egg laying

Hi! I'm new here, but I always end up here when I'm looking for answers. I have had my budgie Opal for 4 years and she just laid her first clutch of eggs starting in mid january. She has laid 10 eggs total now. With the first 5 eggs, 2 were damaged by me (I feel so guilty), but the other 3...

Heya, recently took on a cockatiel named coco from someone who could no longer care for her. I was told she laid eggs every now and then. since I have gotten her, she has now laid 6 eggs in three weeks. The first clutch was about 4 eggs every morning over four days - that was a week ago...

Hello! So I had a cockatiel today as a rehome as the other birds in the cage were "picking" on him. I was looking for a companion for my laid back boy so I decided to take him in. So we got home and he's settling in to his new cage (separate cage to current boy) and he has turned out to be a...

Hi everyone, I have a cockatiel who is almost 5 (we think), according to her previous owners we got her when she was 1. about 2.5 years ago she laid her first clutch of eggs, about 5 eggs. She would lay them once a year, then twice a year, but most recently has laid 3 back to back clutches of 5...

Tori, our female parrotlet, is causing us great concern. Eight days ago, my wife and I independently noticed that she seems different. Much quieter and a bit more fluffed up (she's usually very active and cheeky). Her condition has worsened. She mostly just sits and doesn't follow her partner...

Hi, I’m a relatively new bird owner and today my female bird has laid her first egg, which we aren’t planning to let hatch and has been more of an accident. Later today my two birds got in a fight, probably after my male bird tried to get into her coconut (which by the way I knew was way too...

Hi everyone, To try and shorten a long story, I had two female cockatiels that lived together and my mom had a male cockatiel that was so bonded with her he never let the girls near him and they all minded their own business. We ended up having a disaster, what we thought was a safe heater...

Hey all, This is more of an amusement post rather than anything. I have two female cockatiels (yes, they are most definitely both female. Hand raised, officially sexed, etc. plus their typical behaviour more than lines up). The oldest, Eva, is a year and a half and just started laying eggs for...

My female scaley lorikeet laid two eggs recently. One was fertile and one was not. They were laid around 26th of November I checked the egg two days ago and it looked good but when I checked today the egg is damaged and the baby is dead. I'm not sure what happened? Has anyone else had experience...

Hello guys I have two female cockatiels, sisters, they are about 14 months old and we got them from a shop when they were 3 months, so it's almost a year. Throughout this year we let them roam around the house most of the daytime and I tried to train them as much as I could, so they learnt to...

I'll try to explain as briefly as I can, On Friday, 3 days ago, I lifted my bird cage cover to find that 1) An egg was on the bottom of the cage, and 2) we didn't have two males. I was shocked, ecstatic, and anxious. I had wanted two males to avoid this issue as I knew the health complications...

Hi all, I have questions about my lovebird Mossy. She's 3 years old and roam free in my house. She only stay in her cage when I'm not home or bed time. Recently, she laid an egg and I took it away as usual however, she laid another one 3days after I took it away. She had lay them in past but...

I woke up a few minutes ago and when I went to the bedroom where my parrot sleeps, i removed the blanket we use to cover her during the night to get darker and warm her from the cold and there's and egg on the floor of her cage and i don't know what to do. This isn't the first time this has...

Hey there community, I’m debating purchasing some kind of sleep structure for my new Quaker baby as a bit of extra comfort. But I don’t know if Puk is a male or female and I’m worried that a happy tent or something similar could trigger nesting behaviour and potentially egg laying. I’ve had a...

My cockatoo just laid an egg. She is 7, and I don’t know what to do with it. She doesn’t have a mate. But this past two weeks she has been masturbating. She is doing good and she eats and doesn’t have any health issues. How can I stop her from laying eggs. I don’t pet her below the head. I also...

Hi everyone, my female budgie (Ocean) and my female pineapple conure (Zendaya) are extremely close. So close that I believe that Zendaya is making Ocean hormonal. Ocean constantly lays eggs but immediately abandons them and will go right back to feeding Zendaya. I’m just trying to figure out if...

Unfortunately I lost my male Cockatiel a week ago. I got him like 6 years ago with broken leg and a sick friend who passed away in 2 days. I've been told they were 18 years old when we got them. He stayed with me another 6 years...I still feel quilty of not recognizing in time that he is sick...

my 10 year old (?) indian ringneck parrot just layed an egg for the first (and hopefully last) time I think her fondness with her blanket caused this to happen because she treated it like a nest I had no clue what to do I was so worried because she was having trouble laying the egg so I let...

I’m not very familiar with this platform so please forgive me if I do anything wrong! I’ve never had a female bird before so this is new to me. Lulu is a 5 year old parrotlet, and I’ve had her for about 2 years now. She’s laid eggs in the past, about 3, but this is her first time getting ready...

So my 8 year old Lutino cockatiel laid eggs for the first time in years. I’m worried she might be caring for the egg too much. I have a camera set up to monitor her. For the past 2 days she hasn’t been eating or drinking. My 2 year old male cockatiel isn’t helping her either. Today I forced her...