In my stack of cages, the top cage has three societies ... a male and two females. That's where the foster egg came from. One of the females laid a second egg (which fell from the perch and broke) the day after she laid the first one, then she stopped laying.
Now she's laying again. I found an egg carefully laid on the grate, perfectly intact, when I got up. There are two nests for her to choose from, but she hangs around in the left/front corner of the cage while she's laying, rather than putting the eggs in one of the nests. Afterwards, the eggs are totally ignored. I even moved one of the nests down to "her" corner, but she squeezes into the area beside it rather than going into the nest itself. She's sitting in the corner again as I type this, so I'm willing to bet another egg is on the way.
Since it's too late to add any more eggs to the bottom cage, I put the intact egg in the middle cage. Short of throwing it away, which I hate to do, it's the only place I can put it. I guess we'll see if the middle quartet will foster. I'll probably move at least one of the quartet out, so the egg won't get smooshed underneath the four of them when they sleep.
I still plan to pick up 3-4 females at the bird fair tomorrow. :-) I'm thinking about getting a male diamond dove, too, (no female) but I don't know for sure yet. If I do, it'll go in the community cage, which I still haven't set up yet.
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