To my great surprise my daughter’s cockateils hatched an egg on the floor of their cage, but they were just sitting there staring at it! It is alive, but cold. I have placed it in a bowl on a wet tissue over another bowl of hot (not boiling!) water to try and warm it up but don’t know if it will survive, or even if the parents are going to be able to raise it!
bluegreen said:
To my great surprise my daughter’s cockateils hatched an egg on the floor of their cage, but they were just sitting there staring at it! It is alive, but cold. I have placed it in a bowl on a wet tissue over another bowl of hot (not boiling!) water to try and warm it up but don’t know if it will survive, or even if the parents are going to be able to raise it!
I’ve been known to keep them in my top pocket to keep them warm. warmth is everything. Do they cockatiels have a nest? if so and they are using it.. try giving the bird back to them but they won’t feed it if it doesn’t call for food.
roughbarked said:
bluegreen said:
To my great surprise my daughter’s cockateils hatched an egg on the floor of their cage, but they were just sitting there staring at it! It is alive, but cold. I have placed it in a bowl on a wet tissue over another bowl of hot (not boiling!) water to try and warm it up but don’t know if it will survive, or even if the parents are going to be able to raise it!
I’ve been known to keep them in my top pocket to keep them warm. warmth is everything. Do they cockatiels have a nest? if so and they are using it.. try giving the bird back to them but they won’t feed it if it doesn’t call for food.
I was able to warm it up after refreshing the hot water a number of times to the point where it was trying to stand and cheeping. I have just now returned it to the parents and they are fussing over it and I think feeding it. It is hard to tell because if I get too close they leave it to come up to me, so here’s hoping that now it is warm and making a noise their instincts will kick in.
After about 15mins of fussing during which I could hear the hatchling cheeping all went still and quiet. I had a look and the poor thing was out in the cold again and doesn’t look like it got a feed so I’m thinking I will have to hand rear if it is to survive, and I am not sure that it will anyway. The question is, am I prepared for 2 hourly feeds day and night? Not sure.
bluegreen said:
After about 15mins of fussing during which I could hear the hatchling cheeping all went still and quiet. I had a look and the poor thing was out in the cold again and doesn’t look like it got a feed so I’m thinking I will have to hand rear if it is to survive, and I am not sure that it will anyway. The question is, am I prepared for 2 hourly feeds day and night? Not sure.
shame I don’t live next door. No, the parents usually abandon babies that fall to the ground. Cockatiels need a good hollow log to raise chicks in.
roughbarked said:
bluegreen said:
After about 15mins of fussing during which I could hear the hatchling cheeping all went still and quiet. I had a look and the poor thing was out in the cold again and doesn’t look like it got a feed so I’m thinking I will have to hand rear if it is to survive, and I am not sure that it will anyway. The question is, am I prepared for 2 hourly feeds day and night? Not sure.
shame I don’t live next door. No, the parents usually abandon babies that fall to the ground. Cockatiels need a good hollow log to raise chicks in.
A rush into town and I got some “Egg & Biscuit”. Not sure if that is the right stuff but it is all I could get. Websites talk about feeding with a syringe but it is too coarse for that, but I think I got some mixed in water into it. It is now in a small reptile aquarium (the one I had for my frog) lined with tissues. The aquarium has a small heat pad under it and I got an infrared globe for my desk lamp and it is providing heat from above. It has survived this far but I guess the big test is if it survives overnight.
I might try grinding the E&B with the mortar and pestle to see if I can get it fine enough for the syringe.
Do any of you remember the story I put up “The Adventures of Dib, a Cockateil story”? Dib is the father :)
I’m sad to say the chick has died :(
bluegreen said:
I’m sad to say the chick has died :(
birds are such fragile beings.
bluegreen said:
I’m sad to say the chick has died :(
:(
bluegreen said:
I’m sad to say the chick has died :(
Awww, was getting quite excited there for a while…was that the only egg?
Dinetta said:
bluegreen said:
I’m sad to say the chick has died :(
Awww, was getting quite excited there for a while…was that the only egg?
yeah, I was too. The only egg, this time. Will be better set up for next time, I’m determined.
bluegreen said:
Dinetta said:
bluegreen said:
I’m sad to say the chick has died :(
Awww, was getting quite excited there for a while…was that the only egg?
yeah, I was too. The only egg, this time. Will be better set up for next time, I’m determined.
If they aren’t god parents it might be better to remove any future eggs and not let them hatch.
bubba louie said:
bluegreen said:
Dinetta said:Awww, was getting quite excited there for a while…was that the only egg?
yeah, I was too. The only egg, this time. Will be better set up for next time, I’m determined.
If they aren’t god parents it might be better to remove any future eggs and not let them hatch.
Quarrions are fussy about nesting but are doting parents. Split breeds are not necessarily very good at having babies.
bubba louie said:
bluegreen said:
Dinetta said:Awww, was getting quite excited there for a while…was that the only egg?
yeah, I was too. The only egg, this time. Will be better set up for next time, I’m determined.
If they aren’t god parents it might be better to remove any future eggs and not let them hatch.
that would work well in our species I reckon’