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Just to share something I find pretty darn amazing .

In the recent 45 degree heat a pair of my budgies decided to jump ship and leave the obviously too hot nest box with 3 eggs in it .
After a couple of days of no hen incubating I took the box out so they could not breed again in summer :(
Anyhoo a quick scan ( without my glasses ) and I was sure the eggs were dead so put the box in the shed for a clean up later in the day .
Yep forgot all about the box until a week later when other half rushes in and tells me what he thought sounded like a mouse was a baby budgie pipping :shock:
No other option but to whack the eggs under another hen who had young at pin feather stage and just wait and see :?

So yesterday we had a look , expecting the worse we found 4 feathered babies belonging to the hen and 3 little pink babies with very full crops :thumbup:
Could not believe my eyes .

Think I have the prefect foster mum in that hen ...
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Sounds like it...also sounds like you need to wear your glasses more often :)
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Spend half my life looking for glasses and other half trying to find the beginning of the toilet roll :thumbdown:
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now that's dribble worth sharing! great story, jusdeb!
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wow who needs an incubator just throw the eggs in your shed lol
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I hope you have a comfy dunny seat then.
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jusdeb wrote:Just to share something I find pretty darn amazing .

In the recent 45 degree heat a pair of my budgies decided to jump ship and leave the obviously too hot nest box with 3 eggs in it .
After a couple of days of no hen incubating I took the box out so they could not breed again in summer :(
Anyhoo a quick scan ( without my glasses ) and I was sure the eggs were dead so put the box in the shed for a clean up later in the day .
Yep forgot all about the box until a week later when other half rushes in and tells me what he thought sounded like a mouse was a baby budgie pipping :shock:
No other option but to whack the eggs under another hen who had young at pin feather stage and just wait and see :?

So yesterday we had a look , expecting the worse we found 4 feathered babies belonging to the hen and 3 little pink babies with very full crops :thumbup:
Could not believe my eyes .

Think I have the prefect foster mum in that hen ...
I had similar experience with White-winged Wrens, she stopped incubation about 2 days before hatching I removed the eggs, 2 days later the eggs hatched. :?
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Great News Great Story Jusdeb :thumbup:
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Deb great story, what luck that hubby found them when he did. Wouldn't get rid of the other hen for quids, hard to find a foster mum especially with such a difference in age of young.
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BBB quail confused the hell out of me here, they spent very little time sitting on eggs. Its no wonder Budgies do so well, still a few flocks about here, just survivors :thumbup:
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