Will my pet female parrot become

	Will my pet female parrot become an Egg Layer?
Home About us Articles Congo African Grey Contact us Crimson Bellied Conure Eclectus Flight Suits Gouldian Finches Green Cheek Conures Other Pampered Peeps Pets Price List Red Bellied Parrot Timneh African Grey Flight Suits	People ask me this question often. Why is my female laying eggs and how can I get her to stop? First off are health concerns. Egg laying can be dangerous. Egg binding can have different causations: poor exercise and low calcium are 2 of the most common. You want to make sure you keep her calcium levels up. There are many ways to do this. I add Calcium Gluconate to the water. Have a cuttlebone available. There are other calcium supplements you can use. Because I have horses, I have added Alfalfa hay and an alfalfa based crumble (Di-cal) made by Horse Health. Feeding a well rounded diet is my sure way of getting calcium into our birds. Broccoli has high levels of Calcium. Remember that your birds needs Vitamin D (sunlight) to aid in calcium absorption. In the wild, there are breeding stimuli that bring bring birds into reproductive mode such as lengthened photoperiods (increased seasonal light,which triggers folicle-stimulating hormones to produce eggs, a highly nutritious diet that tell them there is plenty of foods to raise their young and plentiful fresh water or frequent soakings (this simulates rains in equator jungles, and in arid areas (like Australian birds) the rains that come after droughts which means there'll be plentiful foods to raise their young. So do I cut back on diet or food with my pets that are girls? Absolutely not. We feed our pet females the exact same way that we feed our breeder females. We keep up the highly nutritious diet year round. http://pamperedpeeps.com/mash.htm Some breeders will feed special when it comes to breeding time. We always have fresh bowls of water available, And, here is the catcher. For over 10 years, we have had numerous pet birds and not one has laid an egg. I attribute this mostly to the fact that we rotate cages with our pets and disrupt their territory. I do not keep dark cavities in our pet cages, nothing that looks like a nesting cavity, not even dark areas formed by a grouping of toys. We also disrupt their territories via the use of sleep cages. http://pamperedpeeps.com/sleepcages.htm I do have many folks write me that have had egg laying by their females. Now, if it is too late and you have eggs, I would let her sit on them for about 22 days before taking them away. Otherwise, you may cause her to lay more. Here are other ways to discourage egg laying: Rearrange her cage and change where it sits. Or, rotate your pets into each other's cages if you can. If your bird has a favorite toy that she considers her "mate," remove it. Separate her from any other pets in your home that she may regard as her mate. Don't keep a full spectrum light on her in the evening hours. My Grey is up with me late at night, but the lights are not bright once she is back in my bedroom. Many people will advise putting your bird to bed early, but that is my time with Emma, so I just take her into a room without bright lights on. Hope this gives you some ideas.... Other related articles; Read an article on whether I recommend if you buy 2 babies or one?? Click here to read if two birds of the same sex will get along. Click here to see fertile eggs being candled. Click here for what we do when we do have an egg bound bird. Back to Home page or Site Map Please click on one of the below icons if you would like to thank us for our site and information :)

People ask me this question often. Why is my female laying eggs and how can I get her to stop?

First off are health concerns. Egg laying can be dangerous. Egg binding can have different causations: poor exercise and low calcium are 2 of the most common. You want to make sure you keep her calcium levels up. There are many ways to do this. I add Calcium Gluconate to the water. Have a cuttlebone available. There are other calcium supplements you can use. Because I have horses, I have added Alfalfa hay and an alfalfa based crumble (Di-cal) made by Horse Health. Feeding a well rounded diet is my sure way of getting calcium into our birds. Broccoli has high levels of Calcium. Remember that your birds needs Vitamin D (sunlight) to aid in calcium absorption.

In the wild, there are breeding stimuli that bring bring birds into reproductive mode such as lengthened photoperiods (increased seasonal light,which triggers folicle-stimulating hormones to produce eggs, a highly nutritious diet that tell them there is plenty of foods to raise their young and plentiful fresh water or frequent soakings (this simulates rains in equator jungles, and in arid areas (like Australian birds) the rains that come after droughts which means there'll be plentiful foods to raise their young. So do I cut back on diet or food with my pets that are girls? Absolutely not.

We feed our pet females the exact same way that we feed our breeder females. We keep up the highly nutritious diet year round. http://pamperedpeeps.com/mash.htm Some breeders will feed special when it comes to breeding time. We always have fresh bowls of water available, And, here is the catcher. For over 10 years, we have had numerous pet birds and not one has laid an egg. I attribute this mostly to the fact that we rotate cages with our pets and disrupt their territory. I do not keep dark cavities in our pet cages, nothing that looks like a nesting cavity, not even dark areas formed by a grouping of toys. We also disrupt their territories via the use of sleep cages. http://pamperedpeeps.com/sleepcages.htm

I do have many folks write me that have had egg laying by their females. Now, if it is too late and you have eggs, I would let her sit on them for about 22 days before taking them away. Otherwise, you may cause her to lay more. Here are other ways to discourage egg laying:

Rearrange her cage and change where it sits. Or, rotate your pets into each other's cages if you can. If your bird has a favorite toy that she considers her "mate," remove it. Separate her from any other pets in your home that she may regard as her mate.

Don't keep a full spectrum light on her in the evening hours. My Grey is up with me late at night, but the lights are not bright once she is back in my bedroom. Many people will advise putting your bird to bed early, but that is my time with Emma, so I just take her into a room without bright lights on. Hope this gives you some ideas....