My Bourkes

[DonnaBudgie]

I heard that a lot of female birds with eggs pluck an area on their belly bare to give the eggs contact with her skin for better incubation (a "brood patch") so her feather loss there is probably normal.
You have to wonder what they're thinking when they're sitting on eggs, especially for the first time. Do they have idea why? I doubt it.

 

[Rozalka]

I heard that a lot of female birds with eggs pluck an area on their belly bare to give the eggs contact with her skin for better incubation (a "brood patch") so her feather loss there is probably normal.
You have to wonder what they're thinking when they're sitting on eggs, especially for the first time. Do they have idea why? I doubt it.

I know about it - my budgie was doing it and I'm aware that it was normal. Fela is 10/11 years old and I've never noticed her doing it, so I thought that maybe she plucked to get rid off the egg (originally I thought that maybe only budgies have a brood patch)
And FYI it's not her 1st time, she has many years of experience, I just stopped allowing her raising babies because of her age

 

[DonnaBudgie]

My budgie that bred last summer didn't pluck a brood patch. She was an egg laying machine- 10 per clutch- but I only let her have 2 or 3 fertile eggs. The rest were subbed with dummies. She was small for a budgie but woulld fluff up and spread out her body to cover all the eggs. I couldn't imagine how boring it would be to incubate eggs for over 20 days plus another 10 days keeping her chicks warm.