Is there anything in the eggs my parakeet is laying?

They won’t hatch. There is a stimuli in the environment that is making her believe it’s mating season.

Cover her cage in darkness for at least 12 hours a night and those 12 hours need to be totally silent. Monitor her food intake. Give her only the amount of food you know she will eat because knowing there’s extra will suggest there’s enough to feed babies. Re-arrange her cage totally. Even move it to a different room, but change everything within it too. Get new toys and new perches and swap them for every single thing in her cage right now. If her environment is unstable and changing, she won’t want to have young living in these conditions in their early hatchlinghood.

If she is consistently laying eggs over a prolonged period of time, her calcium levels will be very low - maybe even dangerously low at one point, but that’s for an avian vet to determine. I suggest you take her to see a certified avian vet.

When she does lay eggs, do NOT take them away. Since they’re infertile, wait for her to lay an entire clutch (3-6 eggs) and when she gets up and leaves them to be her friendly self before all of the mating hormones got rushed up, and you can tell that she’s tired of sitting on them and no longer interested (natural incubation is about 20 to 30 days, that’ll be the approximate time she’ll get up and leave for good), throw them out.

To counteract the calcium loss of laying eggs, feed her some leafy greens. Romaine lettuce, broccoli, spinach, and kale are fantastic, but be careful with spinach and kale. They have so much calcium that too much will bind calcium and flip the effects.

Hope that helps!

Yea, I think there would be something in them.

Sorry, Charlie, if your boy died in the summer, and she laid in March, nada. Won’t (didn’t) happen…From time parakeets mate til hatch is about 20 to 25 days. They hatch in 18 days from the time eggs are laid.

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Parakeet eggs are not going to hatch unless the female has mated with a male. Even fertile eggs do not always hatch. The heat and humidity have to be just right.