My cockatiel is laying eggs?

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• 1 birdgirl // Oct 27, 2008

  Are you leaving the eggs in the cage with her or taking them out. Yous should leave them as long as she is interested in them, if you take them out too soon, this will just prompt her to lay more. The more she lays, the more her calcium levels are depleted. Are you feeding her some sort of calcium supplement? You should be. You might also consider buying some fake eggs from a craft store and using those to replace her eggs (so you don’t have to deal with them rotting), to keep her from laying more.

• 2 magwai // Oct 27, 2008

  to stop your bird from laying eggs you have to
  1) leave the eggs don’t take them out or she will just keep laying more
  2) less hours of light , ( light stimulates birds)
  3) cut down on vitamin e
  4) give her calcium
  hope this helps
  if nothing works call vet

• 3 sammy // Oct 27, 2008

  this is very common.basically if you want the egg laying to stop you need to limit her misting and give her more hours of darkness.it is in there nature.you could let her have a litter and see if that helps but otherwise the vet can inject her with hormones or as a last resort give her a hysterectamy.you could also change the furniture around in her cage or move her to another room because they only lay when comfortable.does she have a mirror because as stupid as this seems she could be in love with herself

• 4 =0 // Oct 27, 2008

  well im sorry to say thats bad fro the start kill 40% of her life or more dont want to scare you. okay to stop this you must place her somewhere else in the house and replace toys. because she is getting bord.she must stop. do this aspa.

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