babys disapears??

[DizzyDezzy]

oh dear... what birds do you have in there? how old were the babies?
how are the parents behaving around the nestbox?

[easyjen]

the other day my dad was all happy cuz he had 3 black masked babys and all...then a couple of days they were gone!! we dont know what happened :| we looked all over the avairy and in other next boxes...the floor everthing and nothin was found, do they like eat there babys for any reason? could other birds in the avairy eaten them? we are so confused on what could have happend

[easyjen]

oh dear... what birds do you have in there? how old were the babies?
how are the parents behaving around the nestbox?

they were only a couple weeks old i think...maybe like 2 weeks but i dunno...there was three babys and then they totally disapeared...and i know that the parents have raised babies before. and there are more nest boxes in the avairy then needed for the amount of birds in there and its a really big flight cage...big enough for maybe a few medium parrots with lots of room to spare, and there only lovebirds inthere with them aswell...we are all stumpped on what could have happened...i was planning on keepin one my self

[Jaken]

Wouldn't there be blood if other birds ate them? Is there a way the might of goten out and a cat got them?

[linda040899]

If there are other lovebirds in the same aviary, it's not uncommon for other pairs to invade nests and kill chicks. This is one of the reasons that I breed one pair/cage. If the chicks were just killed, the parents may have buried them under the nesting material in the box. As in the wild, the birds take care of their own problems when it comes to this.

[easyjen]

the weird thing is that there was no sign of them....no blood no nothing..maybe the parents did hide whatever was left under nexting material...and a cat couldnt have gotten in there....sometimes i have a hard time gettting in there lol