okay I need this help bad, this morning I when to check my two budgies and found an egg on the bottom of the cage. I am trying to breed them and they have had a nest box for two weeks. But this was like on the ground under they branch as if the hen didn't realise it was an egg. Well I picked out (using some paper towel) and found that it was cracked. I don't know if I should put in the nest box so Freckle gets the idea for next time or just get rid of it, this was her first egg. Does any one have any idea to get them to understand that they need to laid in the box? I haven't been about to find fake eggs, but I'm heading out today to hunt a bit more, I'm not sure if this would help or not, but I thought if I could put one in she may laid others with it?

 

What do all your breeders think? I have been around the pet stores in my own but can't find any fake ones, I was told marbles would do well? does that sound right to you?

egg laying in nest boxes should come naturally to hens. the egg could have been tossed out. Maybe the hen tossed it out as it may have been cracked inside the nest box. I have had eggs cracked in the nest box and the next thing eds up on the cage floor. I have had parents attack their chicks and kill them. when breeding buirds you will probebly come across many factors like this. it is just one of those things. But hang in there. when eggs are layed wait atleast 18 to 20 days and you should have a baby budgie. That part is quite exiting.

 

Hope this helps you out.

 

Just keep trying

it just didn't seem as if that was the case. It was on the other side of the cage to the box and under the branch that they sit on the most. It was almost as if she didn't know it was an egg.

 

Well I know she has been digging around in the box for like at least a week and tonight she is due to laid her next one so fingers crossed. This is her first time so she just may be a bit lost in the whole matter.

could be.

now and again i find a egg on one of the cage floors the next one is almost certainly laid in the box, one thing to check make sure your hen is clean underneath as sometimes the egg could stick to her as she leaves the nest

okay well that make me feel better

 

I just rased off and did as you said and checked her, she wasn't happy about that, let me tell you, (Laughing out loud). It seems she has plucked her feathers around her vent, is that normal?? I'll keep a close eye on her (as if I'm not already, (Laughing out loud)) if she starts plucking in other areas.

 

She doesn't' seems stressed at all, she races about and get mad at her bell and eats and grooms Pie and all the normal birdy acts.

 

I just panicking at the little things, I'm sure all first breeders are.

 

 

edits to say - no second egg yet :bluebudgie: But I think she will lay it soon, most likely later today or tonight.

Edited September 6, 200420 yr by nerwen

update

 

okay it is now Tuesday here and I found that first egg on Saturday.

 

hath I think I need your help to answer theses questions

 

Could there be a problem with her?

 

she is still running around the cage like mad, and jumping in the box and digging about. But now egg. She doesn't look sick or stressed she is eating happily and I gave then some carrot today and she was telling Pie to back off as normal.

 

Is it possible she will only lay one egg for her first time? Could she be moving into her second round? I can't remember if budgies can stop laying after having laid some if they don't think it is safe to breed? Is that so?

 

:bluebudgie: I swear I'm going out of my mind.

yes she could just lay one egg i have had that before where i found the egg outside the box,usually i find that if she doesnt lay straight away it will be a good couple of weeks if not longer befoere she does

thanks for the info, I will try and store it way for future use.

 

But she laid her second egg that night, again out of the box, she was even like jumping in and out of not five minutes before like a madman. But again it was as if she sat on the branch and laid it.

 

I don't think she is going to be successful at that mother deal. I think it would be best to remove the box. That won't harm her more? will it? In the middle of the circle of egg laying? I know that you can take the box out if she is laying a second round with babies still needing attention, but it is okay to do this with out any babies?

 

I can't see how that can be much different.

 

You really learn just how much you took in with something like this. I though I had all bases covered. Maybe it just help me calm down to get a second opinion.

Edited September 8, 200420 yr by nerwen

leave the box in or she will never get it right laying of eggs doesnt do the damage it is bringing up of the chicks that tire them

okay thanks, I was only thinking of it cause I was worried about egg binding. But if I take it now she was surely laid one or two more anyway. I finally got that book that some folk in here said was good and it answered a few things for me that other books didn't.

 

So it's okay that she took two almost three full days between eggs to laid?

 

Or did the lost of the first one upset her cycle?

update.

 

Freckle laid her next egg on the right day, but again it was not in the box. But it was in a different place closer to the hole, so I'm not sure if she laided it outside or threw it out afterwards.