How Often Eggs
are Laid:-
A female/hen will lay an
egg about every 1-2
days. If you have an
aviary, keeping records
on the females breeding
may help you find out
how successful a
female/hen is breeding.
Information you keep may
include number of eggs
laid, the date eggs were
laid, dates when eggs
hatched, etc.
Incubation/Hatching/Fledge:-
A female/hen will start
to incubate (sitting)
after the second egg is
laid. The female/hen
will do the incubating
while the male/cock
feeds her, sometimes the
female/hen will come out
to feed or drink herself
so don't worry if you
see her out of the
nesting box. Once the
incubation has started
it will take the eggs 18-21
days to hatch and the
chicks will fledge
around 6 weeks of age.
Aviary/Cabinet
Breeding:-
Breeding budgies in a
aviary is a more natural
way for the budgies to
breed, as if they were
in the wild, but it is
also dangerous. Female
budgies will/can fight
with other females for a
nesting box, attack
other budgies if get to
close to their nest and
sometimes males fight
with other males because
one is jealous about the
other having
eggs/babies, that
female/hen/mate and many
more reasons. Another
risk involving fights is
the stress a budgie gets
after a fight, which can
sometimes kill them.
Breeding budgies in
cabinets can be more
safer than aviary
breeding, because you
only have two birds in
it, a female and male. A
nesting box can be
placed on the inside or
the outside of the
cabinet, as long as the
birds can't escape you
will be fine. Budgies
mate more successful in
cabinets as the male
does not have to fight
other males for his
mate. Male budgies tend
to interfere in each
others business and you
have more chance of
getting clear eggs
because the male spent
all his time scaring
away other males, and he
doesn't get time to
fertile the egg(s). In
cabinet breeding there
is no competition
(female to female and
male to male.) Whatever
you choose to do,
remember it's fun to
keep Budgies!
