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Bluey and Orangina
Topic Started: Jan 24 2011, 01:01 PM (1,460 Views)
Pass
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Hi,
My blue male Gould "Bluey" had mated with my orange head green "Orangina" 3 weeks ago and they had 4 eggs together, I added 2 more eggs from another nest and hatching date was supposed to be yesterday.
So I checked yesterday morning and there was a bub, and since I had decided not to interfere this time, I let them alone until this morning when i checked again, and sure enough there was another bub, so i was thrilled until i counted the egg and one was missing ^o)
So I started looking and after a while i've found the third bub at the nest entrance cold but alive. He had been dragged by the wing cause it had dried blood on it.
So I immediately moved all bubs and eggs to Societies for fostering. Gould are frustrating me big time.

Maryann,
I didn't feed the first born nor the parents did and he was still alive after 24 hours.

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Pass, how NERVE wracking lol. I just cant wait that long. I dont trust myself or them. After the two lilacs died for no reason I can think of other than, cold, starved, or squashed. I will still only give a few hours as I can feed them myself with help from Inchy :)

Goulds are soooooooooooooooooooooooo frustrating. Im going to try my best to let the parents raise them but wont take the chanse of them killing or starving or abandoning them. I may try to remove the dad first tho if I see anything weird going on.

Do u think the parents knew that bub or egg was not theirs and therefore tried to pitch it?

What colors can u expect from that pairing?
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CBL,
The bub that hatched was theirs... I guess it just happened cause both parents are young. They didn't feed their bubs otherwise I would have removed the male.
Another bub hatched but the injured one died :(
So now we have 3 well fed babies and two eggs. I expect green babies from them, and the 2 unhatched eggs are blue.
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Ok, so the societies will foster them even if the other eggs are a few days behind?
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What would make them choose which one to get rid of, is it possible the bird was weak at birth or is it just that after the first two the parents decided to get rid of the third. Birdie life sometimes is so harsh.
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Yes they will foster no problem. I have set up another societies pair to feed the star finch bubs in case the parents failed to do so. I've never bred Star Finches before so i don't know what to expect :)

cathy,
Yes, we don't have all the answers and that's why we get frustrated at times.

My head is pounding like crazy, I'm down with a terrible flu and I AM AT WORK :(
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Pass so sorry to hear about you being ill, the flu this year is a really bad one.
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Hey Pass, we both had that headache with our flu. Did u take ur temp. Be careful, and take good care. Try to get rest as best u can. Dont wait to go to the docs if u need meds, we waited too long and had to take two courses of meds.
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Thanks ladies :)
It is still manageable, I don't have a night shift today so after my 5 hours day shift I'm going straight to bed.
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Nite, nite Pass. -_- Take care.
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