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RE: Egg-laying time pattern

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Posted by: ksterry at Fri Feb 6 11:40:32 2009  [ Report Abuse ] [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by ksterry ]  
   

Thanks so much for sharing your experience. Yours is somewhat similar to mine.

I still have 2-4 pregnant females. Can't really tell if a couple are just fat or full of eggs. Maybe a week ago, I cut a hole in a regular paper shoebox. I put a square ceramic saucer in the far end, covered it with 6 B####y paper towels (these are very absorbent and fairly soft), and keep it damp as much as possible by spritzing water on the paper towels. The chucks are constantly in and out of this box, even sleeping in it all night. Early this morning, one of the gravid girls laid 6 eggs in the box. That's the best luck I've ever had with a nest box. There's also a box with sandy soil in the cage but she won't even go in that box, let alone stay put and dig. Go figure!

Soon as we saw the eggs early this morning, we gently nabbed them and put them in the incubator. This was enough to spook the new mama and she hasn't given us any more eggs yet today, though she is still squirming around some, as if having contractions. I'm leaving her alone as much as possible, but I do quietly check for eggs every half hour or so and offer her water out of a gravy spoon, which she greedily laps. Hope most of all she goes ahead and unloads her cargo to avoid a trip to the vet for a hysterectomy. This egg business is kinda nerve-wracking.


   

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