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    Thanks MarkI've just ordered it so I should get it Monday/Tuesday hopefully.Thought I'd better get it just in case its needed. The parent birds were in a state this afternoon and when I looked the young chick was on the floor of the cage So I decided to remove all the 'old eggs' that hadnt hatched out (there had been chicks in the eggs but they were dead) and then put the chick that had fallen back in the nest again. It took them a while to settle they kept taking out moss etc from the nest - to me it seemed they were looking for the eggs? But that's just me giving them human qualities I expect :) Now so far so good they're still feeding the chick.Emmy

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    I logged in to Supapets, I was sure thats the store most of you all like to deal with,but I couldnt find any food listed for hand rearing young chicks. Guess if you dont know the correct name it wont come up in a search. Be grateful if someone knows t e correct name for it.Emmy

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    Sorry to read that you lost your wee bird after trying so hard to help it. Konw how you feel I'm blaming myself for what happened to mine Only one chick survived from 7 eggs laid. I removed the remaining 4 eggs from the nest today and they all had dead 'chicks' inside them just wished the parents hadnt got stressed out when I had to move the cage.Emmy

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    Steroids! :lol::p:p Now a better solution would be for me to give them some of my extra fat and that would be of benefit both ways- they'd be nice and rounded and hopefully I'd become nice and trim AND best of all I'd be able to have some nice big cream cakes and not worry about all those extra inches!!Emmy :(:lol:

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    Maybe another silly question but to get 'show size birds' is it a case of looking for a 'big'zebra finch to begin with? OR can 'normal' size finches be given special food when young to make them develop into larger size adults?Just very curious :( Emmy

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    Thanks MarkThey are the same birds that have raised the previous lot of chicks and fed them well. I do think that having had to move them, as you say, may have been the cause of this problem. They definately have settled down again in the 2nd room I had to move them into. The workmen finished yesterday but I'm not moving them back to their original room just now, I'm leaving them where they are meantime. I'll do as you suggest and leave the other eggs in the nest meantime. 'The workmen couldnt have come at a worse time!'Emmy

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    There's still 4 eggs left in the nest 3 have hatched out (two chicks dead) It's 2 days since the last one hatched out and approx 5 days since the first egg hatched. Is there still time for the other eggs to hatch, if they dont hatch do I just leave them in the nest or remove them?Emmy

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    Helen and Mark thank you for the replies and the information. I tjhink I'll buy some of that 'special food' just in case of an emergency and then I'll have it to hand. That's a fantastic video Helen, do you still have that bird? How often did you have to feed it?So far the chick is still alive and they are both taking turns sitting on the nest but none of the other eggs have hatched out yet, but hopefully they will I did think they would hatch out like the last ones which all hatched out within 2/3 days.Thanks again for your helpEmmy

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    The chick that's in the nest seems to have some food in its neck (not a lot though) but there was another egg on the floor of the cage this morning -shell was broken in half and it looked like an part of a chick that had'nt deveoped properly-- just wondering if those two that didnt survive maybe have been the two eggs that I had removed from the nest when she had first started laying eggs on the bottom of the cage and then after a few daysI decided to put the nest basket back in and after a few days I returned the other two eggs back into the nest.If I have to feed the newly hatched one if its not too much bother could someone explain what I give them and how to feed them and how often?Emmy

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    Hi JamieReading about what you are building- I'm thinking about those finches you're getting, when they arrive they'll will be thinking they've moved into a mansion :) Joking apart it must be a lot of work constructing that but I'm sure it will pay dividends in the future and you'll get lots of pleasure from the Finches. Good luck Emmy

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    Hi Mark I think I truly believe they were stressed out at being moved It was unbelievable to see how quickly they settled down when returned to their original 'room'. It was if they knew they were 'back home' again.Just a wee while ago she came off the nest when I was passing the cage and I just had a peek but didnt touch anything there is definately one chick alive but it looks like the one from last night didnt make it (it didnt seem to have any feather down on it last night)but I'm not going to try to remove it just hope it doesnt cause any problems re hygiene. Have you heard of the experiment they were doing using Zebra finches? It was on the news a while ago. Seems they were taking samples of DNA from them when they were young chicks and at intervals as they grew older then the final one when they died and using this information from this research they were able to establish which future chicks would have a longer life span by taking a DNA sample from a very young chick. I'm sure it did say that sometime in the distant future it could be used with humans. Scary isnt it! I think I'd rather not know and just take my chances :) Emmy

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    Update: last night after more than 2hours, the adult birds were still not sitting on the nest and still seem to be agitated so I put their cage back into the room where they normally stay and within 5 minutes they were back sitting on the nest? (Can finches be aware of being in a different environment and become stressed?)So I just left them in their 'normal' room all night and the hen was still sitting on the nest at 5.30am this morning. The cage had to be moved So I decided to chance moving them to the other room where they will be until the workmen are finished and she didnt move from the nest and so far is still sitting on the other eggs but although I'm tempted to have a look to find out if that wee one is still alive and to see if any more have hatched I'm just leaving them alone meantime and just keep my fingers crossed.I do have books about zebra finches but they dont have the detailed information you get from the members on this forum. 5 big gold stars to you all!! :) Emmy

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    Thanks Mark and Paul,if there isnt too much noise and 'dust' etc with the workmen I wont move them to another room.(getting new central heating installed -just a nightmare! The chicks couldnt have hatched out at a worse time)I'll let you know what happens.Emmy

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    Thanks Mark you've put my mind at rest I didnt know they didnt feed the young for the first 24 hours I had another look a minute ago and thank goodness I noticed its still breathing I thought that they fed them immediatley they hatched and you could see the 'seeds' when they had been fed and it looked as though the parents were neglecting the chick.I know for certain I saw the chick no more than 5 minutes after it hatched. So I guess its fingers crossed because on Tuesday I'll need to move them again into another room. Trying to keep them away from the workmen and the noise.Emmy

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    Thanks to both of you for the advice so far they havent fed the newly hatched chick I doubt now if it will make it. If it has died will the parent birds remove it from the nest or will I have to do it?Emmy

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    Would like some advice please. Tonight I had to move my zebra finch cage to another room because of workmen coming tomorrow. As the chicks werent due to hatch out until 2nd Feb I decided to clean the cage. The adult birds are used to me. So I didnt think t his would matter. What I didnt notice was that one of the chicks had hatched and I know they are small but this one its VERY small and not moving much. the thing that is worrying me at the moment is the parents are not sitting on the nest since I moved them to the other room.a. should I just leave them alone to see if they will settle b. its a brighter light in this other room,so should I just leave a lamp onc. should i remove the chick there is a slight movement in the chick but not sure how much they move about when just hatched.Just hope I havent spoiled things 6 more eggs to hatch out :wacko:

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    Paul these two are just lovely (I'll know what to do now to get them on my hand if this next lot hatch out. When do you begin to handle them? I was afraid in case the parent birds wouldnt feed them again if I handled them too soon)Emmy