Our parkeet Layed An Egg On Bottom Of Cage Someone PLease HELP What Do I Do

Question

Our parkeet Layed An Egg I called A Friend that Is A Breeder Of Bird And She Said DO NO touch Egg But Cut up News paper Put The News Paper In The SallBox And Get The Egg In there Without Touching the Egg I Did And The Bird Dumped It Back Out She Keeps Setting On it But Not All the Time But She Is Also Moving It Arond In Cage What She I Do ? And The Cage Needs Cleaned Should I Juust Let it Go Or What Some HELP PLEASE thanks so much Ad God Bless

Melissa

Answer 1

Leave well enough alone. She knows what she is doing out of instinct. The egg may be fertile and it may not. Just let her do what she needs to do. If there is no male she will lay non fertile eggs and after she lays on them awhile they should be thrown away. To break the laying cycle you can just leave fake eggs in the real ones place. Make sure she has plenty of calcium while laying or she can become defeciant which can lead to many serious health problems and even death. offer her cuttlebone and crushed up oyster shell. Good luck. Clean around egg if possible or if touch it where gloves so the oils from your skin does not hurt egg. handle gently thats all. :)  

Answer 2

idk I guess u should try to put the egg back into the sail box and if she dumps it out agean just wait for her to abandan it i know this sounds really mean but its all that you can do

Answer 3

Hello.

If you have a pair ( male & female ) then get a nesting box for them . If you don't have a pair , then just throw it away ...she will lay more eggs . I move my eggs around a bit it they are away from the mom , but usually , if they yank the eggs out, that meant they can sense the eggs were no good or something wrong with it . TM.

Answer 4

The Parakeet knows what it's doing. Don't worry about it, she'll take care of it.

Answer 5

Hi, Melissa -

I have a 9-year-old Budgie, Lucy, and she just layed her third infertile egg for the year. I was surprised since it has been several years since I have seen an egg. She has layed over two dozen in her lifetime. I actually saw her lay the last two.

I can tell when she is getting ready to lay an egg because she will get aggressive with her toys, shred the paper at the bottom of the cage, and her droppings will become loose and smelly. All of this is normal. If this behavior continues after she lays an egg, another egg will usually follow.

Birds tend to instinctively lay eggs in spring and summer when there is more daylight. Feather condition is another indicator since a Budgie has usually finished molting and is in top shape before producing an egg.  

There are mixed schools of thought on whether to leave the egg in the cage or not. I have done both. If I leave the egg, she usually destroys it. Now I remove them to avoid the mess, and she is no worse for wear, but another bird may react differently. The eggs dry out; I have a basket of about a dozen.

I make sure that Lucy always has a calcium block to replenish minerals her body needs after laying an egg. I also know that pet shops sell vitamin supplements for this.

I also provided Lucy with a surrogate toy; a little yellow rubber spiky bird. We call him Spike. Spike gets abused often; we are already on Spike IV. He has no face, no feet, and is missing many of his rubber spikes, but Lucy seems to become fixated on Spike before and after she lays eggs. I would suggest finding a bird safe ball or toy that sits on the cage bottom that your bird can "adopt."

If you suspect your bird is going to lay an egg, it is good to check on her several times a day. I don't know why, but Lucy has layed all of her eggs in the late afternoon or early evening. Egg binding is a possible risk to active egg layers. Here is an article: http://www.multiscope.com/hotspot/eggbin... . Lucy has never had a problem with this, and I don't think it is too common.

I hope this is helpful. - Becky