QuackQuack
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- Oct 20, 2011
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- Parrots
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KITTY: Pineapple Green Cheek Conure (2 year old)
BODE: Nanday Conure (5 years old)
KIWI & BLUE: English Budgerigars (RIP after 10 years)
Prior to getting married I was a hospice nurse. Someone who I know from back then is really going down hill and needed to place her lovebirds somewhere. They are not tame and are happy little pair who take good care of one another. I said sure I will take them and if a good home pops up then I will send them that way - no problem- since she isn't well enough to be screening and interviewing adoptees. Well, I went to get them today , and wouldn't you know it! They have a nest box with 8 eggs in there! They are tending them. I said how long have they had those eggs!? She said that it had been a weekish. I transported them home, so there is no telling if they are still viable though I was careful. I cleaned up the cage as it was kind of a mess - again sick, dying person was the owner. What can I do to help the birds? I gave them my pellet/fruit/nut/seed mixture for the other birds, and I gave them some fresh veggies and RO water. They look very healthy and bright eyed and 'bushy tailed'. I will go ahead and hand feed the babies if they should hatch, as I have done that before. I have not, however, ever raised a clutch from start to finish. The hand feeding I did was the tail end of birds in the petstore I worked at or my own when I was a child. The ones at the petstore were broad in species (macaw-conures, but no lovebirds). Please offer me any advice you can. I considered just taking the eggs and separating them, but with them moving from her home and everything I didn't want to drive them to kill themselves 
