Pictures of my cockatiel laying en egg.

[toby]

I´m not sure what a prolapse is. To me the egglaying looks
ok. Tou I have never acctually see an egg come out of bird this close,
before I took this picture. And i dont think many birdowners have.
I wonder if the prolaps thing is someting to contact my vet about.
They (the vet) do not know much about birds were I live.
They deal with cows and sheeps.

 

[Anne & Gang]

yes well Susanne is a specialist..she has avian vets consult her..you see your birdie has too much of her inside also coming out with the egg...the prolapse is when the uterus literally starts to come out of the body..often caused by excessive egg laying...it is not a good thing.

 

[Kathy]

I hope she will be ok. The photos are amazing for showing a bird laying an egg but I would listen to these very informative people.

 

[toby]

I hope she will be ok.

Tippi IS ok. She has never been sick.
Here she is a few days ago taking a bath.

 

[birdlover82]

Wow. Very interesting pictures.
Have you tried shortening their days to see if that helps with the egg laying? Let your birds day just be with the natural light of outside. I'm not a good one to explain it like it was to me hopefully someone better can come along. but when the sun goes down turn off the lights and then make sure they are exposed the the sun rising too.

 

[Tamara]

Those are amazing pictures! Thanks for sharing!

 

[birdman78]

FYI on prolapse:
Prolapse - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Prolapsed Cloaca: how to prevent and how to treat this condition
Q: HELP, bird can't pass egg - Pet Care Experts Answer!

 

[toby]

bwhen the sun goes down turn off the lights and then make sure they are exposed the the sun rising too.

During the summer , the sun never goes down here. And in the winter its
gone 24/7. Thats why I have mounted a timer controlled UV-light (full spectrum sunlight) and moonlight.
The uv light turns on at 0800 am and off at 21:00. At 21:00 the moonlight turn on. I dont think we can shut out milions of
years of evolution from
theese birds. They need 12 hour peace. (night). Tippi and Litn was looking
for a place to build a nest but I didnt let them find one. I should have
given them a box.

All birds living far north should have full spectrum uv-light (for birds)
available.

And a timer to take care of the on and offs.

 

[srtiels]

Thats why I have mounted a timer controlled UV-light (full spectrum sunlight) and moonlight.
The uv light turns on at 0800 am and off at 21:00. At 21:00 the moonlight turn on. I dont think we can shut out milions of
years of evolution from
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I like your lighting in the pix. The lighting is good, especially for the hens.

I didn't mean to alarm you are as to your pix, and posting. I have watched some of my hens lay and that much tissue was not exposed, which is why I voiced concern as to the shell quality of the egg. If the shell is not smooth it can adhere to the inside of the uterus and/or cloaca, and while straining to pass the egg, cause a prolapse. it doesn't matter how many eggs a hen has layed. I have had a prolapse happen once with a first time layer.

Your Tippi is a beauty

 

[srtiels]

The lovers (tippi an litn) can´t bee away from each other for one minute.
To separate them would bee a cruel thing to do. To separate birds in a flock is cruel just because you should not have to throw away fertilized eggs.
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I understand where you are coming from. As to myself, I will not sepaerate my pairs when they go in the rest flights.

Here is a plan B...and something that might possibly work and maybe even stop uneanted egg laying later on. Since the pair is bonded use a cage that they have never lived in and attach a nestbox and let them have a clutch. Most tiels normally will go 2 clutches in a row, so be prepared for that. After the 2nd clutch remove the box and put the pair in their old cage. I have found this has worked well for me. My tiels have learned that a certain cage with a nest box means babies and another cage or flight with no nest box, and they know it is not time to nest. This conditions them and they relate to the different caging enviroments. Tiels LOVE mating, so don't get alarmed when they are not in the breeding cage setup. Some of my bonded pairs mate daily, in the rest flights with no eggs, or interest in nesting.

 

[robin's my baby]

this is my thoght so pleas dont be mad. think of it this way is it nicer to let them prolaps and die or be aloud to see each other but not be with each other if it ment saving the birds life. and also you can let them keep the eggs if you boilo them so they cant grow into a chick.

 

[robin's my baby]

Here is a plan B...and something that might possibly work and maybe even stop uneanted egg laying later on. Since the pair is bonded use a cage that they have never lived in and attach a nestbox and let them have a clutch. Most tiels normally will go 2 clutches in a row, so be prepared for that. After the 2nd clutch remove the box and put the pair in their old cage. I have found this has worked well for me. My tiels have learned that a certain cage with a nest box means babies and another cage or flight with no nest box, and they know it is not time to nest. This conditions them and they relate to the different caging enviroments. Tiels LOVE mating, so don't get alarmed when they are not in the breeding cage setup. Some of my bonded pairs mate daily, in the rest flights with no eggs, or interest in nesting.

this ideal sounds good and like i would work

 

[toby]

Here is a plan B...and something that might possibly work and maybe even stop uneanted egg laying later on. Since the pair is bonded use a cage that they have never lived in and attach a nestbox and let them have a clutch. Most tiels normally will go 2 clutches in a row, so be prepared for that. After the 2nd clutch remove the box and put the pair in their old cage.

This sounds like a good idea. I must think about how to arrange this when the time comes. I have a smaller cage beside the cage they live in. Its a kind of emergency cage in case of fire or whatever.
Sometimes they climb into the small cage just to explore but they dont live in it.
Is the nestbox to be inside the cage or on the outside?
1 clutche is one egglaying periode? (21 days?)

sarah, I´m not mad. But to separate them will never happen. I don´t see any point in seperating them. She will lay eggs enyway. Lussi, does , and she dont have a boyfriend.

 

[toby]

I was thinking of this smaller cage to install a nestbox in.

 

[srtiels]

The smaller cage will be fine. Also, if you can keep it in another room so that they also relate to this room as a different environment, and breeding time. They will lay an egg every other day. Once they start to incubate the eggs around the clock (they may take turns, with the female at night and the male during the day, or both during the day) then the eggs start to hatch at approx 18 days, every other day.

Since the cage is smaller you may have to cut a few bars from the side of the cage. I use cup hooks to attach the nestbox to the side of the cage.

 

[JLcribber]

You can buy fake eggs here.

Fake Bird Eggs

 

[Thugluvgrl187]

Thanks for posting the pics. I forgot what egg laying looked like. Been quite a few years since we bred tiels. All I can say is ouchies... But she is a pretty girl. Love the bath photo.

 

[toby]

Since the cage is smaller you may have to cut a few bars from the side of the cage. I use cup hooks to attach the nestbox to the side of the cage.

Thanks for this tip. Is there a passageway between the cage and the box in the picture? Or does the birds enter the nestboks from outside the cage?
Thanks for the link JLcribber. I´v ordred two sets of cockatiel eggs. (12 eggs). Hope they ship to Europe. And I think they does.

 

[srtiels]

This is an old shot of the box hung on a homemade cage. You will have to cut out some of the bars so that there is an opening for the birds to go in and out of the box.

 

[toby]

This is an old shot of the box hung on a homemade cage. You will have to cut out some of the bars so that there is an opening for the birds to go in and out of the box.

Yes, I was thinking that there had to be a "tunnel". I have got an other smaller cage that probobly will be better for that use.
Have to speculate on this.
Thanks.