Baby did not survive, more to come. Help

Conureloverforlife · Mar 2, 2014

So the first egg hatched 2 days ago and I got up this morning and I can see that it did not survive. I chose to let the mom do her thing as I do not have any experience in hand feeding and caring for little ones. There are 8 eggs left and I think about 4 of them are fertilized. Now I'm thinking I should remove the babies when they hatch. I don't think the mom was feeding the baby. Please anyone that knows about these kinds of things give me your feedback. I'v been doing research but I want as much info as I can get. Thank you

crimson · Mar 2, 2014

I am sorry to hear the baby conure didn't make it.
I've experienced the same thing myself and it's never easy.

tough to say why a hen doesn't feed her chicks, it could be numerous valid reasons.
could be that she is to young in age and inexperienced.

I am concerned why you would want to pull the remaining hatched chicks, without having experience in hand feeding, that would lead to a certain death.

leave them with mom, and let mother nature take it's course.

Conureloverforlife · Mar 2, 2014

I think there is more of a chance that they will survive if I feed them then if they are not fed at all! No I don't have any experience but everyone had to start at one point.

MikeyTN · Mar 2, 2014

Yes everyone starts somewhere but not with a newly hatched chick! But your right they have better survival rate if you remove to hand feed. But this is a delicate task and very tiresome! Your gonna feed the chick around the clock the first week of it's life. Every hour the first 3 days then every 2hrs then 3hrs on the 5th day. Then on the 8th day you do 6am, 11am, 3pm, 7pm, and 12am. You have to feed organic yoghurt to start the bacteria process, you mix with warm water, not hot or you'll kill the bacteria! Then syringe feed it to the chick. Then an hour later make sure the crop sac have gone down before you start feeding. You must make the formula watery to begin with!!!!! Make it at the right temperature! You must keep the baby warm in a incubator! So make sure you know what your getting into first, breeding isn't as easy as most seem to think.....

crimson · Mar 2, 2014

I still think they are better off with mom.
there could have been something wrong with the chick.

if she does not feed the second one, then I would say pull the rest.

Conureloverforlife · Mar 3, 2014

Breeding was not my plan. I'v had a GCC for several years and decided to get 2 more, 5 days after I brought them home is when she laid her first 2 eggs with 8 eggs to follow. I was kind of thrown into this. I would rather be tired for a couple weeks then have to get rid of babies every couple days when they don't make it. I kept a close eye on the mom and never saw her feed, but me being the optimist I thought maybe I just wasn't catching it.

MikeyTN · Mar 3, 2014

k, this might explain why she's not caring for the chicks like she should, they're still rather new to your place. Have you gather up the supplies needed to care for the next chick when it hatch? Since there's 8 eggs left, when was the last one laid??? Candle the eggs to check for fertility, it will show up within the first 3-4 days of incubation. IF only 4 are fertile, remove the excess eggs so she could concentrate on incubating the fertile eggs instead. Daily misting of the eggs help with the humidity. Stop misting once the egg starts to hatch.

greencheekachick · Mar 3, 2014

MikeyTN said:
k, this might explain why she's not caring for the chicks like she should, they're still rather new to your place. Have you gather up the supplies needed to care for the next chick when it hatch? Since there's 8 eggs left, when was the last one laid??? Candle the eggs to check for fertility, it will show up within the first 3-4 days of incubation. IF only 4 are fertile, remove the excess eggs so she could concentrate on incubating the fertile eggs instead. Daily misting of the eggs help with the humidity. Stop misting once the egg starts to hatch.

-I agree with this.
-Also if they are in a busy part of the house, moving them to a quieter place mitht help the parents feel more secure and they might take care of the babies better. And if you are checking the nest box multiple times a day, try to only check once a day and try to keep it as short as possible so the parents can relax better.

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