tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5206760154173299151.post2054356988741973359..comments2024-03-05T11:38:41.279-08:00Comments on Canary Tales: Terror in the AviaryLinda Hoganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09453591933437696987noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5206760154173299151.post-61232628423369867072009-06-01T02:05:21.477-07:002009-06-01T02:05:21.477-07:00Hi Linda,
I have also experienced this before wit...Hi Linda,<br /><br />I have also experienced this before with a Green Border cock. He was a perfect father before the attack and it also happened very unexpectantly when the hen was just about to go to nest again. My theory is that he saw the cock chicks as being a threat to his breeding hen! There were three chicks and the one that was killed was the deepest colour and the biggest of the three affirming my suspicion that he was a cock! The two birds that survived, ended up both being hens, as I had suspected that they would be. I think that some cock birds are very territorial and will kill any cock bird that they see as a rival for the breeding ready hen! I have even seen a cock bird break eggs, so that he could get the hen to go back into mating mode, but I think he was just.....<br /><br />ShawnAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com