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Post by aggletine on Dec 29, 2013 6:41:07 GMT
Hi there all its been a while since I have posted. Two of my female budgies fought yesterday morning and one of them got hurt she is recovering now. I removed her and her mate from my flight cage and put them in a cage inside the house.
She was getting a nest ready to breed. My question is will she still breed now or not.
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Post by Sarah on Dec 29, 2013 6:49:48 GMT
You should not breed her now, no. Her body will have to heal and recover before she is ready to sacrifice the kind of energy and material she has to put in to her eggs. You should not encourage her to breed in a weakened state.
Also, attacks like this are sadly common in a colony breeding situation- that is a breeding situation where there are more birds than just the mated pair alone in a breeding cage. In the wild, fights over mates and nesting space are common and perfectly natural, but the loser has somewhere to run to before the fight becomes too serious. In captivity, you would need a half an acre large aviary to allow for that to happen. It doesn't matter how big your cage or flight is - please always separate breeding couples into their own private cage. I have had users lose multiple adult birds and entire clutches of chicks to violence like this because they did not know any better than to breed them in a colony.
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Post by aggletine on Dec 29, 2013 6:53:48 GMT
Thank you very much. Her cere got nipped.I was thankfully in front of the cage so I could stop the fight fairly quick.
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Post by Sarah on Dec 29, 2013 6:55:59 GMT
If it is a very minor injury like it sounds, then you should feed her a protein and fat rich diet, and then you could have a shot at breeding her in about a month.
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Post by aggletine on Dec 29, 2013 7:23:51 GMT
I gave them eggfood and fruit but they aren't interested in that they only want to eat budgie seed and sunflower seed
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Post by Sarah on Dec 29, 2013 7:26:06 GMT
Have you tried giving them their food in a blend or mash instead of separately?
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Post by aggletine on Dec 29, 2013 7:46:22 GMT
Yes I give it all mixed together. Then they take out the eggs and fruit and drop it on the floor
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Post by aggletine on Dec 29, 2013 8:34:12 GMT
My female budgie keep chewing on the cage bars is that normal?
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Post by Budgiebonkers on Dec 29, 2013 13:46:20 GMT
I had a hen that got in a fight before her cere had a chunk missing ever since that happened she never went back into condition to breed.
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Post by aggletine on Dec 29, 2013 17:40:39 GMT
I hope that's not the case she is my most beatiful budgie and is over a year old. Its her firs time breeding. Its just as if a part of the one side is lifted. But it look like it growing back again
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Post by Budgiebonkers on Dec 29, 2013 18:00:56 GMT
I hope that's not the case she is my most beatiful budgie and is over a year old. Its her firs time breeding. Its just as if a part of the one side is lifted. But it look like it growing back again Mine was retired before it happened so it didnt bother me. What color is your hen? |
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Post by aggletine on Dec 30, 2013 6:54:59 GMT
She has a yellow face a blue body and has pied white and black wing I am still trying to figure out how to post a picture
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Post by aggletine on Dec 30, 2013 17:45:18 GMT
My female started to make her nest again this morning. How long will it take till she lays eggs I don't want to disruped them so I only want to look if ir when nesicary
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Post by Sarah on Dec 31, 2013 19:25:44 GMT
That depends. At best I can tell you that it will take her two days to form the egg in her body before laying, and that the male will have to have been mating with her for some time to trigger her body to lay. If she is really hunkering down in the nest for longer periods of time, I would guess it could be any day now. If she is only going in to rearrange the bedding and then leaving again... it might be a week or two more.
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Post by luvsanimals2 on Jan 1, 2014 22:14:11 GMT
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