I'll try that for my plucker.... may work for him...

Marshmallow is trying to nest. She is trying to make a bowl shape with the nesting material. Hopefully the eggs will work! How many should we order? She laid 4 eggs in her clutch so should I get 4? Should I put one every other night since that's when she lays her eggs?


I'll try that for my plucker.... may work for him...


You could try, but I doubt it would work for him. It's the mothers that pluck the babies. She plucks because she is missing sodium from the eggs that she laid. The hen waits for the chicks to get pin feathers to solve the cravings.

My birds pluck because they want their babies out of the nest so that they can start preparing for a new clutch.

The people who sell the dummy eggs say that you must add them all together as soon as the hen starts laying.
I was worried that they wouldn't work: I thought, surely Trilly can count... if she leaves the nest with a certain number of eggs and she finds them doubled in number when she comes back she will surely notice and be suspicious!
Well, either Trilly is less of a math wiz than the average hen, or they all don't really count the eggs
She had five, I took two out and added four dummies. She and Frank accepted them without hesitation. She had 7 eggs the last time, this time she stopped as soon as I added the dummies.

They do recommend that you add them all at once, on the theory that the hen will stop laying when she sees the nest is full of eggs. This doesn't work on Shodu though; she seems to have set a quota of 5 eggs, and she's going to lay that many in the nest no matter how many eggs are already there.

Then maybe some of them are surely more intelligent than others!
I don't know why I am surprised, after all we humans have a vast range of intelligence levels and types... But for some reason i tend to think of my birds as all having the same IQ... Which is not the case, some ARE pretty smarter than others.

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If you don't want more babies hatching, cant
you add the dummy eggs and remove the laid ones?
Or doesn't it work like that?

Thank you! How many do you think I should buy? Marshmallow lays 4 eggs a clutch, so do you think I should get 4 because if not then I would like to buy 3 since they are pricey.

If you don't want more babies hatching, cant
you add the dummy eggs and remove the laid ones?
Or doesn't it work like that?

In this case, I don't want her laying eggs. I am going to freeze all of the eggs that she lays but I don't want any to hatch. Since my birds are trying to make babies, that aren't paying much attention to the nest. I feel that if I add some eggs, they will spend time incubating the eggs and feeding their chicks.

Marshmallow and Bio mated! I saw Marshmallow flub the hen mating position, so I took her out of the cage until she stopped. Then, I put her back in the cage and she did it again, I repeated that over and over again!
I had to leave, so I put my phone to record what they did in the past 5 mins I was gone and I see them quietly sitting, then Bio hops to the highest perch with Marshmallow already perched there. Then she slowly approaches in the position, then they mate.

The good news is tag Bio fed the chicks afterwards.

Three sounds too few, Baruch. I bought six just to be sure, maybe four is ok but I would say six is better just to be sure.
There are cheaper eggs on eBay, the ones I got are not perfect but are cheap and did the trick.

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Yes, it can work that way. This is what I do when naughty Teela starts laying incest eggs. She's just like her mother - flooding her with fake eggs doesn't work either.