okay, so i wake up this morning to the sounds of crisis in the house. i can hear my daughter talking really fast and my hubby responding and i hear them in her bedroom.

so i drag my lazy butt outta bed... and i find them in the middle of moving a 'just birthed for the first time' mama into a maternity cage with her 12 pups.

upon examination i realized that there were two other mamas ready to pop and since all of them still looked pregnant (not all that round which is why i missed that they were... combined with being sick for the last two weeks) - so i had them put the three ladies together.

my daughter said that daisy was sitting on the 'nest' (in the adult cage) which is why she believes they are daisy's pups... but to be sure, i've got all three together. daisy looks the same roundness as the other two potential mamas right now.

now... first off, i never would have moved them today. i would have waited a few days... but since they were already moved when i came into the room... what do you suggest?

jo... becky? should i leave the three ladies together and sep them into their own maternity housing in a few days and just divide the pups between them?

i wish i had caught this... but honestly, i've just been too sick to notice and too busy with our unexpected clutch of baby cockatiels that i'm hand raising, and and and... no excuse, just reality is all. *hangs head in shame and hands her rattie mama award back to the guild*