This is about the problem of a parakeet owner about the failure of hatching the eggs. During his school years, my husband was taking care of parakeets for an informal business. He bought a pair and his plan was to breed and sell. He made a computation that if the birds would hatch 2 eggs, he could easily recoup the expenses particularly the cost of the bird seed. It was encouraging to watch the birds do their thing and it didn't take long before the female laid an egg in the square box serving as the nest.
But days and weeks passed, there was no baby bird. The 3 eggs in the box remained eggs that were already spoiled. The box was cleaned and again, it did not take long for the female to lay the second batch of eggs. But the hatching did not materialize. My husband consulted their neighbor who is a vet. The advice was to get 2 coconut shell (with a husk), tie them together with a wire so they would look like a whole coconut with the brown husk. But make a hole so the bird can enter. On the third batch of laying, it didn't take long for the surprise to appear - the head of a little birdie. It was only one baby bird but that was the start of a good business.
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