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Can a female cockatiel and a male parakeet actually make a fertile egg?

I have a female cockatiel (daisy), male parakeet (danny), and two other female paraketts but I actually caught daisy and danny mating. This was about a couple of weeks ago and today i found a broken egg in the cage. Im not sure if it was fertile or not. So naturally we weren’t prepared so there was no mating box. I really don’t know what to do.

Cockatiels and parakeets aren’t just different species, they’re on opposite sides of the parrot family tree. To put that into perspective, they can’t produce offpsring with one another any more than a horse could produce offspring with a rhino or a lion could produce offspring with a dog. That’s a big difference!

Birds have an instinct to mate, like all animals, but that doesn’t mean you should encourage it. Most female birds actually lay eggs regularly as a part of their natural “cycle”, instead of going into heat or having a period. This is perfectly normal and even birds without mates usually still lay from time to time. If Daisy lays any more eggs, leave them in the cage until you’re sure she’s lost interest, then throw it away. If you remove it while she feels motherly and wants to take care of it she’ll just lay another to replace it, and that will deplete her calcium stores which can make her really sick after a while.

I’d also suggest keeping them in separate cages, if you aren’t already. Birds can get crabby with each other even in the best of circumstances, and parakeets are known to become aggressive when they pair up. What with the size difference and all, keeping them together could be very dangerous. I know a lot of people keep their birds in different cages and just let them play together when they’re being supervised, which is perfectly fine, but letting them live in the same “house” when you aren’t around can be really dangerous. You never know when they’ll have a disagreement, and being in a cage they can’t get away from each other.

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