im going to be a dady

[fish doctor]

So long story short I just got 2 maccaws green wing and blue and gold in the fall of 2013 and I just got home from work and I got a egg on the floor need tips on how to care for the egg Thanks

[Pajarita]

LOL - You don't have to care for it, the mother will. But it might not even be fertilized for all you know and, depending on the age of the birds (you did not say), it might not even be beneficial to them to actually have babies. Are you prepared/able to handfeed babies day and night for weeks and weeks or are you going to co-parent? Do you have a brooder? How about enough knowledge of their physiology? Have they been found healthy and free of disease by an avian vet in the last 6 months? Has the hen been allowed to fly daily for the last few months to develop her abdominal muscles? Breeding birds is not a matter of putting a male and female together and 'letting nature take its course'. It is in the wild but not in captivity where you can end up with a dead bird from eggbinding, a baby killed by the father or a baby with sour crop, crop burn, an eating disorder or splayed legs...

[fish doctor]

Thanks Im new to having birds first I bought them from craiglist then I googled what they eat their previous owner didn't care for them he was in and out of hospital had the birds in the cage with a 12" stick the one that does their nails no toys they were like pittbulls didn't talk or get play time .Female blue and gold 4 years old and green wing male 5 years old Female I got for free she look like she was gonna drop any second bold chest and eyes were always half way closed I flet bad when I went to see them so I took them home bought them 5' tree from parrot paradise build a swing hanging from the ceiling by the window got them bunch of toys and a lot of none GMO fruit nuts seeds . Now I'm able to pick them up they go on the swing and act like they flying last week Lucky said Gregory come here hello so they coming around fast and then in January 2014 they got married act like they in love clean each other hug kiss so this is new in their behavior and Feb 14 2014 I found a broken egg on the bottom of their cage Mar 2 2014 found another egg this time under the kitchen table female sits right next to it with the feathers up saying come closer and I will kill u Right now I have no clue what to do and I like the idea of a baby

[Wolf]

I think that trying to raise a baby at this time is not a good choice. If you decide to go through with this You have a lot of work ahead of you first. Lots of research and it would help to find an experienced breeder to go to for hands on type help and lots of questions to your vet.

[Cathrin Smith]

I think that's a very good news. You must be happy. I think you should try to take good care of your wife and the coming baby as well.

[Pajarita]

I breed Spanish Timbrados (a breed of song canaries) occasionally and I never breed a bird unless I've had it for, at least, one entire year because you need to make sure the bird is perfectly healthy and that the hen has been flying for a few months (the muscles they use for flight are the same muscles that hens use for pushing the egg out) and, going by what you told me, this bird is in no condition to be breeding. She needs to go to an avian vet and have a complete physical (CBC, fecal, choanal swab, avian chem panel, bile acids, full body XRay and a chlamyidiosis test) and, when she gets a clean bill of health, then wait a year for her to be completely recovered from the severe neglect she suffered. A body doesn't bounce back that fast...

I have often seen birds in real bad physical condition attempt to breed a few months after they start getting better treatment and diet but just because they produce eggs it doesn't mean they are fit for breeding.

Have you, at least, been giving them supplements like vitamins and calcium? Was the broken egg shell nice and thick?

[fish doctor]

I tottaly agree shes not in shape to be laying eggs and now she to busy with the egg to go eat got me worried I put vitamin drops in their water for the past couple months I see their feathers got very shiny , the first egg was all white the tip of it got crushed it didn't spill it dropped from a branch thats like 30 inches above the bottom ,second egg is 2 color white and regular coffee color that looks like 2 liquids r mixing into each other with lines that run like a river. Who's the best maccaw vet in NYC-NJ area that can do all those tests

[Pajarita]

I would go here: http://avianandexoticvets.com/ I don't know what they are like price-wise but they specialize in avian medicine, provide specialty services and seem to have state of the art equipment.