question about parents tossing eggs away.

[novabortion]

Hi everyone im new to this and im here to help my mom out with her love birds. everytime they lay an egg they seem not to sit on it and sometimes throw it out of there nest??? im sorry if this has been brought up in an other thread but i couldnt find it under search. can i buy an incubator and hatch the eggs like that. my mom is willing to hand raise em.
any help would be greatly appriciated, thanks

so far i gathered info on need a nesting box, proper food besides seeds.

[Monica]

Could you please give us more information??? Such as their diet? Size of cage? Type of nest? Nesting material? Age of lovebirds? Proven pair? (might have a female/female pair) Types of lovebirds? How long has this been going on? How many times have they laid eggs?

[Samm]

Before you go to the trouble and expense of an incubator and all the supplies, are you certain the egg(s) are fertile? Are you experienced at hand feeding from day one? Thats every 2 hours for at LEAST a week. Put some thought into it before you decide......its really not an easy thing to do if you aren't experienced....

[novabortion]

Originally Posted by Samm

Before you go to the trouble and expense of an incubator and all the supplies, are you certain the egg(s) are fertile? Are you experienced at hand feeding from day one? Thats every 2 hours for at LEAST a week. Put some thought into it before you decide......its really not an easy thing to do if you aren't experienced....

i dont mind buying supplies, my mom stays home and she can do all the feeding, as for knowing if the eggs are fertile, im not sure.ill find out more about the diet tomarrow ill talk to my mom, ill post some pics too. the only reason she wants to raise the eggs cause she hates seeing them being thrown away.

[Birdsmile]

Do you have them in a busy room? I have a pair that does it when they are upset?
Feeding lovies day one is not like feeding parrots day one, Its harder in the beggining they feed upside down (on their backs).
Jack

[CrazyBirdLady]

Everyone's asked great questions and to help, we need to know if you do indeed have a male/female pair, age, what type of nestbox they are in and if the eggs are fertile.
How many eggs have been laid and tossed so far?

Lovebirds don't actually sit and incubate until the second or third egg is laid. However if they are tossing the eggs out of the nestbox, there is something wrong in the environment around them. Either they are not feeling safe where they are, like too much traffic around them, people snooping in the cage/box, etc... Where is the cage located? and is the entrance for the nestbox facing away from the main area of the room? Hens need to feel secure that their eggs are safe or they will toss them, bury them or destroy them.
If you could find an incubator for the eggs (if they are fertile) and they chicks hatched, you are saying your mother is willing to feed the chicks? Day one feeding is, like Jack said, a task in itself. Every two hours, day and night, feeding a chick no bigger than the size of a quarter. If your mother has never handfed before, I would not suggest she attempt to learn of Day one birds.
Try to "fix" what is happening to cause the birds to kick the eggs out so they can incubate and raise them.

[XP_2600]

Guys even if its offtopic, but let me tell you a case i met sometimes ago about six years ago, well i got a couple of black masked lovebird and they were alone ad there on cage (not in a group of birds or aviary) there were near other peachfaced cages normally ( i mean they wasnt under any special bad atmosphere, they layed aggs and hatching normally and gorwn kids normally they got about three nests so normall in approximately three fledglings in every nests and they were in a good health and got them all grown normally, then there is something strange started to heppen the parents were fighting when they just got eggs hatched yes they were hurt each other near eyes and at legs, but they were getting fledglings out of nest normally then next nest they started to hurt the fledglings themselves, this problem grown and they became so wild to each other and killing fledglings as well everytime, after its finish they back normally, and i find its better to replace them with another birds but i told the dealer about there problem to prevent that he sell them to someone else, so its a strange behavior from birds and if anyone have explain for that its gonna be cool, but personally i think its a minds problem or something.

[Monica]

I've heard of pairs coming together and end up not successfully raising chicks, or fighting inbetween the two of them... If they were to remain a breeding pair, they'd need new mates, although that doesn't always solve the problem... Not all birds however are cut out for breeding.