How Do You Tell Whether Your Budgie Is Pregnant Or Not?

[tess and cookie forever 0]

I have two budgies that have breeded before but unfortunetly didn't hatch so i am wondering how can you tell if your bird is pregnant. The bird i am talking about is really heavy and has been doing very large poos.

Please help me!

[*Nerwen* 0]

large poos and digging around in a nest box are big signs that an egg will appear sometime soon. Tootie started with big poos roughly 5 days before her first egg.

[Daz 0]

You should have added "Both" to your poll. I have 3 inside and 30 something outside.

[tess and cookie forever 0]

large poos and digging around in a nest box are big signs that an egg will appear sometime soon. Tootie started with big poos roughly 5 days before her first egg.

 

 

Thanks heaps for your help and i am so excited

[tess and cookie forever 0]

does it mean they are pregnant if they look fat and feel fat?

[Rainbow 0]

No. If they look fat and feel fat they probably are fat. Egg production in budgies takes roughly 18 hours (give or take a few) to be completed beginning to end. Hence the laying of an egg every other day. They do not produce all the eggs at once and carry them. A little bit of a bulge around the vent area the day of/before each egg is laid is really all you should notice physically.