Help! Wild bird egg!

[Mare]

This just happened! I came into the kitchen to make morning coffee and hear a big BAM! I ran in to open up the birds thinking the noise came from their room, everyone was ok in there so I start turning on lights and I open the curtains. I see one of our cats running on the deck and as I move around the room..I see from another window that one of our cats has a big Robin looking bird, pinned on the deck with it's jaws!

I run out there screaming, the bird is already dead..it had hit a window, (the BAM), and the cat did it in :(. I shoo the cat away and there is a warm egg laying next to the mama. I brought the egg in and am keeping it warm under a light and towel, Tim is burying the mama.

What do you guys think... Should I wash it in some warm soapy water and see if Chip and Jellybean will cover it?..?..

[Lady]

Wow, poor little mama :(. I don't think you should let Chip and Jellybean near it. Who knows if it can carry anything and give it to them, or if they will accept it as their own. Time to do some research.......

[Macaw Lover]

Just toss it. Washing it in soap could possibly do something to an embryo.

Best to be EXTRA cautious with your own babies seeing the cats have had a taste of bird and might want more. Can't blame the cats as they naturally are predators and birds are their prey

[PlaxMacaws]

Can't blame the cats as they naturally are predators and birds are their preyI won't... I blame nature! :(

[PlaxMacaws]

Mare: you might do best to research incubating the egg yourself if your choice is to try and assist it to a point of hatching.

[Mare]

Ok, thanks guys.. I haven't been able to find any info on introducing a wild bird egg to setting cockatiels, I won't give it to my birds. I'm not sure what I'll do yet. I may try and hatch it myself, I'm doing some research. Surprisingly, it isn't that much bigger than the cockatiels.

[Mare]

Wow, poor little mama :(. I don't think you should let Chip and Jellybean near it. Who knows if it can carry anything and give it to them, or if they will accept it as their own. Time to do some research.......


Yes, Alice, poor mama, indeed :(. Our cats, we have three, are brutal on the wild bird population around here when the fledglings are learning to fly, it just kills me to see the cats in wait for them to leave the nest. natural born killers, that they are. Sadly, we need them to help with gopher/rodent issues in our yard and gardens, they do an amazing job there.

I'm thinking this season of locking them inside for several hours during the day, to give the baby birds a better chance of learning to fly.

[spiritbird]

Good idea to have the cats inside during baby bird season. They will not be content but they won't kill either. As hard as it may be I would turn the egg over to a rehabber if they would even accept it or destroy it. Never in with the tiels because the chick would be so much larger and eat so much more than the baby tiels.

[Mare]

I tossed the egg. After researching incubating one, I knew I couldn't do it..not like what it would need.