Re: how to stop laying eggs

On Fri, 18 Nov 2005 20:29:23 GMT, oldfart <oldfart@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>Hi all, We have a female blue bar, we have raised her since she was 2 days
>old, we found her abandoned on the ground, and now she is almost 2 years
>old she has the run of the house and sure does have her own way and wants
>it, she doesn't like change and notcies anything that isn't in its place or
>new. She first bonded with me and layed 2 eggs and sat on them for 3 weeks
>after that she left them, approx 1 week later she went through bonding with
>the wife which was the one that fed and seen to all her needs when growing
>up and now each month she goes through the same thing with the wife, one
>week of playing with the wife and laying 2 eggs and then sitting on them
>for 3weeks then 1 week break and all starts over again.
>So my question is there a way to stop her laying her 2 eggs each month as
>it doesn't seem fair that she has to go through all this each month,and she
>will not mix or bond with other pigeons, we thought of getting a fertile
>egg off someone that has pigeons and replacing one of hers with it and
>letting her raise it but then we would end up with another bird which we
>don't really want, we didn't know that we would be stuck with here for life
>when we rescued her in the begining but we accept the job in front of us as
>we tryed to put her with someone that had birds but she just fretted and
>almost died so we had to take her back , couldn't let that happen to her,
>so any advice would be great.
>Thanks all.
>Regards
>Owen.
Hello Owen, one thing that might help slow down the egg laying. You
need to feed her some milo. Feed her nothing but the milo. Feed on
rounded teaspoon per day. The plain feed and the amount will play
with her natural instincts. She will realize that she isn't getting
enough food to raise babies and will slow down.
tonyf
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