Shivali
Hatchling
Hello,
It’s been hormonal spring for both birds and I’ve been trying to discourage, but some things I haven’t done as well as I could…
I think Neeloo has egg butt. I’m very concerned… is it possible she doesn’t? I can’t see what else it could be. She gained 4g in a week and seems to have a little butt pooch. It’s subtle but I do feel like it’s there somehow.
Neeloo became obsessed with my bed again, after ignoring it all fall and winter. I thought I had solved this issue… but
Since April/may, she is trying to burrow in it. I discourage her but she gets really upset, and it’s hard to even spend time in bed because she will pace up and down the cage (it’s a huge cage, 60” almost aviary like), being very restless and anxious bc she wants to go in the bed. As soon as I take her out she flies straight to her “nest”.
so it’s been nearly impossible to have her OOC in that room, which I spend a lot of time in.
Ive tried to remedy by hanging out in other rooms, but that is a room I need to spend a lot of time in. Plus when she sees me resting in bed ( I have health issues and I tend to spend time there). She wants to come too. It’s really hard to keep her out of the bed.
sometimes she will just end up in a corner of the duvet that’s turned over, when I turn my eyes away for a second she is burrowing or just sitting with her head sticking out, looking at me from her “nest”. She is hyper focused on this.
plus my linnie is around Lotus the budgie all the time (the are best buddies), and lotus is constantly doing the “perch lambada” all spring!!! Its been impossible to discourage her from regurgitating and rubbing. So maybe that’s also triggering Neeloo.
I have been weighing the girls every week sometimes more frequently, their weight has been fine , this week I weighed neeloo and somehow she gained 4 grams!!! She’s at 57, and I see a little booty bump… I think. It’s subtle.
I can’t believe I didn’t notice because I’m with her all the time, but I did have a busy week. How did she gain so much weight in one week?
I’m horrified and I feel guilty… I probably have been feeding her too much fresh food, and give her not much but a little bit of apple every day bc she just lives for that. I avoid touching her but lavish affection on her and kiss her beak- plus sometimes I let her nestle in the bed for a few minutes because it makes her so happy. She’s three and has kind of always done this a bit in the warmer months. But never been egg butty. Of course weather is perfect and gorgeous, I’ve been taking her out to the patio in her cage, that might be stimulating too? She does not seem to ever have done any vent rubbing.
She is strong and has great muscle tone, has plenty of OOC time.
I may be giving her a less austere life that she needs this spring. It’s hard because even when I try to sleep them longer, it’s like they know! They will be awake in their dark cage, just hanging out.
Maybe I need a cover that blocks more light, I use a bird cage cover that is dark canvas but it’s not the really intense light blocking kind that are that thick synthetic material.
anyway, I will be working in the future to discourage this, but in the meantime I fear it may be too late. I also get confused about calcivet, mineral blocks, egg food, all those things because it seems like a balancing act to get the just right amount and I get nervous about giving them too much or too little and I just try my best in the end.
I will call the vet in the morning and will be at home keeping a close eye on Neeloo.
what do I do now in terms of diet ?
I have removed shreddy toys and anything remotely nesty, and am not letting her on the bed, but should I be giving her a nest? Egg food? Calcivet? Dummy eggs? I am lost suddenly, having devoted all my time to researching discouraging laying.
Right now I have really edited out her things and hid the pillows and things that she likes to go after, she is scrambling around the room trying to find a nest.
i have a feeling all will work out, but i need to be doing everything I can to help her.
she is my biological child and I love her more than anything.
Is there any possibility she is just fat? Lol
I will attach a picture. Maybe I’m just being hysterical for no reason.
if it’s not an egg I could just double down on the austerity lifestyle, but if it is don’t I kind of have to go in the opposite direction? Like, giving egg, calcium, a nest, to help her lay? But I don’t want to do those things if it’s somehow not an egg.
Thanks everyone! thanks so much for your advice!
It’s been hormonal spring for both birds and I’ve been trying to discourage, but some things I haven’t done as well as I could…
I think Neeloo has egg butt. I’m very concerned… is it possible she doesn’t? I can’t see what else it could be. She gained 4g in a week and seems to have a little butt pooch. It’s subtle but I do feel like it’s there somehow.
Neeloo became obsessed with my bed again, after ignoring it all fall and winter. I thought I had solved this issue… but
Since April/may, she is trying to burrow in it. I discourage her but she gets really upset, and it’s hard to even spend time in bed because she will pace up and down the cage (it’s a huge cage, 60” almost aviary like), being very restless and anxious bc she wants to go in the bed. As soon as I take her out she flies straight to her “nest”.
so it’s been nearly impossible to have her OOC in that room, which I spend a lot of time in.
Ive tried to remedy by hanging out in other rooms, but that is a room I need to spend a lot of time in. Plus when she sees me resting in bed ( I have health issues and I tend to spend time there). She wants to come too. It’s really hard to keep her out of the bed.
sometimes she will just end up in a corner of the duvet that’s turned over, when I turn my eyes away for a second she is burrowing or just sitting with her head sticking out, looking at me from her “nest”. She is hyper focused on this.
plus my linnie is around Lotus the budgie all the time (the are best buddies), and lotus is constantly doing the “perch lambada” all spring!!! Its been impossible to discourage her from regurgitating and rubbing. So maybe that’s also triggering Neeloo.
I have been weighing the girls every week sometimes more frequently, their weight has been fine , this week I weighed neeloo and somehow she gained 4 grams!!! She’s at 57, and I see a little booty bump… I think. It’s subtle.
I can’t believe I didn’t notice because I’m with her all the time, but I did have a busy week. How did she gain so much weight in one week?
I’m horrified and I feel guilty… I probably have been feeding her too much fresh food, and give her not much but a little bit of apple every day bc she just lives for that. I avoid touching her but lavish affection on her and kiss her beak- plus sometimes I let her nestle in the bed for a few minutes because it makes her so happy. She’s three and has kind of always done this a bit in the warmer months. But never been egg butty. Of course weather is perfect and gorgeous, I’ve been taking her out to the patio in her cage, that might be stimulating too? She does not seem to ever have done any vent rubbing.
She is strong and has great muscle tone, has plenty of OOC time.
I may be giving her a less austere life that she needs this spring. It’s hard because even when I try to sleep them longer, it’s like they know! They will be awake in their dark cage, just hanging out.
Maybe I need a cover that blocks more light, I use a bird cage cover that is dark canvas but it’s not the really intense light blocking kind that are that thick synthetic material.
anyway, I will be working in the future to discourage this, but in the meantime I fear it may be too late. I also get confused about calcivet, mineral blocks, egg food, all those things because it seems like a balancing act to get the just right amount and I get nervous about giving them too much or too little and I just try my best in the end.
I will call the vet in the morning and will be at home keeping a close eye on Neeloo.
what do I do now in terms of diet ?
I have removed shreddy toys and anything remotely nesty, and am not letting her on the bed, but should I be giving her a nest? Egg food? Calcivet? Dummy eggs? I am lost suddenly, having devoted all my time to researching discouraging laying.
Right now I have really edited out her things and hid the pillows and things that she likes to go after, she is scrambling around the room trying to find a nest.
i have a feeling all will work out, but i need to be doing everything I can to help her.
she is my biological child and I love her more than anything.
Is there any possibility she is just fat? Lol
I will attach a picture. Maybe I’m just being hysterical for no reason.
if it’s not an egg I could just double down on the austerity lifestyle, but if it is don’t I kind of have to go in the opposite direction? Like, giving egg, calcium, a nest, to help her lay? But I don’t want to do those things if it’s somehow not an egg.
Thanks everyone! thanks so much for your advice!
for little Neeloo and you! I don’t know why, but it always seems to be a weekend or holiday doesn’t it? Please keep us posted how she’s doing.
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