Babies thrown out.

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Jayburd
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there was an article on the matter in the birdkeeper magazine recently
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gomer wrote:Trudy,I have had this problem quite a few times over the years,I beleive it can be from inexperianced birds,And they tend to settle down after a few failures.Or sometime extreme heat the parents throw the young out to keep the others cooler in the nest.Or posibly when to cold aswell one cold chick can take heat from the others.Where your birds young Jarrayd when it happened to you?

yes gomer they were young. i havent had a baby tossing issue in the last 2 seasons, *touching wood*

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Pooky
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Hey everyone I placed the baby bird back into the nest 2 or 3 times and it has actually survived... :o Thanks everyone for your coments.
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