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When do you take unfertile eggs away from a cockateil2007-11-24 17:26:18

always let a bird sit eggs for the full term she will throw them out or desert them once she knows they are infertile.

and they will not go bad and stink.

i would love a copy of the book some of these answers come from.fairy tales i suspect

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The quick answer? When she stops sitting on them.

I have a 12 year old cockatiel that laid her first (infertile) clutch about a year ago. I didn't know any better, so I took the egg away. Then I checked with a vet. I left the 3 MORE she laid alone, kept her in fresh cuttle and minerals (to keep her from getting egg-bound) and then in about 3 weeks she was ignoring them and I took them out. Another month or so later she laid another, but that was it.

Hens will instinctively replace missing eggs as if they had been lost to predators. If you remove the eggs this can cause immense stress on them, especially if it's an older bird.

Fresh eggs have a coating on them that keeps them 'preserved'. The chicken eggs we eat have been stripped of this coating, that's why they spoil so quickly when left out of the fridge. Your cockatiel's eggs have this coating still, so don't worry about the eggs stinking up the cage.

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Leave the eggs alone! She will get off the eggs when she sees fit. If you take them away you will make her into a egg laying machine and she will use up all the caluicum in her body and die from laying to many eggs. The eggs will dry up inside and they don't stink. So leave her alone.just add more food near her if she is not in a nest box. Her mate would be feeding her. So if she doesn't have a mate. Put seed near her so she can eat while she is sitting on the eggs if she is on the floor of her cage.

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if you are not sure it a unfertile you can take a face cloth and stick it in the hole of the nesting box. i do know a lot about this because my mom breeds birds. but stick something through the hole in the nesting box so that you will not get bitten by mom or dad bird (it does hurt). take the egg and have a flash light in hand. put the flash light on and hold it up to the egg. if it is fertile you will see a very very little embryo in the egg which means that there is a chick growing in that egg. if it isnt fertile then there is no point in it staying in the box for them to sit on because it will not hatch. so take it out as soon as you find out that the egg is not fertile. just keep that face cloth or something through that hole in the box because cockateils can draw blood and it does hurt. if you have any questions you can email me at:

sweetie143691@yahoo.com

-chrissy-

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It will be safe to take the eggs away when she quits sitting on them..usually after 3 weeks. She will realize by that time that they will not hatch and push them away.

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The eggs hatch in 21 days.

The eggs should be a blueish color if got a chick in the egg.

Hold the eggs up near a light if you can see though the eggs or they are really black and smell then take them away about 30 days or sooner.

They will know if they are clear and chuck them out of the nestbox.