xxx bird question

[lightemup]

Fellow readers,
My girlfriend has to very annoying parakeet birds that lives with her. One is a male and the other is a female. Well recently we found out unfortunately that the female is pregnant. So my girlfriend and I were sitting there one night and trying to think how birds mate or in other words, (do it)? This has been buggin us and we have looked on how this procedure is conducted but I cannot find it. We are just curious and we also obviously need to get lives. But hey, these are the things that keep you up at nights where you are looking at the ceiling thinking on how they can get down and dirty. Any answers on this question would be greatly appreciated. Please no forwards to web sites that may explain this. I have done enough reading on birds. Heck I don't even like birds other than to eat them. But don't tell her I said that. So just a straight answer would be much obliged. Everybody have a safe and good weekend and a happy holiday.

NATE:confused:

[DelC]

They do it doggie style!! Check out some chickens in a barnyard or zoo.

Now that you have that mystery solved, try this one: Where do seagulls sleep at night?? You never see them on the beach!!

[Bravo8]

Originally posted by DelC
They do it doggie style!!

Wouldn't that be "birdie style"??:D

[dani13]

I have never heard of a bird being pregnant. Birds lay eggs in a nest, they do not give live birth. And usually domesticated birds need a small bird house in the cage with a nest in it to give them an incentive to do it.
What makes you think your bird is pregnant?

[lightemup]

we took the bord to the vet and they said she is going to have baby birds. I did not know the proper scientific name for a bird when they will have babies. And that is interesting that they go doggie style. I guess that is ok as long as they don't wake me up in the night. But I hope they will take a break now since she is expecting.

[HWYPTL1192]

I think when it comes to sex most birds just wing it.

[ToppDog]

I think you opened a "big can of worms" with this one (pun intended)!

[DelC]

I don’t want to rain on your parade, but don’t hold your breath on your bird having babies. Dani13 is right, all birds lay eggs and only after having sex will the eggs hatch. So, I would suggest you find another vet or at least check the licenses hanging on the wall!!

[Ridgeback]

Um, I think your vet needs to go back to school.

Dani and DelC are correct.

BUT, you do not need two birds to have eggs. My grandparents had a bird, male (so they thought) who laid eggs. Joe, was obviously a Josephine, but there was only one bird, so the eggs were not fertilized.

I don't know if this is true, but I had heard that females lay the eggs, and unless there is a male around to fertilize them, they don't hatch. An egg shell is not solid, but actually porous, so the males will also sit on the eggs to deposit birdie, um, stuff. This would hold true and explain why Joe/Josephine, a single bird would still lay eggs.

If you don't want your parakeets to mate, seperate them. BTW, parakeet males have blue around the top of the beak and females have brown or pink.

[ToppDog]

the males will also sit on the eggs to deposit birdie, um, stuff.

Bird-Seed!!! Couldn't resist.

[DelC]

Originally posted by Ridgeback
An egg shell is not solid, but actually porous, so the males will also sit on the eggs to deposit birdie, um, stuff. This would hold true and explain why Joe/Josephine, a single bird would still lay eggs. Sorry, but it doesn’t work that way. I think it does with reptiles, but not with warm blooded animals. Certainly works that way with fish.

I helped raise chickens in my younger days, (not by choice) and the hens would lay eggs on a daily basis, which was my job to collect. The rosters never, ever, sit on the nest. Just wasn't in their job description. We also hatched eggs into baby chickens, which didn't happen without a roster to mate with the hens, which fertilized the eggs, before they were laid, so they could hatch out baby chickens. Male birds do help out with sitting on the eggs, but only so the female can gather food without the eggs getting cold. If the eggs get cold, they won’t hatch. Plus, after the baby birds are hatched they have to be fed for a few weeks before they can fly off and find their own food and it takes both parents to provide enough food to feed the young in the nest. With baby chickens, as soon as they can walk, (2-3 days) they go find their own food, the mother chicken doesn’t feed them by mouth. So, boys & girls, that concludes our lesson today on fowl sex habits.

[CustomsCop]

You all have WAY too much time on your hands

[jbak]

Finally a question in my realm of expertise. First of all the birds do do it "birdie style" as explained above. Usually this takes just seconds, the male will mount the female, some times grabbing the back of her neck for stability and precede to deposit his "bird seed". Now egg-laying without fertilization can occur. I'm not to sure about this, since it does not occur in most wild birds because of the huge nutritional expense in producing eggs, but I do know that exotics and chickeens will do it. I would recommend picking up a parakeet book about their nesting needs if you wants these chicks to be born because you will need some kind of nesting material and structure. Also, you might need to provide additional food supplements to account for the bird's huge calcium need, since calcium produces the egg shell.

[Ridgeback]

Thanks Jbak & DelC. I wasn't sure what I had posted was correct. That's why I put the disclamier. :D

Sad that one of the hottest topics is on bird sex. :eek: