HOW CAN I STOP MY BIRD LAYING EGGS?



Never take the eggs away. Leave all eggs with the bird for more than three weeks. Three weeks is the incubation period. After this, the bird often loses interest in them. If you take them away, before she has lost interest, she will simply replace them by laying more eggs with the risk of egg binding and a drain on her system. All egg laying birds should be given liquid calcium and vitamin D3 supplement. Try Calcivet from The Birdcare Company (0845-1308600). (Cuttlefish is more or less useless since it is insoluble and just passes through the bird.)

Some birds become chronic egg layers. If egg laying continues too long, you could try moving the cage into a different position. This territory change will sometimes stop laying.