If any one can help us please. My wife posted the message and she is freaking out

Are you saying your bird laid an egg or was the seed contaminated with an egg from some other creature?

If your bird laid the egg, its ok. Some birds do even when there is no male to stimulate them. You may want to increase her sources of calcium. If she lays more than a few, then I would be concerned about her and see a vet. As for those she lays, many feel that you should leave the eggs in for a while so your bird can fulfill its domestic urges. She will then ignore them and should return to her prebreeding condition for a few months. Since I dont know what kind of bird you have, I can only give you general info. Please calm down. Her behavior is natural.  Louise

 

Violet is a parkeet aka budgie . She is about 5 years old. What she has been doing with her food is still doing. My wife just found the one egg in the bottom of violet's cage broken.

She has been acting strange lately, when i bring her out she will stiffen up like a board.

But it is only when I have her not my wife. And she has been VERY LOUD lately too.

Pawayne, you and your wife need to calm down. Laying eggs is a very normal thing for a female bird to do, even if she has no mate. The noise she is making is because her breeding hormones have kicked in and they do get noisier then.

Please do not get her a mate. If her laying an infertile egg has upset you two this much, you surely do not need to have baby birds hatching.

The kicking food out of the bowl is just her way of trying to make a nest for those eggs. Don't give her a nest, either, because you will just encourage her to lay even more eggs.  She may still lay a few more and you can remove them or leave them. Budgies usually lay a determined number of eggs each season, maybe 5 to 7, then quit for a while.

If she doesn't have a calcium source that she eats, buy her a cuttlebone at a pet shop and hang it near her favorite perch so her eggshells will be hard and she can lay the eggs without injury to herself.

Annie

this letter was ritten shortley after 11:00pm the same night i received your answer ..her cage needed cleaning out very much cause of the food she scratched out of her bowl so i dug a hole outside and put her egg in there with some food scraps of hers ... my husband put some folded up tisue in there so she can sit on that if she wants to..she seems fine when i cover her up and put her to bed,  I told violet that we see her little surprise and that everything is ok now but she is shrieky still i had her out tonight and she was quiet but the male birdie we have , is named precious and he is in a seperate cage. like all our birds we also have a cockateal so that is three birds..

when i had her out tomight she seemed ok but then she starts that shriking.. i no i have to let time pass and she'll go back to normal .. but why will she keep laying eggs and how do you no she will?

colleen

Colleen, Can't be absolutely sure that she will continue to lay eggs, but the usual pattern for a female budgie is to lay 5 to 7 eggs, then stop for several months. Some lay what's called a double clutch. After the first 5 to 7 eggs, they do it all over again. That's why she must have some kind of high calcium foods or a cuttlebone to eat.  Calcium is what makes eggshells hard.

I would take the tissue out the first thing in the morning. Don't make her all comfortable or it will feel like a nest to her and will encourage her to continue laying. Just put her food in the bowl as usual and you do need to give her fresh food every day and clean the cage up regularly, too.

The shrieking will stop when she finishes laying this batch of eggs, I hope. It does get aggravating but you have to live with it til she's finished.

BTW, we can see exactly what time you send each message. Every message shows the time it was sent.

Annie