Re: egg laying kakariki

You can try adjusting the daylight hours, more dark time. Also move her,
cage location, even a different cage if available. Kaks need a higher
protein level than most other hookbills, we supplemented with high protein
pellets and food stuffs, meat and bones etc....

Not laying at your parents house is a simple one, she was in the presence of
four predators, not a safe place to "raise" chicks.

Bob Wheeler

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"sass" <sass@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Hi guys,
>
> Does anyone have any advice on how to naturally stop a kakiriki laying
> eggs ? For the last few months she's laying nearly one every other day and
> this cannot be healthy.
> Also any advice on how to make her look a little less scrawny. Her
> feathers are not in good condition and are falling out round her head and
> neck and belly (she isn't pulling them) I think this is because she maybe
> isn't getting enough calcium and vitamins with all this egg laying....
> We put fruit and veg in her cage and vitamin and calcium drops in her
> water (and have been doing so for months)
>
> The only time she has stopped laying eggs and was when we went on holiday
> in the summer and she moved in with my parents and 4 dogs ! she never laid
> one egg and came back looking beautiful.
>
> any tips or ideas for making her look more healthy and maybe for stopping
> he laying eggs would be gratefully accepted.
>
> thanks in advance,
>
> Sass.
>


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