2007-03-20 22:00:31 · 4 answers · asked by kulassmama4dee 1 in Pets ➔ Birds
she is laying eggs because of he length of time she is awake with lights on.
If you shorten her daylight time she will stop laying eggs.
What you have to do is convince her it is winter time by not keeping her in a well lit room.
If the curtains are open in the room she is in she will wake up at dawn and will stay awake till you turn the lights off when you go to bed.
Keep the curtains closed till you get up then turn the lights off in the room early in the evening so shortening her day for her.
She will soon stop laying eggs, I do the reverse to start my pairs of cockatiels breeding early.
I breed them for hand rearing to sell in my pet store
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2007-03-20 22:14:58 · answer #1 · answered by stevehart53 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Cockatiels, as you've noticed, are notorious egg layers! The good news is that you can curb some of their laying with a few tips. If she doesn't stop laying in 2 weeks, you better see a vet. Chronic egg laying is a big problem with tiels and it usually takes a few shots of a hormone to calm down their ovaries :-) . In a really bad case they would have to have a hysterectomy.
First, check her cage. Does she have anything that she's hiding in? A dark box? A corner of the cage where a toy's shadow is making her think it's breeding season? I had a pair of tiels that thought the back of the fridge was a lovely baby raising spot. Then they laid under the kitchen table. Then in a box. Then..... you get the idea XD
Secondly, how much light is she getting? Cockatiels are easy to breed and all it takes is an extra hour a day to send them into breeding mode. Ideally they should get 10-12 hours of daylight a day. If she keeps laying despite that, cut her daylight hours down to 8. Then gradually increase her light exposure by 1/2 an hour a day until she starts laying again. As soon as she starts laying, cut her daylight to what her hours were before she started laying. In some extreme cases a hen needs to be exposed to 4 hours of light a day!
Thirdly - what kind of foods are you feeding her? Warm, mushy foods, especially high protein ones, will tell her brain that breeding season has arrived. Cockatiels are from the dry interior of australia and when the season starts getting wetter and the food more plentiful, they start nesting.
I'd definitely keep up with the calcium. With 15 eggs and possibly more on the way, she's gonna need it!
Keep us posted if there's any more problems :-)
2007-03-21 05:26:56 · answer #2 · answered by white_ravens_white_crows 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
We had a bird that did the same thing and we stopped it by
removing the nesting place. The bottom of the cage was flat and had gravel and we put in a grill on the bottom of the cage between her and the gravel so it could not nest on the bottom of the cage. You might have to buy a new cage with a grill type bottom so she can not nest on a flat surface. Good Luck
2007-03-21 13:58:45 · answer #3 · answered by memo_memo_memol 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Do not remove the eggs from the cage. Leave them in there. The more you remove the more she will lay....thus causing a calcium deficiency! My bird Pete...became Petie, which later died because of all the eggs that she was laying, and that I was removing from lack of knowledge! Do not remove the eggs...she will either sit on them or destroy them herself.
2007-03-21 11:13:43 · answer #4 · answered by Teressa G 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋