My parrot laid an egg

[Sparky]

...again. We went through this last year, in August. This time I know to leave it in there though, so hopefully she won't lay any more, and maybe she'll get bored of this one quicker. She was moody and cage-bound for over a month last time, but then I was taking the eggs out until I found out I wasn't supposed to.

Well, she's being boarded for a week on July 23rd whether she's laying eggs or not. The bird shop people can take care of her if she is though.

[One Radical Dude]

Um...yay? Sorry, I can't think of anything else to add. I guess...that's..um...neat.

[Cassini90125]

Uh, congratulations, I guess...

[koosie]

Is there no way the bird-shop people fix it that she gets to have an egg she can keep and hatch? I know that would probably cause more problems than it solves but the world needs more Parrots.

[pitbulllady]

Originally Posted by koosie

Is there no way the bird-shop people fix it that she gets to have an egg she can keep and hatch? I know that would probably cause more problems than it solves but the world needs more Parrots.

It can't hatch, because Sparky doen't have a male parrot, so the eggs are infertile, like the chicken eggs you buy at the supermarket. No male bird, no baby birds. Parrots are funny critters; if they bond with another bird, they often don't make good pets, so few of the birds used for breeding are tame or can be handled without getting bitten(and parrot bites HURT). If a parrot really bonds with a person, it often won't have anything to do with other parrots and might actually be hostile towards them. I guess the people at the bird shop COULD place a fertile egg underneath Kiwi, but that would be taking a chance that she'd abandon it and the embryo would die, especially since it generally takes a make and a female to raise a clutch of chicks. Most breeders either leave eggs with the pair of birds that produced them, or hatch the eggs in an incubator.

pitbulllady

[Partymember]

Originally Posted by koosie

I know that would probably cause more problems than it solves but the world needs more Parrots.

agreed. We are far too parrot deficient.

[antgirl1]

I guess I'm lucky to own a parakeet. XD

[Medikor]

I love parrots cause they have so much character. So what do you do with the eggs, Sparky? Do you give them away as pet food or something? I remember that when I had a snail as a kid, we always took the many baby's it had to my aunts as food for her turtle.

[Partymember]

Originally Posted by Medikor

I love parrots cause they have so much character. So what do you do with the eggs, Sparky? Do you give them away as pet food or something? I remember that when I had a snail as a kid, we always took the many baby's it had to my aunts as food for her turtle.

oh my God...you killed its babies

jk

[Sparky]

I leave the eggs with her until she loses interest then I throw them in the garbage disposal, as they are rotten by then. Her *first* one I drained out and kept though.

It isn't exactly "good" news that Kiwi is laying eggs (she didn't lay another yet, she lays them every other day so she may lay one tomorrow though I hope she won't) because it's a great drain on a bird's body to make an egg. This time, she's got a cuttlebone in her cage at least. Also brooding birds are moody and fidgety when away from their eggs, even if as in Kiwi's case they aren't really in the "baby-making" mindset. They just have an instinct to stay near the eggs. So Kiwi will beg to come out to play, then start screaming to go back five seconds later. It's annoying. Only "good" thing about her being in this mode is that, as long as she's in her cage, she's quieter and I can get more sleep.