You are NOT going to believe this!!!!

[sirrahved]

In cockatiels, the egg color also varies slightly from fertile vs. non-fertile eggs. Non-fertile eggs tend to have a slightly more peachy/pink appearance. Fertile look more white.

Hoping you have wee ones on the way!

[popcornbird]

Update:

I'm pretty sure the eggs are all infertile. I've candeled them several times, and until now, all I see is an egg yolk, and air sac. There have been no changes in the eggs at all in all these weeks. Still just an egg yolk...If they were fertile, I'm pretty sure we'd be hearing some peeping by now. I am disappointed, but its okay. God has His Will in the Creation of new beings, and if His Will isn't there, then it isn't going to happen, and I'm fine with that. He knows what's best.

Now the problem is, Muffin is still sitting on them. This past weekend, she was off them the entire day, playing and running around the house for hours. She was still sitting on them in the night. For some reason, she started sitting again since yesterday. What's up with that?

I don't want to take them away too early and cause her to lay more. When is the right time? Will she eventually 'get it' and just abandon them on her own?

[Logan]

Just leave them in there. She'll ignore them and give up, eventually, if they aren't fertile. Only when she does ignore them, take them out. Otherwise, just like you thought, she'll lay more.

Milly has laid 6 this go around. The first two, she ignored, so I got rid of them, and she promptly laid 4 more.

[Husky_mom]

my Maui had infertile eggs also.... they seemed pure yolk after 20 days of sitting on them... so after a few days she had ignored them I tossed them.... later she laid one more egg, which I knew it was a replacement one because she only laid that one......

after like 10 days she started laying again and now we have the replacement one and 3 others... which might be fertile this time as they have been mating in between eggs laid........ hopefully this time we have babies.....

just make sure she replenishes her calcium....and offer dark greens and cuttlebone

[Jessika]

I woke up this morning and my in-laws' tiels had two eggs in their cage It isn't uncommon for them to lay one or two but this time the daddy was actually sitting on them

[finn's mom]

Those are wonderful photos, they look so beautiful. I'm sorry the eggs are infertile, but it sounds like you are handling that possibility well.

So interesting, all the stories about birds laying eggs...