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Is no one answering you?

A little blood is normal. The odd stance before and after an egg is normal.

She might keep laying for awhile. You need to discourage this as much as possible, hang blankets over windows if you have to. I disturb things and move things continually , even changing feeders and waterers.

She’s so pretty.
 

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The odd stance before and after an egg is normal.
My lovebird hens do this around laying eggs too.

Sorry I didn´t reply sooner, you posted at 2.30am in my time and I went to bed a half hour before.
Finchly posted a good answer and is a great person to ask questions RE eggs and Tiels :)
 

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One of her eggs is broken, we checked and pulled it out to take this picture, does this look like a beak, and does that mean that she is low on calcium? Further the egg will rot now correct? If so what should we do, we can’t have a rotting egg and we also can’t have her replacing the egg, especially if low on calcium, what should we do?
 

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Did you order dummy eggs? Dummyeggs.com
 

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@finchly we are working on getting the dummy eggs, but it is unlikely they will get here before the egg beings to decay, they’ll probably be here the 15th of June. Previously lemon did try to nest on a random rock, could we try that?
 

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You could maybe even syringe out the contents of the egg, boil the shell to harden it and put that in.
Broken eggs is why the dummy ones are sooo handy. One of my girls laid two eggs this week, however the second one she must have laid it from the boing and it got a dent when it landed on the grid/cage floor, so when I went to pick it up it, I had to use a little force to pick it from the bars and it broke and egg went everywhere.
 

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Okay so as an update, we got dummy eggs (7) and gave them all to her, not realizing we weren’t supposed to give her all 7, we then did some digging, and decided just to leave it as it. Now everything was going great until today- she laid another egg, we can’t buy more dummy eggs, because they are expensive, so what should we do now?

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Maybe take the egg out and hope that she mistakes it for a dummy egg? I mean.... 7 is a big number, maybe she'll forget? :)
 

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we got dummy eggs (7) and gave them all to her, not realizing we weren’t supposed to give her all 7
I have seen this used as a technique to lessen chronic laying in ´tiels. I do not know much about that but worth reading up on it :)

Just boil the new egg, allow it to cool down then put it back with the dummy eggs (or wherever it was laid)

7 is a big number, maybe she'll forget? :)
Some species of birds count eggs, though I am not sure up to how many. I don´t think it is worth risking it for the sake of 5 minutes to boil and cool the egg.
 

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@Zara how long can I keep that egg? I know that it won’t go bad for a while because we did it before we got the dummy eggs, but a month is a long time to have something that could potentially rot. Besides that I did have a quick question- she has had her dummy eggs for 4 weeks now, we read that she should abandon them after a month, but she still hasn’t, is this normal?
 

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Okay, big problem, the egg totally cracked and leaked a lot during boiling, we can’t give it back becuase she will either notice or it will rot, what should we do now?
 

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she has had her dummy eggs for 4 weeks now, we read that she should abandon them after a month, but she still hasn’t, is this normal?
Ok I see what is going on here.
This new egg is a new clutch.

Cockatiel incubation time is 18-21 days. Because we know the eggs won´t hatch, we can start to push her off them at 3 weeks by rearranging the cage, introducing new toys, moving the cage etc.
@Tiel Feathers @finchly @Monica any more tips on getting tiels to abandon their nests?

I would remove all dummy eggs, leaving one behind as this is a new clutch. But maybe a ´tiel owner will have other thoughts.

I will post this link I have saved in my bookmarks, it is a post by Monica about egg laying ´Tiels;
 

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I just get in there and clean things, rearrange, and if that sort of drives her off the nest I grab the nest and do stuff to it too. Wipe the sides, move the eggs. Sometimes I even put in different nest material. She will abandon.

Mine is a chronic egg layer though and it's important to me to get it overwith. You may not want to be that .... aggressive. LOL
 

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I agree with @finchly, you have to rearrange things. I never let my hen get too comfortable. If I do she doesn’t seem to stop laying and sitting. When she lays an egg I even move it between her sleep cage and day cage. I take her out to fly and eat. Her nest is never more than a folded paper towel. I keep my bossy cockatiel in the same cage with her so she doesn’t get too cozy. So far it has worked because she went from two to three clutches a year to one or two, and she doesn’t usually sit on them at all anymore.
 

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I'd say everything's covered! :) Nothing to add at this moment!
 
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