Eggs are cold, should I remove them??

[*My*Cockatiels*Rule*]

Hi again

I disposed of three eggs that were cold and left the three that were being incubated by the grey bird.

NOT no more!!

Anyway, should I remove the three remaining eggs and clean the boxes and start again this season or is it too late?

I will remove one of the females from the cage, the question is which one? The yellow who isn't a good parent or the grey who the male hasn't really bonded with?

Any advice at this stage will be great as I'm at my wits end and am very disappointed.

Thanks.

[charmedagain]

Are neither parents sitting on the eggs at all.

I would remove the nests and eggs put the yellow female in a cage of her own and only put up the nest for the grey pair see what happens.

Make sure the room temp stays warm all the time as if its warm the eggs should stay warm longer when the parents are off the nest.

It could be once you remove the female things will settle back down and the grey pair will go and settle down and successfully raise a clutch.

mike

[*My*Cockatiels*Rule*]

Hi,

No none of the birds are sitting on the eggs that I know of. If they are it isn't for very long.

The eggs I disposed of that were rejected were fertile but they were stone cold, i could see the dark embryo type things inside them.

I don't understand because both of these females had raised chicks before, maybe the male was scaring them off the eggs or something because he was usually the one sitting on them.

Or I could have been that I was checking the eggs everyday and that put them off them, I just don't know.

Anyway I might remove the yellow bird and try with the grey as she seemed to be the better mother even though her eggs weren't fertile. I might also leave the other eggs as they might be on them every now and then. It is night time here so I am just going to check on them now and see if one of them is in the nest.

I'll report back.

[*My*Cockatiels*Rule*]

No, the eggs aren't being tended to so I'll remove them tomorrow.

The yellow bird just come out of the box that is empty when I went out there, she better not be laying more eggs. They will just die too.

I might buy a hatcher?? I can't remember the name of it, the thing that keeps eggs warm and hatches them.

Anyway, it doesn't look promising at the moment.

Thanks

[charmedagain]

I only ever check the nests first thing on a morning when the birds leave the nest to eat and stretch there wings and always only the day the females where due to lay another egg, So it was every second day i checked the nest.

When it started to get dark i would switch on a light in the room the birds where in so that would make up 14hours of light.
There nests where lined with 2inches of plain wood shavings and they cages are ina quiet room where there is no moise or atleast very little noise so that the birds do not get disturbed or stressed.

i would remove the yellow bird and allow the grey pair to try again hopefully this time they will succeed.

But if the yellow bird is the only female producing fertile eggs this means the male is breeding with her and not the grey, So then you have the dilema of which female to leave him with.

When there is eggs in the nest the males incubate the eggs during the day while the female is out and eating and stretching her wings, As soon as the soon starts to go down they will swap and the female takes over night duty so it could be the change over that is confusing the birds.

I always put food dishes closer to the nests so that the parents do not have to far to go to get to there food and water.
Also you can give dark leafy cabbage as this is full of vitamin E which is a fertility vitamin this male help your grey female along abit.

Mike