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This is my first yr with amazons on eggs, and my question is this, How many hrs a day does the hen sit on her eggs? I always assumed that the female would be out of sight for the next 4 weeks. The male would go in and out to do the feeding. Again this is my first time. She is the hen that threw the egg out of the nest Monday. From what I've seen, she has been in the box mabe 50% of the time, and has not spent the night in there as of Monday. Does the outside temp. play a roll in how many hrs. to sit? It has been in the mid to high 80's during the day. Same question on GCC's On them, she spends mabe 90% of her time sitting. They are housed indoors in a room mabe 75 to 80 deg.

Quite probably, there are no eggs yet.
The hen will come out for food and poop when she is nesting.

That will vary greatly between hens and their experience levels. A good hen knows exactly how long the eggs need sit on to maintain the proper temps. We have experienced hens constantly being outside the nest, hence off their eggs for a large part of the day.....then again equally as experienced hens spend every second per day in the nest. As stated your hen in question has more than likely not dropped her first egg in the clutch yet, as the majority of hens reside within their nestboxes at night after they drop the first egg.

It should also be noted that the best of the best hens don't start incubating/sitting on the clutch untill the third egg is laid or second in the case of the eclectus species. The reasoning is the eggs hatch as close together as possible. You would almost think the Creator knew what he was doing :)

Jeremy
Genesis Parrot

This hen has hatched offspring before with another male that flew the coop. For the last 2 days, she has spent mabe 90% of the day in her box(slept in it overnight). I guess I need not her worry as she knows more(the hen) about this than me. I guess 4 weeks of wondering/worring if there is anything I can do to help.

She had babies and he flew the coop.....sounds like todays youth.... :(

Appears like shes dropped her egg/s.....all is good...the first egg should hatch if fertile app. 28 days after the last egg is laid on the yellow headed amazon group.

Hope all goes well for you!
Jeremy
Genesis Parrot
jerm28@ruraltel.net

o.k., I hung out all day around the house and this is what the daily activity looked like.

6:45 a.m. (daybreak) went out and feed as usual. Today they received zupreme breeders pellets(70% of their diet as of Feb.) with red and yellow bell peppers. Hen was out of the nest box.

9:00 a.m. Hen was nowhere in sight. Not sure what time she went back in the box. We left for breakfast and arrived at this time.

2:00 p.m. ck on her, and again in the box.

Between 5:00 and 6:00 she was seen in and out of her box.

By 6:30 she was no where to be seen for the rest of the afternoon.

8:30 went out to turn off the lights for the GCC (they are on 3 eggs day 10 ), took a peak and the male was perching for the night by his lonesome.

So does this sound about right? When I checked on them, I viewed them from a distance. Most of the time, they had no idea I was watching.

Forgot to mention the 5:30 evening feeding. They usually received seeds and fresh water for the afternoon.