Greenwing Macaws

[BMJBirds]

I raise Macaws. My GW's lay 3 to 4 eggs every year. If I try and leave the 3rd and 4th eggs until they hatch the parrents will distroy or leave the 3rd and 4th babies to die....I want to know if anyone else out there in our bird world has ever had this problem and if so how did they solve the problem?
I once had someone tell me to take the first baby after the third egg hatches and the second after the fourth egg hatches. It sounded good, but, when I tried this the parrents killed the last two babies........

BMJBirds

[The Outlaw]

I'm not a breeder, but I have also heard that advice from breeders that I do know. I think it has to do with them feeling overburdened by trying to keep all of the babies fed. Some breeders handfeed day one babies out of incubators to insure a higher success rate. Next week, Sharon Kirscht will be here to help field all kinds of macaw questions. She has a pair of Scarlets that routinely lay up to 7 eggs per clutch. She always incubates rather than take the chance of losing any of them. Consequently, her babies readily accept humans as part of their flock. I found that absolutely fascinating.

THE OUTLAW

[SunConure1]

Nancy that does sound good that way they accpect humans as part of there flock. I read some where that a guy took the eggs away as the mother laid them and put them in the incubator and raised them that way. They where sun conures and since he did this and they were away from the adults he said they didn't learn that high pitched scream that sun conures are famous for. I'm not entilery (spelling) sure if that is correct tho. But they say the more there around humans the friendler they become.