ST>       Well if there is a way to stop her...no one seems to know what it
ST>       is...;)  The theory is that the two male tiel that occupy the
ST>       cage next to her are setting her off...
We're talking about a lovebird, right? It's her OWN hormones doing that
to her--it doesn't even take another bird to get them started laying
eggs.
ST>       water dish and food...she bites and holds on for dear life...but
ST>       when I take her eggs away she mellows out and after a few days
ST>       she is playing again..like the little love she was in the
ST>       beginning...;)
How long do you leave the eggs before you take them away from her? If
you leave them for a month or longer, she should get bored and abandon
them on her own. Allowing her to sit on them for the entire natural
incubation period may well cause her hormones to "cycle" through the
egg-laying stage, and get her back to normal (for a while, anyway).
--Kathy
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