[Belinda]

you got love birds????????

If you boil the eggs, there won't be any chance of the chick surviving, so you don't have to worry about them being horribly disfigured.

 

[roxy culver]

Boiling the eggs works, I did it three months ago to stop some of mine from hatching. You'll have to wait about a week before you get any eggs, but some birds can mate for ages and never lay. Especially because they're on the long nights and such, it could just be for the pleasure of doing it. In fact, my Snowball and Hershey never laid eggs until I gave them a nest box and they mated all the time.

 

[birdlover4life]

Okay, thanks Roxy, now I am not totally afriad of ending up getting a girl with Finn. Silly tiels.

 

[roxy culver]

And long nights will help preventing breeding too since it stops the whole hormones. Its working for mine at the moment (they needed a break lol.)

 

[birdlover4life]

LOL! Also when I get a second one, I will have another cage for quarentine so worst case scenario, they can be seperate and play supervised together.

 

[MeanneyFids]

they did get separate cages but tsuka got depressed and decided he wanted to be nice so we moved him back in with dally bout the time we got toby...
hopefully they dont lay eggs as we arent ready for babies and i find them too young still. but theres a good chance as theyve been downing the cuttlebone and mineral block and dally's had big poop for several days now.

and belinda, yes we got them before toby passed. a relative of mine's birds had babies and these two were the youngest siblings and didnt sell so she asked if we wanted them because she heard what happened to toby. we had a spare cage and all so we agreed. mango is easier to tame, and he/she is mine. munchlax is my boyfriend's bird and he/she is more aggressive, independant and harder to tame.

 

[Duckybird]

I think Ducky and Callie have been mating for a couple of months now, but no eggs either. They tear up the cuttlebone and both occasionally have big poops, but no eggs. I don't really worry about them mating and laying eggs, it's just the thought of them not being ready as parent birds. I know you're worried about the pearl cross, but I would just boil the eggs and let them incubate them. They may get it out of their system lol. Plus, didn't you say your room was really cold? I can't imagine them thinking that's ok for babies...

 

[MeanneyFids]

no we moved and the room is much warmer (temps between 65-70 ferenheit instead of 45 ferenheit) we have different room temps for different rooms now (living room is cooler as we have chinchillas there) and our bedroom/birdroom is warm as we had toby and he was ill for awhile. that and we can control our own temps without parental complaints before when i lived with my dad he got laid off in winter so the heat couldnt be high because the hydro bill. but my boyfriend and i moved out and our place has utilities included so we dont worry bout that now.