Leaderboard

Well, other than Miss Vannah trying to become a mom for the first time at 28, our flock is doing well! My Husband is looking to retire in the next year, which is exciting because his job is on the hazardous end of things. I am finishing up my 16th year teaching and getting ready to move into a brand new building (from a building that we have shared with a second school for the last two years). Our 2 other fids, Dusty and Piper turned 20 last month and haven't been too rattled by Vannah's moodiness. They have been with us since they were weened off of hand feeding and ready to be somewhat independent. They are a GCC and a Cockatiel respectively. I was hoping our cockatiel wouldn't take the hint and try egg laying again. So far, so good! In two weeks we will have Vannah's 29th hatch-day too.

I think you're doing everything fine. Dummy eggs take the place of the real eggs and instinctively she will tend to them the same. She's such a pretty girl!

Hi all, It's a bit quiet around these parts recently! Just checking in. How are you all? How are all your birds doing? Hope you're all looking after yourselves (and your flock, of course!)

She's looking well and it sounds like she is acting "normal" from previous posts I've read about egg laying. Hopefully she'll lose interest in a few days and this will be behind you.

Thank you for looking for the threads and linking them here! Vannah hasn't laid a new one since last Thursday. It is a total of 3 now and each time it is easier on her and there is less blood on the egg. I have kept them all just in case the dummy eggs don't work, but I think they are. She has started coming out of her cage more often, though rarely wants to stray far. Yesterday she came looking for loves with me. She wanted to be held and snuggled, but at the same time was nipping at me a little. After a little bit I made her go back to her cage because she was almost aggressive about it. With her behavior changes in the last 4 days, I think the laying is over and she is just tending the 5 dummies on her fleece. What I have been doing: 1. Flaking cuttlebone into her food (she won't use one whole) 2.Made some bird bread with extra calcium in it. 3. My husband makes her eggs when he makes his breakfast (no salt or add ins of course) 4. Now that it is warmer through the day, we open the blinds in the room for more natural light cycling. 5. No more big boxes to play in and chew on. We gave her one to chew up a while back (she LOVES cardboard and fleece) and it was a bit to big. She crawled in it and started chewing it up from the inside out. I thought it was cute, but in hind-sight I think she was nesting. We are learning together I suppose. Here are a couple of pics. **After writing this, I went and looked at the links, and apparently there are somethings I did that may not have been best practice. I exchanged her eggs for dummies. It says not to disturb them at all, that she may have more if the real ones are removed. She seems to have accepted them though. The other thing is that I put the fleece in there and the other thread said not to change where they sit. I change the fleece out to keep things clean though. She watches me very carefully, but allows me to do it.

Just found a couple of threads that may contain some useful info: New member with egg laying African grey. - Welcome & Introduction Room - Grey Forums and About Egg Laying - Health Room - Grey Forums

Ana Grey, tag, is 13 years old, raised her from a chick, and Sadie, Lilac-headed Zon, is 22 years old, she is a rescue. They are great and I am getting over my 1st Covid shot. Life is good.

Alfie turned 18 a couple of weeks ago. We're still working on training recall. He also waves, is learning to spin on his perch and is still working out his colours (red, blue, green and yellow). I got a second cage for him and put it upstairs so he can join me when I work from home as well. He seems to like that and keeps mumbling, which is usually a sign he's trying out new words.

All good here! Timber had a nail trim Saturday, which you would think was major surgery if you are looking at his reaction. He's recovered and back to normal now.

Yes, although I check regularly..it has been quiet.... I am great, my flock is even better! My amazon is now 12 years old and finally getting less hormonal than in the past.so that's a good thing for us! Talon is 15 years old Rikki 15 years old Nilah 12 years old