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Pet Forum / Birds / Birds / April 2004HELP!
I had put two male Zebra Finches in a large cage with my two females. I thought nothing was happening, then this morning there is a live tiny baby bird laying on the bottom of the cage. I picked it up and put it back in the nest, but they are all ignoring it. Did they push it out of the nest? What's going on? >From: "Jean Staffen" jstaffen@austin.rr.com >I had put two male Zebra Finches in a large cage with my two females. I >thought nothing was happening, then this morning there is a live tiny baby >bird laying on the bottom of the cage. I picked it up and put it back in >the nest, but they are all ignoring it. Did they push it out of the nest? >What's going on? http://www.ladygouldianfinch.com/features_handfeeding.mgi http://tinyurl.com/2tnxr Regards What a day! I had to work today and it broke my heart to go off and leave the poor defenseless baby in the nest with his little mouth open. I'm afraid I couldn't concentrate on work all day, and just knew he'd be dead when I got home. I dreaded coming home, knowing what I'd find. Then I got lost and drove for an hour before finding my way home, and it was flooding. When I got home, I ran to see the baby, and he was still alive! Imagine! All four of the adults were still totally ignoring the baby. I had not a clue what to feed him, and I confess I was too upset to be able to read the webpage that was so generously supplied to me. So I took the baby in my left hand, drove to the petshop with my right hand, and along the way heaved warm air into my hand to warm the poor little cold thing. Thank God, the petshop was still open, and I ran up to the nice little English lady who sold me the males. She didn't know what to do, but there was a customer there who was a bird raiser. She said to put the baby into a nest with the Society Finch females. We did that, and one of them immediate checked out the baby, and brought nesting material to put around him. The girl said she would feed the baby before she left and come back tomorrow to feed him again. If he lives through the night. She said there might be something wrong with the baby, and that is why they pushed him out of the nest. I spent most of the day being mad at these stupid birds. I've taken both nests out of the cage, and until I decide differently, they can eat and poop and chirp and fly around and screw around all they want, but I'm going to grab their eggs as soon as they lay them. No more babies at this time. > I had put two male Zebra Finches in a large cage with my two females. I > thought nothing was happening, then this morning there is a live tiny baby > bird laying on the bottom of the cage. I picked it up and put it back in > the nest, but they are all ignoring it. Did they push it out of the nest? > What's going on? >What a day! I had to work today and it broke my heart to go off and leave >the poor defenseless baby in the nest with his little mouth open. I'm >afraid I couldn't concentrate on work all day, and just knew he'd be dead >when I got home. I dreaded coming home, knowing what I'd find. Then I got >lost and drove for an hour before finding my way home, and it was flooding. If you were gone all day and he was still alive, how do you know they hadn't been feeding him? Did you have anything in the cage for them to feed him? There were seeds, a seed spray, crushed hard boiled egg, vegetables, crushed egg shells, and a bowl of water. What do they feed their babies? > >What a day! I had to work today and it broke my heart to go off and leave > >the poor defenseless baby in the nest with his little mouth open. I'm [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > hadn't been feeding him? Did you have anything in the cage for them > to feed him? > There were seeds, a seed spray, crushed hard boiled egg, vegetables, crushed > egg shells, and a bowl of water. What do they feed their babies? [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > > hadn't been feeding him? Did you have anything in the cage for them > > to feed him? I agree how do you know they were not feeding the little one? Did you even LOOK at the crop of the baby? Heck are you even aware of what a crop is?? Not to mention if this is the MOST you actually KNOW about these birds and their raising and caring for the babies Then I agree remove all nests and all eggs BUT please invest in some fake eggs to put in there in place JUST in case they keep laying and end up killing themselves (yes that is right females can lay till they exhaust themselves and they tend to try and re[place any removed egg so the faster you remove the quicker she lays more that faster the poor things dies from exhaustion. This is likely to happen even faster if a good protein and calcium rich diet is not used for them As far as the birds being dumb PLEASE they did not go get two humans and place in a cage then Hope for the best They were tossed in there by you a PERSON a HUMAN who should at least have the Sense to know what the heck is fed to the babies OR not be breeding Please do them a favor if you plan to breed READ If you only want the company get some little fake eggs or remove all nests. Not to mention if you se ea baby or any bird having health issues that you yourself can not handle well common sense would be to jump in a car and head for a Vet Not to a pet store or run to the computer either for that matter Who knows just how long it will take for someone to answer do you really wish to have your bird sitting there suffering while you log on to the internet post a question and wait and HOPE someone who can help will come back and respond Go to the vet. That is half hour to an hour where that bird is suffering while you pussy foot around If that is all the better you plan to care for them PLEASE DO NOT BREED ANYMORE!!! we already have plenty irresponsible breeders we need no more JUST MY TWO CENTS Tara |
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