Young Gouldian Behavior
Posted: 13 Aug 2022, 12:22
I have a few questions regarding recently weaned babies.
Hatched 6/24/22, they weaned July 28th and are avid eaters and flyers.
They live in a space with their parents, who have just begun a second clutch (last for the season).
I have a few questions regarding people with experience with newly weaned birds. I've noticed my eldest green dancing and took this as a sign that he was a boy. However, my younger silver female was spotted dancing just earlier today with the tell-tale hopping. The parents aren't capable of making a female silver as mum is a DF Blue and dad is a Dilute/Blue. My question is whether the young females may also dance, or perhaps whether her color as 'she' grows older may turn out to not be a 'silver'. As a baby, she had the skin tone of a DF blue, but the feathers that came in were pure white, unlike the silver we lost originally who was very pale in coloration. She is still pure white now, especially as compared to the youngest boy who appears to be a pastel Blue.
Second question was regarding the young birds. The eldest green, as well as the others, have found mum and dads nest very interesting. The eldest green has gone so far as to go on in and sit with her. I have heard that the elder birds will help feed fledglings, but I'm in doubt that they actively enter the nest to help feed hatchlings (not that there are any just yet). Does anyone else have experience with this? Dad only seems moderately bothered, and mum doesn't seem to mind at all. They could just be being annoying baby birds, just piqued my curiosity !
Attached photos of the babies from a week or two ago and the tail-end of a video of the silver dancing. (video may take a little to process, but it's unmistakeable.)
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1f2n6-C ... p=drivesdk
Hatched 6/24/22, they weaned July 28th and are avid eaters and flyers.
They live in a space with their parents, who have just begun a second clutch (last for the season).
I have a few questions regarding people with experience with newly weaned birds. I've noticed my eldest green dancing and took this as a sign that he was a boy. However, my younger silver female was spotted dancing just earlier today with the tell-tale hopping. The parents aren't capable of making a female silver as mum is a DF Blue and dad is a Dilute/Blue. My question is whether the young females may also dance, or perhaps whether her color as 'she' grows older may turn out to not be a 'silver'. As a baby, she had the skin tone of a DF blue, but the feathers that came in were pure white, unlike the silver we lost originally who was very pale in coloration. She is still pure white now, especially as compared to the youngest boy who appears to be a pastel Blue.
Second question was regarding the young birds. The eldest green, as well as the others, have found mum and dads nest very interesting. The eldest green has gone so far as to go on in and sit with her. I have heard that the elder birds will help feed fledglings, but I'm in doubt that they actively enter the nest to help feed hatchlings (not that there are any just yet). Does anyone else have experience with this? Dad only seems moderately bothered, and mum doesn't seem to mind at all. They could just be being annoying baby birds, just piqued my curiosity !
Attached photos of the babies from a week or two ago and the tail-end of a video of the silver dancing. (video may take a little to process, but it's unmistakeable.)
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1f2n6-C ... p=drivesdk