by liz » Tue Feb 07, 2017 7:13 am
I bought fake eggs for one cockatiel who is not following the rules. (I have a flock with two couples who have not nested. In the flock is a very bad boy who thinks he has a harem and mates with any girl that will not fly away from him.) Since yours is alone you know the eggs won't hatch. Instead they will dry and she will give them up.
The big problem is why is she laying eggs. She is hormonal either or both of her protein being too high or the lighting being wrong.
Every time she lays an egg her calcium starts depleting and she also could get egg bound which is producing eggs that she cannot pass.
You are right to leave the eggs. If you had taken them away she would have produced more. It is also good that you gave her a nest. This way she thinks you are backing her up instead of trying to stop her. You are her good friend.
I am the first to post and am just backing you up about giving her a nest. Like I said you do have problems though. (The group follows fruit and vegetables and gloop for a days supply of food and then seed which is protein at night before they sleep.)There are others in the group who had to teach me so I will leave the rest to them. They will be on soon.