My family recently bought a breeding pair of lovebirds, which have now laid and hatched eggs. The first egg hatched on 1/19 and the second not long after and those two chicks appear to be gaining weight and are healthy. They are now bigger than the other two that hatched, of which neither survived longer than a day.
Today I discovered the second new chick and we decided to go ahead and try and feed it to keep it alive but by the time we decided it was already passed ):
there is one more egg we plan to hand feed if it hatches but my question is why they are rejecting the new babies and can we prevent? Is it the size difference? We plan to keep this pair and have a lot to learn so any information would be helpful. We have not bred birds before so this is all new to us.
Today I discovered the second new chick and we decided to go ahead and try and feed it to keep it alive but by the time we decided it was already passed ):
there is one more egg we plan to hand feed if it hatches but my question is why they are rejecting the new babies and can we prevent? Is it the size difference? We plan to keep this pair and have a lot to learn so any information would be helpful. We have not bred birds before so this is all new to us.