I have a total of six society finches split into two groups (as one of the two males was getting the back of his head pecked at) in separate cages. One male to two females, and one male to one female.
Initially I had the three females together for a few months before I adopted the two males...
I have six budgerigar (3 male, 3 female) in a large flight cage commercialized towards larger parrots. Lots of different toys, different types and widths of perches and ladders, mineral blocks and cuttlebone, three separate feeding dishes, a bird bath...
I spoil the crap out of my 'keets, and...
So to start things off, I've had a pair of Ringneck Doves that I'd purchased earlier in the year. They came with two fertile eggs (already laid!) and one successfully hatched. Since then they've hatched and raised two other chicks at different times. Currently they've hatched their fourth chick...
So let me start with this... my incubator crapped on me on hatch day. It didn't 'break' but it started heating wrong and wasn't keeping humidity level. I'm thankful it made it to that point (at least), but I was forced to help hatch 5 eggs that were stuck for over 24 hours. I know this is...
As of today, my buttons are almost 5 weeks of age.
Just this morning I noticed one of my females looking a little more ruffled than usual, and so I went to investigate. She didn't like it, but, I found a patch on her back where the feathers have either been scratched or ripped out.
Upon...
My chicks are 2-3 days shy from 4 weeks old, and I'm about to purchase more feed for them online. What I've been using up to this point is the "Mana Pro Gamebird/Showbird Crumble" which has a minimum of 24% crude protein and it's unmedicated. At 3 weeks I then started adding in wild finch seed...
I just have so many questions.
I hatched out 14 (lost one runt) button quails over a week ago, and they're starting to grow actual feathers on their feather shafts. They're at that 'awkward ugly teenage stage' as a few family members call it. "They're so creepy looking!" -- boyfriend. Well, I...
I'm a new quail owner (recently hatched my first few quail over a week ago) and one color/pattern in particular that I was really hoping for were some tuxedos. I believe I have one tuxedo, that may end up being silver?
What I'd love to find is a young pair of tuxedo button quails. The easier...
First of all, let me start by apologizing for this really long post...
I'm a first-time egg-anything hatcher. Never hatched an egg in my life, and never been around hatching eggs. I've only dealt with pre-hatched chicks that Tractor Supply sometimes sells in the late spring. So I've done some...