Just laid but not sitting!

[Peckedhen]

I have a hen who laid on the loft floor two days ago. I decided to let her stay there and popped the egg into a nest bowl. Today she has laid her second egg in her nestbox but just on the floor, even though there was an empty nest bowl there. I've put the floor egg with it and placed both into a bowl exactly where it was laid but, neither the hen nor the cock are sitting on it.   Might they sit on them later?  I do have some fantails which laid about four/five days ago, they're on plastic eggs now - should I put the eggs under them or wait and see if the hen goes on the eggs? :-/

[Guest TAMMY_1]

UNLIKELY THEY WILL SIT ON THEM  BUT IF YOU TAKE THE BOWL OUT AND LEAVE THE EGGS WHERE THEY WERE LAID  THEY WILL SIT ON THEM BUT THIS IS ONLY MY OWN EXPERIENCE AS I HAVE HAD BIRDS LAY ON THE FLOOR AND TRIED THE SAME AS YOU AND I TOOK THE BOWL OUT AND THEY SAT BACK ON THE EGGS.

[Peckedhen]

Thanks Tammy 1. I'll go right now and give it a try.

[Guest Silverwings]

could put the eggs under the pair sitting the plastic eggs ?  and plastics in the area where the hen laid on the floor if they decide to sit the plastics you can transfer them back ? if not the foster pair could over sit and rear them ....ray

[Peckedhen]

Brilliant Silverwings, thanks.

 

I've done just as you've suggested. (They still weren't on the eggs.)  I'm glad the loft is in the back garden and not  few miles away!! : ;D

[jimmy white]

strange how you move eggs a foot and theyll not sit, but move hatched ybs and they will,,,,usually

[Peckedhen]

So, when these eggs hatch could I move the fantails out of the dovecote and into the loft?

 

It was good advice (thanks Silverwings) to put plastic eggs in the nestbox and see if they set them.....both eggs got knocked on the floor!  

[jimmy white]

i think it would be difficult to move them to a diffrant loft , but you could separate them at 14 days with the parents they should feed them then

[Peckedhen]

OK, thanks Jimmy. :K)

[THE FIFER]

GOOD LUCK WITH THEM, U HAVE GOT ALL THE ADVICE REQUIRED.

[Peckedhen]

I think so for the moment thanks. I'm sure I'll have plenty more soon though!!

[oakwood_lofts_2]

red mite

[Guest]

A simple cure if its red mite Sue is to soak a beer mat in creosote and put it under the nest bowl.

[REDCHEQHEN]

Would someone please explain the connection with the beginning of the thread and the end of it and why or how you would come to that conclusion ?

 

Is red mite an all year round problem, only experience I have heard before is in greenhouses in summer to do with plants and is that the same insect ?

[Guest TAMMY_1]

TWO DIFFERENT INSECTS ALLTOGETHER.THE ONE IN THE GREENHOUSES IS ACTUALLY RED SPIDER MITE.

[REDCHEQHEN]

Oh yes...... (embarassment..)

[Peckedhen]

I don't think that it's red mite.....have spoken to someone today who think it may well have been because I was in the loft with the hen waiting for her to lay - he thinks I disturbed her!!

 

How would I know if I have red mite?  The other birds are all OK - four hatched today.

[jimmy white]

dont think its red mite p,h, its usualy when their on young the get that, the red mite hide in the dark usualy under the ybs wings, but would do no harm to spray......one way to find ut is *expletive removed* your finger,[or prefferably someone elses ;D ;D]squeese a little blob of blood near the box or nesting place, in the dark,,go out with torch and if theres red mite, theyll be on that blood,,,,,,[they feed on the blood of the birds especialy ybs in the nest]if you squees one between your nails, its just bloodyou see,,,,,got me scratching now ;D ;D ;D

[Peckedhen]

got me scratching now ;D ;D ;D

 

Eeeuk!!   Me too! Thanks Jimmy.

 

 

[THE FIFER]

I TRIED THAT JIMMY AND MY BLOOD HAD THEM ALL GOING AROUND THE LOFT SINGING AND SMASHING THE PLACE UP, "I WONDER WHAT WAS IN MY BLOOD"LOL

NO SEARIOUS I DO NOT THINK ITS RED MITE, I WOULD TAKE THE EGGS AWAY AND SHUT THE PAIR OF BIRDS IN A NEST FOR A FEW DAYS.

[jimmy white]

THE EXPLETIVE REMOVED" WAS JAB A PIN IN YOUR FINGER SLIGHTLY" ;D ;D ;D

;D ;D ;D FIFER

[rockinrick]

plse plse can someone explain how u get from eggs on floor / moving nest bowl to discovering wether u have redmite ??????????????????????????????????????

 

dumb sasanac( english) lmao