Aussie Finch Forum

my blue-face parrot are all going well but for one thing when the egg hatch the birds feed the babys for a week or so then abandon a nest and the babys die need help pls p.s i have 2 pairs

I've had the same problem!! In my case the males forced hens back to nest before the young fledged I run 2 hens to a cock bird now.This is not without problems either as one trio the hens fought all the time till I removed one, the others were ok.

I reckon that what happened when my BFPF deserted their last clutch of babies.....they have just hatched out another 4 in the last day or so (one lutino too, so it should be a hen) so fingers crossed they stay with this lot. Will have to think about removing the cock bird after this clutch as I think they deserve a rest...esp the hen.

If u are feeding plenty of livefood (especially mealies) then the males occassionally get "over-stimulated" to breed and the actions u describe are associated with it - deserted chicks.
Open to arguement but I suspect its the high protein levels that cause the problems if the males are the main culprit.
A reason why I don't feed live food to any Parrotfinches.

If young birds then parrotfinches are notorious for doing that in their first couple of nests - the good news is that most get over it after a couple of nests -small consolation for the nests that are abandoned though!
I have foster birds on hand just for this very same scenario..............and before the comments IF fostering is done properly it is a very good avicultural tool - I stress the IF done properly!!!!
HTH

They only get live food now and again, and when it was it would have been either maggots or fly pupae. Hopefully that wouldn't have made them desert.