Well, after my first batch of buttons wouldn't lay, and doing everything under the moon to get them to lay without success, I finally gave one last ditched effort, and put a cover on the cage. In about a week, I had an egg, and she has been giving me about an egg a day. My community was way over 6 weeks and still nothing, so, I decided to cover them up. It was over a week, so, last night, I had time (woah, time? What is that?! Lol) and butchered a huge tupperware container that was somewhat bigger than the flight cage. Took me awhile to cut the windows out, cut screen and then hot glue the screen in, then I finally moved everyone into this new cage. I checked on them just a bit ago, and they gave me an egg! What a nice way to say "thank you", lol. From this point on, once buttons reach 5 weeks, I'm going to cover half of the cage. In two weeks, with this new "rule", I'll have to move and cover the splash/pied group.
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