So . . .I have breeding issues.
This is my post from 3 days ago .. .
"When my parakeets bred the first time everything went almost perfectly !! NOW the eggs are almost a week or 2 overdue ! A baby from the last breeding ( now maturing, lost most of the head bars now) has been going in the nest box for like the past 2 weeks and, well I assumed, helping with incubation. Today . ..
Today I wake up and see BLOOD ALL OVER !! on the perches, on the nestbox and all in bloody little footprints ! I look in the box to see half an egg covered in blood, the membrane was bloody too and I didn't find a body. Later in the day, I notice that the hen had thrown out an egg. I opened it. It was never fertile. I looked at ALL the birds feet to see if any were obviously bloody. I couldn't find a suspect
A week earlier a egg dropped when I looked in the box, it was cracked by the fall so I opened it . .. It had a good healthy growing chick. No smell
Should I leave the 3 eggs that are left ?? Or should I remove them and hope for better luck next time"
I was told to take out the eggs and the past hatch babies . . I hadnt check the thread until today.
So as I go to do that I open the nest box to remove the eggs and what do I find . . . 5 EGGS !!
2 MORE THAN 3 days ago !! WHAT SHOULD I DO NOW !!
I think the offspring from last time that is "helping incubate the eggs" is a male. Will the new eggs be fertile ?
This is my post from 3 days ago .. .
"When my parakeets bred the first time everything went almost perfectly !! NOW the eggs are almost a week or 2 overdue ! A baby from the last breeding ( now maturing, lost most of the head bars now) has been going in the nest box for like the past 2 weeks and, well I assumed, helping with incubation. Today . ..
Today I wake up and see BLOOD ALL OVER !! on the perches, on the nestbox and all in bloody little footprints ! I look in the box to see half an egg covered in blood, the membrane was bloody too and I didn't find a body. Later in the day, I notice that the hen had thrown out an egg. I opened it. It was never fertile. I looked at ALL the birds feet to see if any were obviously bloody. I couldn't find a suspect
A week earlier a egg dropped when I looked in the box, it was cracked by the fall so I opened it . .. It had a good healthy growing chick. No smell
Should I leave the 3 eggs that are left ?? Or should I remove them and hope for better luck next time"
I was told to take out the eggs and the past hatch babies . . I hadnt check the thread until today.
So as I go to do that I open the nest box to remove the eggs and what do I find . . . 5 EGGS !!
2 MORE THAN 3 days ago !! WHAT SHOULD I DO NOW !!
I think the offspring from last time that is "helping incubate the eggs" is a male. Will the new eggs be fertile ?
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