I just had a visitor ask
about a female lovebird that just laid eggs (unfertilized.) "What to do?"
Well it's pretty simple,
but you need to be careful!
The little lady is doing
what nature programmed her to do. Do NOT take away the eggs. You can endanger you little girl doing that.
If you take the eggs away,
she'll simply lay more. While that doesn't sound bad at first, it really is. She is depleting her body of calcium
for each egg. If she continues to lay eggs that deficiency could lead to multiple health problems and even death!
You have a few choices
here. You can try to switch the eggs with large marbles, boil the eggs and return them, you can purchase the little
plastic eggs to fool her with or just leave the eggs she's laid alone until she abandons them.
It takes about 28 days,
but she will abandon them eventually.
Just let nature run its
course.
Remember that your little
girl won't be the sweet natured bird you are used to either - those hormones and that mothering instinct get in the way.
Just be patient, talk to her and do what she'll allow you to do with her until she gives up on the eggs.
Take care!
