Ugly Babies

[Nyboy]

They where the size of egg when born

 

[thistlebloom]

Are they getting better looking? I can't tell....

 

[Nyboy]

Nope not yet, heads have grown so eyes don't look so creepy. But still ugly

 

[digitS']

The mother was a Canadian goose… We never saw any sign of the father. She was just lying dead beside the nest, no signs of injury or trauma at all.

I wonder about what is called by some, her "toxic load." It may explain: unhatched eggs, dead mother, and feather loss on gosling.

Steve

 

[so lucky]

Parrotnt?

Nevermind, too hard to pronounce!

Hey, @TheSeedObsesser we've been talking about you! Glad to see you are still among us. Are you in a place you can have your garden and ducks?

 

[so lucky]

@Nyboy, are you feeding the parents anything special to help nourish the babies? I honestly don't know what it would be, but you might check on it. When you hand feed them, you use a syringe and some goopy stuff like baby formula, but smellier, and dispense it into their gullet. Then they poop.

 

[Nyboy]

Dish full of pellets and one of seed at all times.Plus dish of cut up fruit and vegetables depending on what in fridge.

 

[Smart Red]

Perhaps ugly babies is His way of making it up to all the birds out there far less colorful than parrots. Remember how beautiful they -- as adult birds -- will be some day.

 

[Nyboy]

Was surprised mother doing all care, dad never goes in nestbox. parrots mate for life, I assumed both would share in raising of young

 

[Smart Red]

Perhaps, like human dads, he won't help raise them unless he's needed. In the wild, both parents often have to forage for food to feed the babies. You've taken foraging out of the equation so he can just sit back and look all important and proud.