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I'm back!
And I have some good news and bad news;
Good news, the eggs haven't hatched but are developing nicely.
Bad news, we lost a baby finch today, after the mother attempted to eat the unhatched chick.
We don't know why, but when we went to candle some of the finch eggs(which our Zebra finches laid), one of them had a big crack in it and was bleeding!
The baby chick was almost fully formed; he was wiggling around inside and trying ti breath, but it was too early. I tried all I could to save the poor little chick, using what I learned here about chicken eggs. I plugged in the incubator, and put the half-cracked egg on a moist paper towel. I was hoping that it was close enough for it to hatch. The chick stayed alive for about 5 minutes or so, then died.
Poor little guy.
But we took the 2nd finch egg before the mother finch could get it, and we went to see if Carla, the parakeet, would take it as her own. She immediately pushed it under her with her other 4 eggs!
So I guess we are now hoping that when the baby orphan finch hatches, Carla will take it as her own and take care of it well.
We had no other choice; if we put it back in the nest, the mother would eat it like she tried to do with the other one; and we couldn't throw it away when there was a live baby finch inside. So, Carla has decided to willingly be the baby finch's foster mother.
She doesn't really know the difference anyway, except that the egg is much smaller than her other 4 eggs.
We are hoping that when it hatches, she will take care of it well.
Anyway, Carla's 4 eggs are still developing, and so is her new tiny finch egg. I did get some pictures of her and the eggs!
(sorry for such blurry pictures; the lighting was really bad)
First, here are her 4 eggs(picture was taken before she accepted the finch egg):
Here is a pic of Carla, sitting on her eggs:
And here is the whole cage; Stormy, Carla's mate, is sitting up on the perch. And Carla is sitting on her eggs in the bottom of the cage:
And lastly, here's a picture of one of the Parakeet eggs compared to one of our chicken eggs.
that's all for now!
And I have some good news and bad news;
Good news, the eggs haven't hatched but are developing nicely.
Bad news, we lost a baby finch today, after the mother attempted to eat the unhatched chick.
Anyway, Carla's 4 eggs are still developing, and so is her new tiny finch egg. I did get some pictures of her and the eggs!
First, here are her 4 eggs(picture was taken before she accepted the finch egg):
Here is a pic of Carla, sitting on her eggs:
And here is the whole cage; Stormy, Carla's mate, is sitting up on the perch. And Carla is sitting on her eggs in the bottom of the cage:
And lastly, here's a picture of one of the Parakeet eggs compared to one of our chicken eggs.
that's all for now!
