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Hi all, I have a trio of societies what I thought was two males and 1 hen. My hen started laying eggs on Monday one a day until there was three. The following day there was 5 following day 7 and today there are 9. I didn't quite know what was going on wondering if it was possible for a hen to lay 2 eggs a day until I realized that I must have two hens and one male. A little odd because I had the first two societies set up together for 6 months both of them singing and no eggs so I was quite sure they were both males. They are using the large covered wicker nest. I have a feeling that they are not finish laying yet as one started three days before the other. How many babies can they successfully raise in one nest?

More exciting news my new gold breast have two eggs! I couldn't help myself but Peek thinking there was nothing in the nest. They have returned to the nest and hopefully when the clutch is complete they will start to brood. I will not be doing anymore Peeking and leave them completely alone. I'm wondering how easily gold breast abandon their nest?

I think you'll have to remove/foster some eggs, about 8 is maximum they can incubate successfully without hatching rates declining, a single pair of my societies laid 12 eggs although 6 per hen is normal, hatched 9 but only 7 chicks survived mainly due to restricted size of the box style nest they were using. Even had to redo nest so no nesting material around sides of box restricted the space inside. Large wicker nests i'd imagine are smaller than what i'm using.



And congrats on the Goldbreasts