Well Hi People.

I Realy need help so please, anyone who knows anything about this topic please help me by telling me.

Well let me explain my situation: I had two budgies, a male and female and we had a nesting box but I think the girl didn't realy know what she was ment to use it for. She kept on laying her eggs while she was on the top perch of our aviry so they smashed when they hit the ground. I think she kept on holding on laying her eggs because she didn't know where to lay them. She finally layed an egg in the nesting box but then she died. We kept the egg warm while my mum called the place we got her from and asked if they could just like slip the egg into one of the other birds nests but they didn't have any birds breeding. Then my mum called the local pet store but they didn't have any girls nesting either. We made a little nest for the egg and have been shining a light on it all day (to keep it warm) but we don't know what else to do. I would realy like to keep and care egg and the baby budgie once it hatches but I don't know how to take care of it so I was wondering if any of you experts out there could tell me what I should do or give me a good website to look at.

Even if you can't help, thank you for bothering to read this.

 

P.S I held the egg in my hand and put it realy close to a light to see if I could see anything but I couldn't see anything in it. The light was just like a desk lamp that I use for my home work and isn't very bright though and the egg is only about a day old. We are sure that the egg hadn't been left cold for very long. Please, if you can, help.

 

 

 

Where abouts do you live?

Are you sure its fertile?- no use doing all this for an infertile egg, were the parents mating?

The egg will need to be kept at the right temp and turned a few times a day. Do you really want this egg to hatch as at the moment there is nothing in it and it might be easier just to let it go, in a few days you will begin to see a few veins starting inside- I hold mine up to the sunlight in a certain angle and can usually see whether or not they are okay.

An incubator or another hen is needed for this egg to have a good start. Good luck

I live in Australia, Queensland, Hervey Bay. Our birds did mate. If the egg is fertile, I don't want it to die.Please people. I realy need your help

You would need an incubator to hatch it, that's assuming it is fertile which it might not be. I don't think you will be able to keep it at the right temperature under a lamp. Perhaps look around and see if there's a breeder in your area that might be happy to put the egg under one of their pairs.

You would need an incubator to hatch it, that's assuming it is fertile which it might not be. I don't think you will be able to keep it at the right temperature under a lamp. Perhaps look around and see if there's a breeder in your area that might be happy to put the egg under one of their pairs.

 

 

Thank you both for being so honest. I will be looking around for a breeder and will tell you if I find one (obviously if the egg is fertile of cause!).

I would just like to point out here that I am a girl. I just accidentally pressed male when I was regesting.

 

Oh and I just want to know (I know it might not be fertile), what would you get if the baby's mum was blue and it's dad was green?

haha re: male If you go into My controls, edit profile, then you can change it!!

If this ever happens to you in the future, dont panic. A freshly laid budgie egg that has not yet been incubated ( hen sitting keeping it warm ) is dormant. It is only once a constant temperature, usually from the hens body warmth, ...once a constant temperature starts to happen then the egg becomes a viable thing. This temperature must be exactly correct and constant and you may well find the lamp isnt. Also the hen turns her eggs and you probably havent done that either as well as not knowing the right temperature. These are things we learn as we go along. It is hard to have an egg and not know what to do with it when its your only result of breeding. Breeders like myself who have many birds breeding always have a hen we can put a spare egg under so it helps.

Also, even though you saw them mate does not necessarily make the egg a fertile one.

I think you may find that this time, disappointingly, this egg wont turn into a chick due to its rocky start in life. You could have left the egg in a safe place with no applied temperature and it would have worked out if you put it under a hen within a week or even more. Its hard to know what to do sometimes. You have done your best with what you knew at the time.

Let us know how things turn out.

Cheers Kaz