BVS Varma - 2012-05-03 I have a pair of love birds, they laid eggs for 3 times, but all the 3 times the eggs are not hatched. When I break the eggs there was nothing inside(dried). What should I do?
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Charlie Roche - 2012-05-03 You are sure you do not have two females? I would think not because normally you would then have double the eggs. My guess is that the male and female are just not getting the cloacas lined up and balanced or the male in his fun, is throwing the female off balance or even off the perch. Take a second perch and put it above the first about an inch and about an inch away from the first. That will allow the female to perch on the lower one but hang on the the higher one with her beak. She will be more stable and hopefully when he does his thing, they will line up and the female will be balanced and it will take.
fahad shah - 2012-04-26 I have one pair of lutino lovebirds. In first clutch they had 5 chicks but in 2nd and 3rd clutch they will fail. What is the problem. In 2nd and 3rd clutch after completion of incubation period when I broke the eggs some chicks are died in the eggs........
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Charlie Roche - 2012-04-26 This happens. The chicks might not have been strong enough to break through the sheel. What they call draw down - where the white part is absorbed may have occured to fast because of lack of humidity and suffocated the chicks. Place a bowl of water so the mom can bathe and she will keep a higher humidity in the nest box because somehow they seem to know to bathe in the water and then sit the eggs. You can lightly spray in the next box (just the substrate) to raise humidity. If the chicks were fully developed but sorta looked stuck - then it was probably the humidity.
jcmiller - 2011-10-16 I adopted my lovebird from someone that did not want it anymore. I am trying to get it used to us but every time we get close to the cage or put our hand in it runs to the other side of the cage and starts chirping. It won't have anything to do with us. We have had it a week now. Does anyone have ideas so we can bond with this cute scarred little bird.
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Pebbles - 2012-01-31 Give him some time and he'll get used to you. What you can do in the mean time is walk over very slowly to the cage and speak to him or her very softly. Make sure your cage is not in a busy area of the house, try to give him a place where he or she can feel more secure. With time and patience your lovebird will come around.
chetan - 2011-03-17 My lutino love bird (male) is sleeping all day, and has become very inactive, keeps his eyes closed mostly ....what to do?
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tamara - 2012-02-19 My Lutino does the same, but he has red eyes so I was wondering if the bright light hurts his eyes ? And he is very unsocial.
katrna gonzales - 2012-03-07 Maybe your bird needs more attention... you must give him some time to play with you... I have a pair of birds, teddy and bunny bird. They are so playful.. and all the things that mentioned above is their characteristics.. I love them.
Nahvi - 2011-09-10 Do Lutino Lovebird speaks and how to make them friendly ....
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Toby Jungle - 2011-09-10 I have never heard a lovebird speak clearly. I have heard them go helllllllllllloooooo in a real strange way. More I think I thought that they were trying to sound like a human. Making them friendly. Lot depends on if hand fed, wild, parent reared and if they have ever been handled at all. The thing to start is to get them used to you and your voice. You are the King Kong in their kitchen. If you were King Kong and you wanted to make freinds with a human - how would you do it? Slowly. Move slow and talk slowly and whistele or even get a beat going. Sounds can be fun. Put favorite foods outside the cage door or just sit down with them every time you eat. Share your food by putting it in a little flat dish outside their cage door. Mashed potatoes are great. Chicken is good. Scramble eggs are wonderful. Let them get used to eating with you and then start holding special tidbits in your hand so they get used to your hand. Hold you hand out flat and let them get in your hand and get the tidbit. Eventually - just pick them up and hold them to your chest until calm - letting them hear your heat beat. Pet on the top of the head. Now you have it made. So - just go slow and share your food. Then hand them your food. Then hold your food for them. Remember you are King Kong in their kitchen. This takes time - weeks - not years and you have time. Meanwhile, enjoy them and watch them and get used to them and it will take that long for them to get used to you.
Pebbles - 2012-01-31 I have heard that some can speak a few words like pretty baby and hello. It all just depends but lovebirds in general are not great talkers.
Rakesh B Amudhappa - 2011-03-15 Hi, Am a lover of lutino fisher lovebird, am using small pots as breeding homes for them, is small pots enough for breeding of lutino fischer love birds?
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taric - 2011-10-07 hi it's taric from tamil nadu hey brother small pots is not enough for lutino hatching and if you think mostly 75% will hatching 1y you choose big pots because its 1y go inside and come back easy. Male lutino is bigger then female.
chetan - 2011-12-03 Pots should be big enough for the birds and chicks when they grow up. Put some fine pieces of soft hay or dry grass ,or coconut fibers.
Kaustubh Khopkar - 2011-06-27 Hi. I have a pair of lutinos who have laid 4 eggs twice. The female incubates the eggs for 21 days but then she stops doing the same. I checked the eggs and found two eggs OK. Please suggest if I should change the male or give them one more chance.
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Charlie Roche - 2011-06-27 When you say you checked two eggs and they were OK are you saying they were fertile? Two eggs were fertile? If two eggs were fertile there would be absolutely no reason to change the male out. He is doing his job. Birds, in the wild have a flock and they learn from the flock. They learn how to mate, incubate, feed the young from the flock. Some of it is instinct (I would guess) but most is learning by seeing what the other memebers of the flock are doing. Without a flock, they have to learn and the first few clutches "are for free". You can't expect the eggs to be fertile. The female may not sit the eggs. They may not feed the babies etc. I had a macaw and every time she laid an egg, he would play soccer with it. You just need to be patient and they will learn.
kaustubh Khopkar - 2011-06-28 Hi Thanks for your reply. I had checked the eggs under light and found two eggs with dark patch signifying existance of chick inside. Moreover I have also noticed that the eggs are not warm when i had removed them out which hints that the same are not being hatched properly. All these are just doubts as this is the first time I am breeding African love birds. My idea of changing the male is that he is not feeding the female and hence she feeds herself on her own. Please advise..
Linda Kearschner - 2011-08-29 Hi Just read your question, my question is how old our your love birds, I have found out from experience the female lays eggs but the male has to be at least 3 yrs old for him to fertilize the eggs---------so give them time if they are younger than 3 yrs old that will also give the female time to do her thing also but let me just warn you once they start it is not easy to stop them other than seperating them and they breed often!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Rhonda - 2011-07-25 Hi, I was in my garage and noticed the prettiest yellow and red bird perched on a lil garbage can. I took some pics and took them to the pet store and they told me its a lutino love bird. We got a cage and food, not sure what to do next or what to expect any ideas?
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Charlie Roche - 2011-07-25 Shall I assume you now have the lovebird in the cage? Look at it this way - the little feathered guy doesn't know what to do either. Talk to him, let him become familiar with the sounds and scents in the home. If you can pick him up just hold him close to your chest so he can hear your heart beat. I have no idea why but it seems to soothe them. If you can't pick him up yet, or are nervous too, start feeding him special treats - hulled sunflower seeds, pieces of grape (peeled), a piece of apple with your hand. Get him used to your hand and then let him out of the cage and still feed him with your hand. He will eventually come to you and you've got it made from there. He will train you.
johny - 2011-05-27 well............ i got lovebirds too, if you have qestions ............................. just ask me...... www.madman.johny@yahoo.com contact me!!!!!!!!
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Charlie Roche - 2011-05-27 Many have questions about love birds so just stick around. Thank you.
Trina Casey - 2011-06-23 Hi I just got my lutino female lovebird last Nov. and she is great. But lately she doesn't like to "step up" on command. She no longer stays close to us (on our shoulder) and only flies around landing when we wiggle our toes. Also she ruffles her feathers alot and preens constantly. We feed her every day and change her water all the time. Also she bobs her head a lot and makes a "panting" sound when she does. I'm just wondering if I should be worried about any of this or if it will pass with more work.
The Lutino Peach-faced Lovebird, with it's golden yellow plumage and it's peachie face, is said by many to be the most beautiful of all lovebirds!
I have a pair of love birds, they laid eggs for 3 times, but all the 3 times the eggs are not hatched. When I break the eggs there was nothing inside(dried). What should I do?
You are sure you do not have two females? I would think not because normally you would then have double the eggs. My guess is that the male and female are just not getting the cloacas lined up and balanced or the male in his fun, is throwing the female off balance or even off the perch. Take a second perch and put it above the first about an inch and about an inch away from the first. That will allow the female to perch on the lower one but hang on the the higher one with her beak. She will be more stable and hopefully when he does his thing, they will line up and the female will be balanced and it will take.
I have one pair of lutino lovebirds. In first clutch they had 5 chicks but in 2nd and 3rd clutch they will fail. What is the problem. In 2nd and 3rd clutch after completion of incubation period when I broke the eggs some chicks are died in the eggs........
This happens. The chicks might not have been strong enough to break through the sheel. What they call draw down - where the white part is absorbed may have occured to fast because of lack of humidity and suffocated the chicks. Place a bowl of water so the mom can bathe and she will keep a higher humidity in the nest box because somehow they seem to know to bathe in the water and then sit the eggs. You can lightly spray in the next box (just the substrate) to raise humidity. If the chicks were fully developed but sorta looked stuck - then it was probably the humidity.
i love this bird
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So do I, also
I adopted my lovebird from someone that did not want it anymore. I am trying to get it used to us but every time we get close to the cage or put our hand in it runs to the other side of the cage and starts chirping. It won't have anything to do with us. We have had it a week now. Does anyone have ideas so we can bond with this cute scarred little bird.
Give him some time and he'll get used to you. What you can do in the mean time is walk over very slowly to the cage and speak to him or her very softly. Make sure your cage is not in a busy area of the house, try to give him a place where he or she can feel more secure. With time and patience your lovebird will come around.
My lutino love bird (male) is sleeping all day, and has become very inactive, keeps his eyes closed mostly ....what to do?
My Lutino does the same, but he has red eyes so I was wondering if the bright light hurts his eyes ? And he is very unsocial.
Maybe your bird needs more attention...
you must give him some time to play with you...
I have a pair of birds, teddy and bunny bird.
They are so playful..
and all the things that mentioned above is their characteristics..
I love them.
Do Lutino Lovebird speaks and how to make them friendly ....
I have never heard a lovebird speak clearly. I have heard them go helllllllllllloooooo in a real strange way. More I think I thought that they were trying to sound like a human. Making them friendly. Lot depends on if hand fed, wild, parent reared and if they have ever been handled at all. The thing to start is to get them used to you and your voice. You are the King Kong in their kitchen. If you were King Kong and you wanted to make freinds with a human - how would you do it? Slowly. Move slow and talk slowly and whistele or even get a beat going. Sounds can be fun. Put favorite foods outside the cage door or just sit down with them every time you eat. Share your food by putting it in a little flat dish outside their cage door. Mashed potatoes are great. Chicken is good. Scramble eggs are wonderful. Let them get used to eating with you and then start holding special tidbits in your hand so they get used to your hand. Hold you hand out flat and let them get in your hand and get the tidbit. Eventually - just pick them up and hold them to your chest until calm - letting them hear your heat beat. Pet on the top of the head. Now you have it made. So - just go slow and share your food. Then hand them your food. Then hold your food for them. Remember you are King Kong in their kitchen. This takes time - weeks - not years and you have time. Meanwhile, enjoy them and watch them and get used to them and it will take that long for them to get used to you.
I have heard that some can speak a few words like pretty baby and hello. It all just depends but lovebirds in general are not great talkers.
Hi,
Am a lover of lutino fisher lovebird, am using small pots as breeding homes for them, is small pots enough for breeding of lutino fischer love birds?
hi it's taric from tamil nadu hey brother small pots is not enough for lutino hatching and if you think mostly 75% will hatching 1y you choose big pots because its 1y go inside and come back easy. Male lutino is bigger then female.
Pots should be big enough for the birds and chicks when they grow up. Put some fine pieces of soft hay or dry grass ,or coconut fibers.
Hi. I have a pair of lutinos who have laid 4 eggs twice. The female incubates the eggs for 21 days but then she stops doing the same. I checked the eggs and found two eggs OK. Please suggest if I should change the male or give them one more chance.
When you say you checked two eggs and they were OK are you saying they were fertile? Two eggs were fertile? If two eggs were fertile there would be absolutely no reason to change the male out. He is doing his job. Birds, in the wild have a flock and they learn from the flock. They learn how to mate, incubate, feed the young from the flock. Some of it is instinct (I would guess) but most is learning by seeing what the other memebers of the flock are doing. Without a flock, they have to learn and the first few clutches "are for free".
You can't expect the eggs to be fertile. The female may not sit the eggs. They may not feed the babies etc. I had a macaw and every time she laid an egg, he would play soccer with it. You just need to be patient and they will learn.
Hi Thanks for your reply. I had checked the eggs under light and found two eggs with dark patch signifying existance of chick inside. Moreover I have also noticed that the eggs are not warm when i had removed them out which hints that the same are not being hatched properly. All these are just doubts as this is the first time I am breeding African love birds. My idea of changing the male is that he is not feeding the female and hence she feeds herself on her own. Please advise..
Hi
Just read your question, my question is how old our your love birds, I have found out from experience the female lays eggs but the male has to be at least 3 yrs old for him to fertilize the eggs---------so give them time if they are younger than 3 yrs old that will also give the female time to do her thing also but let me just warn you once they start it is not easy to stop them other than seperating them and they breed often!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hi, I was in my garage and noticed the prettiest yellow and red bird perched on a lil garbage can. I took some pics and took them to the pet store and they told me its a lutino love bird. We got a cage and food, not sure what to do next or what to expect any ideas?
Shall I assume you now have the lovebird in the cage? Look at it this way - the little feathered guy doesn't know what to do either. Talk to him, let him become familiar with the sounds and scents in the home. If you can pick him up just hold him close to your chest so he can hear your heart beat. I have no idea why but it seems to soothe them. If you can't pick him up yet, or are nervous too, start feeding him special treats - hulled sunflower seeds, pieces of grape (peeled), a piece of apple with your hand. Get him used to your hand and then let him out of the cage and still feed him with your hand. He will eventually come to you and you've got it made from there. He will train you.
well............ i got lovebirds too, if you have qestions .............................
just ask me......
www.madman.johny@yahoo.com contact me!!!!!!!!
Many have questions about love birds so just stick around. Thank you.
Hi I just got my lutino female lovebird last Nov. and she is great. But lately she doesn't like to "step up" on command. She no longer stays close to us (on our shoulder) and only flies around landing when we wiggle our toes. Also she ruffles her feathers alot and preens constantly. We feed her every day and change her water all the time. Also she bobs her head a lot and makes a "panting" sound when she does. I'm just wondering if I should be worried about any of this or if it will pass with more work.