My parakeet the day before yesterday laid one egg at the bottom of the cage what I could do?

Question

I ask this question because i wonder if they are gonna laid more eggs i have a female and a male. Also i wanna know if i should put the egg inside the nestbox.

Answer 1

NO! Do NOT throw the egg away!!!!

Do not let her lay any more infertile eggs after this, but she will finish laying this clutch. There is a stimuli in the environment that is making her believe it's mating season.

The best way to deal with this is cover her cage in darkness for at least 12 hours a night and those 12 hours need to be totally silent. Monitor her food intake. Give her only the amount of food you know she will eat because knowing there's extra will suggest there's enough to feed babies. Re-arrange her cage totally. Even move it to a different room, but change everything within it too. Get new toys and new perches and swap them for every single thing in her cage right now. If her environment is unstable and changing, she won't want to have young living in these conditions in their early hatchlinghood. If you're petting her anywhere but on the head, stop. Petting on the belly, back, tail, and under the wings are especially important places to avoid touching. This stimulates her in the way a mate would and makes her think to lay more eggs again. Don't give her any places to hide or nest in her cage (so no nesting box!) and avoid letting her near nesting material. If she has paper lining the bottom of her cage without a barrier between it and her, get a grate and put down so she can't reach the paper.

DO NOT try and breed them. It's very dangerous. Laying eggs drains calcium levels and many important nutrients that your budgies need for themselves, not to waste on eggs. The above suggestions I gave are to minimize mating season triggers, and they've worked for my four hens. If she lays more and more eggs, her body becomes more and more exhausted, tapping out many important nutritional resources she needs for herself much more than she needs for some dead eggs.

When she does lay eggs, do NOT take them away. Since you have a male AND a female, wait for her to lay an entire clutch (around 4 eggs), take the birds out of the cage, distract them with toys and treats, take the eggs, bring a small pot of water to a boil, and boil the eggs for a couple of minutes, and return them to where her nesting spot was. When she gets up and leaves them to be her friendly self before all of the mating hormones got rushed up, and you can tell that she's tired of sitting on them and no longer interested (natural incubation is about 30 days, that'll be the approximate time she'll get up and leave for good), throw them out.

Before I say any more, please consider the amount of budgies that are unwanted and wind up in shelters because people buy them, thinking they're cute, and wind up dumping them because something as silly as getting bitten happens. It happens all the time. If you know for sure, without any doubt whatsoever, that you can breed reliably both temperamental and high-standard budgie chicks, go with it on your own confidence. If you're not quite ready yet, and this I highly suggest, take a year or two getting to know your birds, what you're dealing with, risks (egg binding, rejecting babies, babies dying, the hen dying, malnutrition, the pair fighting, one killing the other.. there is a very long list of risks when breeding), and know that the parents you're trying to breed would be able to breed successfully to produce healthy babies and stay healthy themselves.

Provide lots of calcium and high-quality food. Budgies require about 10 to 15% seed in their diet, and the rest should be a high-grade pelleted diet. Harrison's, TOPs, Roudybush, and Zupreem are by far the best and most researched. Fresh foods very high in calcium are spinach, kale, and Romaine lettuce, the most popular leafy greens. Feed spinach and kale in moderation because they are so high in calcium that it could wind up binding calcium.

Good luck.

EDITED TO ADD: Budgies are indeed cute, but search 'budgie' on PetFinder. One single listing has 50 budgies and there are a good three pages of other listings, including many from a parrot rescue, Mickaboo. Believe it or not, all and any animal can be dumped and all types of animals are, no matter how cute.

Answer 2

Assuming that they mated, it could be fertile. Have nesting material so that they can build a nest inside the nest box. String, cotton pieces, or buy the nesting material. Feed them chopped cooked egg three times a week for extra protein and calcium, pellet food add 10% seeds and 10% fruits and veggies.The female will sit on the eggs after the last egg is laid and chicks may appear in 21-26 days. Copulation occurs when the male mounts the female for 1-3 seconds. Good luck. If the eggs are not fertile, remove them 1 per week. A bright light shown on the egg will reveal a red blood network if it is fertile or you can just wait and see. Have a great new year.

Answer 3

First, ignore any suggestion of giving your parakeets nesting material like cotton and such. Parakeets do not make such nests. They will lay their eggs on the bottom of the inside of a nest box and will use nothing more than their bodies to keep the chicks warm.

Just because she laid an egg doesn't mean it's fertile. If it was laid outside the nest box, throw it out. Your bird needs to know that laying eggs outside the nest box is unacceptable. Meanwhile, your birds should have free choice access 24/7 of grit, cuttlebone, fortified parakeet ration from a pet shop (either pellets, seeds or combination of the two). Offering bits of vegetables and/or fruits are also beneficial.

In response to one of the other respondants, I have never heard of parakeets ending up at the animal shelter. They are adorable pets whether you have one or 100.

Answer 4

Is there a male??? If not she is just an egg layer; unless she mated with a bird prior to you getting her. Mine didn't stay on the egg until there were 2 or 3 in the nest box. I have had 2 clutches and she still wants to lay eggs. I took the nest box out.

Answer 5

Never use String, cotton pieces, or commercial nesting material that is not pet grade wood chips for budgies or other parakeet/parrot species. The string and other items wind around the chicks and can amputate toes or cause death.

Answer 6

Don't touch the egg b/c the parakeets can sence something wrong if someone touches it and the birds might abandon it.

Answer 7

Leave it at the bottom of the cage and let her sit on the egg(s) until she gets bored of them. About 21 days later, she should be bored by them and then you can throw them out.

Answer 8

are they in the same cage? if not it is a placebo egg....not a fertilized egg....just throw it away....
if they are...just leave it alone....instincts should kick in....i would think

Answer 9

Scrambled with bacon

Answer 10

go ahead and throw it away it's no good now