CAG - Broken Egg

[Chelsea304]

Hello everyone -

My CAG laid an egg....(unknown to me) and she laid it in her food bowl. I went to clean the bowl out (and the cage) and dumped it out and broke her unfertilized egg...which caused her to go crazy and bite my ear and hand etc (understandably lol)

Do you think this will cause her to keep laying? She's been acting weird for a few days and I thought she MAY lay soon and didn't know she had done so already.

Besides giving her tons of calcium etc what should I supplement in case she lays again? How long do you think she'll hate me for breaking it haha

Thanks

 

[SailBoat]

Well, if you haven't DNA sexed her, you can save that money. Clearly, she's a girl!

Not knowing what her current diet is, it would be hard to state what needs to be added, if anything.

The lost of her egg 'may' result in her laying another, but not always. She will let you know soon enough.

How soon she will forgive you will likely be based on the depth of the bond that you two already have. Anyone else's guess, would be just that a guess.

 

[Chelsea304]

She's on a pellet diet...healthy nuts for snacks and birdie chop. I fed her chop this morning with carrots, broccoli, yellow bell pepper, cauliflower, quinona, and brown rice. that's the last batch I made. I'm thinking about getting her a cuttlebone bone just in case. One of her toys had a calcium block on it and she destroyed it (I assume to lay the first egg)

I just don't want her to become egg bound or have a calcium deficiency

 

[SailBoat]

"I just don't want her to become egg bound or have a calcium deficiency."

As a general statement, the diet you are providing is a good all-around diet and should be covering all of her needs.

Calcium is a weird mineral that is needed in their and our diets. Too little and the body steals it from the bones, too much and it can cause heart problems. So providing tonnes - not recommended, and it would require near that to begin seeing the side effects. A short term, low cost method of providing a light increase would be to crush a TUMMS' (white) tablet and lightly sprinkle it on the chop.

I would hope that she is beginning to soften and showing some signs of forgiving you.

 

[Piasa]

My understanding with calcium is that cuttlebones and that type of thing aren't a form of calcium they can easily access. Calcium in food like dandelion leaves are more easily used by the body.

So maybe if you are concerned about calcium levels, add more things like bok choy, dandelion, kale, broccoli, carrots in the chop. Also oats are a good source of calcium and I don't know a parrot who doesn't love oat meal

 

[Chelsea304]

Awesome thanks for the tips guys. I'm going to try adding greens, oats, and some tums on top.

She's a little better but still a bit standoffish. She hasn't gone after me again so I think that's a good sign. Lol

 

[plumsmum2005]

Hi have you seen this:-

http://www.parrotforums.com/general-health-care/60552-calcium-some-facts.html

 

[Chelsea304]

I didn't see that thank you that's great info!