We had quite a weekend!
On Saturday night I noticed that Tippi had a little bulge on her abdomen. After what we went through with Cooper and Emmy, I was worried (ha ha, I was sick with dread). It could have been an egg, it could have been fluid, or a tumor, etc. Of course, our avian vet is closed on evenings and on Sundays.
The next day the bulge was bigger. Tippi seemed fine. There were some big poops (which is an indication of an egg on the way).
I put her into the little travel cage where she sleeps at night. Because of her balance issues, she will fall from her perch at night – this way I don’t worry she will be hurt.
On Monday morning I got up early to see if I could get her in for an emergency appointment at the vet. When I looked in on on her, I saw…

a little egg! I was so relieved!
Tippi had no interest in the egg, so I removed it. We have bad luck with eggs here (Cooper was eggbound and had to have an egg surgically removed, and Sunny prolapsed with an egg and had to have veterinary care), so I do not want her to be laying. We do everything we can to discourage egg laying in our females, but I will have to redouble my efforts. Tippi is tiny, and I don’t want her to become egg bound or have any other egg related problems. Hopefully, we are one and done with eggs!

Here she is with her egg. I couldn’t resist taking a photo. Once again, she had zero interest in her egg.