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Post by milliej on Aug 29, 2015 13:28:28 GMT
I was watching them all at play the other day and I saw Bonnie and Tyler mate, properly! It was just the once but I'm wondering if she could be pregnant with that one off! I hope not but if she is.....help....what do I do. I know about not having nesting places etc but I read somewhere that they don't make nests in the wild they just lay eggs where they can. Oh dear, I really don't need this I'm sure I couldn't cope  |
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Post by Marianne Marlow on Aug 29, 2015 13:37:31 GMT
Just because they mate, it does not mean that they will lay eggs. The wild is totally different to the way they are kept by pet owners.
Hector and Abbie used to mate all the time and she never laid an egg.
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Post by Budgies Retreat on Aug 29, 2015 13:48:53 GMT
If she does lay an egg, and you don't want to have chicks, just throw the egg away, and any others that may follow. The chances are they are mating when you aren't around, and you just got see on one occasion.
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Post by milliej on Aug 29, 2015 13:56:02 GMT
Oh thanks Marianne, that's a relief! B.R.... I hope I don't have to dispose of eggs  ! We had a blackbird in our front garden last year who abandoned a nest and I found four eggs, when she didn't return after a few days, I took them indoors and there were little dead chicks inside. Something, possibly a cat may have disturbed her? |
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Post by Budgies Retreat on Aug 29, 2015 20:05:26 GMT
There's not much else you can do, you either keep them (if they come that is) or dispose of them. It's not nice throwing them away, but you say that you might not be able to cope. If they do come, and you keep them, have you the time and space for them once they fledge, or can you pass them on to someone else/sell them? Chances are she won't be laying, so worry only when they come |
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Post by Hezz on Aug 30, 2015 1:39:12 GMT
milliej, hens don't get pregnant; eggs don't depend on a male to come about: think chooks - we have enough of them on the forum - some hens will lay eggs without ever seeing a cock in their lives. A one-off mating is very unlikely to result in an egg. If they seem to want to keep it up and you are concerned about eggs, then separate them, change their routines around, move them to another room. Just mix up their lives. And budgies definitely do make a nest in the wild; they seek out hollows in trees, shape the insides with their beaks if necessary, and to provide bedding for the eggs/chicks. They don't build a nest from scratch but they certainly do have somewhere safe to raise their young.
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Post by milliej on Sept 3, 2015 18:37:10 GMT
Ah yes Hezz I appreciate that hens don't need a cockerel to produce an egg but they're all infertile (so I've been told and believe to be so!) but....as this was Tyler really performing I thought ....possibility..... so thanks, hopefully no eggs! |
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! We had a blackbird in our front garden last year who abandoned a nest and I found four eggs, when she didn't return after a few days, I took them indoors and there were little dead chicks inside. Something, possibly a cat may have disturbed her? 
