My cockatielz: are they going to lay eggs soon?

Question

My cockatiels laid 4 eggs.The baby cockatiels are 5 weeks old now and they are out of the nestbox. The parents are now mating( they mated twice in 2days) and the male goes in the nestbox and so does the female. The male whistles from inside the nestbox. They still feed the babies and the babies are starting to eat by them selves but still the parents feed them.Are they going to lay another clutch soon? and will it be ok if she lays another clutch? (It's only her second clutch in a year) and when will they lay the clutch?

Answer 1

this is pretty normal. the chicks should be fully weaned by 6-7 weeks and ready for new homes.
If your hen does lay eggs, than this time there may be atleast 6 eggs in the clutch and is probable they all wont be fertile. make sure your hen gets plenty of calcium for strong eggs and to keep herself nourished as well. offer vegies as well as egg and biscuit mix ( any pet shop will sell this) if you havent already. Cockatiels love broccoli, corn, carrot peas apple. never give lettuce as this will cause diarreah an can be fatal.
she will lay her eggs about a week and a bit after mating. My cockatiels are horn bags. after three clutches in a row i separated them to give her little body a break. i really should have done it after the second clutch.
keep an eye on the babies and when they are only getting one feed a day for two days take them out of the parents cage. at this point the parents will be giving sympathy feeds and mother will need the break.
good luck and i hope i helped.

Answer 2

Gunter's right.

Your female just finished laying a clutch of eggs and giving up her energies to the babies. This in itself is beyond any exhaustion you've ever known and her body's likely not done recovering yet. If you're not already, feed them high-calcium foods to aid in the female's recovery. Kale and spinach are high in calcium, but so high that if fed at every meal everyday, it could bind calcium - so not too much. Leafy greens are known to be full of calcium, and Romaine lettuce is very good. The first answer said that lettuce was bad - she was likely referring to Iceberg lettuce, which is virtually water. Make sure they're on a high quality pellet-based diet with about 10% seed and 10% fresh foods, including fruits, veggies, grains, and pastas. (Avoid avocado, chocolate, alcohol, mushrooms, onions, and tomato leaves. They're all toxic.)

If the babies are all out of the nesting box and expressing more interest in being in the cage than the box, take it away. Cover the cage for 12+ hours at night. This deals with the hormones and instincts to have more babies. It's very dangerous for her to breed again, especially consecutively. If her body goes through too much too soon, she can and will die from it.

I would say breeding her once every six months is tolerable. Otherwise, I wouldn't breed her at all. You
1) Need to understand that the world does not need any more baby cockatiels and that there are already too many being neglected and given up due to the number of homes they can't have.
2) Need to be aware that birds aren't meant to be baby-making machines and despite how cute the chicks are, that's not natural. You control their environment, and therefore their hormones and instincts for a set season. You've been giving them spring/summer all year round, and they'll treat it as spring/summer by spawning.
3) Should remove all breeding materials from them. This means anything that could be nesting material, the nesting box, and when the babies are weaned, if you don't keep them in the same cage (which you most definitely SHOULDN'T when the parents are breeding again), monitor their food intake and only feed them what /they/ need. No extra for babies.

I bred my lovebirds some years back, and over a span of four years, they were bred twice, and one last time almost a year later. I could already tell how tired my poor hen was and they are no longer breeding. I've realized that breeding is dangerous because rejection of one chick falls on me, and that means it has to be handfed and sustained by me. If that happens to you, you have to be beyond prepared to deal with it. If you're not, you shouldn't be breeding. It's also dangerous to the hen, highly time consuming for both you and the birds, a scary experience if something goes wrong.

Answer 3

unless you have homes for the first babies they produced, under no circumstances lets them breed again when the chicks have left from the nest take the nest away, there is alot of unwanted companion birds in the world, cocktails live for 20 to 25 years are you willing to commit, I suggest to take away there soft food and shorten the daylight hours, and remove the nest box that should slow down your horny male. please do the right thing.

Answer 4

should be fine i think, but if they lay to many eggs they can get egg binded so you should be careful there.