Ask Lafeber

advice please

One of my canaries has laid 5 eggs in the seed feeder. Can i move her eggs? will she still sit on them if i do?

Hi,

She may not sit on these eggs if you move them to her nest. But chicks do not do well in something like a seed dish and usually die. There simply isn’t enough room. I would move the eggs, and also get rid of the seed dish and replace it with smaller cups that she can’t sit in. Even if these eggs don’t make it, this will get her used to using a nest for the next time. Again, it is best to move these eggs because it is very heartbreaking to have chicks die because they hatch in the wrong type container.

Thank you for asking Lafeber,

Brenda