UPDATE - Nesting on Cuttlefish Holder

[RPatchett]

I posted last week about my finch displaying nesting behaviours and trying to nest inside a cuttle fish holder...

Well taking the holder away didn't help her behaviour and it just made her really stressed! So I ended up putting a nest in the cage and she laid 7 eggs! Both females take turns sitting on them and sometimes they sit on the eggs together. If Tiny sits on the eggs then Meep stands guard on the side of the nest.

Is it advisable to just let them look after the eggs for a couple of weeks until they figure out that they are infertile? Or should I take them away now that Tiny has gotten them out?

[RPatchett]

Edited to say that there WERE 7 eggs. Two fell out and smashed, leaving 5

then this morning there is an extra egg, so one of the finches are still laying...

[Fraza]

Well that would be about right they normal lay upto 4 so having 7 would have meant one laid 4 and one laid 3 so that probably right and I have two female zebras now who have laid 9 together and doing what yours are doing incubating etc however I’m leaving them to sit on them about 3/4 weeks then a Gina take away the nest and eggs