need help what should i do with my gouldian eggs

superfly1977 · Post by **superfly1977** » Fri Jan 18, 2008 2:01 pm

Need help what should i do with my gouldian eggs here it goes. i have 2 gouldians (m&f), 1 spice (m), 2 other birds but i forgot what tey are (m), 1 weaver (m or F), and 4 society (1f & 3M). all in 1 cage. i did have 4 zebra in there but i took them out they think all the bird house was theys. all of the birds want to go in the gouldian house but the weaver. i do have more society bird i want to put in but the way it is going i do not no if i should they have four eggs now i think more to come. at firts the male would to the nest at night. but now they were both in it last night with 4 eggs. in the day time all the rest of the birds would look to see if they are in the nest if they are they will not go in but if they arre out of the nest they will go in it but if i see it happen i did scare the bird away & today one of the birds was in the hole but the gouldian did not do a think but fly around some more and not fight him off so i did to scare him off. when the gouldians are in the nest they will scare the birds away. this is gouldian firts parents. what should i do? do i leave them alone to see want the gouldians would do and for how long and if i do this will that bird tink it is his/her home now i fight the gouldians away because of the eggs or should i keep on doing what i am doing now sould i add mre female society. of should i foster the eggs out to a sociey. and 1 more ? if they do leave the nest how long can the eggs go with out a bird sitting on them because if it happens i with foster them to a socitey
when do young male sociteys start to sing?

please help me
thank you

Post by **Sally** » Sat Jan 19, 2008 12:49 am

What size cage are you talking about? It is hard to successfully breed in a community cage unless it is a pretty big flight. If this is the Gouldians first clutch, they may or may not sit tight, with other birds disturbing them. It's a good thing you took out the Zebras, as they would definitely try to take over the nest. You have a much better chance of success if you just have the pair of Gouldians in their own cage.

Once the birds start incubating the eggs, they can be off for short periods of time to eat and drink, but I believe that anything much longer than 30 minutes lets the eggs cool too much. This also depends on the temperature of the room where the birds are. If it is a cool room, the eggs will cool much quicker.

Societies make great fosters, but they usually need to be in breeding mode themselves in order to be coaxed to take over some eggs. And you don't have to have a m/f pair, it can be m/m or f/f. I'm not sure when Society males start singing, but since they become sexually mature at an early age (about 3 months), I would assume they would be singing by then.

superfly1977 · Post by **superfly1977** » Sat Jan 19, 2008 2:11 am

cage is 2' 6'' w 6' L 7' H they have four eggs now they do sitt on them but some times thet are both out should i wait intill she laids all of her eggs to time them to see if i need to foster the eggs out. it looks like they are both out 3 times a day i should i let the other birds go in the nest and lesve them be to see what happens. the other birds are starting to go in a differnt bird house

thanks for your info
i should have 5 eggs on sat
i have 9 house in the cage

Post by **Sally** » Sat Jan 19, 2008 5:19 pm

Gouldians usually don't start sitting tight till they have at least three eggs, and sometimes not until they are finished laying the clutch. They may not be sitting tight yet. Even once they sit tight, it won't hurt if they are both off the nest for very short periods of time.

superfly1977 · Post by **superfly1977** » Sat Jan 19, 2008 6:19 pm

my other birds are starting to go into the other house now but some do peak to see if they are in there. i hope my worries are over and they are starting to sit on them for long peroid.

thanks again
still have 4eggs maybe five on sun