Hi all budgie experts!

I have a hen in a breeding cage with a cock who appears to be sitting on five clear eggs.

I am hopeful with two of the eggs, they appear to be changing colour but I am not sure.

Anyway I will give them another couple of days but if they are all clear whats the best thing to do?

Should I remove all the eggs and hope she replaces them with fertile?

Let her sit on the eggs unti she rejects them?

Take both hen and cock out of breeding cage and put back int the aviary?

Change the cock?

Or something else?

 

Thanks.

When was the 1st egg due to hatch

You should know that Splat,these people that post these questions,

think we are all mind readers. :fingerscrossed:

About 10 days ago.

 

macka just so you know but 'these people' are fellow members and if you didint want to answer the question then thats fine, but being rude is really not going to make us new members comfortable.

If you are not going to be helpful but simply be a smart **** perhaps dont reply?

I would toss the eggs then..........try and work out why they are clear.....

Cock too old or not in condition ?

Hen going to nest too soon and not mating ?

Too much feather and they need plucking ?

About 10 days ago.

 

macka just so you know but 'these people' are fellow members and if you didint want to answer the question then thats fine, but being rude is really not going to make us new members comfortable.

If you are not going to be helpful but simply be a smart **** perhaps dont reply?

Lutino Budgie,how hard is it to say,the first egg was layed on

the 20th of September or the 1st of the month & a smart A like me,

would say have you candled them & you don't have to be very clever

to candle a egg,if it is 12 to 14 days in to the cooking & the light shines through

it,it aint going to hatch,end of story

you will get use to macka

if you cant just egg nore him... soz mac but some people just cant understand the dynamics of frustration reading glass half full questions can do to you sometimes

 

lutino

as stated in mackas own straight to the point words

it is hard to answer things without full information im a culprit of it myself

 

if you cradled eggs and they clear then i would really be wondering two things

 

do u have other birds breeding

is it worth just leaving her their as a foster stand by if others have eggs due around same hatch dates

 

and if its cold weather dont think a egg is infertile till at leased 12 to 14 as macka pointed out

as weather he comes acrossed rude or not here right on that one

 

many a breeded has told me my eggs were infertile and i chose to let hen decide for self

 

i got 9 chicks out of my 24 supossed infertile eggs

they were all 7 days layed and in their i had 5 die from none feeding first time maden hens

GB,You are a quick learner,I must of spoken to you

for no more then 15 minites,I would't use the person

again,who told you, your eggs were not fertile,unless

you had the dates mixed up.At 7 days you should be able to

tell,with out to much trouble.

GB,You are a quick learner,I must of spoken to you

for no more then 15 minites,I would't use the person

again,who told you, your eggs were not fertile,unless

you had the dates mixed up.At 7 days you should be able to

tell,with out to much trouble. :laughter:

 

no mate dates not mixed up

seems my hens decided to wait about 4 egg to sit properly which isn't that uncommon or the weather being as cold as it was the eggs took extra time to develop after all cold weather retards the growth of chicks so why not the growing time :sadsorry:

also don't worry i am going to do my own bird egg management i only asked as i had one clutch that was definitely clear and i had never really seen clear eggs before i got show birds so wondered if i was wrong and maybe the egg color of show birds was different

i know that sounds dumb but oh well my pet types never failed to produce full clutches so it was all new to me

i now know that getting ten to 11 chicks out of 3 pairs is a good thing for first time mums in show birds

Settle down "children". If the eggs are ten days over the first eggs due date, then they are probably all clear or d.i.shell? BUT This was my first year breeding, I had one pair with 5 clear first round. Took both out of cage for about a week or so, they were still bonded etc in aviary so I tried again, she laid 9 I waited and waited, Thought here we go again. I candled eggs and thought 4 still looked okay. took clear eggs, left the four. and they hatched, must have been last four of clutch. So don't give up, as Kaz said toss this lot. Maybe she'll lay again or take them out from nest box and try again in a week or so if they're still a "couple". Good Luck.