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Some time ago I decided to tape up the entrance to the cockatiels' nest box in the outside flight because I didn't want them to breed any more this year.

A while ago when I was checking everything was OK  in the outside flight  I opened their nest box to make sure everything was dry and OK   and that's when I had a shock!! Instead of an empty nest box I was faced with an angry 'dad' who obviously didn't want to be disturbed as he was sitting on 4 eggs

16th September 2016 this is Bambino in nest resized.jpg

             Bambino with the 4 eggs

What had happened to the tape on the entrance to their nest box???

It was then that the 'penny dropped' I remembered just as I was about to tape it up I received a phone call and had to come out from the aviary.  Later that day I had found the roll of  tape in my pocket and I had convinced myself I had taped up the entrance (one of those 'senior' moments;) )

Now I just have to wait to find out if 'Bambino and Toots' will feed their chicks this time round.  In the past every clutch they have had they have stopped feeding the chicks before the chicks could feed themselves and I have had to hand rear every one of their chicks. Fingers crossed this time will be different.:D

 

24th September Bambino and Toots'chicks (3).JPG

The 4th chick hatched the day after this photo was taken

Emmy

 

 

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Thanks Clare,

I have discovered one of my other cockatiels (  bully boy;)) is trying to stop Bambino and Toots getting to the food in the inside flight ( I feed them all in the inside flight) so to make sure they are getting enough  food to feed their chicks I have put some seed + millet spray and some  egg food inside the nest box (but away from the chicks). Couldn't think of any other way to solve the problem as it's not possible to remove 'Big Boss' :mellow:)

Emmy

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Putting the food into the nest box wasn't really a good Idea I think they overfed the youngest one  (if that is possible?) It's crop was full to bursting and its stomach was bulging too.

I had a feeling it wasn't digesting its food. 

The next morning I found it had been pushed to the side of the nest box and it was cold and hardly moving.

I brought it in and put it into the incubator and it came around and after that I gave it  2 / 3 drops of electrolyte solution then  I put it into the brooder while I made up some apple sauce (this has worked in the past) but when I went back to get the chick sadly it had died.

The other three are just lovely the oldest one it two weeks old today

5th October Toots and Bambinos 3 chicks  Hatched out 19th 21st and 23rd September 2016(3) oldest 2 weeks old.JPG     5th October Toots and Bambinos 3 chicks  Hatched out 19th 21st and 23rd September 2016( resized.jpg   5th October Toots and Bambinos 3 chicks  Hatched out 19th 21st and 23rd September 2016(5) oldest 2 weeks old.JPG

             two weeks old                                                             just about two weeks old                                        youngest

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This morning about 11am when I checked on the chicks in their nest box in the outside flight - I discovered  they hadn't been fed and no food in their crop.  Before, at this time in the morning their crops had always been full.

I wasn't  prepared to take a chance that the parents would come back to feed them,  so they are in the house now and being hand reared using the hand rearing formula.  So far they are taking the formula from a syringe with no problems -could be they were  just so relieved to get some food  it didn't matter how they got it.;)

Just shows how things can change in a short space of time.

Just thinking it's just a good job I had already decided not to go to Stafford because if I had arranged to go I would have had to cancel it now I have three babies to feed:D

Emmy. 

 

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On ‎10‎/‎7‎/‎2016 at 22:58, Emmy said:

Just thinking it's just a good job I had already decided not to go to Stafford because if I had arranged to go I would have had to cancel it now I have three babies to feed:D

Just wished I could have been to Stafford today,  but now I've just to sit and dream what I would have been doing IF I had been there !?!

What would that have been???  Don't have to think twice about that -- spending money :D but I'm still spending money there today;) my friend is buying  things for me:yahoo:

Hope everyone has a nice time there.

So far my wee 'babies' are doing OK.

Emmy

 

 

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Nothing new there then Emmy back to the hand rearing it must be second nature now. You would just have come home from Stafford with more birds to sneak in so maybe a blessing lol. 

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I really missed going to Stafford Dave, but my friend did managed  to get what I wanted - not birds!!!:D

The smallest of the three chicks isn't doing so good just now. I had to take it to the vet on Monday to get its crop emptied, I know how to do this but I'm very apprehensive to do it myself because it would be so easy to make a small mistake and it could easily die. 

I had thought it was perhaps sour crop but I was told  the vet found that a few seeds had been stuck in its crop  from the time when it had been getting fed by the parents . Now it has to be fed very small amounts of formula but often. So it has been getting fed every hour ( but not during the night) gradually increasing  the amount of formula and the time  between feeds, but at the moment its not looking too good.   All three are still in the brooder with the temperature increased.

               10th October 2016 Titch- 2 weeks old- just back from vet after getting its crop emptied  (3).JPG 

    This is the wee one just back from the vet on the 10th October after getting its crop emptied

How's your cockatiels doing Dave, any of them 'Talking'  yet ? :lol:

Emmy

 

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Hi emmy they are doing grand but have transferred them into aviary and they seem to be enjoying flying around more than in the living room. They are very accurate flyers now but didn't cope too well when let out the cage in house. Patch as I called him tells me he is a cheeky boy and other interesting noises. Spot chatters but not speaking ,but she is more vocal being outside she was very quiet in the cage. They are both very good joiners and have removed most of the corners from aviary wood .lol  Will need to get across to see you before the winter weather creeps in.

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Sadly the wee one died but the other two are just adorable - if they hadn't been ordered I think I would have kept them. They are still getting the formula but just 3 times a day now and they are eating seed and greens as well a cuttlefish plus the occasional bit of a rich tea biscuit.

Guess they will soon be giving me lessons on the computer (lol)

23rd October 2016 Tosh and Rusty getting cuddles (1).JPG        23rd October 2016 Tosh and Rusty learning computer skills (9).JPG

 

It's not ending with those two though, two other pairs have eggs in nest boxes one has 4 eggs and the other pair have 3 eggs (one of those three eggs  hatched out today.)

Cuddles the one I hand reared from when it hatched out in the incubator  is whistling tunes now so it's going to be  a 'talker' too. 

Mad house this is with Bobby the parrot chatting away, then Tiko the Baraband parrot joins in and now Cuddles! no need for CD's in my house ;)

Emmy

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