i have 2 breeding pair of budgies i tryed to get them to lay on the same day and surprise it worked they laid an egg on the same day as each other. one set of my eggs are round and one set are sort of pointed ( two in each cluch so far) ill post pictures tomorrow

Edited May 5, 200916 yr by KAZ

I know some eggs can be alot smaller than others. My pet pair this year had huge eggs compared to the exhibition birds with tiny eggs. Im not sure about the shape,

It is common in old hens. Your hen does look old...maybe time to retire her ?

Different birds lay different shaped and sized eggs

Different birds lay different shaped and sized eggs

Yes...BUT odd shaped eggs is more a hen with oviduct issues...like elongated football shaped eggs and eggs smaller than finch size etc............isnt it that ?

Also if adequate calcium is not available, the eggs will often be misshapen or rough. The combination of these factors may result in an egg that is incapable of passing easily through the oviduct and cloaca. This most commonly occurs at the end of a heavy laying season, or in times of cold weather. Can also be stress related.

Edited April 15, 200916 yr by KAZ

i get many different shaped eggs from all sorts of aged birds... many especially i find on their first clutch, i've have extremly pointed at both ends... I've had totally round like a ball, i've had oblong and large and small ones... pretty much all birds i find have different shapes... just depends on how they formed for that bird internally i think

 

 

Some times the more drastic the shape i find the less likely to be fertilised, but Frangipani, the "queen" of odd eggs always manages to fertalise hers

Pointed and round ones are not odd shaped. Odd shaped eggs are ones that are lumpy, or strange shapes and are not perfectly symmetrical. If this is the case then yes the bird would have issues with her uterus, possibly an edometrial infection. But with smooth rounded and symmetrical ones then she is most likely fine.

 

Hipeeps description sounds normal to me.

Depends how pointed the egg actually is. An egg with a sharp point on it cannot be good.

Edited April 15, 200916 yr by Pearce

Late reply I know and probably an old wives tale- but a breeder said to me keep an eye on the shape of eggs as this is how he sexes the chicks- Ive yet to take enough notice and keep track but maybe you can? Pointed vs rounded and what comes out of each.

 

But otherwise yes its perfectly normal to have those shapes in the nest

wow that would be amazing if you could tell at egg stage what you were going to have... Did you ask the breeder what their accuracy rate was?