Hello,

 

Well today I took out the last baby of Frankie and Blue. I will be handfeeding them. I decided that I did not want Frankie and Blue to have another clutch so I moved them to a new cage with a couple of other birds. This cage is really big, about 5 1/2 feet tall and 3 1/2 feet wide. Anyway, I figured with no box, they would just enjoy the cage and not think about babies anymore. Well I was wrong. Within 10 minutes of being in the new cage, they were at it again! How can I get them to stop? I do not want anymore eggs at this time. Will she lay eggs without a nest box?

 

Wendy

Wendy, birds need certain conditions to be met, and then they breed - plentiful food, water, light, temperature and (usually) somewhere to nest. Like Phoebe, looks like your birds find the last one optional. Reduce the temperature in the house, cover the birds after 10-12 hours light, and after a week try slowly increasing the amount of light they get. They should stop within days of you changing their conditions

What's with the birds in America and Canada.... it must be the water

want me to send you some

They are still strongly bonded. She might lay a few more in the next few days and then stop or you might get Phoebe's problem. Pie and Freckle have been going at it since I stoped them over a year ago and with out a box she has only ever laid one egg.

You have my deepest sympathy, it is so frustrating and people think it is hilarious. Since they used a nest box for the proper purpose before, one can only hope they can revert back to that. Mine never would use a nest box when it was provided anyhow.

 

Good Luck to you, hopefully the hormones will settle down (my female never did even with hormone shots) and they will remember the proper budgie way to behave.

 

Maybe it is my well water Daz, I live on acreage outside the greater Vancouver area.

Phoebe, .....Karen, Nerwen and I don't have much water. Australia is one of the driest countries in the world and at the moment where we are the rain fall is not enough..we are on strick restrictions......That is probibly why Nerwen is having so much trouble...:budgiedance:. Could you bottle some of that sexy water and send it to nerwen to help her pair???? :ausb:

Would if I could, there is a "lake" in the back yard which I have named after my late dog, my Mother has water damage in her crawl space and her roof is leaking and I had to dodge a couple of closed roads a couple of days ago due to flooding, precipitation records here!! But that is :budgiedance: Hopefully these guys will get over their wanton ways and return to "only in a nest box" breeding pattern. :ausb: