One of our baby bidgies had it's beek ripped off and the other 2 have been killed by their mother why is this?

This is what occurs sometimes when the mother is hormonal and trying to start a second clutch of egglaying and trying to get her original babies out of the way. If the babies were fledged ( out of the nest ) and kept trying to come back into the nest while she was trying to lay eggs again, or if they were demanding to be fed from her all the time while she was more focussed on the next lot of eggs...then this is why this happens. If the fledged babies are fully feathered and eating they should not be in the cage with breeding parents any more, but in a cage of their own.


If you have more birds in there than just the parents, it can have been another hen that did this.


By the way...touching babies and scent issues does not come into it in any way, shape or form. Those answers that keep cropping up are incorrect.|||Well, I'm not sure if you know this or not, but,..... BIRDS WERE'NT MENT TO BE IN CAGES!!!!!!!!!!!!!|||did u touch the babies?


if you did the mother might of smelt ur scent on them and maybe thought it wasn't her babies.