I'm confused. Please share your experience!

[veimar]

Hi there! Haven't been here for a while and was missing this forum. My fids are doing great!
I got a question about my lovebird girl Coco. She has laid her first two eggs in past couple of months, and obviously has no idea what to do with them! LOL The first one she laid I found broken, with a beak mark, so maybe she wanted to eat it or was playing with it - I dunno... Now she laid a second one, and she is not sitting on it at all. I saw her doing it once for about 5 min! She still sleeps on her perch on the top of the cage, enjoys her time out of cage and usually just roams around her cage when she is in it, begging to get out. She is about 3 years old.. Is that normal that birds don't have the instinct to sit on the eggs? Or does she know it's infertile and doesn't really care? She mates with one of my budgies, but they are not bonded and don't live together of course... What are your experiences? I'm kinda stumped a bit because I was thinking about getting her a mate of her kin.

 

[Flboy]

Welcome back, missed ya! Bumping this back into the list!

 

[BruceTheQuail]

Ours tend to wait until they have layed a clutch of 2 or 3 eggs before they start to sit on them. If she hasnt got someone to feed her she might lose weight if she sits for long. Personally, I'd throw the eggs before she sits and take out of the cage anything that might induce nesting behavior eg nesting box, paper, straw etc.

It might seem a bit cruel but the eggs arent fertile and she is likely to suffer more from the stress and drain on her body from laying eggs and not eating enough when she is sitting than she ever would from stress when you throw the eggs. I've done it plenty of times and they are back to normal pretty much straight away.