I found an egg!!

[Chilli]

What a wonderful surprise! And it sounds like they're being good parents.
Congradulations on the egg^^.

[Sevaede]

Ooooohoohoo! Congrats!

All this bird talk is giving me birdie fever. :P

[jesse_3]

Wow, that would be a huge surprise! I hope it hatches! How exciting!!!!

Steph and the crew

[Giselle]

Congrats!! (Pssst. Are you adding calcium supplements? Mom is really going to need the extra calcium. I lost my beloved hen to egg-bind but most of it was due to stress and other factors...*sigh* I miss those days...)

[binka_nugget]

I haven't added any calcium supplements yet since this was a surprise, but I'll be picking up some today.

[Logan]

Giselle, help me with a question. I am using crushed boiled eggs (with the shells) to supplement Mily's calcium. And she has a Cuttlebone. Should I be doing something else?

Logan

[Giselle]

Fresh veggies! One thing my birds LOVED was fresh kale, brocolli, bok choy, and carrot tops. However, I didn't combine all the supplements because too much calcium is detrimental as well. What I did was rotate my supplements.

My birds have a "supplement dish" which is specifically for supplements only. During breeding season, I would make my own eggfood (bread crumbs + crushed eggs and eggshells) and mix that in with storebought eggfood and crushed pellets (Harrison and Zupreem mainly). They would pick and nibble at this stuff for a day or two until I threw it out. After they were done with this powder supplement, I would take out the supplement dish and place a bunch of fresh veggies in its place. I hung mine on skewers because I find that keets especially love climbing on them.