As some know, my female yellowface, Skeeter, started laying eggs in November. (2 and a half years old) She first had 6 but none were fertile, so we waited until she was done to throw them away. Quickly after we moved her to the newest cage we got, a Vision M01, with her 'boyfriend', Patrick, a green parakeet. (Five years old)

(January) After I got home from school today I noticed a new pinkish egg. It was not there yesterday. So, excited, I informed my mom and we got the nesting box ready again. While I was getting on gloves, I noticed the egg was sinking into the bottom of the cage (grated bottom). I looked over it and noticed a crater which had the pattern of the cage in it. My mom told me to keep the egg anyways, but I'm not so sure. I believe she laid the egg while standing on the perch right above it.

 

Please help on this subject?

Edited January 4, 201114 yr by Ciana

Throw the egg away and give her some calcium in her water.......CALCIVET. Not only did she lay it off the perch but it shows she is lacking in calcium.

Soft shelled egg. Remove any nest box or anything she might try to nest in, get some calcivet as Kaz suggested and also be sure to supply cuttlefish or mineral/iodine blocks as well. She is lacking calcium and at high risk of egg binding or worse (eg hypocalcaemia or hypocalcaemic paralysis).

Thanks so much KAZ and Dean_NZ. It worried me when I saw it was pink, but it also had the crack. Going to get some tonight. Thanks so much for your help. I do have a cuttlebone in there for them to chew but I suspect they chew it when I'm not looking? But I am getting the calcivet tonight..

Edited January 5, 201114 yr by Ciana

Do not put your faith in cuttlebones as a sole source of calcium. More budgies play with them rather than ingest them for the calcium.

I've gotten some VitaFlight (couldn't find Calcivet, maybe it's because I live in the US?) and put the powder into her water. Took out nest box as well. I mixed some special vitamin food in with her regular, is that alright? Or is that too much?

Edited January 6, 201114 yr by Ciana

I dont know what vitaflight is. If you have bought a general vitamin supplement it wont fully address the lack of calcium. You will need a calcium supplement.

Thank you for addressing that, I must have misread the package when out to buy. Will buy some calcium supplement when I can find it, yesterday while looking in my pet store we found the calcium egg bits but we couldn't find any powder or liquid to put into water

What food's are you feeding your bird? If you can't find a supplement you could always try and feed it some food which is high in calcium...

Ciana, I don't think you'll find a calcium supplement in a pet store in the Indianapolis area. You will probably have to order on line. I got mine from Dr.s Foster and Smith, but I have also ordered from this company, which carries Vetafarm products. Calcivet link

Calcium gluconate supplements are also sold at vets for pregnant and nursing dogs.