So one of my cockatiels eggs finally hatched. The pair had 2 hatch about 2 years ago but they both died within about 24 hours.
This one hatched the day me and my wife went on our honeymoon. We let them nest in a space in one of our closets and I had to move the female back into the cage before we left. I heard a peeping sound coming from one of the eggs and put it on a paper towel in the bottom of the cage so the female could continue incubating it. We had her parents come and move our birds to their house for the week we were away and when they arrived they found a little baby in the bottom of the cage. This was around 10am on the 14th.
The female cockatiel didnt know what to do with the baby so my wife's mother has been handfeeding it for the past 10 or so days and trying to let the parents feed it too. Problem is they regurgitate so much that the baby looks like its crop will explode and yet they continue to try and feed it. The male will feed it correctly to some extent, but the female just eats her reguritation before the baby can get any.
My mother-in-law is taking care of the tiels for the time being as she has time to feed it every 2 hours or so. My main question is though will the parents ever learn how much to feed the baby and how often they should be doing it? Or should we just let my mother-in-law conitnue monitoring the baby to make sure its not being fed too much?
