The ability of human metaphase-II arrested eggs to activate following fertilisation declines with advancing maternal age. Egg activation is triggered by repetitive increases in intracellular Ca²⁺ concentration ([Ca²⁺]_i) in the ooplasm as a result of sperm-egg fusion. We therefore hypothesised that eggs from older females feature a reduced ability to mount appropriate Ca²⁺ responses at fertilisation. To test this hypothesis we performed the first examination of Ca²⁺ dynamics in eggs from young and naturally-aged mice. Strikingly, we find that Ca²⁺stores and resting [Ca²⁺]_i are unchanged with age. Although eggs from aged mice feature a reduced ability to replenish intracellular Ca²⁺ stores following depletion, this difference had no effect on the duration, number, or amplitude of Ca²⁺ oscillations following intracytoplasmic sperm injection or expression of phospholipase C zeta. In contrast, we describe a substantial reduction in the frequency and duration of oscillations in aged eggs upon parthenogenetic activation with SrCl₂. We conclude that the ability to mount and respond to an appropriate Ca²⁺ signal at fertilisation is largely unchanged by advancing maternal age, but subtle changes in Ca²⁺ handling occur that may have more substantial impacts upon commonly used means of parthenogenetic activation.