Sad bird story..

My cute little Kiko

The idea of having new baby birds had me very happy. Kika laid 5 eggs around Christmas and we waited, and waited for them to hatch so we got tired of them not hatching and noticed Kika hadn't been in the nest for a while.. We came to the conclusion they needed to be out of there before the Kika would get frustrated or depressed, so on Sunday we got them out of the nest, they were cold as can be and we cracked them open to see if they were fertile.. well, they were very fertile you could see the little fetus inside it was gross but needed to be done.. Two days ago we noticed that Kika was looking really fat again and figured she would start laying eggs AGAIN... and she did. I checked the nest yesterday and there was one little eggie in there so I covered them up so they could have some privacy. Last night I wondered if they were already sleeping, I took a peek at the nest and found something horrible. I felt my heart drop to my stomach when I saw my cute male Lovebird dead.. Kika was laying next to him and my first reaction was to blame the female bird for the death of her partner... Hyrum came to help me out because I was in shock, we've had those birds since Christmas 2007 and they cheered us up every morning with their singing especially Kiko who was the tamest.. I am still trying to figure out how he died. Hyrum said he must have died from an infection he had had for a while in his wing that was never treated. To me, it looked like it was healing just fine, he was even starting to grow new feathers but I guess I'll never know... I'm now in a dilemma as to what to do with Kika, she's laying eggs, again.(who knows if they're fertile) I'm sure they are. and I don't know if she will be depressed to not have Kiko with her anymore. And if the eggs hatch as hoped we'll have those baby birds hand fed and that is a BIG responsibility.