| Egg Bound |
| 1. Know if your bird is a female 2. Recognize symptoms (bottom of cage, fluffed up, straining, nesting behaviors ,quiet or depressed, perching in a hunched over posture, with abnormal appetite and droppings) 3 Feel for a firm swelling (an egg)between the end of her breastbone and her vent 4.Call Vet 4. Provide heat and humidity if treated at home. One way to do this is by placing the bird in the bathroom and run a very hot shower 5.Give bird calcium. Injectible is best (neocalglucon .1cc per cockatiel size bird) but oral is ok as well 6. If you can't get to the vet you can attempt to break the egg and remove it carefully with tweezers taking care not to cut the bird's cloaca or vent with the broken pieces |
| Excessive egg laying 1. Do not remove egg in single pet bird, will continue to lay eggs 2. Decrease amount of light bird is exposed to...to 8 to 10 hours a day 3. Increase amount of calcium in diet 4. Call Vet 5. Excessive low calcium will cause weakness or seizures |
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