I need help

[Fraza]

Think zebras have stopped sitting on hatchlings can I give them society’s

[Gracie85]

How old are the hatchlings? There comes a point where they do stop sitting on them, as they are big enough not to need the constant warmth, and just go in for feeding and sleeping.

Are they still feeding them? do you hear the babies call for food, and one of the parents goes in? Can you look at them and see if their crops are being filled?

[Fraza]

Gracie85 hi they are really young and she wasn’t feeding them and the Dad wasn’t interested and they lost all energy and I thought they was dead.

So it was time for coco to do action hahaha

I swapped the nest and within two minutes coco was in there feeding them next minute coco two females started feeding them and coco chick that is 5 week old even fed them haha.

Society’s are the best !!

I had a look after they was fed and they looked great and started moving around again so it looks good

[lovezebs]

Fraza

Wow Fraser, you have some wonderful Society baby sitters in there. Real champions!!!

[Fraza]

lovezebs I’m so lucky to have coco seriously he will feed any little chick he sees you should have seen it he heard a tweet jumped up to his bed noticed the chick and he jumped in straight away and started to feed them next minute all the other society’s noticed him in there and went and joined in.

I was most shocked by the 5 week old fledgling haha taking after his dads ways

[Fraza]

I really don’t know what it is with these new zebras tho they just don’t seem interested at all with there own chicks it’s only my black cheek that cares apart from that my others just get fed up after a few days I’m starting to think is this why I got them so cheap

[lovezebs]

Fraza

Do you know how old they are?

[Fraza]

lovezebs yeh one male was born in July the other was born in may and one female was in March aswell as finchie and the last female I do not know the age of but she seems like she’s maybe abit older as she was building her own nest and was in breeding mode trying to dance cerytime her mate sang

Finchie was born about March I can’t remeber that well but she was mine I bred and her male I’m not sure of

[Fraza]

Just checked on my Callander finchie is 8 months old born in April

[lovezebs]

Fraza

Maybe still a bit young to breed responsibly.

[Fraza]

lovezebs really I thought it was 6-9 and I didn’t want my zebras o breed it just happened I’ve had two of the three pairs breed only one clutch hatched as finchies clutch didn’t hatch as the only fertile egg cracked

[haroun]

Fraza. Ur bird are little bit young to breed. The best way is to wait till the hens arrive to the age of one year.
Somebreeders use a 9 month aged cok with an old hen +one year..

[lovezebs]

Fraza

I know that Zebras are capable of breeding at a very young age, but just because they can, doesn't mean they should.

Some might simply not be mature anough mentally to raise a clutch of chicks.

Just my personal oppinion.

[Fraza]

haroun lovezebs yeh ino I agree I just got told last time three months was too young and atleast wait to 6 months and then 9 months is good so I waited until 9 months but now this isn’t a good age either so is it basically 1 year and upwards and I’ve only had clutch that has hatched luckily but atleast I know now to stop the breeding for 3 months.

Thanks guys

[Stuart whiting]

lovezebs yeh one male was born in July the other was born in may and one female was in March aswell as finchie and the last female I do not know the age of but she seems like she’s maybe abit older as she was building her own nest and was in breeding mode trying to dance cerytime her mate sang

Finchie was born about March I can’t remeber that well but she was mine I bred and her male I’m not sure of

Fraza.....these birds are barely 7-8 months old

For any worthwhile results you wanna be breeding from em when there at least 1 year old,

this is std testament and is not rocket science and is clearly why yer birds are unsuccessful at the moment,

Best tip I can give yer mate is wait until April spring of next year and this will also give em the required nutritional build up during the winter months and should be ready for next spring and with a lot more higher chance of being successful