Why Do Budgies Break Their Eggs

Why Do Budgies Break Their Eggs?
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Most nesting budgies will break their eggs occasionally, especially new parents. Egg breaking becomes more worrisome when you find a budgie eating the shells or yolks afterward.
Budgies break their eggs when vitamin or mineral deficient. Then, the parents will eat the eggs and their shells to improve their health and increase the chances of future reproductive success.
Budgies may sense disease or defects in the eggs, smash them, and start again.
A female may break her eggs in a shared cage due to a lack of room, and new budgie parents may smash their eggs out of confusion and restart with a new batch.
Some budgies accidentally kill their eggs, knocking them out of the nest at night when they can’t see well.
Why Do Budgies Kill Their Eggs?
These reasons can cause a budgie to smash, crack, or throw out its eggs:
Fear or anxiety due to stress or predatory animals.
Depression that’s due to a restrictive cage, a lack of enrichment, or overcrowding.
Inadequate privacy, with a cage in an overly busy part of the home.
Nutritional problems due to poor diet or illness.
Sensing problems with the eggs (diseased or defective).
Inexperience (new parents or poorly socialized budgies).
Realizing the eggs are infertile.
Displeased with the nest.
Lack of food or competing for food.
Why Do Budgies Throw Eggs Out Of The Nest?
Let’s examine the reasons budgies destroy their eggs in more detail:
1 Egg Diseases
Experienced budgies can identify and separate diseased eggs from healthy ones.
Identifying diseased eggs is a skill that budgies learn over many years of breeding. A budgie will never allow a diseased egg to remain with the healthy eggs.
You’ll know if a budgie believes that an egg is diseased because it’ll only discard 1-2 eggs.
2 New Laying Cycle
Budgies sometimes destroy their eggs before they hatch if they want to start a new laying cycle.
Some eggs may be less developed than others due to disease, infertility, or unbalanced incubation. Instead of hatching the eggs in a random order, the budgie will start a new laying cycle.
A new laying cycle ensures that the budgie isn’t pulled in two directions: caring for chicks and incubating eggs simultaneously. That would be dangerous for all involved and likely unsuccessful.
Starting over, or killing off the less-developed eggs, is usually the right choice.
3 Space Problems
Budgies are social birds that thrive in flocks, but this changes when breeding.
Budgies about to breed need space since they view other birds as rivals. If you don’t relocate the breeding pair to a separate cage, they may destroy their eggs before they hatch.
4 Calcium Deficiency
Budgies may destroy their clutches due to a mineral deficiency. According to Cornell University Veterinary Medicine, calcium is an essential mineral in a bird’s diet.
Without sufficient calcium, a budgie will break its eggs as its body needs this vital mineral. If it lacks a well-balanced diet, budgies will grow ill and produce deformed eggs.
Also, misshapen eggs with weak eggshells increase the chances of egg binding.
From a survival standpoint, your budgie understands that remaining healthy and producing better eggs in the future is more important than protecting the current eggs.
The existing clutch becomes food to preserve the species.
Why Do Budgies Kill Their Eggs?
These reasons can cause a budgie to smash, crack, or throw out its eggs:
Fear or anxiety due to stress or predatory animals.
Depression that’s due to a restrictive cage, a lack of enrichment, or overcrowding.
Inadequate privacy, with a cage in an overly busy part of the home.
Nutritional problems due to poor diet or illness.
Sensing problems with the eggs (diseased or defective).
Inexperience (new parents or poorly socialized budgies).
Realizing the eggs are infertile.
Displeased with the nest.
Lack of food or competing for food.
Why Do Budgies Throw Eggs Out Of The Nest?
Let’s examine the reasons budgies destroy their eggs in more detail:
1 Egg Diseases
Experienced budgies can identify and separate diseased eggs from healthy ones.
Identifying diseased eggs is a skill that budgies learn over many years of breeding. A budgie will never allow a diseased egg to remain with the healthy eggs.
You’ll know if a budgie believes that an egg is diseased because it’ll only discard 1-2 eggs.

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