How do you know wether a parakeet is pregnant?

Question

I have a girl and a boy parakeet how do you know if the girl is carrying eggs or not?

Answer 1

when she is ready to set, she will be still and swell up. Just put a small box in the cage with a hole in it, with straw in the bottom. Also, remove the rail; or, she will drop the egg onto the floor of the cage and break it.

Answer 2

Parakeets generally don't become pregnant like mammals. However they do carry eggs for a day or so while the egg forms inside them. The hen will have a large swelling behind her legs, just before her vent, or turd hole. Try not to handle her if there's a swelling as the egg may fracture and cause a severe infection. You'll know when she's ready to lay because she'll sit and squat, often closing her eyes and looking uncomfortable. Hens go through contractions when an egg is laid and it's quite a lot of work getting those huge things out!

It takes about 24 hours for an egg to form until it can be laid. Sometimes it can takes a bit longer - often as long as 2 days. It takes about 2 to 2 and a half weeks for the eggs to hatch. The hen can lay up to 8 or nine eggs and she'll sit in the nest box while the male feeds her. Don't remove the eggs in any way because the hen will just lay more to replace the old ones. In the wild missing eggs and babies mean a predator has raided the nest and eaten everything.

Hope that helps. Good luck with the eggs!

Answer 3

The area by her vent (her poop hole) is swollen for a day or two, and then she passes the egg. Usually she has made a nest for herself with whatever material is available.. like newspaper lining the cage. IF the eggs are fertile (they will become a blue-gray after about 1-2 weeks of her sitting on them - YELLOW after that same period of time if infertile) PLEASE let her sit until she gets 'bored' with them. Parakeets and Cockatiels can be chronic egg layers, and this depletes their calcium and they can die from this. ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS let the female sit until she starts ignoring the eggs (she will usually sit MOST of the day on her eggs.. if you notice she hasn't sat on them for a few days in a row, it's time to throw the eggs away)! Good Luck!

P.S. Are ya sure you have a boy and a girl? They may not breed until they are 6 months or better and I would guess more likely a year old! If you WANT babies, please read up on this, it's not child's play.. it's hard to be a breeder and you gotta know so much - even if you let the parents raise them and you don't handfeed. It's not easy.. by any stretch.

Answer 4

I think it is all down to the physical appearance, behaviour, and whether she made a nest or not.
there are also different types of parakeets. check the web out

Answer 5

first of all parakeets do mate in captivity that is if they r in a cage u'll have to give them a habitat, well if she is carrying ess best way is to provide her with dry leaves and her own feathers and a hole to nest in if she gets into it she is pregnant...

Answer 6

You really won't know until she lay's a egg....or maybe you have seen them mating. Parakeet's are pretty fat, that's why you can't
tell. The parent's get pretty nasty also...good luck

Answer 7

Is she suffering from morning sickness? Seriously, she may guard an area of her cage and try to peck anyone who dares to go near the area.

Answer 8

They need nesting material so she can lay. Ask the pet shop to show you what they have.

Answer 9

when it lays a egg they dont carry they lay them there not like people

Answer 10

well a big belly maybe a give a way is she chucking up or looking peekie