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Canary advice please

esseco46 — Sun, 29 Sep 2013 02:54:10 GMT

Hi all,

I would like some advice regarding my canaries.

Yesterday I had a hen sitting on a nest with 2 eggs and a baby. The father was feeding mum and all was well.

Today, there is an empty nest - no nesting on the floor, no broken eggs and no baby. A really clean nest.

Can anyone tell me what might have happened.I am finding it hard to believe that the other canaries would have committed the muder after all this time from the making of the nest, the eggs and the hatchling. Last year I had no such problem.

We do have mice but we also have a great mouser cat. No rats, no spiders in the aviary, nothing I can think of.

Thanks,

Re: Canary advice please

mejado — Sun, 29 Sep 2013 06:49:08 GMT

There's a link here that might give an explanation Di.

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Why_have_your_baby_canaries_vanished_from_their_nest

Re: Canary advice please

esseco46 — Sun, 29 Sep 2013 07:55:28 GMT

Thanks for that link mejado. It does help but I still don't know what happened to the nesting material - it's a realy mystery.

Re: Canary advice please

mejado — Sun, 29 Sep 2013 08:42:51 GMT

I don't know much about birds but I agree. It seems mighty strange that it's all missing.

Re: Canary advice please

patchoo78 — Sun, 29 Sep 2013 12:16:07 GMT

Could a lizard have gotten in and eaten the eggs? That might ecxplain the lack of broken shell

Re: Canary advice please

esseco46 — Sun, 29 Sep 2013 23:55:01 GMT

I doubt a lizard could have got into the aviary patchoo, it has a welded base and sits on 4 legs about 12 inches above the ground.

There was a very clean wire nest - no grass, nesting material etc. on the aviary floor. Very strange.

I am thinking about putting padlocks on the two doors.

Re: Canary advice please

joawer18 — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 08:38:14 GMT

Same thing has happened to me. Even one mother disappeared without a trace. I think it was nice.

Re: Canary advice please

twyngwyn — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 11:19:37 GMT

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