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Hello, everyone!
I'm dedicating this thread to documenting the story of our currently 2-week old parakeets.
We have a bird aviary with (not including these baby birds) 10 birds in it. These three babies have been doing great, until yesterday morning, when I found that one of our parakeets (named Dustin) had blood on his chest and near his beak. it was a very, very tragic attack, one that was nonetheless unavoidable... This bird didn't seem to have any relation to these babies- He is not the mother and is almost certainly not the father, which makes it very unusual for him to attack the chicks.
Upon further investigation, we tragically found that he attacked these three babies for no apparent reason. One of them, very unfortunately, was not moving, while the other two were breathing and alive, but with a little bit of blood surrounding their beaks, and one of their eyes was swollen shut.
We immediately took the out of the cage and put them in a box, where they're currently living in my room. I've put calm music on for them, and, although it does sound silly, it calms them down. We've been feeding these two (one of them is white and the other one is black) a special oatmeal formula out of a syringe, as well as water.
The white one (named Casey, which means "brave in battle") has trouble opening his beak to eat, loves to sleep, and is much quieter than his sibling, Alke (Greek goddess of battle- strength, and courage). Alke is quite the fighter- she loves to chirp at the top of their longs, nibble on fingers, and eat. Her eye is doing better and has since opened, and he's walking about, trying to flap her wings, but not flying anywhere, as her wings will not work for about another 2 weeks.
They made it through the night, and we're praying that they continue to prosper.
Although it might seem counter-intuitive, we do not want to put the mother in the box in there with them, for several reasons, including she could fly out, she could get stressed, and that stress might turn to aggression towards the babies, and it's not worth the risk.
I'm not able to take pictures with this device, but they have grey fuzz on most of their body. Their wings already have feathers, but their stomachs are still a little bit pink and have yet to finish growing feathers.
If anybody has any tips, I'd be very grateful as we are first-time budgie parents, but no worries if you don't! Thank you for reading this long post
I'm dedicating this thread to documenting the story of our currently 2-week old parakeets.
We have a bird aviary with (not including these baby birds) 10 birds in it. These three babies have been doing great, until yesterday morning, when I found that one of our parakeets (named Dustin) had blood on his chest and near his beak. it was a very, very tragic attack, one that was nonetheless unavoidable... This bird didn't seem to have any relation to these babies- He is not the mother and is almost certainly not the father, which makes it very unusual for him to attack the chicks.
Upon further investigation, we tragically found that he attacked these three babies for no apparent reason. One of them, very unfortunately, was not moving, while the other two were breathing and alive, but with a little bit of blood surrounding their beaks, and one of their eyes was swollen shut.
We immediately took the out of the cage and put them in a box, where they're currently living in my room. I've put calm music on for them, and, although it does sound silly, it calms them down. We've been feeding these two (one of them is white and the other one is black) a special oatmeal formula out of a syringe, as well as water.
The white one (named Casey, which means "brave in battle") has trouble opening his beak to eat, loves to sleep, and is much quieter than his sibling, Alke (Greek goddess of battle- strength, and courage). Alke is quite the fighter- she loves to chirp at the top of their longs, nibble on fingers, and eat. Her eye is doing better and has since opened, and he's walking about, trying to flap her wings, but not flying anywhere, as her wings will not work for about another 2 weeks.
They made it through the night, and we're praying that they continue to prosper.
Although it might seem counter-intuitive, we do not want to put the mother in the box in there with them, for several reasons, including she could fly out, she could get stressed, and that stress might turn to aggression towards the babies, and it's not worth the risk.
I'm not able to take pictures with this device, but they have grey fuzz on most of their body. Their wings already have feathers, but their stomachs are still a little bit pink and have yet to finish growing feathers.
If anybody has any tips, I'd be very grateful as we are first-time budgie parents, but no worries if you don't! Thank you for reading this long post