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Urgent Help! Male attacking female cockatiel..

2K views 4 replies 3 participants last post by  tielfan 
You need to keep the male separate from the female for a while so that he doesn't hurt her badly. Did he attack her before she laid the clutch or has it only started since they've been nesting? If he is attacking her he is very likely to attack the babies, too. It sounds like they aren't incubating the eggs properly as there should always be one parent sitting on the eggs at all times, and since it doesn't sound like they are a compatible breeding pair I would remove the eggs and the nest box too and start hormone control which you can read about in the Sticky article here.
 
No there isn't, one parent cannot incubate a clutch properly because they need to come out to eat and poop, which means the eggs won't be kept at a constant temperature. She may also struggle to feed and care for the chicks on her own, which will result in you having to help her out by handfeeding. The male will be a huge danger to newborn chicks if the eggs ever hatch, and he is a threat to your female already because of the attacks. If you don't want her injured, you need to keep them permanently separate. If the parents are not bonded, breeding isn't going to be successful.

You can leave her in the nest box if you want to see what happens, but if the clutch fails to hatch you will have to wait until she abandons the eggs on her own.
 
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