Upcoming Egg?

[Cheffi]

Fingers crossed, it's so exciting

 

[Synirr]

Joule is now sitting on 4 eggs and looks like she's done laying. I candled them today, and guess what? TWO ARE FERTILE!!!!!!!!!!
I'm guessing it will be 16-17 days before the first hatches, I'm not sure exactly when these were laid because after the first two (the infertile ones, I candled those earlier) I was trying to disturb her as little as possible and didn't check for eggs daily.

I dunno how well you can see the veins in this pic, but you can definitely see the shadow of the yolk... very large, which along with the veins, is a sign of a fertile egg.

You can see the veins better in this smaller version

 

[donna123]

Hi,
thats awsome, egg citing, news.
i hope all goes well, is Joule going to bring up the babys or are you hand rearing them?
all the best with them

 

[Synirr]

I'll probably let her raise them this time and see how it goes. I have read that as long as you handle them a lot there's very little difference between a baby raised by the parents and one that has been hand-raised, so we'll see

 

[omen666]

Grab those babies when their eyes open and cuddle em and scratch em to bits lol , they will love you for it. I used to tickle mine under their chins and they just ate it up. Unless the mother goes nuts , she may have ur finger for a snack , if she gets too upset I'd leave them. Unless ur prepared to hand feed.

I have too many pet projects. I also breed Orange Breasted Zebra Finches. A new mutation that people are desperate to get here in the UK

Fertile eggs are always exciting , lets hope since it's her first clutch that she is a good mummy. How old is she?

I'm a pic freak so I thought I'd share some of mine.

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http/i92.photobucket.com/albums/l22/dami...06/DSCF3272.jpg

 

[Synirr]

She's a little over a year old, and she is being a great mommy so far
She is the most even-tempered parrotlet I've ever seen and doesn't even try to bite me when I shoo her off the eggs (which I try to avoid doing, but I wanted to candle them). She opens her mouth and threatens, but then hops out of the nestbox like a good little lady and waits patiently until I am done and return the eggs. She has been incubating the eggs well, and her mate Petri has been eating a wider variety of foods he normally wouldn't touch to keep her well fed, in addition to attacking me every time I go near the cage, but that's pretty normal for him.

 

[lilfishie]

wow good luck with them synirr hope it goes well i'll keep coming back to check on there progress

 

[omen666]

For all of my parrot like birds I used to bake cornbread with pinto beans and corn and great northern beans in em or black eyed peas and my birds would tear it up! Try him on that , he might snarl his nose up at first but when he gets a taste for it they love it , it makes a good food for babies too if u add suplements. Good luck

 

[Synirr]

I lied.... THREE fertile eggs now, she laid another!

 

[OohFeeshy]

Wow, they've been busy At least these don't have to be jarred when they're older