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| Graham Townsend |
Hello all, would appreciate some advice if possible. We have two red
lories, the eldest is 6 years old and now lays 2 or 3 clutches of two eggs
each year. Our second lory (who is 2 years old) came to us in Feb 05, not
sure if male or female but all eggs so far have been infertile.
My understanding is that a little while after the incubation period Flame
(our eldest) should twig that the eggs are not going to hatch and abandon
them. Unfortunately no-one has told her this! She will sit for as long
as we allow her to, calling to the eggs.
Up to now I have been removing the eggs at about week 5 when she has been
out of her nest box (and out of line of sight - she is VERY defensive of
her eggs, understandably). Of course when she goes back to the nest she
is quite clearly distressed looking for her eggs. She is always back to
herself within a day or so, but is there any way that I can make this a
less upsetting experience for her?
Sorry for the long post, thanks for any suggestions.
regards
Graham
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| Grygon's |
"Mongo Sucks" <mongo_sucksREMOVE@hotmailREMOVE.com> wrote in message
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> Graham Townsend <graham@nospamthankyoutownsends.eclipse.co.uk> wrote:
> > Up to now I have been removing the eggs at about week 5 when she has
been
> > out of her nest box (and out of line of sight - she is VERY defensive of
>
> Do you remove ALL the eggs at once? If so, I think that is not good.
>
> In my experience (with an egg-laying cockatiel), I would wait until she
> finished laying all her eggs, then let her sit on them for a week or so,
then
> I removed one egg every other day or so, until eventually, all are gone.
She
> would become bored with sitting on the eggs as they slowly disappeared and
go
> back to normal. So anyway, don't remove all the eggs at once, just remove
> one at a time, every other day or so.
that is my experience as well! never remove them all at once, just one
every other day or so. that has been the way i've done it with all my birds
be they cockatiels, ducks, chickens, budgies, etc. all at once, even they
seem bored with the eggs, can be a bad experience for them. :(
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| Anonny Moose |
> "Mongo Sucks" <mongo_sucksREMOVE@hotmailREMOVE.com> wrote in message
> news:pdydnYieK5GmHAHfRVn-oQ@look.ca...
> that is my experience as well! never remove them all at once, just one
> every other day or so. that has been the way i've done it with all my
> birds
> be they cockatiels, ducks, chickens, budgies, etc. all at once, even they
> seem bored with the eggs, can be a bad experience for them. :(
>
And I would add not to leave the eggs too long lest your bird decide to eat
them.
Karen
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| pammyT |
"Graham Townsend" <graham@NOSPAMTHANKYOUtownsends.eclipse.co.uk> wrote in
message
news:pan.2005.05.31.10.40.53.41618@NOSPAMTHANKYOUtownsends.eclipse.co.uk...
> Hello all, would appreciate some advice if possible. We have two red
> lories, the eldest is 6 years old and now lays 2 or 3 clutches of two eggs
> each year. Our second lory (who is 2 years old) came to us in Feb 05, not
> sure if male or female but all eggs so far have been infertile.
>
> My understanding is that a little while after the incubation period Flame
> (our eldest) should twig that the eggs are not going to hatch and abandon
> them. Unfortunately no-one has told her this! She will sit for as long
> as we allow her to, calling to the eggs.
>
> Up to now I have been removing the eggs at about week 5 when she has been
> out of her nest box (and out of line of sight - she is VERY defensive of
> her eggs, understandably). Of course when she goes back to the nest she
> is quite clearly distressed looking for her eggs. She is always back to
> herself within a day or so, but is there any way that I can make this a
> less upsetting experience for her?
>
> Sorry for the long post, thanks for any suggestions.
>
> regards
>
> Graham
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http://www.cockatiels.org/articles/breeding/eggs.html
http://www.aviannetwork.com/articles/eggs.htm
http://www.wctropicalbird.com/bird%.../egg_laying.htm
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| Graham Townsend |
Thank you all for the advice and the links. I think my way ahead will be
to try and reduce the length of 'daylight' hours that she gets to try and
stop the laying.
However I think that may not be enough - she is a very determined little
bird! In fact she laid her first egg amongst some underwear in my wife's
bedside cabinet. We'd been wondering why it was so difficult to get Flame
out of the drawer, particularly as, up until then, we had thought that she
was a he!!!
If she does persist in laying then I will remove one egg just after the
end of the incubation period, and the second a day or so later. At the
moment I'm not overly concerned about her wearing herself out since she is
only laying three clutches of two eggs in a year. That doesn't seem
excessive to me, does anyone have info to the contrary?
Thanks again for the help.
Graham
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