I wrote a couple of months ago that she was doing the 'I want a boyfriend' dance (as my mum calls it) and people gave me great advice about not having anything nestable in there.
She STILL laid 4 eggs! Just on the bottom of her cage. I broke one when I cleaned the cage out. She didn't lay another to replace and when she had stopped laying for 1 week I took the eggs away.
Now, 1 week after I take the old eggs, she has laid another!! Still jsut on the bare bottom of the cage. I am worried she will burn herself out!
She is sitting on it and she looks like cr@p! She is all puffed up. I don't think she is sick, she still eats like a little piggie!! But she has lost a little weight. She was 70g (fattie overweight) and is now 63g.
To make it worse her tail got stood on yesterday
in a huge mistake by me and now she has no tail feathers. She was due to moult them very soon and has tiny pinfeathers coming in already anyway but she looks so weird!
So my questions:
1. How long should I leave the eggs this time?
2. I have a lizard calcium supplement which is ground (powder fine) oyster shells and vitamin d. What is in bird calcium? Is it the same? Could I use it for her also? (I am not being cheap but why buy two things if they are the same inside except one has picture of a lizard and one a bird)
3. How can I make it up to her stealing her tail feathers! I feel like a bad birdie mum
4. How much weight loss is normal when laying eggs?
Thankyou in advance for your wise replies!