Parakeet continuously removing egg from nest box.

[Colorguarder08]

SO my grandmother put a nest box in with her parakeets. One of them laid an egg four days ago but she laid it outside the box so my grandmother put it in the box. Later that day she walked by the cage and again the same egg was out of the box (craked at this point) so again my grandma put the egg back in there. Later that day as I was getting ready for my classes I walked in front of the cage and noticed the egg was out of the box again only now the egg was compleatly cracked and there was absoultly nothing inside it it was just an empty shell so I threw it away. Does anyone know what would make a bird do this?

 

[mcw009]

First-time breeders don't always quite get the picture. It's possible the egg wasn't viable to begin with. The second time, she almost definitely chucked it because it was cracked- they can tell, and they know it means the egg is a lost cause.

 

[MikeyTN]

Like it was mentioned by the last poster, that's how it goes. BUT I would like to know how many Parakeets are in the cage and what are the sex ratio if there's multiple.