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Re: help needed

Post by Rour » Wed Feb 29, 2012 7:06 pm

finchmix22 wrote:The eggs usually don't look fertile until they're incubated a few days. How long was the hen sitting before you looked? If they're clear, then they may not have completed the dead, so to speak. Sometimes, they take a little practice. As you said, if they're young too, or too old they can lay infertile eggs. Keep observing and maybe the next clutch will be fertile.

They have been sitting for a week now. The eggs are perfectly clear, no signs whatsoever of vessels or tissue matter. Let's wait and see :)

By the way, have you ever tried breeding societies in box nests?
Two gouldians, two gold breast waxbills, two societies, four zebras, two canaries, one hamster, one freshwater fish tank, one salt water fish tank.

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Re: help needed

Post by ac12 » Wed Feb 29, 2012 8:39 pm

My fostering societies use an ABBA nest box.
They don't seem to have a problem using it.
The only thing is, with 3 societies, they tend to trample and FLATTEN the inside of the nest kinda flat.
Gary

gouldians (GB,YB,BB), blackbelly firefinches (trying to breed), societies (foster parents).
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