March 15, 2021
How do I take care of budgie eggs?
Yesterday my blue budgie gave birth to an egg but did not sit on it. How do I take care of the egg?
Question:
Answer:
Hi,
Unless you have a male with her, the egg will not be fertile. If you do have a male, do they have a nest box? Did she lay the egg in the nest box? A budgie will lay an average of 4 eggs for a clutch, with one day between each egg. If this is a breeding pair, then it isn’t unusual for them to not start to sit on the eggs until the hen had laid 2 or 3 eggs. The best thing to do is leave them alone and let them figure it out. You would need an incubator to try to hatch the egg yourself, and even if the eggs hatch, it is hard to hand feed a budgie chick from day 1. Even with an experienced hand feeder, the chicks almost always die when you try to feed them from the first day. If you only have the one bird, you can leave the eggs with her and she will either ignore them or sit on them. If she sits on them, she will likely abandon them after a couple of weeks. If she ignores the eggs, throw them away. Do not give her a nest or anything she can use as a nest – no birds huts, tents box or anything like that. You don’t want to encourage a single bird to lay eggs. It is hard on their system and if the bird won’t stop laying eggs, you would have to take her to an avian Vet for a hormone shot or implant.
Thank you for asking Lafeber,
Brenda
