I had almost given up thinking they were going to lay as I didn’t realise it would take so long from when she first entered the nest box, but in hindsight this is all still under 8 weeks from when they were first introduced to their new aviary home …
Throughout this process I have sought
the advice of other Pionus breeders which has been an invaluable source of information for me, you can find all on the internet but I like the reassurance of a person that I know has had results plus much that you read on the internet and some books seems to contradict sometimes quite drastically so you can be left rather confused.
16 BIRD SCENE
Anyway after about a total of 7 weeks
of introducing the box I found 3 eggs underneath her. I had almost given up thinking they were going to lay as I didn’t realise it would take so long from when she first entered the nest box, but in hindsight this is all still under 8 weeks from when they were first introduced to their new aviary home and they were already into incubating as I had cut back checks to around once a week. I had not noticed much difference in time spent away from the nest box for the female during first couple of weeks to last couple of weeks so nothing seemed that different. In fact the only difference was a couple of weeks before she had laid I
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