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Re: How come I am having such an issue? More detail
Posted by Stacy on 6/23/05

That would be all fine and dandy, if I wanted her to lay. I moved her
to a differnt room, all but the front of the cage is covered, she has
plenty of light- but is between two windows so she doesn't get hit
with the light. She just laid another egg, right next to the other
egg I left in the cage for her to lay on. Neither are fertile. It is
really bothering me.

I want her to STOP laying.

On 6/21/05, Kristen wrote:
> If she is in front of a window, all she is benefitting from is
> light unless the window is open...unless you have a special type of
> window pane, they typically filter out the uv light so your bird
> does not benefit from the sun at all. I had a tiel that did that
> and she wasn't even a breeder, she just liked laying eggs and she
> did it for about 6 months, then just stopped and never did it again.
> Good Luck,
> Kristen
>
> On 6/13/05, Stacy wrote:
>> No... I can't get her to stop. I pulled the nest, so she has been
>> laying them on the bars, the eggs are so brittle you can hardly
>> pick the shells up- they are not rubbery. I even left the last
>> one on the cage bottom, thinking she would get it out of her
>> system, and just a couple days ago, she laid another one on the
>> other side of the cage, ignoring the one she laid about four
>> weeks ago. She is not even being housed with a male. She just
>> will not stop laying. Grace-period or not, she is laying like
>> crazy. She is within the area of a window- where for about two
>> hours there is direct sunlight within the last half of the cage.
>>
>> Let's start from the begining:
>> When I bought her, she had already laid a bad egg. It was cracked
>> open. I brought it home with me, the nest and her. I put her in
>> the cage with the nest and the bad egg. She happily sat on the
>> egg, then a week or so later she laid another, outside the nest,
>> on the cage bars. I pulled the nest. I knew it wouldn't be good-
>> she has not seen a male in a very long time. She never laid for
>> the gentleman who had her before, and he bought her at two; in
>> fact, she beat up on the males.
>>
>> So, I left the egg in the cage for four weeks, hoping it would
>> pop her out of it. It didn't work. She laid another one, where he
>> nest used to be, on the cage bars.

Posts on this thread, including this one

• How come I am having such an issue?, 6/12/05, by Stacy.
• Re: How come I am having such an issue?, 6/13/05, by Robin P..
• Re: How come I am having such an issue?, 6/13/05, by Michael L.
• Re: How come I am having such an issue? More detail, 6/13/05, by Stacy.
• Re: How come I am having such an issue? More detail, 6/13/05, by Robin P..
• Re: How come I am having such an issue? More detail, 6/13/05, by Stacy.
• Re: How come I am having such an issue? More detail, 6/21/05, by Kristen.
• Re: How come I am having such an issue? More detail, 6/23/05, by Stacy.
• Re: How come I am having such an issue? More detail, 7/28/05, by Kristen.
• Re: How come I am having such an issue? More detail, 7/31/05, by Stacy.
• Re: How come I am having such an issue? More detail, 7/31/05, by Alison.
• Re: How come I am having such an issue? More detail, 8/01/05, by Stacy.