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Re: Question on what to do with eggs/Andie
Posted by Mickie on 5/16/06

On 5/16/06, Andie wrote:
> We co-parented (I guess you could call it that) our lovebird's first
> clutch, and handfed the second clutch. The parents were not tame but
> were used to us interacting with them everyday as they were in our
living
> room. I do think that made a difference with them letting us handle the
> babies so easily. We didn't handfeed the first clutch at all, only
> pulled them to socialize them then would put them back. The parents
> didn't mind at all and all babies turned out very tame. It produces a
> completely different bird when you handfeed. If I had a choice of the
> two as pets, I would go with the parent raised/socialized. That's just
> my personal opinion though. Good luck with your baby =).
>
> Andie

That's interesting, the parent raised /socialized babies turned out
better pets? I might want to go that route, I know my lovies wouldn't
mind my playing with the baby but I'm worried about taking full
responsability for the feeding and I may confuse them by co-parenting
because it's just one baby. I helped my traveling friend once when he had
to go on a business trip suddenly and his lovies had just hatched four
babies. I did the co-parenting thing but I did two babies at a time so the
parents always had two babies with them. In a few days I will have to make
a decission, maybe when the baby is around 15 days old. I will post again
when this happens.

Mickie

Posts on this thread, including this one

• Question on what to do with eggs., 5/14/06, by Mickie.
• Re: Question on what to do with eggs., 5/14/06, by Andie.
• Re: Question on what to do with eggs., 5/14/06, by MKay.
• Re: Question on what to do with eggs./Andie & Mkay, 5/15/06, by Mickie.
• Re: Question on what to do with eggs./Andie & Mkay, 5/15/06, by MKay.
• Re: Question on what to do with eggs./Andie & Mkay, 5/15/06, by Mickie.
• Re: Question on what to do with eggs./Andie & Mkay, 5/16/06, by Elizabeth.
• Re: Question on what to do with eggs, 5/16/06, by Andie.
• Re: Question on what to do with eggs/Andie, 5/16/06, by Mickie.
• Re: Question on what to do with eggs, 5/17/06, by Andie.
• Re: Question on what to do with eggs, 5/21/06, by Mickie.
• Re: Question on what to do with eggs, 6/02/06, by Andie.
• Re: Question on what to do with eggs, 7/01/07, by Andrea F. Fahy.