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[shanny2]

hi all and i just come home from a lady that has budgies and cockatiels and she told us that she has eggs one day and the next day there are less can mice or rats be the problem

[aap1966]

Mice or rats may well be an issue.
When I kept budgies I had a pyscopathic hen that used to enter the nest boxes of the other hens and throw out the eggs. Always fighting with the other hens too. I got rid of the hen (no, I didn't sell her on) and the problem stopped.
If there are insufficent boxes (one per pair, plus a few spares, all at the same height), then something similar may be going on.
(I had heaps of boxes, this particular hen was just homcidal)

[shanny2]

she said she had mice

[Jayburd]

Yes, it can be either of those. Mice are horrible - you weren't around then but I had almost all my finches eaten by mice.
they will eat small birds, and the eggs and chicks of bigger ones.

[shanny2]

you weren't around then

was that before i found this forum

[Jayburd]

pretty sure

[jusdeb]

Blah saw one in the loungeroom last night ... went to all the effort of mouse proofing the aviaries and the human aviary has a mouse

[shanny2]

use sticky traps