Question about removing eggs

cntrymeadow · Post by **cntrymeadow** » Sat Nov 15, 2008 8:46 pm

Our zebra finch babies are almost ready to fledge..

Once they are out of the nest I dont plan on letting the pair have any more....for at least 6 months or perhaps a year...

I would like to have nests in the cage as it seems like it would be more comfortable for them to sleep in a nest than perched on a perch.

So that means any eggs they might lay I will have to remove..
which is fine.

Question:
When an egg or two is removed will they just keep on laying or will they eventually stop for a bit.
Am I going to be stuck removing eggs every couple of days until I decide they can have more babies?

B CAMP · Post by **B CAMP** » Sat Nov 15, 2008 9:19 pm

I have zebs in a aviary outside they kept laying for awhile but when I took the nesting material out they have stopped for the most part ,I left the nest in just no material.

mickp · Post by **mickp** » Sun Nov 16, 2008 4:15 am

zebras can and will breed anywhere anytime. if you leave the nest in you will be removing eggs every few days for a while. I tried putting zebras on an austerity diet (dry seed only) and they were still trying. removed nest and had a couple of eggs appear in the food dish. after a while though they did stop. but a few months later within a couple of days of
re-introducing a nest they had eggs again.

cntrymeadow · Post by **cntrymeadow** » Sun Nov 16, 2008 11:27 am

Thanks for the replies.
The only nesting material we have in there is timothy hay that I put in a wire ball. They pull it out and take it into the nest.

Guess I will just be removing eggs!

jamezyboo21 · Post by **jamezyboo21** » Sun Nov 16, 2008 10:18 pm

Yeah, they will keep laying eggs as long as there is a nest in the cage. They are perfectly fine sleeping on a perch. All my zebras have done fine without a nest in the cage. I had over 70 zebra finches at one time and they were breeding and having babies like crazy. I took out the nest and only found a few eggs after that on the bottom of the cage and now they dont lay any eggs unless they have a nest.