Bbartlett
New member
Hi y'all! Oké, so we have gotten a little situation on our hand.
About 4 weeks ago our lovebird couple, Kiwi and Mango, got their first baby. Kiwi had 5 eggs and 2 hatched. Sadly the second baby died within 2 days. They didn't feed him and me and my husband are very inexperienced with baby birds so we just hoped they would take care of him but they didn't. This said we tried our best to not interfere with their nest. Until a few days ago everything was fine. But after we took the baby out one more time to start to handle him a little the mom started picking him. We've read several causes two spoke to us the most: jealousy and nutrition. We tried everything we could but the mom seems to be not handeling it well. She has always been a very distrusted an agressive bird (she was found on the street and we think she wasn't handled well by her old owners). Sometimes we hear the baby screatch because the mom is plucking his feathers. Yesterday she first drew blood on the baby so now we are really worried. She also does not seem to feed the baby anymore and when dad is trying to he gets interrupted by mom. It's very confusing.
We bought some nutrition for the baby in case we need to step in. But again: we are not experienced at all. And I am afraid to mess it up. We considered a few options. And read a lot. The best option seems to be to take the mom out and let the dad take care of him. Still I don't know if that will be enough.
Any lovebird experts that can give us advice please? We love our birds dearly and would like to do the best for them...
About 4 weeks ago our lovebird couple, Kiwi and Mango, got their first baby. Kiwi had 5 eggs and 2 hatched. Sadly the second baby died within 2 days. They didn't feed him and me and my husband are very inexperienced with baby birds so we just hoped they would take care of him but they didn't. This said we tried our best to not interfere with their nest. Until a few days ago everything was fine. But after we took the baby out one more time to start to handle him a little the mom started picking him. We've read several causes two spoke to us the most: jealousy and nutrition. We tried everything we could but the mom seems to be not handeling it well. She has always been a very distrusted an agressive bird (she was found on the street and we think she wasn't handled well by her old owners). Sometimes we hear the baby screatch because the mom is plucking his feathers. Yesterday she first drew blood on the baby so now we are really worried. She also does not seem to feed the baby anymore and when dad is trying to he gets interrupted by mom. It's very confusing.
We bought some nutrition for the baby in case we need to step in. But again: we are not experienced at all. And I am afraid to mess it up. We considered a few options. And read a lot. The best option seems to be to take the mom out and let the dad take care of him. Still I don't know if that will be enough.
Any lovebird experts that can give us advice please? We love our birds dearly and would like to do the best for them...