i have a female she laid 6 egss.. first 5 hatched... the 6 th one took an extra day to hatch and he mother completlky neglected it...never fed it and barley ut it under her ..it died why did she neglect this one??
2006-09-21 03:52:15 · 13 answers · asked by justsomeone 1 in Pets ➔ Birds
they are parakeets budgerigars, and all good answers...i suspected that it new it was going to die...she ddint give it a chance...would it have nade a difrence if she fed it?
2006-09-21 07:29:16 · update #1
This is very common in the animal kingdom... Because the chick took longer to hatch was evidence that it was less healthy than the others... So the mom concentrates on feeding the healthy ones to give them a better chance at survival...
This is how nature improves a species... by eliminating the weak and sick and rewarding the strong and healthy...
2006-09-21 04:01:08 · answer #1 · answered by Andy FF1,2,CrTr,4,5,6,7,8,9,10 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Whenever you have a large clutch consider that they hatch every other day, making the first chick much older and larger then the last. You must pull and hand feed the first few as the last few hatch or this will be the result every time. The loudest chic gets fed first, that would be your oldest one, so snatch them up, and then go back for the last ones in about two weeks. Hand fed birds tend to be smaller, so don't be surprised if her chicks look beefier then yours at the end of that time, they will all even out in the end.
2006-09-23 04:15:53 · answer #2 · answered by cantrellpets 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What kind of bird? Normally, once the majority of the nest has hatched, the mother won't bother with the late hatchers, because there's normally something wrong with them anyway. Healthy baby chickens, when they hear all their siblings peeping and pipping away at their shells, will work on getting out, too, because they know if they don't they'll get left behind. The hen then takes her babies out to see the world. The bird you've got may have gotten a 'my brood is done' mentality about it. Survival of the fittest, you know. That's why they always say don't count your chickens before they hatch.
2006-09-21 04:02:48 · answer #3 · answered by gilgamesh 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There must have been something wrong with the baby. Mother birds have been known to actually kill their offsrping if there is a defect or it is sick.
There is no way to tell for sure if the one that died would've made it if she had taken care of it.
I have taken baby birds that were abandoned by their mother and tried to save them. Some lived and sadly some died for unknown reasons.
2006-09-21 11:38:37 · answer #4 · answered by karmor_22 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The runt always gets pushed off. It is instinct for them. It is better they do not get attached in any way to somethin that will just die. We had a mother cat that was that way. the smallest one she would not feed she kept pushing it to the outer end of the box. the other kittens paid it no attention. we tried to feed it baby milk to keep it alive but in the end it did die. the mother wanted nothing to do with it cuz she knew it would not live.. its animals instinct
2006-09-21 04:01:28 · answer #5 · answered by Christal 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It perhaps would have died regardless. They seem to have an instinct about these things. She needed to concentrate on the healthy ones.
2006-09-21 04:00:18 · answer #6 · answered by ♥kazzalou♥ 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Maybe she sensed that it had a defect (didn't hear any noise from it) or she just felt that 5 was enough to care for.
2006-09-21 03:56:16 · answer #7 · answered by Rich Z 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Maybe she knew that it wouldn't make it to begin with. Birds are intelligent like that.
2006-09-21 04:07:22 · answer #8 · answered by ♥ME♥ 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
She instinctively knew that it would not survive, that something was wrong with it.
2006-09-21 04:00:28 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There was probably something wrong with it, and she sensed it.
2006-09-21 04:01:01 · answer #10 · answered by pottersclay70 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋