We'll try it this way.....

[FLDoc]

Well, I let my two newbie Gouldian parents nest again and three days ago transferred the two eggs into a Zebra nest with one egg from a half English CFW (I think that's the mutation) hen and a BC young male. The next day, there were four eggs (she laid another) and, later that day, a Gouldian chick. Talk about in the nick of time. There are now five eggs total and the Gouldian chick, whom the foster parents have openly been feeding. Not certain if the second Gouldian egg is good, but at least this one chick is being fed and has the parents undivided attention for now. Hopefully, it will do well by getting a head start. There are two other active nests just started with eggs, so, if I see that the babies, if all eggs hatch, are too many, I can move a couple. We'll see.

[Spreckles]

Hope it works out!

[Babs _Owner]

FLDoc

Are the gouldian parents unable to take care of their babies?

[FLDoc]

They are young and have kicked out all the chicks shortly after they hatch in the first two clutches they had. I pulled their nest now for the summer and will try them again in the fall.

[Babs _Owner]

FLDoc

Nice save! Good luck on their clutches next year!

[FLDoc]

Babs,

Thanks. Gouldians are new for me. Unlike the Zebras that I've raised now going on three decades and the Societies that seem to have communal nests where more than one set of parents (or at least, multiple hen's) are laying and raising the chicks, the Gouldians seem to possibly take more time to figure out what to do. Young female dogs can be the same, having had four litters of Brussels Griffons with three girls. They can take a little to catch on and have their maternal side kick in, though some never take to being mothers. And I've read in the forms where some Gouldian hens don't as well. Time will tell. So far, so good.