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- From: prkenne@lims02.lerc.nasa.gov (CAROL SHARP)
- Subject: Re: TOO many eggs!
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- Date: 23 Dec 1992 12:11 EST
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- In article <1ha43qINNapl@network.ucsd.edu>, judy <judy@nepac.ucsd.edu> writes...
- >
- >Oh am I glad to find other female cockatiel owners with the egg-laying
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- >problem.
- >Is egg-laying particularly hazardous to cockatiels as compared with other
- >birds?
- >She hasn't had a problem yet, and seems to lay about 4-6 every few months.
- >Do your birds "drop" the eggs from their perches?!!!
- >She's quite a silly bird.
- >Where do you find calcium "supplements" - is it a liquid, power, pill???
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- From the responses I've gotten so far the egg laying is hazardous only in
- terms of them developing a mineral deficiency.
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- Mine lays her eggs on the cage bottom.
-
- I'll look at the name of my calcium supplement when I get home and let you
- know what it is. I bought it at a pet store. It's a white powder that I
- mix into food.
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- Carol
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