[Monica]

Other than the normals about egg laying, no I haven't noticed anything else.

Cindy, I would like to point out some things within your own post... I know that daylight has a LOT to do with egg laying... and the bourkes went to sleep with the sun and woke with the sun, also getting dawn and dusk, and there was nothing within the environment encouraging her to lay.

As for the cockatiel family, I don't really know what sort of environment they were in other than a way too small age, and being smoked around constantly, so thus probably in a very dimly lit home.... but I don't know.

With Tomi Girl, well she was covered most of the time and yet she too laid eggs. She wasn't encouraged per say, but she was laying eggs anyway. She was covered most of the time due to the fact that she was "too noisy". She even laid and sat on eggs even though she was being starved to death too. That in itself doesn't make any sense other than possibly from stress? Food was put near the bottom, and she DID eat from it... WHEN there was food in it...


Can't really say too much about the lovebird as I don't know what her entire situation was like either...

I don't know about the female tiel who lost her mate, supposedly to mice, but then again I haven't gone to that home in months now... she too though lives in a home that is dimly lit, is trashed, cage isn't cleaned...

So all in all, I'm just trying to find out WHY these birds, that are being kept in less than adequate conditions, are laying eggs.