All nest now have 2 eggs plus but one nest I was really counting on the hen I think is distroyng her eggs the next day after laying them.

I used her and her partnter last year and she never did that or him so I am not sure what is going on. Thinking about putting them both out in the aviary for a while and wait and try again later.

Any one got any thoughts on it.

If you have another pr that have eggs that are not fertile,you could put the eggs under that pr.or make a nest concave with a hole in the middle & put that in the nest,about 25mil off the bottem & when she lays the egg will

roll, through the hole out of harms way & foster it to one of the other pr,that has only a couple of eggs.

splat i had a bird just did same thing so i got the egg she had had a go at and filled it with hot sweet chillie sauce placed it back in the nest and then after 2 hours went back out removed the egg cleaned the box from chillie sauce and let them be ....next egg she layed few days as per norm she left alone

so it works give it a try if not id foster eggs if able

She is laying the egg and sitting on it then the next day she destroys it, she layed today took it out and put under another hen and put a marble under her.

splat i had a bird just did same thing so i got the egg she had had a go at and filled it with hot sweet chillie sauce placed it back in the nest and then after 2 hours went back out removed the egg cleaned the box from chillie sauce and let them be ....next egg she layed few days as per norm she left alone so it works give it a try if not id foster eggs if able

Gb she is totally destroying them nothing left to fill.

mine had not much left it was totally cracked and pulled apart

i still filled it and then stuck it in lol

mabe try just coating it with crushed pepper by wetting egg a tad then roll in pepper then place back in that also been known to work use a diffrent hens egg if you think she is a valubale bird for your quality factor and place hers under the other hen as you have done that way if she does it again it wont matter so much

birds do they really fall for that marbale thing i wouldnt have thought they were stupid enough ?

I would like to see her try and destroy the marble I think she wouild end up with a beak ache

GB is she is very important to my breeding, the pair gave me a cracker last year so I am hoping for more

then take all eggs and foster apropriatly mate as you would do

leave her with the hard egg but if i was you i really would put a real one their and persist in getting her out of the habbit as she wont be anygood if she keeps doing it

only as an egg farm, tryed a clear door ?

 

mabe if you keep her with a egg thats a few days older i sometimes do that as so they get to raise a chick and are not sitting for nothing anyother birds with eggs less worth put just one with the marble see what she does if she destroys that then mabe someone else can help as i only breed pets not show so no egg is really that special yet.....

Edited March 17, 200916 yr by GenericBlue

Take egg and replace with an artifical egg or a white marble, she will soon learn that they are too hard to break and give up

Thats what I do. It might take a while but the hens do give up...

Thanks Heath and Daz I did that yesterday should I do that with all the eggs as she lays them she probably has 3 eggs left to lay.

Update

the grey green pair has 3 fertile eggs under another hen.

The grey opaline and sky blue were all clear as I thought would happen

The sky blue spangle and grey green spangle the parents of my winning yellow df spangle were all clear to but I will try them again

and finally the dark green opaline spangle and grey green cinn opaline nest so far 1 fertile egg which is better than I thought as the cock has a wonky foot.

 

I am about to pair up more in the next couple of days

The grey green op spangle the one above with my violet hen

Ill take this cock.

 

This cock.

This cock.

 

Both of these.

 

Nevermind Ill take them all splat. Excellent birds as always.

Pearce don't think so the grey green op spangle is the same bird with different hens, he is my foundation cock and the grey green is my other foundation cock, I bought the grey green from the pet shop for $15.00 but new the breeder rang up and ask for his pedigree and he is almost all G & M Watson blood and the hen I have him with is 100% G&M Watson blood and they gave me a ripper of a baby so far.

The grey opaline is 50% Henry George and 50% Ray Wilson but he has a crook hip so I don't think I will get anything out of him. But he is a very nice bird has a lovely head.