how do I stop my female cockatiel from laying eggs every couple of months....????

Answer 1

Limit the mating triggers or eliminate them, if possible.

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 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.

Answer 2

You did not provide much information, is there a male present?
Cronic egg laying is a serious issue, there will be a need to supply a calcium mineral block to help replace the calcium used from egg laying.
If there is no Male present then other issues need to be addressed, Stimulation, do you provide a HUT for your friend to sleep in, if so, get rid of it, in the wild there are no little huts.
When you handle your bird do you stroke the bird all the way down his/her back, don't do this, you are sexually stimulating your bird, don't touch your bird below the shoulders, how about those rope perches with tassle ends, these can also stimulate your bird, how about male tiels caged in the same room, this also will contribute to there sexual cravings.
We have 10 Tiels here, our females are kept in a seperate room away from the males, our female have nothing to stimulate there sexual cravings, they lay very few eggs, if not none at all.
Good Luck.

Answer 3

Cockatiels, at longest, can keep sperm for 4 or 5 days and that i've got self belief it fairly is pushing it. The egg your fowl laid is definately infertile. there is been thoughts of hens laying fertilized eggs some days after their mate had died, yet in those cases, as i've got stated above, it exchange into not than some days. wish that facilitates :-)

Answer 4

The fake egg idea is a good one. Just remember to add extra calcium to her diet if and when she does lay an egg. Boiled eggs with the shell on them is a good source of extra calcium for birds.

Answer 5

Can you really stop a bird from laying eggs? I'd go on-line to the Pet-Vet. com or any other number of sites and present this question.

Answer 6

My bird was doing this over the summer. My mom went to the craft store and bought a fake little bird egg. We put it in her cage and she hasn't laid any eggs since. Make sure you get a plastic egg that can be easily washed.

Answer 7

That sounds cool. Find a male for it.

Answer 8

call your vet