Path: utzoo!utgpu!cunews!cognos!stewartw
From: stewartw@cognos.UUCP (Stewart Winter)
Newsgroups: rec.birds
Subject: Re: INDOOR: Cockatiel eggs
Message-ID: <9414@cognos.UUCP>
Date: 15 Mar 91 20:22:37 GMT
References: <18335@milton.u.washington.edu> <1991Mar14.124437.3361@eagle.lerc.nasa.gov>
Reply-To: stewartw@cognos.UUCP (Stewart Winter)
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In article <1991Mar14.124437.3361@eagle.lerc.nasa.gov> hubler@galaxy.lerc.nasa.gov (Dale Hubler) writes:

>>.....             Does anybody think I should move
>>the eggs to the nest box or should I just let her sit on them
>>for another week and then make them disappear?

>I believe that moving the eggs would be the end of it.  They are not
>likely to follow the eggs into the box, but you never really know.

   Actually, I'd disagree.  If the bird has layed before in the
nest box, it probably knows what it is there for.  We have been able
to put eggs from a pair in trouble in the nest box of experienced
breeders and had them go in right away and start sitting on the
eggs.  If she really wants to sit, she will.

  Stewart
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