a cockatiel joined the family and my budgie layed 2 eggs

[coolhady13]

hi everybody ,

my budgie layed an egg yesterday and another 1 today ( yuppyyyyy )

it was hard to get a picture for the eggs as the female was inside the nest box cleaning the new egg

http://i51.tinypic.com/dote21.jpg

question : i feel that the eggs are very small for a budgie( size of candy coated cadbury) . is that normal or they will get bigger with time or what ?

i also got a handfed cockatiel 4 days ago he is very cute and cuddly

i named him Isaac

thats some pics i took for him

question : is he/she a male or a female ?

question : he/she seems to have dandruff on its feather is that normal or not and any idea how to get rid of it ? he also have little chickens smell .any idea how to get rid of this smell 2 ?

http://i52.tinypic.com/2guyvbl.jpg

http://i56.tinypic.com/14w865f.jpg

http://i56.tinypic.com/21ngqde.jpg

[coolhady13]

3 eggs now

[Mum2rory]

Congrats on Isaac. Tiels are sooo cute. I have one called Rory.
Sorry, know nothing about budgie eggs.

[coolhady13]

Congrats on Isaac. Tiels are sooo cute. I have one called Rory.
Sorry, know nothing about budgie eggs.

thank you , i thought isaac was a male then on the internet i saw differnce between the male and femal cockatiel so i thought he was a female .so i named her Missy . then i read that it have to molt first so i could know if he is a male or a female . so im now calling him/her missy until he/she molts . about the bugie eggs the female layed another 1 same size so i think that there normal size

[liz]

hi everybody ,

my budgie layed an egg yesterday and another 1 today ( yuppyyyyy )

it was hard to get a picture for the eggs as the female was inside the nest box cleaning the new egg

http://i51.tinypic.com/dote21.jpg

question : i feel that the eggs are very small for a budgie( size of candy coated cadbury) . is that normal or they will get bigger with time or what ?

i also got a handfed cockatiel 4 days ago he is very cute and cuddly

i named him Isaac

thats some pics i took for him

question : is he/she a male or a female ?

question : he/she seems to have dandruff on its feather is that normal or not and any idea how to get rid of it ? he also have little chickens smell .any idea how to get rid of this smell 2 ?

http://i52.tinypic.com/2guyvbl.jpg

http://i56.tinypic.com/14w865f.jpg

http://i56.tinypic.com/21ngqde.jpg

That tiel is so young it doesn't know what it is. That is why I choose names by personality not gender.

[liz]

Did you candle the eggs. I use a strong flashlight with a black coffee can lid. Make a hole just a little smaller than the diameter of the egg and set it in. You will see the inside. If you see any red at all it is fertile.

[laducockatiel]

hi everybody ,

question : he/she seems to have dandruff on its feather is that normal or not and any idea how to get rid of it ?

This dandruff is quite normal on tiels. My tiel has it too. Tiles have the most but other birds have it sometimes too.

Good luck with missy!

[liz]

I use a soft toothbrush and brush in the direction the feathers grow. The dandruff is more odviouse when they don't have a buddy to help preen them.

[coolhady13]

I use a soft toothbrush and brush in the direction the feathers grow. The dandruff is more odviouse when they don't have a buddy to help preen them.

thanks liz i will try a soft toothbrush .

[Mohamed]

congrats for missy and i think that the budgie eggs size is normal