budgiebabe
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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 were pushed from her nesting area broken/cracked. I'm not sure if she was the one that cracked them or if it was her baby daddy or other flockmates. I removed them cause I didn't want her getting sick from rotting egg goo. So then she laid 5 more after that. These 5 are healthy and hard and she actually laid these ones in the nesting box instead of on the ground. 3 of these are fertile, the other 2 are too young to tell yet as she just laid another one today. Shes incubating full-time now. I've been giving her more calcium rich foods into her diet but idk if its enough to make up for how many eggs shes laying.
My concern is that everything says that she shouldn't lay more than 8 eggs total. Is she just replacing the eggs that were removed? Or is it chronic egg laying? Hormone imbalance? Should
I get dummy eggs? Should I just take her to the vet?
Any tips would be greatly appreciated as I'm very new to the whole egg situation and stressing out. Thank you!
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 were pushed from her nesting area broken/cracked. I'm not sure if she was the one that cracked them or if it was her baby daddy or other flockmates. I removed them cause I didn't want her getting sick from rotting egg goo. So then she laid 5 more after that. These 5 are healthy and hard and she actually laid these ones in the nesting box instead of on the ground. 3 of these are fertile, the other 2 are too young to tell yet as she just laid another one today. Shes incubating full-time now. I've been giving her more calcium rich foods into her diet but idk if its enough to make up for how many eggs shes laying.
My concern is that everything says that she shouldn't lay more than 8 eggs total. Is she just replacing the eggs that were removed? Or is it chronic egg laying? Hormone imbalance? Should
I get dummy eggs? Should I just take her to the vet?
Any tips would be greatly appreciated as I'm very new to the whole egg situation and stressing out. Thank you!
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