ST> KJ> How long do you leave the eggs before you take them away from her? If
ST>       I let her have them for 21 days...then pull them...I put duds in
ST>       the last time and it took her all of two minutes to throw them
ST>       out of her little box...;)
Oh yeah, they KNOW. Leave the eggs for 30 days or longer next time. Let
HER decide when she's through incubating.
ST> I'm getting another lovebrat next
ST>       week and it will be in quarantine for a month in my
ST>       bedroom...then will start to introduce them to each other...;)
Good luck! Yet another entrant into the wonderful world of bird
breeding! You're in trouble now...I can see you not being able to part
with the babies! 
ST>       Hopefully she will accept him...and this will end the dud
ST>       eggs...she is so precious sitting on her little kids...and she
ST>       talks to them...;)    She hasn't gotten bored yet...I think she
ST>       is a little confused...;)  I didn't drop her on her head...;)
They can be quite insistant that THIS IS the way it's supposed to work
some times. If you leave the eggs long enough, she WILL get bored. 21
days is just barely over the natural incubation period. They need to
stay in there much longer so she KNOWS instinctively that nothing is
going to happen with them. When my Rio (jenday conure) laid her first
clutch (mate-less), I left them in for 45 days(!) before she finally
stopped incubating them (normal incubation period is 23 days).
--Kathy
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