Our Budgies are Nesting!

Rossy and Maeve started nesting on Saturday. A female budgie will lay between 4 and 8 eggs (one every 2 days). Each egg needs to be incubated for 18 days, after which they will hatch. Females will often only begin full-time incubating after the second egg has been laid. Maeve laid five eggs before she began full-time incubation but may lay some more.

Budgies are minimalist nesters and require little more than a dry floor area lined with wood shavings to lay their eggs on. Our wooden nesting box is a perfect substitute to the tree holes budgies favour in the wild. The floor of our nesting has a concave section to help the chicks grip when they hatch.

Budgies are usually very good parents and it is not likely that we will need to intervene to help them hatch the eggs. However, we may need to move them to a quieter location while they are nesting.

We will keep you updated on their progress! 😊