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Had finches for 10 years many hatchlings never looked inside...how come you know all about eggs in their nest? Birds don't like when you intervene...they want to be PRIVATE...with you and kids looking in ,,,they probably abandoned the 8 eggs... |
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8 eggs is too many, your female probably can't handle that many. You need to remove some of them so that she only has three or four to look after.
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So you saw those eggs all this time and just assumed everything would be just great. Well, now you have yourself a problem. Not only with the hatched ones but the others in the eggs. Because each egg is in various stages of development. So what are you going to do, removing say, an egg that is due to hatch tomorrow? Tell yourself that it's not really a bird in there? What are you going to do with the dying babies that the parents wont feed? As they struggle in there with no one to take care of them. Instead of entertaining your kids with the lives of living beings please THINK before letting this happen again. Yes this is harsh. So is dying. |
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Hello, I am bird lover and have about 4 finches and few Java sparrows with me,. I need some your expert advise on the finches behaviour. One of my finches had layed about 5 eggs and started incubating from past few weeks. About 5 days back one of the egg got hatched and chic was doing fine. The hen continued its incubation further on remaining eggs. after 2 days I could see another hatchling and then I saw both the babies were doing fine. But yesterday morning when I checked my nest to my surprize the babies were missing and hen was incubating the remaining 2 eggs. I looked in for the babies and could not find it.. but i could sense they have killed them. coz I could notice some remains in the food pallette...Can some one please help me in clarifying why this behaviour... FYI the same hen had succesfully raised a baby just 2 weeks back with a good parent hood including its father bird.. thanks Anand |
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Two weeks between clutches? And in the fall? Of course she let them die. It's too late in the season for breeding and they cannot be bred off season and one time after another without consequences. Please don't breed any more, you obviously do not know what you are doing. I really do not mean to make you feel bad but those babies died because of your lack of knowledge and the hen is next. Breeding should only happen in the spring and they should never raise more than two clutches. The last one hatching around mid June. Please put them on a strict natural daylight schedule to stop this aberrant breeding behavior. |
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Reply with quote | #21 | FYI I am in India and there's no fall season here. Its almost like summer now here. anyway's your inputs are very useful to me. Can you please clarify me how many days gap should be there once it has raised a clutch?
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Well, fall is not so much a matter of temperature but a matter of the number of hours of daylight becoming less and less until we reach the solstice in December when the days start getting longer. And, if I am not mistaken (I don't have a map of the world in front of me now) India is on the Northern Hemisphere so your days must be getting shorter just like here in the States. Whether you call it fall or rainy season or whatever is irrelevant. Are your birds on a strictly natural daylight schedule? Because that would do the trick. As to how long between clutches, it all depends on how long you allow the babies to stay with the parents. I usually leave them in the breeding cage for two to three weeks after they are eating on their own because the father continues to supplement his eating and to discourage the parents from nesting again. Sometimes it doesn't work and the parents start pulling the feathers out of the babies tails because they want to nest again. When they do that, I remove the hen from the breeding cage and put her back in the flight cage with nest with fake eggs (if you don't, she will lay). Personally, I only allow one clutch per pair and I don't even breed every pair every year any more. I alternate them. But two clutches is good, not more though. So, all in all, since the babies hatch until she starts laying again, there is a lapse of about 7 or 8 weeks. |
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ok my cage was knocked over outside while i was cleaning the cage out by my dog, opened the cage and all my birds flew away..i have 3 eggsunhatched what do i do to keep them alive? |
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See if you can find a breeder with zebras, or Society finches that are on eggs to put the eggs under. If the mom was sitting on them then you cannot let them get cold as the babies will die. Incubation is tough, the eggs have to be kept at a certain temperature and must be turned on a regular basis, and hand feeding baby finches is a bear of a job. They are so tiny that they need to be fed every couple of hours and you need to know what you are doing or you will kill them easily. I hate to be a downer but this is a job for an expert not a novice, so if you have hand fed them before OK. However, if the eggs have cooled off forget it as the babies cannot survive. |
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Reply with quote | #26 | Maybe you shouldnt have any more birds because you were careless enough to let the cage be knocked over by your dog now you are stuck with those eggs just give it up justice
Quote: Originally Posted by Kaylaok my cage was knocked over outside while i was cleaning the cage out by my dog, opened the cage and all my birds flew away..i have 3 eggsunhatched what do i do to keep them alive? |
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i am pleased to say that ive been breeding fiches for 10 years and that i have 15 pairs as i speak on nests now many thx. |
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Reply with quote | #28 | My zebra finch's eggs hatched about 3 weeks ago and the chicks seemed to have been doing fine until this morning. i looked outside and the two birds were dead. it was her first batch of hatched eggs. any help on why they may have died? thanks, claire
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Quote: Originally Posted by Claire My zebra finch's eggs hatched about 3 weeks ago and the chicks seemed to have been doing fine until this morning. i looked outside and the two birds were dead. it was her first batch of hatched eggs. any help on why they may have died? thanks, claire
They died because they were not healthy enough to survive. Leave it be. This is nature. |
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