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Have a pair of green singers2007-11-24 17:20:19

She lays eggs and then turns around and eats them. Is their something I can do to stop this ? What am I doing wrong?

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Give them as much privacy as possible. Birds will often eat their eggs (as weird as it sounds). Often eggs gets cracked or broken accidental by the parents when they become startled. Their toenails are very sharp. But let's face it, otherwise you would have had a rancid nest box which would have been far, far worse. Also, the vitamins in the eggs are re-used by the parents to make them healthy enough to lay more eggs in the future. If you want to stop their egg laying, that's another issue.

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don't know!

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It sounds to me like she has a calcium deficiency. Try putting a calcium block in her cage. It certainly wouldn't hurt, and you'll probably be surprised on how fast she goes through it.

Best of luck.

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from many years of experience once an egg eater always an egg eater.i have a super exhibition hen that eats her eggs but i breed budgerigars and have put a hole in the concave which is raised to create a void below which has sawdust underneath.the egg rolls through the hole onto the sawdust and the hen cannot reach it i then remove the eggs and transfer them to another pair.

two ideas place marbles underneath her to replace any eaten eggs or fill an egg with mustard(she will not eat two).good luck