2007-01-14 04:58:09 · 7 answers · asked by edith p 1 in Pets ➔ Birds
Is your cockatiel alone in the cage, or does she have a male companion?
If she has a male, the egg may be fertile and you'll have to make it infertile (wait until she has laid a full clutch, take her out of the cage, distract her and don't let her see you take the eggs out, boil them for a few minutes, return them) but DO NOT take it out yet. If you remove the eggs, she will continue to lay more and more to replace the missing ones. This drains her body of energy and calcium, and especially if her diet is lacking, this could be a medical emergency. If she's low on calcium, future eggs could become lodged in her body and if there is no surgical intervention, she could die.
You have to let nature take its role here. She will sit on the eggs and focus solely on them until the incubation period is up. Let her spend her time on the eggs until /she/ realizes they aren't going to hatch - that's about 30 days. When she gets up and starts being her normal self again, you can take the eggs out without stressing her.
2007-01-14 05:04:24 · answer #1 · answered by PinkDagger 5 · 4⤊ 0⤋
I liked Pink Dagger's answer, but I wanted to add if your female bird is alone in the cage laying eggs, it might help also to change her routine. She's comfortable, possibly bonded to you and her clock starts ticking. So you can try to disturb her comfort zone by either shortening her daylight hours(cover the cage or put her in a room wit no windows), putting her cage in a totally different maybe more active room, and completely changing positions of all her toys and perches.
But if she's going to sit on it, continue offering plenty of calcium like cuttlebones (and always provide fresh veggies and greens) and let her play mommy until she gets it out of her system.
2007-01-14 06:34:03 · answer #2 · answered by Bluebear 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
no, you should leave it in there and allow her to lay a full clutch and sit on them until she gets bored. If you keep removing eggs, she will lay and lay and lay until her body is depleted of calcium, she becomes egg bound and will die.
2007-01-14 23:32:12 · answer #3 · answered by fenlandfowl 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You must make sure your bird's diet has additional calcium. She can get osteoporosis because laying eggs depletes calcium from her body
2007-01-14 07:07:13 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Haha my friend has a cocatiel and she lays eggs like crazy. You can take them out if your bird doesn't try to kill you.. and if she does use some gloves
2007-01-14 05:22:29 · answer #5 · answered by Michelle 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Well, that rather depends where you're trying to remove it from.
2007-01-14 05:02:23 · answer #6 · answered by Cassandra 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Yes. Unless it's still up its bum that is.
2007-01-14 05:00:56 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋