From what I understand, a pair that young could start displaying mating/courtship behaviors without actually mating. The fact that they grew up together could be the reason they weren't bonded and didn't get along; they weren't sexually mature. And some pairs (with hormonal triggers being controlled, such as you're doing) can live together year round without mating. Ducky has been in love with Callie since day one, and they've never mated (at least produced eggs). They've been together for about 3 months and are 13 months old now. I'm thinking there can be smoke without fire lol. If they breed you could always replace the eggs with dummys and let them incubate without raising babies.

 

Have they actually done anything yet? I have a hen who uses that as her whistle (weird right?) and a male who sings like that (he heard one of the girls doing it and picked up on it.) Have you been giving them excess food? This can also make them think its time to breed because its "spring" time. Extra fresh food and stuff.

 

Have they done the deed then

 

yep. i walked in on it. definately mating.

 

well thats gotta be awkward

 

Well casey looks like the babies are on the way

 

ya they just did it again

 

You picked any names yet

 

well if there is babies, theres babies.... but id rather not. theres nowhere to buy fake eggs here and theyre too much money for us to order online.... well if they have babies we'll take care of them and find them homes.... i just really dont like the pearlxpearl cross

 

if they have babies we cant keep them.. but hopefully they wont lay eggs anyways...

 

Think i be keeping an eye on Lucky lol More touble when the new male comes (Tomorrow)

 

I herd that you can boil them straight away is that true

 

dont know. i'd worry if something went wrong, one hatched and it was horribly disfigured

 

Very true... I couldn't do it myself as i think its murder lol

 

we're leaving it up to chance...


they just did it again...

weirdos.

 

They are at it like rabbits lol (Iv seen my baby at it every 5 mins how he wasnt tired)

 

dont understand it. its NICE to know they like eachother now but did they have to tell me THIS way??? yesterday tsuka was a brat and was food hogging and today he's totally in love with dally and wont leave her alone.... i even rearranged the cage! still, they dont care.... lets hope its just casual and theres no eggs. behaviour like this makes me think dally might be a constant egg layer no matter what you do shes the one starting it. tsuka will be at the cuttle bone dish, she'll go over to him and make her funny chirps and he goes over to her.... he fell off earlier and it was hilarious.

 

Poor Tsuka :rofl:

 

Ohnno! Baby birds haha! Let's hope there are no eggs

 

you got love birds????????

If you boil the eggs, there won't be any chance of the chick surviving, so you don't have to worry about them being horribly disfigured.

 

Boiling the eggs works, I did it three months ago to stop some of mine from hatching. You'll have to wait about a week before you get any eggs, but some birds can mate for ages and never lay. Especially because they're on the long nights and such, it could just be for the pleasure of doing it. In fact, my Snowball and Hershey never laid eggs until I gave them a nest box and they mated all the time.

 

Okay, thanks Roxy, now I am not totally afriad of ending up getting a girl with Finn. Silly tiels.

 

And long nights will help preventing breeding too since it stops the whole hormones. Its working for mine at the moment (they needed a break lol.)

 

LOL! Also when I get a second one, I will have another cage for quarentine so worst case scenario, they can be seperate and play supervised together.

 

they did get separate cages but tsuka got depressed and decided he wanted to be nice so we moved him back in with dally bout the time we got toby...
hopefully they dont lay eggs as we arent ready for babies and i find them too young still. but theres a good chance as theyve been downing the cuttlebone and mineral block and dally's had big poop for several days now.

and belinda, yes we got them before toby passed. a relative of mine's birds had babies and these two were the youngest siblings and didnt sell so she asked if we wanted them because she heard what happened to toby. we had a spare cage and all so we agreed. mango is easier to tame, and he/she is mine. munchlax is my boyfriend's bird and he/she is more aggressive, independant and harder to tame.