We're still waiting on egg #3. It should be here tonight.

 

More than welcome Aly. LIke I said if you candle them again, take some pics or something, and I will try and help ya again :d

Hope egg #3 arrives soon!

 

Phill! I did candle them last night and I think #1 is still alive!!! I've been reading and researching all I could to understand how this all hapens (I have issues, I know) and from all I've seen I think both eggs are fertile. I didn't get to take pics, I'm sorry but I will next time I do it for sure. SO, what I saw was the air sac on the larger end of the egg, the yolk in the rest and right in the middle of the egg but to one side egg #1 has a tiny black mass/dot showing (which wasn't there before) -#2 has it too but it seems alot smaller and lighter. She's been incubating the eggs technically since the first day she had them so that makes egg #1 6 days old and #2 4 days old. Also, I want to add that what I was in fact seeing before was the airsack and not the chick. I know that for sure now -I was just confused about where the mass should be and when. It was just the air sac which by the way grew in size since day 1!!! I don't want to jinx anything but I would love to see #1 make it through to a healthy chick after all the confusion I put it through. Anyways, I hope I'm right and what I saw is two little chicks developing.

New update as of this morning:

I stayed up with her almost the whole night. Egg #3 was suppose to come yesterday, the lastest really last night but the whole day she didn't show me any signs like she normally does so at this point I don't think there is an egg #3. She's playful, energetic, etc...no sign of egg #3. I think this may be it for her and 2 eggs is all she'll have which is perfectly fine with me as long as they're happy, I'm happy.

 

Doesn't always work shaking them. Hopfully you do get two healthy babies. Are you going to keep them?

 

I shook it for atleast two minutes so I hope there are no problems because I could never forgive myself or get over it. I may be jumping the gun but if egg #1 becomes chick #1 it's name might be Lucky. And yes, I'm keeping them! I could never give my grandkids away.

 

Well now. 10 birds become 12 easily eh. Soon going to need yet another cage lol. Best of luck. I hope egg #1 does hatch for you.

 

Thanks birdiness! Goodluck with yours too!!!
PS. Getting another cage is the least of my worries!

Here are two sweet little piccies from last night when I was checking on her:

 

Well, I was wrong. Egg #3 is here!

 

Oooh. Congratulations to you, Baby, and Ziggy!

I wonder how many more are coming~

 

Congrats on egg three

 

Thank you Serenity and Birdieness! The babies said thanks for checking on them!

 

Yeah egg three Lets hope if they hatch they are all boys or all girls than you only have to get one more cage

 

Let's hope they all hatch first...I don't care what they are at all as long as they're healthy.

It works out either way. I have two large cages now that are attatched together by the feederdoor so technically their home has two rooms... There's plenty of room there for more tiels esspecially since they're hardly in the cage to begin with so it all depends on how many they have. If anything what I'll probably do if they have alot of babies is get the budgies another style cage-a bigger one even though they don't need it. Or I could just get the same cage they all have now and attatch that one so it'll be a like a 3 room mansion...I could always add the feeder door back to separate either one. Even though the cage is a pretty good size I would like to only have two per cage..it can easily fit 3/4 without any problems though.

 

Sounds like a plan. I was just thinking that when they are older, you would not want brothers and sisters trying to breed.

 

No way Jose!!!

 

Thats why you need another cage or two

 

OMG i just came across this thread, and read it all... oh Aly i can only imagine the feelings you are going through, i also think you have made the right choice, as, even though Ziggy is young, Baby is getting older, and once they hit 4 years old, the chance of egg binding or other problems increases drastically with each year after that!
being that i know how much you would have tried to prevent this from happening, Ziggy and Baby must really feel that they are ready, to go ahead and have eggs without a whole bunch of outside triggers!
i am sure you will keep a good eye on condition and behaviour, as the most common problems from the male being too young is not feeding the chicks or mother properly...
there is also a small possibility of unhealthy, small chicks, but being that Ziggy is in tip-top condition, i wouldnt worry about that

 

Would be nice if she stopped at 4. Good number Good luck Aly, checking this thread daily for updates

 

Aly,

Any signs of more eggs on the way?

This really is great. I keep checking the forum for updates.

As I said before in my last post, thanks for all you have been doing Aly, keeping us included with the whole process.

Keep up the faith, Baby and Ziggy.

 

Thank alot for checking the thread and being involved. You have no idea how much it means. I wasn't going to do this thread at first but I decided against it so I'm glad people are still checking in. I fiqure someone might learn something along with me no matter how this experience turns out.
They're both doing fine. There is a #4 egg on the way that's due by tommorrow...Since they incubated from when egg #1 was 2 days old and every other egg from day 1, IF everything works out they should hatch pretty far apart- that means I'll have to watch that tiny last chick so he doesn't get forgotten at feedings or lost in the pile.
So far this is what I worked out:
Egg #1-due between 3/24 to 3/27
Egg #2-due between 3/25 to 3/28
Egg #3-due between 3/28 to 3/31
Any eggs after that would probably fall in April.

 

Very exciting.

I don't think I would be able to leave the house and go to work. I would just want to watch them.

And you figured right. I have learned so much about this since you and Bea have been posting.

Thanks again for all of your efforts.

 

Hey I can't help planning way to far ahead sometimes Someone would have to drag me out of the house to work if my tiels were sitting on eggs :wacko: Good think I only have Spike

 

That's the good part- I'm not working right now so it works out really good.

 

It works out really good for you, but Baby and Ziggy might think you are more interestedin the eggs than them! :lol: Good Luck!

 

How exciting for you! I wonder what she'll stop at...

 

Egg #1-due between 3/24 to 3/27
Egg #2-due between 3/25 to 3/28
Egg #3-due between 3/28 to 3/31

i hope they hatch on the early part so just maybe one of my eggs will have the same hatchdate. i'm looking at
Egg #1 3/20 - 3/21
Egg #2 3/22 - 3/23
Egg #3 3/24 - 3/25
Egg #4 3/26 - 3/27
Egg #5 3/28 - 3/29

This may be a little off but this is my guess. There are some chances but if you egg one don't hatch on one of my dates then non will but there will be a lot of hatchdays in one month.

 

Nothing new as of yet...she's still not really letting him be on the eggs as much as she could but then again the clutch is not done so I don't know. She's sitting tightly 90% -he tries but only gets to on her breaks which are only about 3 a day for 10-15 minutes. I have some pics from when I checked the box-uploading now.

 

Sweet. i have a vid of the eggs uploading. Gonna be a while lol. Looking fowards to pics.

 

My internet was down...waiting on photobucket now.


Ok..here are some from earlier when I was checking the box...

I have to say I hope they get atleast on little bub out of this since they're being so good...