help lady Amherst pair eating eggs

Add some branches and hang bushel baskets to their pen so she can hide her eggs.Also clip the top beak on all birds in the pen,just enough to get a trickle of blood.You can also give them apple cider vinegar(1Tbsp per gallon).I would do all at once so hopefully it will stop immediately.In N.H.,Tony.

what you also can do fill a empty egg shell with mustard and leave it, gamebirds hate mustard

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Originally Posted by De Wet 

what you also can do fill a empty egg shell with mustard and leave it, gamebirds hate mustard

not always true, tried this with a pair of white eareds and they seemed to like it more, cutting the beak really is the best method, also putting in wooden or stone eggs helps, because when the birds peck at them nothing happens and they give up, and they will hopefully leave the real ones alone

It might be better to remove the male after he has mated with the female so she can lay and brood the eggs herself in peace.  Sometimes if they are a bit stressed and can not settle to start brooding they will mess about with the eggs and crack and eat them.

Also make sure she has lots of privacy / cover in her run.  They need to feel secure.  

Also you could take the eggs out as soon as you see them and put them in an incubator to raise yourself.

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Originally Posted by G-Dekeyser 

not always true, tried this with a pair of white eareds and they seemed to like it more, cutting the beak really is the best method, also putting in wooden or stone eggs helps, because when the birds peck at them nothing happens and they give up, and they will hopefully leave the real ones alone

lol i don t think here are any white ears in south africa

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Originally Posted by De Wet 

lol i don t think here are any white ears in south africa

thats very true, i doubt they could handle the heat there.

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Originally Posted by G-Dekeyser 

thats very true, i doubt they could handle the heat there.

here are a few breeders who have trogopans and blue ears, eliots, edwards, firebacks, jungle fowls , hume s, koklass and monals and the south american s  currasow and vulturine guineas but this species are verry exspensive i know a pair himalyan monals cost R40000 so about $4000  some years ago was here a farmer with a pair of brown ears but never heard about white ears. What is interesting some years ago here was alot of cheer pheasants in collection but no more in sout africa so i hope the big boys will import. the birds. The normal collection here which fit the pocket of the middleclass like me lol, is the goldens, lady amherst, ringnecked, green, swinhoe s, kalij s, reeves and silvers. We also have chukars, yellow throat spurfowls, rouls rouls, bamboo pardtridge, californians, bobwhites, buttons, japanese and sing sing quails, some colectors have stone and sand partridge and know one zoo and private collector have the pheasant pigeons. So i reckon we are not so bad lol

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Originally Posted by De Wet 

here are a few breeders who have trogopans and blue ears, eliots, edwards, firebacks, jungle fowls , hume s, koklass and monals and the south american s  currasow and vulturine guineas but this species are verry exspensive i know a pair himalyan monals cost R40000 so about $4000  some years ago was here a farmer with a pair of brown ears but never heard about white ears. What is interesting some years ago here was alot of cheer pheasants in collection but no more in sout africa so i hope the big boys will import. the birds. The normal collection here which fit the pocket of the middleclass like me lol, is the goldens, lady amherst, ringnecked, green, swinhoe s, kalij s, reeves and silvers. We also have chukars, yellow throat spurfowls, rouls rouls, bamboo pardtridge, californians, bobwhites, buttons, japanese and sing sing quails, some colectors have stone and sand partridge and know one zoo and private collector have the pheasant pigeons. So i reckon we are not so bad

 

wow! $4000 for a pair of Impeyans! thats insane! maybe we should start shipping to south africa LOL

OOuch!With most pheasants coming from European countries,you would think that they would be better priced then here.I know when they were first introduced here,they were expensive.If I recall Charles Seville paid 10,000.00 for a pair of salvadori pheasants.As far as I know there are only 10 birds in the U.S.

In N.H.,Tony.