Nanny Adventures

For the past six years, I have had a lovely parakeet named Lemongrass. I thought for sure that Lemongrass was a boy. Last January, Dr Crum said Lemongrass was a girl. I was like yeah right. “HE” screeches etc and is a vicious biter. Lemongrass will step-up when out of the cage, not so much inside the cage. It is funny.

Last Wednesday Kidlet #3 was taking this hollowed out log out of the bottom of Lemongrass’s cage, because I hadn’t cleaned it out.  He says, why is there an egg on the bottom of the cage?  I was like “What???”  Sure enough there was an egg on the bottom of the cage. I kinda of started freaking out. It was under the log, so I am not sure how long it was there-maybe a day or two.  A few weeks ago, Lemongrass was overly friendly-sitting by the door for me to open and say step-up. Lemongrass would hop up on my finger and even come out of the cage. I thought for sure Lemongrass was dying, you know how animals change personalities before they die.

Thursday the 19th between 5:30 and 7:05 Lemongrass laid another egg, this egg was “bloody streaked”, which freaked me out. I had called Dr Crum earlier and they said make sure she is getting extra calcium via cuttlebone and eggshells/kale/egg etc.  From my research and my association with Phoenix Landing, I learned that parakeets lay eggs every other day.  Saturday I was on EggWatch 2009….it came and went with no egg. I thought for sure we were done with eggs because it has been six days since the second egg was laid, but guess what….there is now  a THIRD egg in there.  Here are some photos of the eggs. They are NOT fertile and they are cracked.  I moved them together when I was putting some paper towels on the bottom of the cage tonight.

Now the question is “Will there be six eggs?”