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Edited January 22, 200520 yr by Rainbow

first time on here so please excuse any mistakes i make. i was wondering if anybody can help me. my budgies have just started laying and i was wondering how to tell if their eggs are fertilised or should i wait until they are due to hatch. i am too scared to touch the eggs incase i do something silly like drop them or something..

 

any help would be greatly appreciated.

im not sure with budgie eggs but with others u have to be real careful when handleing them because you may pass thing on i.e diseases so i would not handle them until some one can tell ya for deff. this is hath or rainbows area (i fink).

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hath Posted on Dec 2 2004, 19:45

use a small penlight put it against the egg when they are approx 6 days old if they are fertils you will be ble to see the vains growing

oh thanks very much. i think i will try the wait and see approach i would hate for something to happen because i wasnt careful enough. it is my first batch of eggs and so far she has 5. they are very white which is a good sign isnt it??? i generally check her every day at the same time so she knows i am coming. this is all very exciiting.

she has now laid 7 eggs.. isnt that an awful lot for a first time mum???? i am a bit worried that she wont cope..... i just hope she stops now i dont want her to exhaust herself... is there anyway i can stop them without taking away dad or will they just stop when she has had enough?????

Mine had 7 the first clutch too. She will stop when she has reached what she thinks is the proper clutch size. Each bird is different. If she is a first time parent, or the **** is inexperienced, they may not all hatch anyway. I would just write down the dates each egg is laid, and about 24 or 25 days after the LAST one was laid, take out any unhatched eggs. I never candled any of mine, if they hatched they hatched. Of course, if any get broken or start to turn a leaden grey color, take those out sooner. You don't need to check them to see if they are fertile if you don't want to.

that makes me feel better thank you. i am very new to all this and whilst i have read just about everything you could possibly ever want to read sometimes there is just nothing like first hand experience is there. should i be worried that daddy doesnt seem to want to feed her all the time. i thought he should be in the nest with her helping and feeding her but she comes out once or twice or day (that i have seen) and has a drink and something to eat and a poo and then goes back in is this normal????

Sounds pretty normal to me. Your hen will leave the box for a minute or two a few times a day to defacate (she should refuse to use the box as a bathroom) and get a little drink. The **** may try to chase her back in, but that is normal too. He may or may not be allowed in with her, that decision is apparently up to the hen.

frankie seems to be in and out the box a few times a day and the first egg is due to hatch in 3 days.. is this normal?

 

she goes back in after a little while but is still eating from the bowl.

shouldnt daddy be feeding her now???