I had a similar event although mine went further than yours. I had a pair of umbrella cockatoos who decided in the first couple months I had them that my sunroom was a pretty good breeding room. I got them a nest and put it in the floor of two cages that I had bolted together. She laid two eggs. The male tossed a ball in the nest and broke one.

I never saw Angel sitting on the remaining egg but left it for several days beyond normal hatch time. Then, not knowing a thing about breeding, I opened the egg. I killed the live baby. I took it right to the vet, within minutes, and she said it was perfectly normal and if I had waited a day or so it would have hatched. I nearly died right there. 

I sold the birds to a proper breeder as soon as I could find one and had checked his references.  He said the pair never fed a single baby. He had to handfeed from day 1. He got 15 babies from that pair and eventually sold them to another breeder who knew they would have to handfeed.

I think the problem was that they were both tame pet birds who were put together and didn't know how to care for babies.

Annie

 

Good luck, Beth. To hatch they really need higher temps than 80 but not being a breeder I can't tell you exactly. Momnoah probably can if she happens by later.

Annie

Annie, that just brought me to tears.  I feel for you...how sad and heartbroken and helpless you must have felt.  I have done the very same thing...only with ducks and geese. The time had past for them to hatch...they had peeping sounds....and I peeped back.  Finally thought the peeping stopped...thought I would check why they didn't hatch.and killed them by opening the egg too soon.  If I had given the proper moisture content to the incubator...left them alone except to touch and chirp...they would have hatched withen three or four days.  I was told by the biologist I worked for that eggs don't all hatch exactly according to the book.  So many things determine when it's to happen.   I didn't have the proper education and followed one book.  If anyone wants to become interested in breeding or hatching eggs.....I hope they get as much information from as many areans as possible.  There usually are more than one answer to one's question. 

You might want to invest in an incuabator for incidents like this.  With the incubator will come instructions for general hatchings....but it's best to go online and the sidebar here has sites....to get better and more instructive instructions on how to hatch them...then to the brooder....and handfeeding/raising them.  It's a great deal of work....instensive....scarey and sad when things don't work the way you intend them to....but the reward is great when they do.  I hope Erika comes on for you....she's had many clutches....not herself of course....lol. 

 

She's got a handy guy named Kit who helps her...lol...just ask her about him....he's her sidekick papa wannabe Too. 

That was supposed to be arena's....not areans....don't know what those are. 

My fiasco happened in 1989 and I called every place listed in Bird Talk and another popular bird keepers magazine trying to find a book on breeding starting when she laid the first egg. No one had a book. One shop checked with every distributor they knew of and none of them had one either. No avian vet here at the time either.

They did go to good people who knew what they were doing.

Annie

Well against what I had hoped, Mama bird laid another egg Tuesday and one again today.  Only 3 weeks after completing her first clutch.  I'm making sure she gets plenty of calcium and food and water and keeping a close eye on her.  Caught them mating again today. 

None of the babies hatched from the first clutch. 

 

OMG....you have a dream of mine....a huge fish tank!  I have always...always wanted one that was huge...I've got three little ones....played with the fish really....got into breeding colors of fancy guppies...I had a ball!  That was about 4 years ago...want to do it again though.  Had so many colors and combos....was really neat.  I'd love to see pics of your tank...I bet it's awesome.  Oh boy....how are you going to manage to move it....that's a huge undertaking all in itself. 

Wow.....you have LOTS of tanks!  Makes me green!  lol  Maybe a day will come when I can get back into having the smaller tanks active again.  I've got them set up and running but no fish....Bob still wants to go ahead and put bait in them for now.  All fishing that guy is. 

 

How's the two wannabe parents?