Verymarried
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I have a 12 year old female Eclectus that laid the first egg (this year) and it got broken, the second my grand daughter found and it was toast, the third my daughter's dog broke. That's usually all she'll lay but she was being especially bull headed about abandoning the shower where she had made a "nest" on my night gown. Now she's laid a fourth. She's never done this before but she's also never been this determined about staying with an egg. In the past she would lay an egg and get so involved with life that she'd forget about it. This time she only leaves it for a drink of water and to eat and then it's straight back to the egg. It's not a viable egg, since we don't have a male and I'm not sure about taking it away from her this time. She's being more "responsible" and was more upset when these eggs were broken. I thought about switching it for a fertile bantam chicken egg (there are no parrot breeders close to buy an egg from). Any suggestions? Is this a totally stupid idea?