Found something strange inside breeding box

[vivekpro26]

Hi

My budgie laid an egg, but seems like she broke it, also found some strange thing inside the box. Can someone tell me what it is and if I need to take some action.

imgur.com/a/Yj1zm

[Marianne Marlow]

I've no idea. Hope that someone else can shed some light.

[glendale8]

Hi to me that looks like the membrane of the egg, was the shell very hard? It could be that maybe she does not have enough calcium in her diet and the shell wasn't completely hard

[skysmum]

Jan 24, 2018 22:38:52 GMT glendale8 said:

Hi to me that looks like the membrane of the egg, was the shell very hard? It could be that maybe she does not have enough calcium in her diet and the shell wasn't completely hard

That's exactly what it looks like to me too, one of my hens was laying soft shelled eggs a while back. They often eat the soft ones.

[vivekpro26]

Hi All, Thanks for your reply. They have calcium and mineral blocks available all the time in their cage. What additional stuff i should provide to her. Also I hope that there is nothing to worry about.

[Hezz]

I agree, looks like a soft-shelled egg. (Mango's looked similar.)

You need to have eggfood (egg and biscuit) or hard-boiled egg mashed, soluble shell grit available to her all the time, plus something like calcivet to add to her water. You also need to remove the nest box, and move the things in the cage around. It could take some time before this hen is able to properly form an egg again, if she ever can. Do not, under any condition, allow her to nest for at least six months. It takes a long time and a lot of building up their health before the calcium is replaced in their bodies.

[glendale8]

I would put cuttlefish in they devour it when laying eggs their little bodies really need it.

[glendale8]

I wouldn't allow her to lay again as she most likely will become egg bound and won't b able to pass the egg.

[vivekpro26]

Thanks everyone,
imgur.com/a/OUfy4

Here is the recent image of the nesting box. I can see one egg seems fine. If I remove the nesting box what will happen with this egg. There are plenty of cuttle bones inside the cage. Please suggest.

[Hezz]

Cuttlebone is not enough for a hen already laying soft-shelled eggs. Forget about the egg that is there: what is more important - the hen that you already have, or an only possibly fertile egg that may or may not evolve into a living chick? How are you going to look after this chick if the hen dies?? You need to look after your hen. Take out the nest box, remove her from the cock bird, supplement her diet with egg, eggshells, calcium, egg and biscuit, preferably all of the above.

That might sound harsh, but it is the truth. You will lose your hen if you continue to try to breed from her.

Read my other post, please.