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Post subject: problems with Cuddles Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2016 5:22 pm |
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I was kind of glad that even though some of my birds were mating, nobody was laying any eggs. Our young birds often check places in the house that could be good for nesting but I would say it wasn't very serious. none of them was upset when I kick them out of there, we had no problems getting them into the cage to sleep. Recently Cuddles was kind of horny. There are some cardboard boxes on top of the fridge (in the kitchen), with no top and only 2 walls are tall (so they are very open boxes). They are there to prevent birds from getting to the places where they can fall behind the fridge and for them to chew. I also put straw wreath in there (after they destroyed half of it so it couldn't be hung anymore in the living room) but they shredded it so there were some loose straw in the box Anyway... she was in that box hissing at me, which was darn familiar behavior. I kicked her out and threw straw in the trash. She flew around the house, returned to the empty box and... laid an egg. I even saw the egg coming out of her. What should I do? I was not planning to breed of course Cuddles is back to the living room and I turned off the light in the kitchen
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Post subject: Re: problems with Cuddles Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2016 6:57 pm |
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they sleep in my bedroom in complete darkness. honestly 3 days of light seems a little bit extreme (taking into consideration I have 10 birds) for now, I have simple questions - do I leave the egg there? tomorrow there will be a whole bunch of birds there. They all love spending time in that box. Won't seeing an egg provoke younger birds to lay as well? they have never seen an egg yet. She is not being protective of it yet but she just laid it. Usually they spend mornings in the kitchen because sun rises on that side, then they relocate to the living room in the afternoon. Our house is rather dark, so they move with natural sunlight
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Post subject: Re: problems with Cuddles Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2016 7:44 pm |
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this is what it looks like (this is where she fell in the past between the fridge and the wall and got stuck there), do I need to re-organize this area getting rid of both boxes and replacing them with something else? and remove/hide the egg, right? this area is dangerous by itself. There is a hanging cabinet above the fridge, they can walk on top of the fridge under the cabinet, and if they fall behind the fridge, I won't even know that bird is in there, and the bird would be trapped. You can see her egg in the box on the left
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Post subject: Re: problems with Cuddles Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2016 9:12 pm |
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I am glad that at least I saw it was her who laid that egg. Would be worse if I didn't know who to suspect If I remove the egg/future eggs, wouldn't it cause her to lay and lay more?
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Post subject: Re: problems with Cuddles Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2016 7:35 am |
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I took away that egg, removed old boxes and put some cereal, etc. boxes on the top of the fridge.
it's actually my fault. Birds shredded straw wreath, and she was playing with the straw for several days there. it really looks like shaving I was using in the nestbox. I needed to remove shredded straw several days ago
Now I am concerned that she won't have a good place to lay another egg and this can be dramatic for all of us.
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