1 week old baby parakeets! help please!?

Question

My parakeets had eggs a little while ago, and two of the babies are about a week and a half old, with one younger one (around a week old?) the two older ones have little tail feathers and wing feathers, but the bodies are covered in the down feathers, and when i got home tonight i found both of the older ones on the bottom of the cage, outside of the nesting box, with no way to get back in!

should i leave them out and trust the parents will feed them? should i put them back in the box? is it okay for me to touch them? help please!

Answer 1

They should be ok the male will feed them , it is normal for this to happen . The parents will also feed the babies still in the nest. If you don't want any more birds right now be sure to take the nest box away as soon as the youngest is feathered . You may have eggs already there but just discard them or the birds will just keep breeding till they just die from exhaustion

Answer 2

you should put the baby chicks back in their cage. Since birds dont have sence of smell they will not know if the babys were ever touched. Im a vet tech and i handled a lot of birds and i have 6 of mu ownn. You wont make a mistake if you put them back in the nest. it happens that they sometimes fall out as long as you are there to pick them back up again :) goooooooooooood luck  

Answer 3

If the baby is old enough, the daddy will coax the baby out of the nest when it's time for the bird to fledge or start learning the ways of the world.  Daddy budgies teach the babies everything they need to know to survive while mom budgie cares for other babies in the nest and/or begins a new brood.  Not all babies are ready to come out of the nest at the same time...this is likely why one is out and the other is still inside.  Sounds like all is normal.

Answer 4

you want to keep the babies together. with the bird being young it needs to be in a nest box. away from drafts