2nd clutch.. all infertile???

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colorin
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the yellow hen fledged yesterday (5 days later than her siblings!) but her parents seemed to ignore her completely once she fledged. She's been begging for food since yesterday, and today I checked on her to see if she had any food in her crop. It was empty.. and she was begging and begging :-(
I took her and managed to force some food in, until I saw it "storaged" in her crop. I have placed her with her (also yellow) sister and the fostered gouldian, who share a cage indoors, and will go on feeding her (she refuses to open her mouth. It's so dificult to force it open!!)
Anyway, I don't know why parents went on feeding her while in the nest, and refuse to do it now! they are still feeding the other 4 though

Today I removed both nests, and hell broke loose!! Forquite a while they seemed to be mad, searching everywhere, going up and down like crazy. One of the nests had 3 new eggs and at least one was fertile, so I have given those to the societies, just in case But for the gouldians the breeding season is over, whether they like it or not.
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Great . I removed nest and they're laying eggs anyway. Of course, they end up on the floor all smashed :x
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both pairs managed to " build" a nest and they were laying eggs again! I found one nest built on top of the lid of a big jar of grit that I keep under a shelf inthe aviary and the other they were buiding in a corner in between some fake branches!
So I've managed to catch both males and I have placed them in the new aviary in the attic, with the two owls and blue caps.
I hope hens stop laying eggs now and concentrate on resting before they molt! They still have very dark beaks :-(
Hens and juveniles will remain in the aviary until they molt, then I will remove all male juveniles and will place them with the other two males in a flight cage I have outdoors, and then, I will try to "convince" them to start breeding in sept rather than november!
I hope the two males don't feel too stressed in their new "home" (I,m adding probiotics and a B complex )
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