patient dear zebras dutifully sitting on plastic eggs

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patient dear zebras dutifully sitting on plastic eggs

Post by rayeast » Sat Jan 28, 2017 3:43 pm

I had a problem with my male Zebra plucking the feathers feathers from his female partner. My only solution was to get them a bamboo nest and some materials so the male could build and stop hurting the female. (AKA Ernie and Fawn) It worked and the female laid 4 eggs. I live in a small apartment and it would be very difficult to raise new birds. How I wound up with two inevitably going to breed pairs is a long story.
I replaced the eggs in their nest with plastic eggs and now I am wondering What Next? They have been patiently sharing egg sitting for ten days now. ???

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Re: patient dear zebras dutifully sitting on plastic eggs

Post by lem2bert » Sat Jan 28, 2017 4:03 pm

rayeast

I had the same problem with my canary, only she was plucking herself. I did not want her to breed, but she kept dropping eggs on the bottom of the cage and plucking herself. I put a nest and nest material in the cage and replaced all eggs with plastic eggs. She sat on those eggs for two weeks then abandoned the nest. So far no plucking.

I would just let them sit on them until they abandoned them.
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Re: patient dear zebras dutifully sitting on plastic eggs

Post by Icearstorm » Sat Jan 28, 2017 7:20 pm

rayeast
When I had three related society finches, I replaced their eggs with clay ones (I had no fake eggs, but did have a container of clay, so I made some). They incubated them for a month before finally giving up.

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Re: patient dear zebras dutifully sitting on plastic eggs

Post by rayeast » Sun Jan 29, 2017 2:45 pm

Thanks both of you, your advice has been very useful. I'll just wait.

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Post by Shannylee » Sun Jan 29, 2017 11:46 pm

rayeast, I agree with the above comments. I let my hens (that I don't want to breed) sit on fake or infertile eggs until they give it up.
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Re: patient dear zebras dutifully sitting on plastic eggs

Post by Zebrafincher » Thu Feb 02, 2017 7:59 pm

How go the plastic eggs? Have they *hatched* yet?

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Re: patient dear zebras dutifully sitting on plastic eggs

Post by lem2bert » Fri Feb 03, 2017 8:04 pm

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=)) A little humor keeps me going . =D>
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