Finch squinting

[L in Ontario]

Yep - very natural once the chicks have fledge that she start laying another round... unless you remove the nest.

[Finch Fry]

I read in some threads in here that the nest should be left in for about another week after the babies fledge so they have somewhere to sleep at night.

Was this incorrect? I was hoping that the parents wouldnt breed so quickly. Anyways, its fine. I can handle it all. More babies on the way, LOL.

Quick question... are the eggs she is laying going to be ok with such high traffic in the nest. It used to be just the parents, now we have the mom AND 2 juvs who hop in and out a few times a day each.

[L in Ontario]

That's what I had understood/believed - that Societies and Zebras should have a nest left in for about a week after the babies fledge. But perhaps it can be removed after a couple of days. The chicks should be fine by then (IMHO) and just remove the eggs if you don't want more babies.

[HoangQuan]

Hey Finch Fry, what's about the squinted eye? Is Leela finally fine? I want to know cuz I have the same problem here. I have a gould that squinted his eye for weeks, and show no signs of illness, that's even crazier when some times he shuts both eyes, sometimes opens both and sometimes "switchs" between eyes *__*. Cant believe it. It's more than 2 weeks now so I dont think that was conjunctivitis or sinus infection, but the squinting thing still happens and he's still fine, that was so ridiculous
It's be nice if your bird got better and you let me know the treatment sothat I can apply to my gould...

[ac12]

My mother zebra started laying eggs about a week after the first chick from clutch 1 fledged. At night, all 4 fledglings would go back into the nest to sleep, on top of the eggs, and none of the eggs broke.

I read that about the fledglings and nests also, to keep the nest in till the fledglings sleep at night on the perch. But even when they stopped going back into the nest during the day, they kept going back in to sleep at night. Since I didn't want a 2nd clutch so soon, I started removing eggs. But since my nest is a woven type, I have to reach in and remove the nest to be able to remove the eggs, and that created a heck of a disruption. After a few days of that I finally just removed the nest, so I would not create a disruption removing the nest to remove the eggs, and so mom would not go into incubating mode and create another problem, w the fledglings wanting to into the nest to sleep.

I was surprised by my chicks. I read that they would drop to the floor and hop around on the cage floor for a day or two. So I put a piece of plastic on the cage floor under the nest, so they would not get caught in the grating when they fell (not realizing how big they were). Mine were perching the day they fledged. In fact they fledged right onto a perch, never hitting the cage floor. And they could get around from perch to perch, maybe with a bit of trouble but they could get around the cage. It was funny to watch them fledge, they would look out and move like they were going to jump out, then they would go back in, they would repeat this many times until they "finally" hopped out.

Next time, I plan to remove the nest, the day after the last one fledges. No need to trigger another egg cycle.

[Finch Fry]

I treated her with some antibiotics and then put her on probiotics. She is just fine now.

I decided, with a heavy heart, to take the 2nd clutch and dump it. She had too much stress between the sickness and the new clutch.

[HoangQuan]

I treated her with some antibiotics and then put her on probiotics. She is just fine now.

I decided, with a heavy heart, to take the 2nd clutch and dump it. She had too much stress between the sickness and the new clutch.

thank you for posting reply, my Gould is fine now , I guess that was an simple injury and he hurted his both eyes by doing something stupid.
And I think you did right dumping the 2nd clutch