Mummy bird, in the aviary, had laid more eggs, despite the babies not fully fledging yet. When I went out there this morning, these 2 eggs were very neatly placed in front of the breeding box! (Laughing out loud) Why would she have taken them out? They are probably about a week old, and despite being cold, I have placed them with Gypsy, in the hopes that the poor frustrated wanna be mother can hatch them.

Any ideas on why they were taken out?

Birds seem to have an uncanny ability to know if an egg is fertile or not. I'd say the eggs aren't fertile, or else maybe the babies were playing with them and accidentally put them out.

Well, I won't say I'm unhappy about it! I actually thought there was 4 eggs in the nest, but there was these 2 there this morning and no sign of the others, unless they were pushed right to the back of the box. I've had enough of babies, and now the other hen has had babies, I don't suppose I can really take this box out unless I want 2 hens in one box and dead babies.

Did you or anything thing else stress her out? I think i bothered Buzz too much with her first batch of eggs last month and she smashed them all.

Well, I've been in for the babies a couple of times a day, but I hadn't been in at all the day before they did it.

How many eggs & babies do you have on the go at the moment.

I've got 2 unfledged babies with the bird that threw out the eggs, and the other hen has one pink blob and I think 5 other eggs (she was just a little bit protective of her baby (Laughing out loud)) Of the 2 unfledged (plus I have 4 fledged), one was out today, the other one hasn't come out yet. Hope I did the right thing, but I put the one who was out today back in the box at dusk. He was perched right near the wire, and as there are cats I was worried he wouldn't nest a the back of the cage and a cat might claw him.