Found an egg at bottom of cage. Help..?

[haylo]

Today, during cage cleans, I found this little broken egg. Bailey is a female budgie and had been very weird this past month or so, and I actually had a vet appt. In the works due to some slight panting, but only on occasion. Then. I found the reason for the weird behavior!

(Chapstick is for size reference ) I've never had this happen before, I think I set up his (well, "her") cage in too close of a way and encouraged this unfortunately. This is the only one I found (unfertilized because my boy and Bailey don't interact enough for that.) I checked Bailey out and saw nothing else, or at least no obvious signs he had more.
(tl;dr/my question: )
Should I be expecting more eggs? I'm still going to plan that vet appt., but what should I do to make him more comfortable for now??

Appreciate any help.. just worried about him.

 

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Good luck!

 

[haylo]

Thank you! I have one nearby I have been too, and one who is actually a walk-in emergency vet (albeit they take many animals, they have an in-house avian certified veterinarian. I may try and get an appt. with them if possible. Appreciate it. Do you know anywhere credible I could maybe look/ask to get information on what to do in the meantime, before a vet?

He is acting more normal now, and I think changing his cage decreased some of those hormones which is nice. But, he still should be seen ofc.

 

[DonnaBudgie]

A couple of my budgies are laying eggs right now, too. The panting you describe is often part of a females hormonal behavior but get her checked out anyway. You may also notice that Bailey's poops are huge and wet. That's normal when females are laying eggs. They usually lay one every other day so you should expect to see more. The "usual" number of eggs is about 6, but there could be more or fewer.
Ask your vet about how you should handle her egg laying. You may need to add a good calcium supplement to her water so she doesn't become deficient. It could lead to egg binding which is usually fatal in budgies.

I have two unwanted egg laying situations right now. I have a large cage with 4 females and at least one of them is laying eggs after "mating" with another female. I find an egg broken on the cage floor every two days. I throw it away when I find it. Last month I found one every other day until 6 were laid, then it stopped for a couple weeks. It just started up again because I found another egg this morning. I'm not happy about this but there isn't much I can do.

The other is a 6 month old female Joey that I hand raised. She started going hormonal and when I let her out of her cage, two males try to mate with her and she encourages it. I'm isolating Joey and replacing her eggs with dummy eggs with a plan to let her complete her clutch and sit on them for a few days before I remove them and hope the cycle breaks. Right now she's half heartedly sitting on four dummy eggs.

Unless Bailey is hanging around the egg I would just throw it out, not replace it with a pastic dummy egg, and discuss it with her vet.