Plastic eggs?

[Mr. Budgie]

I was recently looking for info on budgie breeding and on one page on the internet i found a site selling fake plastic budgies and other types of fakes eggs. What are the plastic fake eggs for?

[Bea]

So that if you don't want your hen to breed a second clutch you replace the real eggs with the plastic ones and toss the real ones. :) She'll sit on the plastic ones and eventually abandon them, and you'll have no babies.

[cfnbryn]

also some mothers have an annoying habit of crushing babies and eggs, therefore you could use marble sor plastic eggs to make sur she cant crush and she soon learns how high shes gotta be and she doenst need to flatten them etc.

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not worded perfectly but you should understand

[Amy]

I understand now, I see.

[Smoothy]

The mother will continue to lay eggs if one is taken out or crushed to replace the loss of the egg. She can kill herself by doing this because she is using all of her calcium for no reason at all. So just leave her eggs in the nest, or you can take the unfertile eggs and boil them, let them cool, and then put it back in the nest. This way she does not continue to lay eggs and if she chooses to eat them (Some do to refill their calcium) they will be soft and easier for her to eat. Remember, for 19 days her eggs must not be taken out.

[BUUZBEE]

Thats what i use since i dont let my hens have a second clutch. i want them to focus on the babies they already have, lol