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This could actually go under everything I have done wrong with birds. I noticed a week or so ago that I was missing a bird. We had cleaned the cages and I wrongly assumed that one flew out the door.

I decided to get new nests and soak the current ones in bleach water. While shaking the hay out of them....oops a dried up dead socie. The other birds had buried her. She was covered in hay. I had looked in there and didn't see anyone.
It's a mystery unless she got egg bound. I can't believe I didn't SMELL anything. My nose must really be a goner.

The nest was full of eggs. Have some prolific egg layers in that hen house. Should I cut back on their egg food?

What an awful confession to make. I really couldn't find her that's why I thought she had flown out the door. Ugh awful feeling.

Karen

We all make mistakes and it wouldn't be unreasonable to think one flew out the door.
So sorry

I would cut back on eggs to a couple times a week, see if that helps cut down the egg laying

Good luck

I'm sorry you lost your baby.... that's just aweful. Don't beat yourself up too much, as Debbie said it could happen to the best of us. I came home from a night away once and my mom starts crying telling me she lost one of my Gouldians... the one with only one leg.. She's telling me the story she looked everywhere, and I had some like tupperwear, or rubbermaid containers to hold their stuff in, all of them with the covers on them, but somehow, that little bugger made it into the container (i think it was the one full of millet, so he didn't mind!) But still, we to this day can't figure out HOW the heck he got in there, my mother had to pull the cover off to look in there for him! He ended up being ok, but crazy things can happen. Sorry again

Spreckles

Karen, I'm sorry.....

It's not anything that you have done wrong really. She might have been laying too many eggs, and become egg bound in the nest.

These things can happen at times, and we can't prevent all the sad happenings in our birdlings lives (as much as we would like to ).

Hugs....

Birds will squish and bury any deceased in the nest to aid the body in drying out to prevent it from becoming stinky and attracting predators. What you found is completely normal.

Sorry for your loss.

Spreckles

It wasn't your fault. It seems she messed with Blue-the-Mob-Lord and ate his millet. He put out a contract on her. Your zebra friend (its always the zebras) crept in the nest at night and quietly took care of things.

Blue paid off the other societies to bury the body and get rid of the evidence.

Insidious, the plotting that goes behind our back in our bird rooms.

On a serious note. Don't beat yourself up hun. She probably died nice a cozy with her society buddies in the nest with her. I'm sorry you lost the little gal.

bjknight93. Babs and all

Thank you for the information. The bird was dried out. We had looked in every nook & crannie thinking she was hiding. Poor baby hope she didn't suffer.
Babs you totally crack me up. The one I thought might pass is old Blue but he is hanging in there. He is a master at plotting alright. But my little zebra Meepers would never do ANYTHING wrong. She is an angel.
I'm going to buy her a crested boyfriend when we get settled again.

I'm going to get these little egg layers a socie hubby too. Just like inlovesorange fawn crested singer. I have a thing for cresteds.

Karen

At least it sounds like a natural death!
When I had budgies one of them got missing and I search everywhere and couldn't find him and then later when I got to go feed my fish a see him in the aquarium drowned Somehow he manage to get through a tiny crack between the cover glass on the top of the aquarium (I still don't know how he managed it because it was so small and he was a really big budgie).

It felt so awful finding him there and I felt so bad for a very long time after.