IRN first time

[IRNmommyto3]

Hello,
This is my first time learning more about IRN mating, laying eggs. Well besides where I purchased my birds, they have been very helpful. The owner is an avian specialist.

I have a IRN pair, that have been displaying interest to each other since December.
They are both 2 years old. The female is Albino and the Male olive green. Well currently this mating season that started, it went from just scritches one another to the whole nesting, feeding each other and they have been inseparable.
The Albino laid an egg on 4/4/19, but since it was her first time she layed it from the perch and well it plopped to the bottom and cracked.
She has a nest box, she's been in and out of it since they starting showing more signs of the mating and still not laid anything else.

Until today that I checked her abdomen part, because it looked like the first time when she laid her egg and sure enough she has another that she might lay any moment.

I've gone online reading and going to the bird store to get more information. But it says that usually they lay eggs, every other day from each other or sometimes a week after. It's been 17 days since the first one.

My question is, is that normal?

 

[Zara]

No.
Have you checked to see if there is an egg stuck? If you do not know what you are checking for, take the bird to a vet or the avian specialist at the store.
Egg binding is very serious.

You have provided a nest box. So are your intentions to allow them to breed?
If you want to allow your birds to breed, you need to know what you are doing. If you have no experience,You must have done plenty of research beforehand, you need to live in close proximity to an avian vet and have a good relationship wih a local breeder who is willing to help you through the process. A check up at the vet for the adult breeding pair is also advisory.

If your birds lay more eggs, and chicks hatch, and then they are abandoned, will you know what to do?
Do you know how to handfeed?

Also, what is the parents diet?

Please be forewarned, with inexperience usually comes tragedy and heartbreak. Even those that do know what they are doing can suffer some loss at one time or another.
I have seen many a member with no chick experience come to this forum wanting to give breeding a go, as if it were a new hobby and lose all their chicks, some in the most horrifying way.
Please do your research. Preferably before they breed.


If your intention is not to breed or you change your mind, then remove the nest box, rearrange the cage and if you get more eggs, boil them, allow to cool and put back. If the hen is not interested in the egg, you can remove it.

 

[IRNmommyto3]

Thank you for your reply.

I have done enough research and the pet store has helped enough to prepare me. They have been very helpful to me in guiding me.

No she is not egg bound. She just developed a new egg, after 17 days from the first. This whole time her pouch part where they carry the egg right before it's laid, has been empty.

Like I said in my post, I am not intending to breed and of course it is not a game like you mentioned in one of my other posts. I think If you would have read the post better you would find that I wanted them to just have a one time experience for possibly having babies, since it was their first time. I am not willing to breed her ever after this. I know that she will be laying eggs in the future, I have been prepared with that information and how I should care for her diet/supplements from now on.

I feed them the mix of bird food they make at the bird store. Also fresh Vegetables, fruits, nuts. Before I bought the birds that's something I made sure to get more knowledge on before carrying for them.

My question was that since online, and the avian specialist. I havent been able to find information to the situation I am seeing. So I decided to get some information here as well.

I have read that when they start laying eggs, it's almost every other day or sometimes a week apart. The first time she laid an egg, she laid it from her perch, but that was 18 days ago. No new egg has formed since then. Until last night that her abdomen looked heavy like the first time. So I checked and sure enough there is another egg coming. Before that it was empty, her abdomen, it was like one day to the next it grew.

The pet store owner has helped about learning to hand feed them. They hand feed their birds until they are ready to go home. They've taught me hands on experience atleast for this situation, to prepare me enough. Thank you for letting me know more about that.

Oh oops I'm sorry, I didnt post in here that my intention isnt to breed them. That was on the welcome lane post. Well either way, my intention isnt to breed them. I just want them to have a one time experience for babies. If they dont make it, this mating season then oh well.

 

[Zara]

It´s good that you checked for egg binding. Glad that is not the case!

What did the vet and the specialist say about the gap between eggs?

I don´t have experience breeding ringnecks, I have had those sorts of gaps with my lovebird but she lays every season (more or less). For me, if she lays one egg and something happens to it, she stops the clutch.
So it could be that the egg breaking made her stop laying. But i don´t know. I´m not a vet. Just a thought.

Being taught to handfeed hands on is how I learned too The local breeder spent time with me and showed me everything. I find it is the best way. You can´t read that online.

What do you plan on doing should you have chicks? Would you keep them?

 

[IRNmommyto3]

Yes, I was relieved.
From the beginning I didnt want them to mate or have eggs. That before I found out that female birds lay eggs regardless if mated or not. So I then considered letting them have that one time experience.
I was thinking maybe that too, that she probably got sad or idk.
They said that probably her first egg wasn't a fertilized egg and that my pair most likely haven't mated yet. That's why the big gap. So if she putting another, then most likely they mated just bearly.