FIVE healthy new baby Goulds yesterday, ZERO babies today!

[Babs _Owner]

Jen

I completely agree with Cindy. Get rid of the moth balls. Even if they cant inhale them .. if it rains, the toxins from the moth balls will drain off the mothballs and into the aviary's soil and plants.

Thats why mothballs are never used in vegetable gardens. It poisons the food.

It could be rodents or lizards.
Gartor snakes will eat newborn baby birds.
Texas has a lot of species of whiptails and skink lizards that can easily climb up walls and branches and will eat eggs & newly hatched baby birds. Skinks & Gator snakes can fit through 1/4 bar spacing.
I would check to see if you have reptiles sunning themselves in open areas, walls rocks etc. during the day.

[cindy]

We even have a gecko like the tokay gecko that is almost translucent and rarely seen during the day. They can get very large, thin enough to squeeze into spaces as well.

A friend had joined two of the flight cages together to make a long flight, it was housed on a cabinet on her lanai, she kept checking nest and eggs and babies where missing, adults injured or frightened in the morning not going near the nests. She pulled the unit away from the screen and wall and in the screen rats had chewed a hole in the patio screening and through an unsecured small section at the top of where the two flights met they were getting in....heartbreaking.