Thursday, August 26, 2010

Eggs


Photo: http://babahogs.blogspot.com/2009/04/budgie-breeding_30.html

To take a short break from the colour schemes, I will give you some other budgie facts:

The female budgie lays her eggs one at a time and this happens during a period of one to two days. The number of eggs varies between four and eight!
The first egg will generally hatch after eighteen days, and each chick will hatch in the order the eggs were laid. During the first few days, the mother budgie will spend all her time sitting on her baby budgies to keep them warm.

6 comments:

  1. Can't wait to see that for myself ;-)

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  2. How do you know if they are old enough to hve babies

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  3. Because mine are sometimes fitting (actually alwayz) lol plz help

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    1. Hi! I would say that 18 months is the minimum age for budgies to start a nest. You can often tell from their ceres; a male budgie's ceres will turn bright blue and a female budgie's ceres will turn deep brown. Hope that helps! Bika

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  4. So, if your bird lays 8 eggs, you have a chance of ending up with 10 keets!

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