My zebra finches have laid eggs for the second time . First one didn't hatch except one, which I found dead on the bottom of cage. I removed the nest and old eggs and cleaned everything. My husband's clothes are in the same room as the cage but we don't bother them, just food & water. How can I keep the next ones if they hatch alive?
My zibra finch had eggs 1 hatched . She stopped taking care of it and then I found it on the bottom of cage dead.. Now she has more eggs . What can I do to help them live ?
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These are birds, and they know what to do to take care of there own. This type of breed can even tell when a egg is good or bad. Let nature and the birds take its course. When cleaning respect the nest, because , if touched to much , birds will abandon the them.
Since your zebra finches have laid eggs for the second time, then they are young. A pair of young finches may be unsuccessful in their mating attempts, the female may still lay her underutilized eggs. Also young hen may neglect her eggs and fail to bring them to full term. This is quite common for young finches.
Watch your birds next time, but do it carefully so as not to disturb them. If the chicks do not hatch again, then check to see if all the eggs were fertile. Hold the egg in front of a candle or strong light to observe for any signs of fertility. A fertile egg will clearly show a blood vessel network; an embryo formed that resembles an opaque shape will be clearly visible.
The most obvious sign that the parents are abandoning their chicks is finding the chicks on the cage or aviary floor. If you find a tossed chick next time, and it's still alive, warm it in your hands before putting it back in the nest.
It may be what food is being fed. More probably the adults are being startled and when leaving the next inadvertently knock a young one out of nest. I didn't isolate my birds, so we were careful to not startle them at their cage. We did move about the house as usual and birds and people cohabitated.
Have to observed that every time the male mates with the female he will crow...he's so proud....now, to eggs...we had lots of them in fact when each female died, they were FULL of eggs..we had a very dominate male that would make the female stay on the bottom & would not let them get to the bars, food, water except to enter the nest-rarely....so, after 3 females ending up the same way..we went back to the pet store & asked for the meanest, evil female they had...this one could even get along with her own sister....so, off we went to bring our male his new female... from moment one she never let him get off the bottom again & she enjoyed all the good things...one thing I forgot to tell you....the male would pull all the feathers off the head and back of each female before she died....the finale female picked that male featherless AND we never heard him crow again!
Do not disturb the eggs. If they are meant to hardheaded, they will. If you interfere they may abandon the eggs.
If your zebra finches are laying clutch after clutch and abandoning the nest or the eggs just aren't hatching remove the nest and give them a break for at least 2 months.
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