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For an anecdote
Anonymous
We gave our lovey-dovey budgies a nest box and some wood shavings once, some years ago, as the female was acting all pent-up, snippy and passive-aggressive, even for a budgie. Birds' equivalent of a biological clock I suppose. Figured it was better than have her lay eggs in some corner and end up dying of draft or something, sitting on her eggs 24/7.
Of course none of the six eggs were fertile. They never are the first couple of times in captivity. The female ate the eggs up for the calcium in the shells, eventually, and tossed the rest out. We removed the nest box soon after. Fixed her antsiness up rather well though. And the male started acting like as though he had a huge pair, for a few months afterward.
There never was a next time, as the man of the cage passed away a year later from a tumour, and she was so heartbroken she didn't take to his successor. They were "friends", at most; some face-scratching and such flock stuff, but none of those cutesy behaviours that'd indicate a pair bond.
I expect the OP will give us pictures of the kittens. I'd wish you luck, but I wouldn't want to jinx it.
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