Are These Signs That My Parakeet May Be About To Lay?

Dear Yahoo! Answers Members,

Hello, I was actually not going to breed my parakeets and separate them, but my female (Sunbeam) and male (Angel) are showing signs of being a breeding pair. I’m not sure, though.

Sunbeam’s Symptoms-
Sunbeam likes to stay in dark, secluded places. She mainly likes to go inside our closet and sit there. And whenever Angel leaves her, she goes crazy. She won’t stop chirping until Angel comes back. Also, her tail is a little bit droopy. It’s not broken, she can move it, shake it back and forth, lift it, and other normal things, but it likes to stay droopy. Also, her vent/bottom is a little bit puffier than usual.

Angel and Sunbeam have been mating a little bit, but my dad says that they can’t have eggs already, and my mom says that she is ninety percent sure she is. I’m not sure. Angel has been acting differently, too. Well, besides the aggressiveness.

Angel’s Symptoms-
Angel likes to follow Sunbeam twenty-four/seven. Whenever Sunbeam is in her hiding area in our closet, he’ll stay close to her. Sometimes if we have paper, hamster hay (from handling them), or paper-towels that we dropped, Angel likes to pick it up with his beak and bring it to Sunbeam. Angel won’t let you handle him, and if you try to catch him, he’ll fly around the room several times and land near Sunbeam.

Also, when I try to handle Sunbeam, she flies into the wall and falls. This isn’t funny. I was wondering that if she did have eggs, could she damage them? I don’t handle her that much because I’m afraid I’ll hurt her/eggs. Also, is it possible for Sunbeam to break her eggs inside her? If so, how can you tell if they did break?

My mom and dad want to know a for sure answer. If she is, my mom said that we are going to have to get Sunbeam a nestbox, calcium food/water, and anything else. Could Sunbeam have eggs inside her?

one parakeet died, paranoid about other one – please help!?

We had a boy and a girl and the girl died this morning. Now the remaining bird is holding his wings out slightly so that there is space between his wings and his body. Wouldn’t be worried except it has been going on all day. He shows none of the same symptoms that she did before she died… so is this just grief, or what? Also we added a new bird to the cage to keep him company, could it be some kind of response to her? Any wisdom will help, thank you!!!

I asked a few months ago about my parakeet having a huge lump on her stomach.?

Most of the answers I got said she was egg bound and that if I didn’t take care of it right away she would die. I know that’s not what it is because she has had this for months and months but doesn’t seem to feel bad. However, she has chewed on the area so much that all the hair is gone around her stomach and as of this morning has actually chewed clear through her skin, making herself bleed. I am a big animal lover but also a single mom and I can’t justify spending a fortune on a parakeet. I called the vet this morning to see if they could put her to sleep and they want $50.00 to put a $20.00 parakeet to sleep! Is there any humane way to do this myself? Even though she doesn’t seem to act sick, it seems like she must be suffering some just because she is chewing and bleeding. OMG. Someone please help me. I can’t do anything cruel to her.

Questions about Guinea Pigs??!!?

Okay, so my mom is making me give away my parakeets (I’m not willingly doing it) and she said I could get a guinea pig instead. I asked her if I could get a Persian Kitten (I saw one with a health certificate for only $100, and it was a beautiful white doll-faced with blue eyes!) but my mom is really prejudiced against cats, and since dogs and cats are often put in the same category, she thinks cats are as difficult to take care for, and wont listen to what I have to tell her!
Anyways, my parents would like NEVER let me have a rat, they like think the domisticated ones come from sewers lol:( ———– and I really dont like bunnies, so my choice now is a guinea pig.
I did some research on them and they look really cute, and their cages dont have to be cleaned out so often, and look like very loving animals.
Now, I have a few questions about guinea pigs.

1) how often do they urinate. (I’ve heard every 15-30 minutes)

2) how often do they poop, and how much more so do they poop than budgies? (I’ve heard they poop like once a minute, lol!)
Personally, I dont mind their poop. I went to the pet store and it looks just like hard pellets, but I do not want them to urinate on me!! My friend used to own a pair and he said they never made on him, and that they held it in till they got to the cage, and that they got warm before making — is this true??

3) They are not that difficult to train right? I’ve trined my parakeets, and they are like ridiculously hard to train! I got an older pair, 3 months(a con), 2 females instead of males(a con), a bonded pair(a con), and from the pet store(a con). So, even with all this I got my blue female, Bella, finger trained within 5 days. My other one is also pretty trained. So when it comes to training I’m pretty confident, cuz birds by nature are extremely shy and skittish, so Idt guinea pigs would be any more difficult, but rather easier.

4)How messy are they? I know birds are very messy, and I had to vaccum after them every day, but guinea pigs are in an enclosure, so how messy are they? Birds are more in an open space and they take the hull of their seeds and spit it out, so those little guys are pretty destructive lol! (I heard guinea pigs can kick their timothy hay).

5)Will attention be a problem? None of my brothers are in college, I’m in 8th grade, my older bros in 11th, and my younger ones are in 3rd and 7th. I’ll keep them in my bsmnt, they will get loads of attention we are like basically there the whole day.

6)What about holding them? I’ve did some research on Yahoo! Answers – and people say they cuddle it in a towel so it doesn’t make on them. Let me just clarrify this – my parents would NEVER let me use a house towel to hold them.So should I just use a toilet towel(clean, of course) to hold them? Will it stain it?

7)Do they step in their poop? Cuz birds’s poop go under the cage, but guinea pigs are on ground, so do thhey step all over their poop?!
On a high maintance level, of 1-10, what would you rate them?

9) Are they social creatures, and do they make good pets and attatch to you??

Kk, that’s it, for now..I think… please answer ALL my questions and for those of you who own also birds please answer how they compare in care to birds (what I asked).

Thank You Very Much:]

My parakeet is fine. She layed her egg and now I am worried about the egg. She is not sitting on the egg!?

My parakeet layed the egg so that isn’t a worry anymore. She still has the bulge that I thought ment she was egg bound but now she isn’t even on the egg. I did open her nesting box to get her out to put something on her to help with the egg lieing but she went back in so I thought it was fine. But now that she layed the egg in th box she doesn’t want anything to do with it. What do I do? I don’t want to loose the egg.

What do I do about my sick parakeet?

My parakeets feathers are messed up looking, hes been acting more aggressive then usual and his auditory tubes (ears) are exposed and i think are excreting a stiffening liquid, I’m really worried what do I do?

Is my parakeet about to lay eggs?

I may be over reacting but her butt feathers are all ruffled and she’s pooped a few abnormally big poop and her cere is brown and kind of flakey. Are there other symptoms to look for?? Thanks
She also rips up the paper on the bottom. I put in paper towel just in case, was that a good idea?
She’s been making a pile of ripped pieces of paper in a corner, and she’s been going back and forth with ripping up the paper and just resting.

anyone know about a parakeet illness?

hi +D my parakeet has some kind of brownish stuff above her nostril / beak. does anyone know what that is?
thankss

Questions about training a parakeet?

My grandma just bought a parakeet and she needs to know how to put her hand in the cage without the bird biting her. I guess she wants to train it to be friendly and come out of its house and go back in without a huge disaster. She says its wings aren’t clipped. If she doesn’t get them clipped, how can she train it without it just flying away?

How do I go about training my parakeet?

I have had her almost two months now. She is 8 months old and I am working on training her. The only thing is she screams a lot, then stops and does it again. Does that mean I am slowly breaking her in? She still bites me pretty hard when I hold her too. Then I will put her back in her cage, leave the room for a bit then when I come back she starts to stretch and the feathers go up on her head. Is that a good thing?
roshana p yes it does work because I have trained parakeets for many years. its just been so long since I had a pair that I have forgotten.

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