raising baby bird

Question
I'm the proud parent of a baby parkeet. I own three already, two males and one female. They're a year and maybe a month old. I now have an egg in the coup cup. I placed (a piece of cloth from the hut they had) in the bottom of the cup and rolled the egg on to it. The female 's not sitting on it and the males are to me being ruff with it. Should I take the female and egg out and put them in a cage by theirselfs.

Answer
Hi, Virginia.  Thanks for posting!

Female keets don't usually start incubating until the second egg is laid.  However, you have a problem in that this clutch can't be laid/raised in a coup cup.  The breeding pair should be in their own breeding cage with a nesting box or you should separate the other birds out of this particular cage and setup a nesting box.  Once the pair gets used to the nesting box (they will need to make it the way they want it after they get used to it), transfer the egg(s) into the nesting box.  There could be a problem here in that the adult parents may not want to accept the egg(s) after they've been moved to a nesting box, so you may lose the first egg (or however many you move into the nesting box).  In the nesting box, you won't need to include any substrate in the bottom...leave it bare.  

You need to keep the female's mate with her and the eggs.  The male mate feeds the female while she incubates eggs/cares for babies.

Chrys