When do you take unfertile eggs away from a cockateil?

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Serious Answers Only Please!!!

Answer 1

Please, please, please don't take them away from her at all! Just leave them where she has laid them and let her tend to them. She knows instinctively how many days it should take them to hatch. Once they have not hatched in the time they should have, she will abandon her little nest and you can remove them at that time.

If you remove them before she abandons them, this can lead to her laying another clutch. Birds can double and even sometimes, triple, clutch. This can very, very easily lead to a calcium depletion in her and can make her very ill.

Whether she has finished laying or if she is still laying, put an egg in the blender every morning, shell and all, and pulverize it (a chicken egg ~ not one of her eggs). Scramble the pulverized egg and shell and, when it's cooled off, offer it to her in a separate feeding cup, The calcium in the shell will replenish the calcium she has expended in her egg production.

Act as though nothing is out of the ordinary. If she wants to sit on her eggs, just let her and don't disturb her. This is a cycle she needs to complete and messing it up has a high probability of causing problems.

People have accidentally caused their birds to become almost perpetual layers by repeatedly taking their eggs away from them. If she continues to lay even after you have removed her abandoned eggs several times, you might need to get her a mate and a nest box. Sometimes birds are just very determined to be parents!

Answer 2

The quick answer? When she stops sitting on them.

I have a 12 year old cockatiel that laid her first (infertile) clutch about a year ago. I didn't know any better, so I took the egg away. Then I checked with a vet. I left the 3 MORE she laid alone, kept her in fresh cuttle and minerals (to keep her from getting egg-bound) and then in about 3 weeks she was ignoring them and I took them out. Another month or so later she laid another, but that was it.

Hens will instinctively replace missing eggs as if they had been lost to predators. If you remove the eggs this can cause immense stress on them, especially if it's an older bird.

Fresh eggs have a coating on them that keeps them 'preserved'. The chicken eggs we eat have been stripped of this coating, that's why they spoil so quickly when left out of the fridge. Your cockatiel's eggs have this coating still, so don't worry about the eggs stinking up the cage.

Answer 3

if you are not sure it a unfertile you can take a face cloth and stick it in the hole of the nesting box. i do know a lot about this because my mom breeds birds. but stick something through the hole in the nesting box so that you will not get bitten by mom or dad bird (it does hurt). take the egg and have a flash light in hand. put the flash light on and hold it up to the egg. if it is fertile you will see a very very little embryo in the egg which means that there is a chick growing in that egg. if it isnt fertile then there is no point in it staying in the box for them to sit on because it will not hatch. so take it out as soon as you find out that the egg is not fertile. just keep that face cloth or something through that hole in the box because cockateils can draw blood and it does hurt. if you have any questions you can email me at:
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Answer 4

Leave the eggs alone! She will get off the eggs when she sees fit. If you take them away you will make her into a egg laying machine and she will use up all the caluicum in her body and die from laying to many eggs. The eggs will dry up inside and they don't stink. So leave her alone.....just add more food near her if she is not in a nest box. Her mate would be feeding her. So if she doesn't have a mate. Put seed near her so she can eat while she is sitting on the eggs if she is on the floor of her cage.

Answer 5

The eggs hatch in 21 days.
The eggs should be a blueish color if got a chick in the egg.

Hold the eggs up near a light if you can see though the eggs or they are really black and smell then take them away about 30 days or sooner.

They will know if they are clear and chuck them out of the nestbox.

Answer 6

Quite the contrary! Many female Cockateils will suffer from anxiety if their eggs are taken away immediately. It can also ruin the trust your bird has with you. I've been told, by breeders and my vet that if you wait three or four days before removing the eggs, they will be able to cope with it better. My breeder also told me that you should remove your female from the cage before doing this, making sure she doesn't see you do it so it won't affect your relationship with her. Of course, if the eggs are broken, you can remove them immediately because your female already realizes nothing is going to hatch from those eggs.

Answer 7

You can take them away as soon as you find them--it won't cause any problems with your cockateil. It's best to do it somewhat quickly because you don't want to the eggs to rot (that is an awful smell!). I believe you can purchase fake eggs if you just want to switch them out and avoid your cockateil from laying more in the future.

Answer 8

you should take them away as soon as possible is a load of baloney,rubbish,rubbish rubbish.where do get such information?

always let a bird sit eggs for the full term she will throw them out or desert them once she knows they are infertile.

and they will not go bad and stink.
i would love a copy of the book some of these answers come from.fairy tales i suspect

Answer 9

It will be safe to take the eggs away when she quits sitting on them..usually after 3 weeks. She will realize by that time that they will not hatch and push them away.

Answer 10

god knows im no professional, yet i wont allow you to understand the a number of dumb crap I truly have examine so some distance. I truly have heard you should leave them on my own till she realizes thay are infertile in the different case she will be in a position to in elementary words keep laying new eggs. she will be in a position to desert them quickly adequate, circuitously they understand. be particular she has the perfect nutrition plan so she doesnt develop into calcium depleted, good luck.