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- From: lecampbell@OCTAVO
- Newsgroups: rec.pets.birds
- Subject: Re: TOO many eggs!
- Message-ID: <00965AB3.27ED3020@OCTAVO>
- Date: 26 Dec 92 19:33:22 GMT
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- I've had great success in stopping female cockatiels from perpetual
- egg laying by simply reducing the "daylight" hours they get. I do
- remove the eggs because any cracked of broken ones can be s source
- of contamination. In my experience, removing the eggs seems to slow
- the egg laying down, but each bird is probably different. Of course
- I make sure these females are getting a calcium supplement (and
- vitamin D if they are not getting exposure to sunlight, as in the
- winter. Cacium without vitamin D is virtually useless. The oil
- birds use to groom with breaks down into vitamin D in the presence
- of sunlight. No sunlight, since it is too cold to put them out here
- in the winter, means no vitamin D production.)
-
- Laura (cold in northern California)
-