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Pet Forum / Birds / Parrots / May 2004How long to let them sit?
This is my first experience with egg-laying cockatiels. I have two females who laid 9 infertile eggs in total and have been incubating them as a tag-team. Now I'm wondering how long I should let them continue, and just how to go about getting things back to normal. Do I start slipping an egg a day out of the cage until they're gone, or just take them all at once? Jeff > This is my first experience with egg-laying cockatiels. I have two females > who laid 9 infertile eggs in total and have been incubating them as a [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > take them all at once? > Jeff There is a much higher chance of the birds just laying more egss if the current ones are removed. Just wait until they give up on the eggs by themselves. That shouldn't take much longer than three weeks, it could even be sooner.  SignatureSteve Leave the eggs alone until *they* decide they have had enough. Usually it takes 21 days from the time the last egg was laid. If you take any eggs out of the nest, they will continue to lay more until their desired clutch number is reached and you risk having one of them become egg bound or dying. Hope this helps!! > This is my first experience with egg-laying cockatiels. I have two females > who laid 9 infertile eggs in total and have been incubating them as a [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > take them all at once? > Jeff Oh... So, let nature take its course? I hadn't considered that. D'oh! Thanks, Jeff > Leave the eggs alone until *they* decide they have had enough. Usually it > takes 21 days from the time the last egg was laid. If you take any eggs out [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > > take them all at once? > > Jeff Precisely grasshopper! ;) > Oh... So, let nature take its course? I hadn't considered that. D'oh! > Thanks, Jeff [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > > > take them all at once? > > > Jeff |
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