Post by glendale8 on Nov 15, 2017 4:58:18 GMT
Hi,
I am a bit confused as to whether it is good Idea about candling eggs. My female budgie has 7 eggs and two were pushed to the side of the nest box and she wasn't sitting on them so I took them from her as she is a first time mum and I didn't want her to have to raise too many chicks for her first time. I candeed the eggs and they were both infertile, she has been sitting on them for 13 days now.
With my previous budgie I candled her eggs and she had no problem with me touching them or her chicks when they were born.
I am a bit worried about this hens eggs, will she reject her eggs if I touch / candle them? I have heard mixed information that you should with a first time hen and then you shouldn't touch their eggs or intervene that they hen will reject them?
Any advice would be great thank you.
I am a bit confused as to whether it is good Idea about candling eggs. My female budgie has 7 eggs and two were pushed to the side of the nest box and she wasn't sitting on them so I took them from her as she is a first time mum and I didn't want her to have to raise too many chicks for her first time. I candeed the eggs and they were both infertile, she has been sitting on them for 13 days now.
With my previous budgie I candled her eggs and she had no problem with me touching them or her chicks when they were born.
I am a bit worried about this hens eggs, will she reject her eggs if I touch / candle them? I have heard mixed information that you should with a first time hen and then you shouldn't touch their eggs or intervene that they hen will reject them?
Any advice would be great thank you.
