-=> Quoting Joseph W. Mack  to Sue Turo <=-
       Hi Joe,
 JWM> I just recently got my point back up and running (yet again) and saw a
 JWM> number of messages reffering to this.  I can't remember anymore where
 JWM> I saw this but I do recall reading somewhere that one possible work
 JWM> around to a hen that keeps laying and laying unfertilized eggs is
 JWM> "not" to pull them as she lays them, but to allow her to sit on the
 JWM> clutch until she tires of it and abandons them.  Then, maybe she'll
 JWM> quit for a while.
 JWM> Peace
       Well she has been sitting on them for 21 days and hasn't lost 
       interest yet...she is still tearing paper and packing it around 
       the eggs...I'm going to pull them tomorrow...but I've made 
       arrangements to get her a mate...hopefully it will be a male...so
       in the next week or so a new lovebird will be here and in 
       quarantine...then we will see if that gets her out of this 
       mode...I don't know what is setting her off...but this makes a 
       total of 10 eggs she has laid since Christmas...poor little 
       thing..she would be a good mommy I think...;)  I didn't want to 
       breed any birds...but I can't stand to see her doing this it is 
       so pitiful...;(  I know that I'm going to loose my little pet but
       if she is going to do this she might as well have something to 
       show for all her work...maybe a baby will make her quit...;)
       
       Wait till she finds out how much work they are...hehehe
... Scooby Doo, Cry Baby, GT (Witchypoo), Romeo and Juilet..the flock!!!!
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