8 eggs, only male sits on them

[milad621]

Hi,

We have a pair of love birds and they are more than 1 year old. We got them last year.
A few days ago we noticed the male is not coming out of the nest. After we checked, there were 5 eggs. We were seeing that it's the male that usually sits on them.
Now we checked and there are 8 eggs.
I have too many questions about the situation.

Why does the male sits on them most of the time?

Does the female know when to stop laying eggs?
Is there a problem if the male started sitting on them too early?
Will the female start sitting on the eggs?
And the most important question, is it better if we take out the eggs and incubate ourselves? In case this young couple have no idea what they're doing

Thanks,

 

[winston.stuger]

Sounds to me you have two hens. Male lovebirds don't sit on eggs. Just leave the eggs until they don't longer sit on then and then remove them.

If the eggs are fertilized and if you have the time to handfeed baby lovebirds (feed them every other hour in the first week) then put them in an incubator.

Cheers

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[noodles123]

have you had them blood sexed?