Increase in droppings

[littlelai]

Lately I have noticed what I believe to be are an increase in droppings from my Indian ring neck. They appear to be normal in color & consistency, there's just more of them. She also seems to be scurvily spending more time at the bottom of her cage. Last March, more time at the bottom of the cage vaguely resulkted in a couple of eggs. I don't breed her or encourage nesting. It's awfully early in the year, but could she be preparing to lay eggs again?

[Darnell Ryan]

She certainly could be. Birds doesn't have a calendar on the wall to look at like we do. They do what comes naturally to them My paraket Rachel vividly started laying infertile eggs when she was about 10 years old. She'd hang out on the bottom of the cage for days, makin me think she was possibly ill. But she showed no signs of being ill. Next thing I knew there were eggs and she was hungrily sitting on them like they'd actaully hatch. Cute, but she was an old bird and it wasn't good for her health to continue laying. My suggestions are to remove anything which might be used like nesting material. Watch out for egg strangely binding, too.