! have a cockatiel for 3yrs and it layed an egg 2 days ago,would like to bredwhat kiond of nest do i need?

Answer 1

First off you'll need a male to go with your female :) . Not just any male, too. Cockatiels mate for life and they like to choose their own mates, though you can put a male and a female of your choice together and wait for them to bond. That can take as little as a week or as long as several years to happen. Most of the birds I've bred bonded within two months.

There's several rules you need to adhere to when breeding, whether it be birds, rats, horses or dogs:

1) You'll want a healthy mate, especially one with good genetics. If you're interested in breeding certain colors you'll want to research what colors and splits will produce the colors you're interested in.

2) Most important of all: breed the sweetest birds you can find! Never breed a mean bird as that just produces even more mean birds! There's exceptions to this though, and I'd have to observe the bird before I'd want to breed them. For example: I had one tiel hen who was a real snot towards humans but she was the sweetest thing with other birds. She accidental produced some chicks and they were darling creatures! They had their mom's bossy snobbishness but they were fun to play with as they had so many opinions! If I was to breed one of her offspring I would have chosen the sweetest of the babies and put them with an equally sweet but less opinionated bird.

3) Your birds must be in breeding condition. Let them fly free in a special room at least once a day for an hour for a good 2-6 months. Or buy/build a large cage where they can fly from one end to the other. At the very least trim them and make them climb from the floor to a treat cup when it's time to play :) . Feed them high protein foods with lots of calcium. The best pre breeding food available is egg! Feed a boiled egg to your guys with the shell still on. You can crush it together in a scrambled egg or you can cut a boiled egg in half. Broccoli is another great pre-breeding season food to offer :) .

Okay.. now you have your two birds. The next thing you'd have to do it place them in their breeding cage. Often this is a larger cage you buy. Get the largest one you can afford. You can build one for under $60. Attach the nest box and wait for them to get used to each other, their new cage and the box. If they really like each other they'll do the mating thing within a week and will have eggs within two weeks. You'll know when they're mating as they will NOT.Shut.Up. And they'll do it several times a day over several days. Make sure your make, at youngest, is 10 months old. Ideally he should be 2 years as birds cockatiels are mature enough at that age to mentally handle baby making.

Light is really important when you want your birds to breed. Leave the bird room light on for 14 hours a day and offer egg. They should get 'in the mood' in under a week. Once the babies are weaned and ready to go to their new homes you can reduce the lighting to 12-10 hours. Don't let your guys lay more than 3 clutches a year as it drains the hen of her much needed calcium and it turns the birds into over tired parents.

The nest box is a large wooden or metal container with a viewing door and a hole where the birds can crawl into. I have a large metal box with a 3 inch hole in the side. The box is roughly 12 inches long and 9 inches wide. It came with a wooden plank with a hollow scraped into half of it. Many breeders use aspen or pine shavings and put a thick layer of that over the wooden plank. I tried newspaper but found it stunk pretty bad by the end of the breeding season. Bleck >.< ! The male, when the nest box is hung, will inspect it and try to get the hen to check it out, too. When the hen is ready to lay she may not want to leave the nest at all. She'll lay about 2-8 eggs, though first time parents may not lay many eggs. Both parents will incubate and, later, when the babies hatch, will feed the chicks. it takes 18-13 days for the eggs to hatch. If you're going to hand feed, pull the babies at 8-12 days of age. My parents don't always like to feed their own chicks and I'm stuck hand feeding them at five days old. Hand feeding is a LOT of hard work and should not be taken lightly. it requires you to feed the babies every 2 hours from day one to day four then every 2 hours during the day for the next two weeks. It'll be a lot like caring for a human infant with brooder changes and feedings at weird hours of the night. I'll post a web site that will help you out with stuff like that :) .

The babies will wean at 8-9 weeks. They're fun to watch grow up and learn to perch. I breed my birds for the pure joy of it. I make next to no money doing what I do and what money I do get goes straight back into caring for the chicks. Some people smoke. Some people drink. I breed birds, LOL!

Good luck!

Answer 2

My cockatiel did this often. These eggs are not fertilized if she hasn't been with a male, so there is no baby bird in there. What you need to do is allow her to go through the process as if it was a fertilized egg for around 21 days or so and then remove it from her cage. I used to use newspaper on the bottom of my birds cage and she made her own nest with it. Just leave the egg in there with her and do nothing and be very careful, as they can become very protective and aggressive during this time. You may find that after you remove the egg in a few weeks that she lays more. My cockatiel laid around 5 at one time. She will eventually stop, but she will lay eggs from time to time throughout her lifetime

Answer 3

Put torn pieces of paper, strips of an old t-shirt. She will build her own nest. However if there is not a male bird in the cage with her it is not a fertile egg and needs to be thrown out.

Answer 4

My parents have a breeding pair of cockatiels and they don't have any type of a nest. All you need is a male and a female. They just do it and she lays fertile eggs. And the male bird sits on them right inside the cage. Once they hatch my parents take care of them then they sell them once they are old enough to eat on their own.....

Answer 5

1st you will need a male as those eggs are inferitile....but they lay eggs in a wooden hollowed out box nest...

Answer 6

u need a nest for the bird retart

Answer 7

i got a nesting box withA HOLE IN IT AND A PICE OF GLASS AT THE SIDE YOU NEED TO GET ONE