I'm hesitant to even post this for fear of jinxing it, but Onyx and Blackie have a single hatchling! It's approximately 4-5 days old, just old enough that I can hear it softly begging for food. They're the pair that tossed a hatchling just a few days ago ... the one I found in the floor just in the nick of time. So far they're feeding the new baby, but I'm not holding my breath just yet. I'm keeping a close eye on it so that I can intervene if necessary.
I'm still keeping a close eye on Pearl and Smudge's two babies, too. I've been hand-feeding them once or twice a day as needed, plus they're feeding them too ... just not as much as I'd like to see. The babies are hanging in there. :-)
I think this weekend I'm going to try connecting three 24" breeding cages end to end, so that they make one very long cage, and put my non-breeding zebras in it. I can still slide the dividers in if need be, so I'll have plenty of flexibility, and the birds will have a VERY long distance they can fly. We'll see how it goes. :-)
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