We've got eggs!!!!!!

FinchLover&Breeder · Post by **FinchLover&Breeder** » Sat Apr 28, 2018 7:31 pm

Well today makes 3 eggs

FinchLover&Breeder · Post by **FinchLover&Breeder** » Sun Apr 29, 2018 6:41 pm

Got 4 now.

haroun · Post by **haroun** » Mon Apr 30, 2018 8:06 am

FinchLover&Breeder
finger crossed , hope this time is the good one.

FinchLover&Breeder wrote: Well everyone it turns out that my birds might have different plans than I do. Remember how I said I was going to try later in the year with Jack Sparrow and Momma Bird? Well when I went to remove the nest from the cage today I discovered 2 eggs in the nest that weren't there a week ago. I also discovered that my birds discovered a nifty little trick to keep their eggs safe from prying eyes. They have taken corn cob shavings from the bottom of the cage and put them in their nest. When the parents both know that they aren't going to be in the nest for a little while they cover the eggs up so it looks like an empty nest. Then when they come back to the nest they uncover the eggs and sit on them for a while occasionally trading places. It's amazing how smart my birds are. I can only hope that if this clutch is fertile than they hatch before I leave at the end of May for my cruise with my grandparents. I Mom gives my birds food and water when I'm not around to do it so I just hope that if they do hatch than they hatch before I leave because I don't want to miss the babies being born.

Well guys that's it for this update. Let me know what you think and stuff. Also if I can remember I'll try to record everything on my cruise and upload it to YouTube so that way you guys can kind of experience my trip to Belize. Can't wait to hear back from you.

they 're really amazing those birds .
they should strat sittin by today so 13 days after and you're fixed

FinchLover&Breeder · Post by **FinchLover&Breeder** » Mon Apr 30, 2018 1:15 pm

haroun
Ok. They have started sitting. still just 4 eggs. They should hatch around the 12th of May. My cruise is like the 20th.

FinchLover&Breeder · Post by **FinchLover&Breeder** » Sat May 05, 2018 2:01 pm

haroun
The clutch is only 4 eggs. However I believe that they are fertile because a couple appear to be getting a little bit bigger. Am I just imagining a change in egg size because I want babies?

haroun · Post by **haroun** » Sat May 05, 2018 2:54 pm

FinchLover&Breeder Hi, that's good news, u have to wait fir more one week, fertile eggs will chang color from white to ivory grey if u can't candle them. One day or two days Before eexpect hatchling date, present to ur pair the bath, and eggsfood.
Good luck

FinchLover&Breeder · Post by **FinchLover&Breeder** » Mon May 14, 2018 2:01 pm

haroun
They haven't hatched. Should I be worried?

Icearstorm · Post by **Icearstorm** » Mon May 14, 2018 4:15 pm

FinchLover&Breeder

Give them a few more days; some eggs take a bit longer to hatch than usual.

FinchLover&Breeder · Post by **FinchLover&Breeder** » Mon May 14, 2018 4:17 pm

Ok. I only have 4 days left before my cruise and I want to see them hatch before I leave. It would be sad to miss it.

Icearstorm · Post by **Icearstorm** » Tue May 15, 2018 5:16 pm

FinchLover&Breeder

4 days should be enough time if they are fertile, though it's hard to know for sure.

haroun · Post by **haroun** » Wed May 16, 2018 4:06 am

FinchLover&Breeder have u give them bath , the humidity helps chicks to broke the eggshell

FinchLover&Breeder · Post by **FinchLover&Breeder** » Fri May 18, 2018 10:47 am

haroun
Yes I did. However they have started laying more eggs.

haroun · Post by **haroun** » Fri May 18, 2018 12:24 pm

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Yes I did. However they have started laying more eggs.[/quote]
Any hatchrling today?! Can u candle the eggs lay be u have a DIS chicks
They started laying today?!

Kyra · Post by **Kyra** » Sat May 19, 2018 11:48 am

Hi to everyone! This is my first post, but I have read many over the past 5 months for advice. Became a member last week, so hopefully will not break any rules...

I have a pair of shaft-tail grass finches about 10 months old. Hen laid one eggs, which broke about three days ago. Yesterday afternoon I saw 3 new ones. This morning she is shabby looking and clearly ill. Puffed up and just hopping on the ground. She can barely fly and allowed me to pick her up (first time for me). Still eating, but her beak has gone from bright orange-red to pale peach. She was fine yesterday.

I am not sure she will survive the night. Surely hope so (love my "ninja's"). I think, from your posts that it may be egg-binding? What can I do short-term, i.e. between now and tomorrow morning. Will she die that quickly?

Advice will be much appreciated.

Kyra · Post by **Kyra** » Sat May 19, 2018 11:50 am

Just to add. I feed them egg food every day with vitamins and crushed egg shell. Live meal worms every 3rd day. Variety of sees, sprouted and greens. I have cuttle-bone and grit in the aviary, which is outdoor. Live on the east coast of South Africa, so basically tropical climate. Aviary has plenty of sunlight, etc.

Can't think of what I may be doing wrong or could be doing better.

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