Breeding Tips and Advice LOVEBIRD

Is your pair DNA sexed or previously proven (with each other)? Are you sure you have a male/female pair? Since you found an egg, you know for sure one bird is a female. Again, since this is the first egg, you have time to hang a nest box for them. The hen's brood patch is not at incubating temperature and will not reach proper temp for several days yet.

1. I hang the boxes on the outside of the cage (yup, I cut bars if necessary) and add aspen shavings until the box is full to within 1" below the entrance hole.
2. If your pair is Peachfaced, Peachies are not great nest builders but mom will add material if it's available and will re-arrange the shavings to suit her own taste/needs.
3. Put the egg in the box and hope that momma lovebird lays the next one in the nest instead of elsewhere.
4. If she doesn't go into the box, there's no great damage done because there's nothing developing.
5. You won't see the beginnings of chick development for at least another 7 days.