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How can you stop your cockatial from laying unfertilized eggs continuously2007-11-24 17:20:01Answers:

Do not remove the eggs until she FULLY abandons them herself. To do so will encourage her to lay more. If you give your bird head scritches (tickles,strokes) stop. Cover you bird up earlier in the day giving her about 14 hours night time, shorter day's, longer nights,fool her into thinking its not time to breed!

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Get her a male buddy.

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is there a male in the cage? It is the male's job to fertilize. As long as there is no male, the hen will continue to lay the eggs. Remove the nest and all nesting materials.

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I have a four year old lovebird with this problem. I will share the things I have done.

1) Reduce the number of hours of daylight she is exposed to. Daylight hours will stimulate the pineal gland in her brain and bring on egglaying hormones.. If you can, put her in a completely dark room for 12 hours a day, ideally. This is hard because if you work or go to school you'll hardly see the bird. But try to get her as much sleep as you can. It has to be dark, not just covering the cage in a room with a light on.

2) Save her old eggs. When she starts laying put several more old eggs in with the new one. This makes her think she has too many eggs already and is a biological cue to stop laying more.

3) I find with my lovie I have to let her sit on the eggs for two weeks. If I pull them earlier she just lays more. Experiment to find out how long your hen needs to sit to get this out of her system. When your hen starts to molt (you'll see lots of loose feathers lying around) you'll know she is done and it is a good time to try pulling the eggs.