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From: ooblick@intercon.com (Mikki Barry)
Newsgroups: rec.birds
Subject: Re: INDOOR: Cockatiel laying eggs
Message-ID: <27D3B87C.1879@intercon.com>
Date: 5 Mar 91 15:25:48 GMT
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In article <1991Mar4.213638.578@maverick.ksu.ksu.edu> rdmiller@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Ruth D Miller) writes:

>OK, but how do you discourage it if you are not doing anything to encourage
>it and the bird lays anyway?  Generally in BIrd Talk, and other bird owners
>I've spoken to, the advice is, if she persists in laying, get her set up
>to sit, as that will stop her laying for at least the 3 weeks she'll be
>sitting.  How else to get her to stop laying??

Ask the vet if there are any hormones that can be administered to the hen.
Barring that, she may have to have a hysterectomy.  Besides that, the most
humane thing to do would be to set her up with a male.

Mikki Barry