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AkagiyamaMissile  4 stars
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Congrats Grandpa!!

 

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HeartView  4 stars
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AkagiyamaMissile posted:

Congrats Grandpa!!



We've already determined he's the father.

 

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my finches used to lay eggs all the time, they never hatched. after a rotten one broke one day, we put fake eggs in their nest, and she never laid another real one.

 

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AkagiyamaMissile  4 stars
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HeartView posted:

AkagiyamaMissile posted:

Congrats Grandpa!!



We've already determined he's the father.



 

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EbonDragon  4 stars
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I'm going to name this one Jeremy.
Gaevren  4 stars
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Too cute!!!

I want birds again.

 

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Terminius_Est  3 stars
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Are the parents taking care of it?

 

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Jezza_Belle  4 stars
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better get it used to human touching and feeding if you want it to be friendly (when the time is right, not when its totally fragile obviously)

 

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EbonDragon  4 stars
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Terminius_Est posted:

Are the parents taking care of it?



Yeah. Before it hatched the father was just kind of hanging outside of the nest. He would eat, then go inside the nest to feed the mom. Then the other day the father was spending more time in the nesting box. That's when I thought something was up They both spend most of their time in the nesting box though, presumably taking care of the babies.

I was able to get this picture because both the parents had stepped out of the box. The mother usually only does this for <10 seconds.


Jezza_Belle posted:

better get it used to human touching and feeding if you want it to be friendly (when the time is right, not when its totally fragile obviously)



We've raised three of our parrots. Two of them we started hand feeding about three weeks after they hatched. The other parrots we had didn't get hand fed, but eventually they got used to human contact. It's a ton easier to get them used to you if they were hand-fed by you though, for sure.

We're going to wait a few weeks before hand feeding.

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