BellaOnline Forums Home and Garden Birds hey mavis guess what!

I don't have an answer for you on why the male is doing that and the female isn't. Birds can be emotion-sensitive - perhaps he's picking up on your worries.

Your frustration and impatience aren't going to help them, Phillip! Honestly, sit back, relax, and enjoy HAVING them. When they're ready they'll get it together. In the meantime, why not join a few of the Yahoo bird chats? You'll continue to learn more about breeding so you'll be prepared when they are successful.

About taking the eggs out ... you can BUT what if the same thing happens again? Will you pull them again as quickly? If so you run the risk of wearing out your female and hurting her health by provoking her to lay continuously. I personally think you should leave the eggs in there the amount of time they would normally take to incubate. It at least gives the female a chance to get ready for the next go round and keeps them in a natural cycle.

Try taking time to leave your birds alone for a day or so cause they worry alot wen being watched over.they need to relax to sit on da eggs

yep thanks for all your comments and advive i think i will do what you guys say i wont take the eggs out ill leave them for the normal incubation period then remove them so that gives her time to relax and take it easy for a bit then ill let them start again.

i also do enjoy having them but im just exciting about the first time breeding.

thanks for all your advice guys!

You're getting great advice Phillip and I hope you will follow it. There are 2 options here. Either the eggs hatch - or they don't. There isn't anything you can do about it at this point, except to leave them alone.

I know you are excited about having babies - but unfortunately, breeding birds does not always turn out the way we want it too. Babies die - sometimes in the eggs and sometimes after they hatch. At this point, you have to take care of the parents, so they might look after the eggs and the babies - and leaving them alone as much as possible except for feeding is the best way to do that.

ok thanks mavis well i just found out yesterday that were i live there is also a cockatiel breeder and i went over there and asked him to come and have a look at the eggs and when he saw them he advised me to take the eggs out becuase they were way to cold and he said the he personally thinks that the embryo or something like that has died if they were fertile so he romoved them and said just wait and give them another chance and eventually they will learn i asked him why you think they abonded the eggs and he said CATS! you see were i live there are alot of cats some pets but alot strays and he said his bet would be cats becuase when he first started off breeding all the cats would scare his birds and then they wouldnt incubate the eggs no more then i told him that is what happnded to mine they suddenly just stopped incubating so now i have gone out and bought a big blue tarp so i can cover my aviary at night to keep the cats away and stop them scaring the parents!

he also said that my birds were in excellent condition which i was pleased to hear.

so thanks for all your advice and comments i think i might go take the box out to give them a bit of a break even though he said it would be ok to laeve it in.