I would like to tell you about my alexandrine,about 2 months ago I notice my parrot acting strange,she has this travelling carrier that we take her to vet we always put a towel on the bottom,well she startted shredind this towel to pieces, she work really hard on making this nest I guess.she is the only bird I have,she's never been with a male bird.I guess 2 days ago I found this cute egg inside her carrier,now she is always inside her carrier and sits on top of her egg,she is very protective of this egg I t makes me sad because I know no babies will ever come from the egg.I know I will have to remove it at one point but I dont want to break her heart will she reject this egg at one point,will this egg make her sick if its kept with her what do I do, Its making me sad to.please help.
2007-01-21 02:04:02 · 6 answers · asked by K-9 Lover 2 in Pets ➔ Birds
After about 25 days, Alexandrine will lose interest in her egg. I have found that by giving my bird 12 hours of darkness tends to keep her from laying more eggs. Even artificial light can trigger birds to lay more and more infertile eggs. This is physically draining to female birds. Besides feeding her a good pellet food, 10% seed,10% fruits and veggies, give her chopped egg and egg shell three times a week for the extra protein and calcium. Some say if you remove the egg too soon, she may lay more as a survival instinct since in the wild, eggs are lost through predators.Things will work out. Have a tweet year.
2007-01-21 13:23:05 · answer #1 · answered by firestarter 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It won't rot unless you leave it there WAAAY too long.
Leave it with her. If you remove it right away, her instincts will tell her a predator got her egg and she now has to lay more and more and more to replace them and continue her species. She doesn't need a male. Don't get her one. She may reject a male and they may not mate anyway. It stresses out her body to lay eggs and provide nutrients to the eggs and the chicks. It stresses out both parents to have to care for the chicks, and for you if a chick gets rejected and kicked out of the nest.
Let her lay an entire clutch (or this may be her clutch, but give it a week's time for her to complete it if there are more eggs to be laid) and leave them with her for 21 to 30 days since the last egg was laid. When she loses interest in them, she'll get off of them and be her normal self again. At this point, you can remove the eggs and throw them out. If you wait any longer than this, THEN they will rot.
The best way to keep this from happening again 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.
2007-01-21 05:42:17 · answer #2 · answered by PinkDagger 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just leave her have her egg. Now that you know shes wanting babies this would be the time to get her a mate or place ads out there to borrow a male for breeding promising a baby to the males owner later. Keep the male in another cage for 14 days before allowing him in the cage with her and in those 2 weeks take the eggs out.
If you can not find one or afford a mate for her, then let her have her egg and she will be happy with it. Sometimes lonely female birds lay eggs just to have something around to keep them company, let her be happy with her eggs right now, if you take them she will keep laying more eggs until feels in heart she has enough.
To help her to stop laying eggs, place her cage in a room where the lights will be off from sun down til sun up but make her sleep in by only turning on the lights in that room around 10 AM in the AM. Making her night long and her days short will make her think it is not breeding season and may stop her from laying more eggs.
2007-01-21 03:12:57 · answer #3 · answered by reasonable-sale-lots 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You should remove the egg (for rotting purposes.)
Most birds will ditch their eggs if they know if anything is wrong with them. But if this is her first then she probably doesn't understand.
You can try getting her a mate or companion, just bewarned that usually other birds are very territorial. You have to make sure that your bird won't harm the other one or vise versa.
Check with a local vet. supply store that sells pets. =] Just to make sure.that everything will be ok. Check with your own vet. to see their opinion about things.
2007-01-21 02:22:03 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
its taxing on her to tend a egg that will never hatch, two thoughts get her a mate an remove anything in her invoirment that resmebles a nest box. she will get over the egg loss , you could advertise for a mate for her,also another bird to share her time with, it dos not have to be the same kind as her, might help.
2007-01-21 02:14:19 · answer #5 · answered by gunter_thehunter 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The egg will eventually rot, so it must be removed- do you think you could find a smooth stone about the same size to trade it with?
2007-01-21 02:12:49 · answer #6 · answered by lee_anne301 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋