Look what I found

[tbird]

Today I spent most of the day looking for rat and mice tunnels in my avairy. I thought while I had my remaining birds out I would give the avairy a really good clean. I climed the ladder to remove the 5 nest boxes for cleaning and when I opened the lid of one of them I found 49 eggs just sitting on the bottom without a scrap of nesting material. It was as if this the finches chose to use this box as a dumping ground. Is this a usual practice for gouldians?

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[jusdeb]

I had a pair of hens that alone in 1 season laid 70 eggs in 1 box , they did however build a couple of nests inside the box .

I thought they were a useless breeding pair ...have to say that didnt look real good before we took the nest box away , too much time in the nest , all that calcium depleted meant very scabby looking birds ...they came good though .

[Stavros01]

Well, i have seen it happened with Double bar.
Once i had a male with two females and in the nest there was 14 eggs but omly half were fertile which meens, for me that the male only fertilized one of the females.
With Gouldians, i have never seen it.


Regards
Gustavo

[Jayburd]

Happened once in an old aviary of mine, a nest box had apparently become a mixed species egg dump, for I found eggs of various sizes and shapes...
I had zebras, long tails, orange breasts, cordons, red faced parrot finches and double bars in pairs at the time, and suspect they all had a hand in.

[natamambo]

Wow you trump the 14 I cleaned out of one box today

[matcho]

Yeah, beat my 21 from one box last month. Had a total of over 50 odd from 3 boxes. Makes me wonder why the rats didn't dine on them.

[Diane]

Ive had 16 eggs in one nest this season till the birds settled down a bit. Got 8 live ones from that 16 due to a dedicated hen.