Chronic egg layers/discouraging eggs

[Safamirza🤍]

Hello I wanted to know if there are ways to prevent a female cockatiel from laying eggs AT ALL, or is it a natural thing that she will do regardless of trying to prevent it? What are the most effectively ways to prevent her from laying eggs or at least her not becoming a chronic layer (I think that’s the correct term?)

Thanks

 

[LaManuka]

Hello I wanted to know if there are ways to prevent a female cockatiel from laying eggs AT ALL, or is it a natural thing that she will do regardless of trying to prevent it? What are the most effectively ways to prevent her from laying eggs or at least her not becoming a chronic layer (I think that’s the correct term?)

Thanks

Honestly I don't know that there's any guaranteed way to prevent laying. They don't all do it, I've had a 'tiel hen who laid maybe 8 or 9 eggs in her whole 17 year lifetime with no rooster around at all, and another who laid no eggs even though there was a VERY amorous rooster around her! You can reduce the chances of it happening by only petting her on the head and neck, not making any nestbox available and prohibiting access to dark "nesty" type spaces in the home, and a low fat pelleted diet with lots of fresh low-calorie vegetables may help too - birds on a high fat diet can perceive that it's a good time to lay because of plentiful food. But even so, some of them will lay eggs on the bare floor of a cage with no encouragement (like mine!) and others just never do, just depending on their chemical/hormonal make-up. So it's a good idea to have those dummy eggs on standby, just in case

 

[Safamirza🤍]

Honestly I don't know that there's any guaranteed way to prevent laying. They don't all do it, I've had a 'tiel hen who laid maybe 8 or 9 eggs in her whole 17 year lifetime with no rooster around at all, and another who laid no eggs even though there was a VERY amorous rooster around her! You can reduce the chances of it happening by only petting her on the head and neck, not making any nestbox available and prohibiting access to dark "nesty" type spaces in the home, and a low fat pelleted diet with lots of fresh low-calorie vegetables may help too - birds on a high fat diet can perceive that it's a good time to lay because of plentiful food. But even so, some of them will lay eggs on the bare floor of a cage with no encouragement (like mine!) and others just never do, just depending on their chemical/hormonal make-up. So it's a good idea to have those dummy eggs on standby, just in case

Do you know any information in regards to mating? Is it also possible for a male and a female cockatiel to never mate with each other? I assume if they don’t like each other then they won’t mate but what if they’re friendly with eachother? Are they almost certain to mate?

 

[LaManuka]

Do you know any information in regards to mating? Is it also possible for a male and a female cockatiel to never mate with each other? I assume if they don’t like each other then they won’t mate but what if they’re friendly with eachother? Are they almost certain to mate?

That's the great unknown really, and you won't know until hen and rooster meet. They may fall madly in love or hate each other or just decide to be friends. Or they might hate each other at the start but fall in love over time, or vice versa, you just never can tell. Best thing to do is ensure they have separate cages so that you are able to minimise the chance of mating, or even aggression if one is in the mood and the other is not, and that has happened with mine too. They can still have plenty of time outside the cage together if they do get along, and you can supervise to make sure they don't get along just a little TOO well.