Blue and Gold Blackjack with eggs

Wild caught, but now captive Blue and Gold Macaw laying on her 2 eggs. As there was no male, the eggs are unfertilized. However, she will tend to them for around 23 days. At that point, she will know that the eggs will not hatch, and she will start abandoning them. It is important not to disturb the bird once they go into nesting behavior as that could lead to the bird becoming egg-bound. As well, if you allow the bird to keep the eggs until the normal time it would take them to hatch, then you reduce the chances of the bird becoming egg-bound. Also, it is important to begin to supplement the bird with calcium when you first start noticing nesting behavior; this will also reduce the chances of the bird becoming egg-bound.

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• blue and gold macaw
• nesting bird
• macaw with eggs
• hen with eggs

[xcherryxcherryx]

how on earth is she so friendly if she was wild caught? and how did you get a wild caught macaw? wow.

[goldencockatoo]

She was brought in many years ago, we guess over 25 years ago when importing was legal.

My wife rescued her from a person that was abusing her, and it took 6 months to get her to trust people again.

Normally, you are correct-no way could you approach a female nesting. But in our case, she has completely accepted us and trusts us to the extent that she lets us "into her nest"

[goldencockatoo]

Great question! Normally, when birds are nesting they are VERY aggressive towards anyone or anything approaching their nest. However, this Macaw allows my wife or I "into her nest" which is really on the floor, in the corner of our aviary.

However, if anyone else attempts to get close to her eggs she spreads her wings wide and will attempt to attack.

[MorningToU]

@goldencockatoo

Very interesting video. I have a 38 year old B&G. She started laying eggs about a month ago...one every 3 days. In fear of depleting calcium, I got 2 chicken eggs from a local farmer and put them in her cage. She's been a wonderful mother. If they are fertile, they are due to hatch tomorrow or day after. My baby also lets me go into her nest, touch her, her eggs, etc. She's very gentle while being a wonderful mama to the eggs. I"m excited to see what will happen.

[MrCambarker]

how much did she cost?

[militantmindset]

since the eggs arent fetilised and all....... what do macaw omelettes taste like?

[donandroz]

my australian rainbow lorrokeet did excactly the same thing but under an old wine unit and would only let me near it.this would occur twice a year until acarpet snake got up on the balcony and killed her but wasn't able to eat her because of an old injury the bird which was a fused shoulder and the wing stood out at right angle.it was a sad day but she was 20 yrs old and thats more than she would have got in the wild

[masterbeyder]

@shovel417 They are in the united states....in florida

[masterbeyder]

how close did you get to her nest?

[bhodus]

that should be infertile eggs

[jazzrockblend]

There is no way my military macaw lets me within two feet of her when she is sitting on eggs!!! She lunges at me to chase me away!!!

[AnttyK47]

I liked this video because i completely understand the lack of trust she would normally give you. I congratulate how much love you must have given her to achieve this.

[loverofmythology]

aww that's so sweet! my cockatiel wouldn't let anyone near her eggs but me either xD

[rioko3wolf5girl7]

shes beautiful! And you are quite smart about blue and golds. I used to have a moluccan cockatoo male and he would sit on a marble egg, he would have been a good daddy if we would let him have a mate. Hes too big of a baby to have babies