Advice re: breeding/egg laying

[waltersmum]

OK, so i buy a Conure as i felt sorry for him, i was told he had lost his mate. so i figured i would take him and buy him a female and let them play in my huge (and i mean huge aviary). I called him George So then i bought a female whom i named Mildred.
They hit it off right away. George is very friendly considering he was sold to me as Parent Raised.

Anyway i reckon about 10 days or so ago i caught MILDRED pushing GEORGE around... by this i mean mating... the so called GIRL MILDRED on top of so called boy GEORGE........hmmm

I thought maybe they were just doing a dominating thing.....

ok so BOY GEORGE..... is spending more and more time in the nest box and i am thinking looks a bit more rotund around the lower region!!

So my question is????? If George is "with egg" surely we should have eggs by now.... i am terrified of egg binding. Can someone enlighten me as to the length between mating and egg laying please.

First time breeder - please be gentle

Thanks

 

[Sunset_Chaser]

Do you have a cuttle bone for them? Extra calcium is important to prevent egg binding. What kind of diet do you have them on? Is "George" acting uncomfortable?

 

[waltersmum]

They have cuttlebone in there but they don't touch it! I looked in there this morning and there is an egg!!! George is no longer George but Georgia! They have fresh fruit and veggies daily, pellets and some seeds.

 

[EAI]

If they don't voluntarily eat the cuttle bone, try to powder it on their daily food to ensure they are getting that extra calcium they need.

 

[waltersmum]

Ah right, thanks for the advice. I will get some. Is it possible that the other bird is female too, even though i caught them mating? Do they have these tendencies? Or will the only way to tell be if the egg is fertile?

 

[amjokai]

Two females can "mate" and lay. The eggs wont be fertile if they are both female of course. If it is a male and female the eggs still may not be fertile, so really the only ways to be sure is if it is a fertile egg, or if you have them DNA sexed through avian biotech.

 

[weco]

They have cuttlebone in there but they don't touch it! I looked in there this morning and there is an egg!!! George is no longer George but Georgia! They have fresh fruit and veggies daily, pellets and some seeds.

Scrambled eggs with the shells crushed up often are tastier to laying hens than cuttle bones...or...you can scrape the cuttlebone into a powder & sprinkle it on soft foods.....