by Wolf » Sat Oct 08, 2016 9:04 am
This is a difficult question to answer as we really don't know anything about you or your birds. You apparently have two birds and due to the eggs, we know for sure that one is a hen, but what about the other bird, are you positive that it is a male? What are the ages of these birds? Are you providing calcium for the female so that she does not rob it from her bones? These are my first question and I know that there are more that I should be asking, but I don't have enough experience with breeding birds, so I will allow others to carry on from this point with whatever question need to be asked.
Based on your question, I am assuming that like me, you do not have any real experience with breeding birds and if this is true I would advise waiting until your hen tires of the eggs and remove them. I would also recommend that you boil the eggs to prevent them from hatching and cooling them back off and then returning them to her until she tires of them. This would need to be done one egg at a time, to keep her from keeping on laying more eggs than required for the one clutch.
With as many birds as there are that are in our already overflowing bird rescues, I really don't advocate breeding more. Then there is the matter of the knowledge and work that is required to breed and raise the birds properly as it is not simply a matter of putting a male and female together and letting nature take its course. But then others with more experience can tell you much more about this than I can.
I know how attractive it can be to raise your own baby birds, but is it the best or right thing to do? Only you can actually answer this question for you, but I would ask you to consider this before you proceed to try to raise birds on your own.
