the baby.
The good part is that this baby is from a different mom and dad. The dad is very attentive, whereas the other ignored mom and baby altogher.
The bad news is that mom has layed all her eggs in a hollowed out parakeet toy - I think it's called a cozy keet - it's basically a small log where the birds can chew out the soft wood interior. It's about 9 inches long and 3 1/4" wide. Mom's in there with baby and about 5 other eggs. Does anyone have any ideas? There's a empty nesting box in the cage but for some reason no one ever wants to nest in it.
I'm afraid if I move mom and baby and eggs she might abandon it alltogher. I'm also afraid of the baby getting trampled and squished in the cozy keet log - and there's diffentely not room for more eggs to hatch. Oh boy....I can't take another baby dying..
Sorry for whining...this has been an emotional week anyways- my seventeen year old son went to live with his dad (his choice) and I feel pretty useless.