Frostie and Streak's two babies (hatched approximately 8/20/11) are close to the same size as Muffin (hatched approximately 8/12/11). They're the same color as well.
Since one of Whisper's two larger babies has now fledged, and the other will be right behind it, I decided not to risk Whisper inadvertently abandoning Muffin, so I moved Muffin to Frostie's nest. Frostie had an infertile egg, so I removed the egg, which should cause her to think the egg finally hatched. ;-) She's fostered for me in the past (even without having to do the egg "trick"), so I feel like Muffin will be in good hands. I put the divider up between her and Streak, since sometimes males are less tolerant of "strangers" being in or near the nest.
I watched Frostie a little while after I slipped Muffin into the nest box. She looked in to check on her babies, tilted her head in a puzzled manner, studied them a bit, then basically shrugged her shoulders and headed for the food cup to load up on food for the little ones. :-) I'll check on them again as soon as I get up later. Edited at 10pm at add: Frostie has accepted Muffin, and is feeding him/her. :-)
It's always best for the parent(s) (or foster parents) to feed the babies. Handfeeding forumula does the job, but the babies seem to grow and develop better with the parent(s) feeding them naturally.
The new canaries and cockatiel are all doing fine. The cockatiel is soooo, soooo sweet. :-)
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