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Originally Posted by polishkid99
Tina ....good reply. I have 5 tiels and I have to admit....breeding isn't for everyone. One pair I had laid a clutch and I thought all would be easy....let the parents do it and interact with chicks. Well 6 eggs were laid and all was going well. Egg 1 hatched and I thought 6 was too many for their first clutch so I fostered the second to another pair I have. Well that one hatched. Number 3,4 and 5 hatched. Well all babies were doing fine; parents and fosterparents were doing great. I get up one morning and I see the parents out of the box just sitting there and no noise from the box. I opened it up and all the chicks are dead and the last remaining egg had started to pip but now was dead. Im thinking OMG...the eggs were infected somehow. I checked on the other cage and both fosterparents were in the box tending the one surviving chick. Im thinking maybe this one will die soon. Well 2 yrs later Lucky is still doing well. I learned the hard way my one pair was horrible parents; great pets but not good at raising a clutch. I took the dead chicks to my avian vet and after telling the story the surviving one was the one I fostered it was more than likely it was the parents. Unfortunately the fosterparents always lay infertile eggs. Im sharing this to reiterate what Tina said about the heartache. Here 5 little lives came in and then left. Breeding isn't for everyone. If I get any more birds I now realize there are many birds out there for adoption.
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It's a lot of work, but then again what isn't?
Why do the fosterparents always lay infertile eggs?