Budgies killing their young.
MARK STUMP
Can you help...
Recently hatched young are being pecked to death and ejected from their
breeding boxes.
Can anyone tell me why this is happening as it is most distressing.
Thankyou, Mark.
Keith Suhoza
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that are deformed or weak in any way which would prevent them from living
normal lives. This is similar to guppies eating their deformed young.
However, I'm not sure how common this is among various bird species.
Kimberly Szalay-Mowery
I had an interesting experience with my lovebirds. My parents had 6
babies in this clutch. I don't know if it was the weight of all the
birds on top of #6 or if mom sat too heavy on the babies, but #6 was
abandoned by mom. Mom did an excellent job of raising the other five
babies, but after two weeks, she abandoned #6 and discontinued feeding.
I pulled #6 immediately and started to hand feed. Ironically, this baby
was sooooo tiny, and it did act a little strange, compared to the
others. She would fall asleep on her back and all 4 legs would splay
out. At the time, we just thought mom got tired and gave up, but by
week #4, when the others were up and trotting around, #6's one leg
splayed out and she gimped. Some how, mom knew her baby was defective
from the start. Had I not rescued #6, mom would have let her starve.
We tried taping the legs together, but by the time we discoverd the
splay leg, it was too late in the baby's growth to change it. She is
now a happy gimpy pet bird who rides on my shoulder all day.
Kim S-M
Cynthia Cua
Keith Suhoza wrote:
>
> MARK STUMP <mark....@picknowl.com.au> wrote in article
> <01bc73f2$bcc8fe20$6a4d...@mark.stump>...
> > Can you help...
> > Recently hatched young are being pecked to death and ejected from their
> > breeding boxes.
> >
> > Can anyone tell me why this is happening as it is most distressing.
> >
> > Thankyou, Mark.
> >
> If I'm not mistaken, birds like many other animals will kill any babies
> that are deformed or weak in any way which would prevent them from living
> normal lives. This is similar to guppies eating their deformed young.
> However, I'm not sure how common this is among various bird species.
I have some experience with guppies. They will eat all the young small
enough to fit in their mouths not just the deformed ones (but those are
usually the ones that aren't lucky enough to be able to swim or hide very
well). My brother had hamsters when he was young. They ate their
babies and the vet said it was because they felt threatened by our
intrusions and perhaps intrusions from other hamsters as well. Don't
know if this applies to budgies though.
Cindy
Joan Napolitano
It is my experience that budgies will kill their young if they are over-
bred and the birds are not given a chance to recuperate after two or
three clutches in a row. If you don't remove the nestbox and allow
"tired" parents to rear more young, they frequently will kill them. Also
the female or male may injure the other mate.
Overbreeding is not a good thing. Give your breeding pairs a chance to
rest.
Joan Napolitano
deadlyg...@gmail.com
> Can you help...
> Recently hatched young are being pecked to death and ejected from their
> breeding boxes.
>
> Can anyone tell me why this is happening as it is most distressing.
>
