kllaux

Hi... Just found your forum while doing a search on egg laying greys. My grey, Nikki, is about 25 years old now and started laying eggs in the bottom of her cage about 5 years ago. She had nothing that even resembled a box or private area in her cage. Never laid more than one egg. She'd roll it around for a day or two, then it would break and we'd clean it up. This year, I was out of town for a few weeks and one day when my daughter had her out of the cage, she crawled inside an emtpy shoe box she found. She didn't want to come out and threatened to bite my daughter, so my daughter just put her back in the cage, box and all. That was all Nikki needed to have a complete personality change. She stayed in the box for hours, would not come out of the cage and tried to bite everyone. The day I came home, she was fine with me and came out of the cage willingly. When I put her back in, she went straight to the box and as she entered the hole she had made in the side I heard her emit a very cheery "Hi!" This is what she says to me whenever I enter the room. I went over to the cage and opened the box and there she sat with 2 lovely eggs. Quite proud of herself. It has been 2 weeks now. Two weeks of cleaning around the box and listening to her talk to her eggs. This morning she was sitting on her perch and ready to come out when I opened her cage. Both eggs are simply gone, (broken and eaten??) and she let me take the box out and throw it away. She seems ok...maybe a little grumpy...Almost makes me wish I had bought a male too. She tries to feed my husband anytime he is near her, and if he takes her on his arm she immediately presents herself to him. Year round. She is always horny. She loves to cuddle and now I am wondering if we handle her too much? I read in one of the posts that body pets can stimulate hormones. Is it possible that our cuddling is what is creating mating desire? I'd hate to stop handling her. I don't think we'll let her have anymore boxes, but she was laying eggs without them anyway.