My lovebird laid an egg

[MilitaryBrat]

So.....my lovebird laid an egg.Is there a way to tell if its fertile or not?Because someone on here told me it was a hybrid and that the egg wouldn't be fertile but the vet told me that it was just a color mutation.Can color mutations be fertile?And what do I do if it doesn't have a baby in it?

 

[fltsfshr]

If you only have one lovebird, the egg is infertile. Mine will lay a couple at a time. Her water consumption goes up tremendously when she's laying, so keep her dish full. Her volume of poop will increase when she's laying too. She needs lots of fresh water.

She'll lay eggs regularly for you, just throw them away but watch out for your fingers. I keep a small birdhouse in my lovebirds cage, it gives her a place to go when she's stooping. I empty it out when I clean her cage. She likes filling it up with paper or pieces of bamboo skewers I buy her at the grocery store. She spends hours shredding them and tucking them into her tail to fly back to her cage.

I also make sure she has a source of calcium so her eggs are strong and she doesn't become egg bound.

fltsfshr

 

[MilitaryBrat]

No I have 2 lovebirds in the cage.One is different colored and like I said, Someone told me its a hybrid but the vet told me its a color mutation, so I don't know if the egg is fertile or not.

 

[fltsfshr]

Cool

If it's not fertile, she'll destroy it in a few days. You can candle a chicken egg by holding it up to a bright light and you can see the developing embryo inside. I never tried it with a lovebird egg but it would probably work.

Does she have a place to nest? Is she setting on it?

Good luck

fltsfshr

 

[cockatielfan17]

candle the egg never did it with a lovebird egg but i did it with a parakeet egg and a budgie egg but if i were u i wouldnt take the chance just be patient and wait

 

[fltsfshr]

Here's a video on lovebird egg candling. There are several out there, just type lovebird egg candling into google.
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HCNa2rzpnk]Candling a possible fertile lovebird egg 2-4-10 - YouTube[/ame]

fltsfshr

 

[MilitaryBrat]

Thanks everyone
And does the male or female lay on the eggs?

 

[unicornrain]

Hey, I was browsing through the threads (I'm sorry if this one is so old that it's rude to comment on it-I'm totally brand new to forum life) and I came across the picture of your "hybrid" lovebird. I wanted to let you know if you hadn't found out already that your vet was right, he/she IS just a different color mutation of the Black Masked species, not a hybrid between two species. I know this because I work for a breeder/pet bird shop and we have a little female just like this one. The mutation, I believe, is called a "dilute" I'm not good enough with BM's to tell you if it's a single dark factor or double dark factor dilute though.

The most distinctive way to tell a hybrid lovebird is that it has "muddy" brown cheeks. And you can also tell what birds made up the hybrid by those cheeks.

Here is a PFxBM
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typically, a FischerXPF is extremely bright orange and green instead of washed out like the PFXBM. Neither of those hybrids can breed but hybrids between the eye-ring species can, like FxBM.

also, just something cool but i once read that if you breed two BM dilutes together, you can get albinos

 

[FutureDVM]

Did you ever find out if the egg is fertile?