Help! Lovebird is laying eggs

[walterbyrd]

I have been doing all I can to keep her from getting hormonal, but it has not worked.

She has laid two eggs in the last 3 days.

The eggs are not fertile.

She has a platform near the top of her cage. She lays the eggs there, but the eggs roll off, and smash on the bottom of her cage.

I think she gets upset about that.

I don't want her to have a better nest, because I am afraid that would encourage more egg laying.

Maybe she keeps laying eggs because her eggs smash? Maybe if she had an egg for a few days she would stop?

Any advice?

 

[Jottlebot]

Hi, yes, if she keeps losing the eggs she's likely to keep laying, which is very tiring for her. Try and change the set up so she can keep them. She'll probably lay a few over a few days and then incubate them until she's bored. You can remove them then. Can you get fake ones so if they keep smashing you can replace them?

 

[walterbyrd]

Not sure where to get fake lovebird eggs. I will look around.

 

[sj262]

My lovebird pair just laid an egg today for the first time. Don't even have a nest area, just on the floor grate. I went to the website dummyeggs.com and bought some 7/8 inch ones. Good luck.

 

[correydog]

reduce the amount of daylight that your bird is getting this will stop her from laying eggs. also try and cut back on the amount of food that you are feeding. icy this I'm mean reduce green foods and fruit and tit bits which mot your bird signifies time of plenty when they would want to raise young. you could buy some plastic dummy eggs for budgies which will be close enough to fool your bird and help stop her from laying new eggs. hope this helps.

 

[walterbyrd]

She has laid 5 eggs so far.

She still has two of them.

Is there a health risk here?

I have tried keeping her in the dark more often, that does not really work.

About how long should she keep her eggs? 5 days? More?

Her vet told me he could give her some sort of hormone shot that would stop her from laying for a while.

I hate to bring her to vet. She gets very upset about being picked up. She does not want to leave her eggs. She is likely to knock her eggs over while trying to escaped being picked up. I hate to bring her in for such a shot, if she is actively making eggs now, which she may be.

Should I bring her to a vet, or give her more time?

 

[Notdumasilook]

If the vet has a fix id go. Laying is hard on them and u can end up with an eggbound bird which can be fatal.

 

[LordTriggs]

I would remove the perch she is laying them on as that is clearly a catalyst for her laying.

If the vet is able to give her something to ease her out of it then yes I would take it. Bird eggs normally take about a month to hatch so that's usually how long birds sit on them. I would just let her do her thing in regards to them until bored

 

[walterbyrd]

Letting her tend to her eggs has not seemed to work. She just laid her 7th egg since October 30. She has four in her little nest now.

 

[Lena]

I have a similar problem. I have a love bird and a green cheeked conure. I made a couple mistakes with my love bird because I encouraged her to lay eggs by bonding with her because in the first place when I got her the breeder told me that she was a boy and I had no knowledge about the birds. Then after reading a lot about birds laying unfertilized eggs that I should change up the cage and put it in a different location and nothing seemed to work. And I kept asking people and vets but I keep getting different information and the last fact that I got was to give her the nesting material and let her go through the whole process band it was from spring to this day. But before that others told me to take the eggs away from her then give her eggs back because she needs to have a certain amount.