it is a red lory, she laid one small egg alittle smaller than a chicken.?

Answer 1

that's a good size egg, does she have a mate? If not, it is just an egg. She's letting you know her biological clock is running. If she is paying attention to it, leave it for a few days. If not, remove it. She will probably lay another one in a couple days if you take it. Watch that it doesn't get cracked cuz it will really stink up your house when it starts to rot. If she has a mate and does not have a nestbox, you may want to inquire about one from your local breeder.

Answer 2

Congratulations - you have a hen, LOL! That's often the only way we parrot lovers discover we have a male or female. Something in your home definitely caused your Lory to lay. Sometimes it's leaving the lights on an extra hour, sometimes it's watching the birds outside and sometimes birds just lay for reasons us bird lovers can't understand. You should leave the egg where you found it. If you remove it, your Lory will lay a new egg every time you take it away. All the calcium in the shell comes from her blood stream and if you keep forcing her to lay new eggs, she'll eventually deplete her body's reserves to the point she starts taking calcium from her bones. Some hens have become so over depleted of calcium that standing has broken their legs. Birds do that because it's nature's way of insuring the hen's genes make it to another generation. If an egg is missing, the bird's brain goes 'oh.. another egg's been eaten, Better make more babies!'

Expect her to lay a small clutch, especially if this is her first time laying. She'll sit on them for about a month. When she loses interest you can remove the egg(s). To help her during her egg laying period, feed her stuff like broccoli and scrambled egg with the egg shell included. It's high in calcium. The egg will add extra protein. You may want to ask a Lory breeder what else you can do, as I'm not sure what breeding lories need in their diet. Me specialties are conures and cockatiels :-) .

Don't worry about the egg stinking up the home. Only if you crack an old egg and its been very hot will it stink. I've had over 70 old quail eggs in my studio and there was no rotten egg smell :-P .Most eggs just dry up on the inside, leaving a yellowish glob.

Answer 3

That's a huge egg for a lory. Let her sit on it. I had a red lory hybrid who would sit on her eggs for six months straight; she talked to them and loved them. She never broke one. When the callouses got too big on her elbows (from sitting all day) I would take the eggs away and a few month later she'd lay more. She was never calcium depleted. Because she was a hybrid her eggs were no good.
Her mother (a full red lory) would have 2-3 clutches of fertile eggs (2 eggs per clutch) a year if I let her, and she was a great mama bird.
A lory egg takes 3-4 weeks to hatch and if you take the egg before than she might get upset.
The worse part about having a lory with an egg is that they cry constantly for some reason while they have one.
If you ever decide you don't want her, I'm been looking for a female red lory.

Answer 4

If your bird is acticing aggressively protective of the egg, remove it aftera week or 2, if you remove it too soon she will lay more eggs and exhaust her calcium supply.

If she has a mate let her incubate the egg, and raise the chick until its 2 weeks old and then have a pet store that sells birds hand feed it, or if you know how you can hand feed it.

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