sex fiends...

will you get babies? or is it too late?

Brian--yep

Lisa--we'll have to wait and see.

Aw.

I love birds. I once had a male love bird who would masturbate on his perch and leave sticky icky goo for me to wipe up.

Kathy--Mama hen is PISSED at me today. I don't blame her, but I had no idea that she'd laid a whole clutch of eggs in there. I wanted to get the broken ones out of there before they attracted ants. I'll have to go to Petco and get her a nest box today.

Jess--I know far too much about bird masturbation.

You babykiller.

Pretend they're jellybeans and use them for Halloween. Or do a really pathetic job of egging someone's car.

Look like moth balls.

Mrs. Michaels--I'll let her have this clutch since I know some people that want pet birds, but if they hatch and then she starts laying more, I'm becoming a bird abortionist and switching the new ones out with false eggs. We'll see if there are babies from this bunch around Thanksgiving time.

John--she laid and abandoned one in my bookshelves a long time ago, which I didn't find until much, much too late. They may be tiny, but they pack a full-size rotten egg wallop.

OES--Yep.

Ohhhh, are you going to have babies, or not?

Deborah--I don't know for sure. I have a male parakeet as well, but he and Jane usually avoid each other at best and fight with each other at worst. Doesn't mean they haven't done some schtupping on the sly, however. My birds have proven that avian love lives are every bit as complicated as human ones.

Even if the eggs ARE fertilized, that doesn't necessarily mean they will hatch--lots can go wrong. I didn't see any blood spots on the yolks of the broken ones, but that doesn't mean I didn't miss them as the eggs themselves are so teeny-tiny.

I'll know for sure by Thanksgiving.

Cute side note--to feather her nest, Jane destroyed a set of baby clothes I was in the process of knitting for a pregnant friend.

Today I got to learn about the sexual habits of birds, which is sadly in an infinitely better state than the sexual habits of RenaissanceLadies.

Thanks for the education. Rated.

A juggler's nightmare...

RenLady--Yikes. Have you read what my birds get up to?

Shaggy--I'm pretty sure Jane would kill me.

Fun fact--Proportionally, a female parakeet lays an egg that's equivalent to birthing a 12-lb baby.

Is it too soon to start thinking of names (Just in case they hatch)?

They're jumbo compared to finch eggs! Keeping my fingers crossed for future baby budgies!

Nelly--Don't count your budgies before they're hatched.

Blue Surly--Finch eggs must be TINY.

UPDATE--It looked like last night Jane was getting ready to lay another egg--she was even crankier than her usual cranky self and had a definitely swollen bottom in comparision to Enoch. I removed the heavy stuff from over top her nest so she wouldn't accidentally get crushed if it fell, put all her eggs back, and put the box back in the closet. Petco was all out of parakeet-sized nest boxes, so I'll have to try them again on Wednesday or go to Petsmart tonight to get her a better, safer, cockatiel-protected place to lay her eggs.

Well, you know the saying "Birds will be Birds."

Monte

PS: sorry for being so very late but I was working on a post.

Why don't you just cut a hole in a shoe box for a nesting box?

Great facts about birds -- I had no idea.

Monte--thanks for stopping by! (And no apology needed).

Skeltwmn--I thought about that. The problem is that I want something a bit sturdier and more cockatiel-proof. I bought a tiel-sized nestbox for the cockatiels (they're both biologically male, although one is convinced he's actually a girl bird), and it really cut down their destruction of paper goods and stray bits of cardboard and attempts to get into places they shouldn't. I'm hoping that a keet-sized one will do the same and encourage Jane to (if she's bound and determined to lay and sit on eggs) do it in a safe place and not tear apart my things trying to build a nest.

Can sad be cute? This is.

Lea--Bob tells me that, after being denied entrance to the cockatiels' nest box by an angry Elvis, apparently Jane decided to lay her most recent egg while on the highest perch in the cage. That didn't work out so well. Thus, we are heading to the various pet stores tonight in search of a proper nest box that's big enough for her, but with a small enough entrance that the cockatiels can't take it over.

I have 30 eggs, over easy, and a side of bacon.

Con--If you go on YouTube, there's video of someone cooking and eating a parakeet egg. Looks (and probably tastes) just like a fried chicken egg.