Important Tips For Birds That Have Eggs

This topic will be specifically for people who have no previous experience. In how to deal with an egg-laying pair, many people may not know how to deal with the situation and what to work with.

Therefore, we will give you some tips, which you may benefit greatly from to maintain your first production. We will address several important points that you should do or avoid.

What should I do?

If you see the female disappear from the cage. She began to enter the nest a lot, or you would see her preparing the nest and always inserting things into the nest. Know that she is preparing her own place to lay eggs.

If you look inside the egg and find that there are eggs. Then you should do the following to avoid losing eggs.

Place the cage in a place where many people will not pass by it daily. This is so that the husband feels comfortable and safe. And also a place that is not directly exposed to sunlight. The place must have sufficient ventilation.
Knock the egg white gently with your hand before opening it. To avoid surprising the husband, which might frighten him.

Clean the nest well every 3 to 4 days.

To provide a place for the female to shower. Especially in the summer due to the heat, in order to moisten the eggs with water, because eggs in extreme heat can be lost. Also, because of the heat of the nest, the female needs water to restore her energy.

What should be avoided?

There are many actions that you should avoid. Which you may do unknowingly or intentionally, increasing the possibility of you losing eggs.

Never move the cage from its place. Because moving it continuously makes the birds not feel stable.
Do not open the nest or the eggs often…except during cleaning times or something necessary such as monitoring the eggs.
Do not take eggs from under the bird to examine them.

Do not separate the pair from each other, because that makes the female repel the eggs and not incubate them.

note

These tips or steps are effective with most ornamental birds, even songbirds. Some types or cases may be very sensitive. That is, you break the egg if you look at it or open the egg. Therefore, you must know how to deal with these isolated cases, which you may find in all types of birds. It increases in some other species, meaning it is very frequent, such as the Golden Finch. It is very sensitive and easily alienates eggs, so we do not advise you to deal with such difficult-to-produce species.