Pancha has been extremely hormonal lately. She is a 6 year old female white capped pionus. She has never laid eggs before. She has been very nesty for 2-3 months, making her funny sounds, and assuming the crouching position in the bottom of her cage.
She has neve acted like she is acting this morning though. Last night she was her normal nesty self. This morning she was sitting on her perch, fluffed up. She left a nutriberry that she normally loves. She weighs the same, her poops are normal, but she is just more still than normal. I felt around her bottom, and I don't feel anything, although I don't really know what I am looking for. She will sit on her perch, not moving much, and then go to the bottom of the cage, in the corner and do her normal nesting behavior. She is normally a perch potato, but she just seems a little more so today. And she is more fluffy than normal, on and off.
How do I know whether this is normal, and maybe she is about to lay an egg, or if I should rush her to the vet. I am at work, but I have cameras that I am watching and she is still going back and forth from her perch to the floor.
What are the signs that she would be egg bound, versus just about to lay?
This is why I got boys with my macaws and cockatoos!
She has neve acted like she is acting this morning though. Last night she was her normal nesty self. This morning she was sitting on her perch, fluffed up. She left a nutriberry that she normally loves. She weighs the same, her poops are normal, but she is just more still than normal. I felt around her bottom, and I don't feel anything, although I don't really know what I am looking for. She will sit on her perch, not moving much, and then go to the bottom of the cage, in the corner and do her normal nesting behavior. She is normally a perch potato, but she just seems a little more so today. And she is more fluffy than normal, on and off.
How do I know whether this is normal, and maybe she is about to lay an egg, or if I should rush her to the vet. I am at work, but I have cameras that I am watching and she is still going back and forth from her perch to the floor.
What are the signs that she would be egg bound, versus just about to lay?
This is why I got boys with my macaws and cockatoos!