Hey everyone! I was just feeding our 4 Parakeets and 1 Cockatiel when guess what I found in the bottom of their cage today? 2 little white Parakeet eggs!!!!
Some of you have seen some of my other posts last year about my family's Parakeets and their eggs. For those of you who don't know what I'm talking about, let me inform you about my experiences last year:
Carla is our yellow and green female parakeet, and she has been the one who lays eggs at least once or more a year and tries to hatch them out. Last year, she tried a couple times until finally she hatched out 3-4 babies. But unfortunately, when they were beginning to grow some feathers, we made the horrible mistake of leaving the other birds in the cage with the parents and the babies, and the others ended up killing the 3-4 babies.
That was the last time Carla tried hatching out eggs. Also, her mate is Stormy, a black and blue parakeet.
Our other female, a blue/gray/white parakeet named Toddra, whom died just last year before Christmas, and her mate, Kiwi, tried hatching our their own babies before too. Unfortunately they never succeeded because she usually gave up before they hatched. Kiwi died a few months ago, soon after Toddra did, for an unknown reason.
So now we have Carla, Stormy, and two other females, whom don't have mates. We have one albino white female, named Dove, and a yellow female, named Sunny. They have never been broody or attempted to hatch our their own babies. Right now they all sure their large cage with our normal gray Cockatiel, Moss. They all get along well, once and a while Moss will get in an argument with them (I think he finds the smaller-than-him parakeets a little annoying!
) but they all get along pretty well anyway.
Also, last year I attempted hatching out a few parakeet eggs when Carla abandoned them. I put them in my old homemade incubator, but then we had to make an unexpected road trip and they got too cold and died a few days before hatching. I had done a lot of research on how to care for them, such as feeding, etc. In fact a kind BYCer, who also has some birds, sent me a bag of baby bird formula because I was unable to get some in time.
(Even the BYC chicken community can come in handy with non-chicken-related problems!). So I had their box set up with a few different-sized syringes and the formula all set, but they never made it.
So anyway, after many past posting of the different attempts at hatching parakeet eggs, both with the real parents and myself with the incubator, this is yet another one!
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So today I found those two little white eggs in the bottom of the cage! No one was setting on them and I thought they were just laid and not taken seriously by one of the females, but later today I looked back in and saw that Carla was setting on them.
Since there are 2 of them, and parakeets usually lay one egg a day until they have the desired number of eggs in the clutch, which can range from about 3-8, I'm estimating she laid the 1st one two days ago and the 2nd one yesterday sometime. OR she laid one yesterday and the 2nd one today. Either way, if she's planning on laying anymore, which knowing her usual cycle of eggs, which is usually 3-5, there should be a 3rd egg by tomorrow.
Right now Carla's eggs are in the bottom of the cage in a pile of old seed hulls and paper shavings that she made a little spot in. Stormy, her mate, has been sitting on a perch above her to keep guard. I know that it's not really good to let them keep the eggs on the ground because of cleanliness reasons, but for now they seem to be clean. The bottom is just full of soft, dry seed hulls and pieces of paper and some droppings, so the eggs are clean and I think it's a fine place for them because the food dish is nearby and not many of the other parakeets (and Moss) go to the bottom so they are not likely to bother them. Although they wouldn't in the first place, even if the nest was where they often spend a lot of time, because Carla doesn't let anyone (including us!) near her nest. And she bites HARD!
So she should be fine right now, like last time. But I think what I will do is when the babies hatch, we will move them and the parents into their own smaller cage (we have an extra, unused one) so the babies won't be killed by the others like last time.
I will keep you guys updated and may candle the eggs later on. I really don't want to bother them though, so I think I will wait for a little while longer before candling.
I will also see if I can post pictures sometime!
Thanks for reading and please check back for updates! Feel free to share your experience(s) with hatching parakeets if you have any.
-77horses
Carla is our yellow and green female parakeet, and she has been the one who lays eggs at least once or more a year and tries to hatch them out. Last year, she tried a couple times until finally she hatched out 3-4 babies. But unfortunately, when they were beginning to grow some feathers, we made the horrible mistake of leaving the other birds in the cage with the parents and the babies, and the others ended up killing the 3-4 babies.
Our other female, a blue/gray/white parakeet named Toddra, whom died just last year before Christmas, and her mate, Kiwi, tried hatching our their own babies before too. Unfortunately they never succeeded because she usually gave up before they hatched. Kiwi died a few months ago, soon after Toddra did, for an unknown reason.
So now we have Carla, Stormy, and two other females, whom don't have mates. We have one albino white female, named Dove, and a yellow female, named Sunny. They have never been broody or attempted to hatch our their own babies. Right now they all sure their large cage with our normal gray Cockatiel, Moss. They all get along well, once and a while Moss will get in an argument with them (I think he finds the smaller-than-him parakeets a little annoying!
Also, last year I attempted hatching out a few parakeet eggs when Carla abandoned them. I put them in my old homemade incubator, but then we had to make an unexpected road trip and they got too cold and died a few days before hatching. I had done a lot of research on how to care for them, such as feeding, etc. In fact a kind BYCer, who also has some birds, sent me a bag of baby bird formula because I was unable to get some in time.
So anyway, after many past posting of the different attempts at hatching parakeet eggs, both with the real parents and myself with the incubator, this is yet another one!
_______________________________________________________________
So today I found those two little white eggs in the bottom of the cage! No one was setting on them and I thought they were just laid and not taken seriously by one of the females, but later today I looked back in and saw that Carla was setting on them.
Right now Carla's eggs are in the bottom of the cage in a pile of old seed hulls and paper shavings that she made a little spot in. Stormy, her mate, has been sitting on a perch above her to keep guard. I know that it's not really good to let them keep the eggs on the ground because of cleanliness reasons, but for now they seem to be clean. The bottom is just full of soft, dry seed hulls and pieces of paper and some droppings, so the eggs are clean and I think it's a fine place for them because the food dish is nearby and not many of the other parakeets (and Moss) go to the bottom so they are not likely to bother them. Although they wouldn't in the first place, even if the nest was where they often spend a lot of time, because Carla doesn't let anyone (including us!) near her nest. And she bites HARD!
I will keep you guys updated and may candle the eggs later on. I really don't want to bother them though, so I think I will wait for a little while longer before candling.
I will also see if I can post pictures sometime!
Thanks for reading and please check back for updates! Feel free to share your experience(s) with hatching parakeets if you have any.
-77horses
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