You should provide plenty of wet egg food, changed daily, or more often in hot weather, seed, and fruit and vegetables. The male will eat the food, and feed the hen.
Both mother and father cause when the father is fiding food the mother sits on the nest and when the mother is finding food for the baby bird or for herself the father sits on them.
baby ostriches are born in a shallow hole which their father made in the sand and he sits on the eggs.The mother ostrich lays her eggs in front of the father ostrich then he pushes them under his warm body. He sits on the eggs from late afternoon untill early the next morning the mother sits on the eggs the rest of the day. When the eggs are hatched the parents take turns to look after their young.
to keep the egg warm, and to protect it.
The mother hatches an egg The mother lays the eggs, sits on them to keep them warm while incubating, then feeds them when they hatch out.
The mother hen usually covers all her eggs to make sure that they are kept at the correct temperature for hatching and uses its beak to turn the egg over .
If she sits on it right when she lays it 18 days if she sits on it after the second one is laid then 20 days for the first to hatch and 18 for the second one to hatch. That's just an average but seems to ring true.
the chicken's placenta, as opposed to a human placenta, does not connect the mother to the child. instead, it connects the mother and the egg. the placenta extends from the mother's anus to the top of the egg. this is why the chicken sits on her eggs.
A mother hen sits on her eggs for weeks to keep the temperature right. The breaks for eating and leaving are shot so the temperature stays constant.
There are male birds that do share in the sitting and rearing of baby birds.
the mama bird sits on the eggs to keep them warm
A health parakeet will have shiny feathers, clear eyes, shiny beak, and a cere that is free of drainage. A fluffed parakeet that sits at the bottom of the cage is very sick and needs attention immediately.
Both the mother and father swan work together to care for their young. The mother usually sits on the nest and protects the eggs, while the father helps to guard the nest and may assist in raising the cygnets once they hatch.