13/04/2022
Our topic today is about watching birds and their nests. Most breeders get excited when seeing their birds produce for them and start laying eggs. The breeder starts counting the number of eggs every day and moving the cage..or lighting on the nest or even opening the nests if they are closed, and this is not acceptable. Because it causes stress for birds and chicks, and it also reduces heat on eggs And most birds are very sensitive. The hen may not return to incubating eggs and chicks, or she may even start hatching eggs and throwing them outside the nest or plucking the chicks and killing them, and all this is due to the lack of safety and stability in her eyes, so we have to follow simple steps for those periods of egg incubation And chicks like:
* In the case of the nests that are exposed, such as the nests of goldfinch, canary, and sometimes zebra finch, the cage must not be moved at all and not make any sudden loud movements or sounds near the cage, and if you want to see the nest, this can be done once every three days and without moving the cage.
* In the case of closed nests, we do the same steps, but the difference is that there are two types of closed nests.. The first is the nests that are placed inside the cage, and here the hands should not extend into the cage, but only the lighting inside the nest as much as possible and if you do not see something, leave everything as is and do not check what is happening.. but if the nest is placed on the cage from the outside, you must gently tap on the nest For the parents to come out and open the nest slowly and quietly and direct a light or indirect light so as not to disturb the chicks and shock the productive couple you have. The nest of each bird is the place of its maximum safety and comfort, and the place that it does not like to be touched by hands, so caution is a duty. When the bird loses safety, it loses everything.