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Post by siobhan on Jul 2, 2017 8:11:46 GMT -5
Jade is 13. She's been with us since January 2005 and has never laid an egg until the last two days. We have two (one fell on the floor and broke, so only one) and I doubt she's done. The broken one wasn't fertile, and I don't think the second is. Clyde's a boy, I think, but he doesn't like her a bit. Why is she doing this?  LOL She must have heard me urging the guppies to have babies. She isn't showing any interest in them, though. |
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Post by easttex on Jul 2, 2017 12:46:39 GMT -5
I don't know why she started, but it does explain Jade's newfound interest in you.  The first time Allie laid eggs she didn't sit on them, either. |
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Post by biteybird on Jul 3, 2017 1:00:40 GMT -5
I agree, it might explain some of her recent behaviour changes. I'm now wondering if Bonnie will do the same after a few years....
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Post by julianna on Jul 7, 2017 15:14:30 GMT -5
Wow.... 13 years. I would have thought she would lay eggs earlier than that. Goes to show what I know.... That is quite something.
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Post by siobhan on Jul 10, 2017 14:27:07 GMT -5
Well, 13 is when human girls really start noticing that boys aren't so awful after all. LOL At least, that's about when I started noticing. She laid three in about four days and stopped. Ignored them entirely. Even let me retrieve the one unbroken one out of her cage and dispose of it. I reached in for it and she watched with interest, and I asked if I could take it since she didn't seem to care about it. She indicated I could, so I did.
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Post by siobhan on Jul 11, 2017 10:57:32 GMT -5
Yesterday I discovered a whole herd of giant house flies in the birds' room, with no idea how they got there -- no holes in the screens and no door has been open to the outside -- so I went after them with a newspaper and the birds freaked out. Jade ended up on the floor by the washer, so I went to fetch her and soothe her, and she stepped up nice as you please and sat on my arm for a good five minutes, also nice as you please (no biting, I mean) while I calmed her down. Clyde sat on the highest point of a boing scolding and cussing and the tiels were on a curtain rod, also scolding and cussing, but Jade was slicked down and quiet. I had no idea killing flies would affect her like that. She's totally back to normal today but at least now she's seen that she CAN step up and sit nicely and maybe we can try that again soon. The stepping up, not the killing of flies. LOL
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Post by julianna on Jul 12, 2017 13:19:40 GMT -5
Awwww... when there was a sign of danger Jane turns to you for comfort... excellent. She knows you will protect her and I believe she will do the step up again. It is a little funny as when I want to take Oscar to the sitters... he knows because his kitchen cage disappears. He will go into his sleeping cage and hide in the back. For me to get him out without reaching in and grabbing him... I give him the "Danger" call which is when I roll my tongue with a high pitched scream.
He will coming running out of there like no tomorrow... lol.... course he comes straight to me for protection and ta dahh... I now have him to take in the truck with me... and to the sitters we go.
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Post by biteybird on Jul 13, 2017 0:02:29 GMT -5
LOL, Julianna, you're so devious....poor little Oscar.  |
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Post by julianna on Jul 17, 2017 13:03:04 GMT -5
Oscar can only outsmart me so many times... lol
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LOL She must have heard me urging the guppies to have babies. She isn't showing any interest in them, though.
The first time Allie laid eggs she didn't sit on them, either. 
