Ok, take a breath - you've done good and baby should recover like new. This youngster looks like he was attacked by a cockbird. Try to have a place for ybs to hide under or get out of line of sight of aggressive adults.
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Problem is I have a nestbowl on the bottom at the front and the youngsters are also on the bottom at the back. They're walking about so I can't see how to keep them away from it. If I move the nestbowl up then the other pair are territorial over that! I can't put them on the top because I need that for putting the separator in when Boomers out. I need a bigger loft!
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And I found worms in a chicken poo! Time for flubenvet!
I like these 12"step stools to create safe zones for the new squeakers.
I'm not sure why you say they can't be up top in Boomers return spot. You are right this was probably sparked by the nearness of the nest to the young ones. I think I would separate the squeakers into a cage/dog crate , something like that till they are just a bit bigger.
The advantage of larger nest boxes is the squeakers can remain there with their parents for a longer time, even while the parents are incubating the next clutch. They are not in the bowl but still hanging in the box.
If you have empty nest boxes I would get the nest off the floor and into one even at the risk they might quit those eggs. I think most times its too risky to have them nest on the floor.
And yes of course you need a bigger loft! We all do..
If you have empty nest boxes I would get the nest off the floor and into one even at the risk they might quit those eggs. I think most times its too risky to have them nest on the floor.
And yes of course you need a bigger loft! We all do..
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If I put them on top I'll have to put the separator up or they will just go back to the floor then the parents can't get to them to feed. I can try to fashion something for them to keep out of the way. I have just moved to bowl to the middle.
Quacking Pigeon
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AgreedAnd yes of course you need a bigger loft! We all do..
Quacking Pigeon
Crowing
All my birds nest on the ground in cat litter boxes (find they give them plenty of space). I should probably work on getting some nest boxes up in the section. Anyways are the squeakers feeding on there own? Usually if they’re on the ground and you give them feed, they parents (sometimes one) will come down and eat and the squeakers should go over flapping there wings up and down wanting food from them and the squeakers would slowly learn how to eat from the feeder.
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The nestboxes are on two ledges off the ground but one pair insist on laying on the floor. The first hatch they did was on the bottom. I think it's about 50/50 with feeding at the moment. The squeakers were eating seed of the floor and from the feeder but I just went to check on them again and the injured one was being fed by a parent.
This sounds good. Perhaps this parent will keep a closer eye on junior now that there has been an injury.
I have one good daddy who would protect his babies on the floor not letting other birds harass them while mate was on the nest with more eggs.Similar threads
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