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masked lapwing eggs please help!!!
« Thread Started on Sept 29, 2008, 10:14am »

hello all i have joined this forum to obtain some information, yesterday at my partners football game i rescued a clutch of masked lapwing eggs from the grounds, my aim was to just put them back after the game when everyone had gone but as it was a grand final the boys got umm "a bit silly" and there was a lot of fighting and rubbish and i heard they were bringing in someone to re-sow the grounds coz they were trashed. anyway i have the eggs with me (under a heat lamp) and will look after them till i can take them to wildlife but i can not find any info on what temp they need to be, if they need to be turned etc..... any help would be great
thankyou everyone in advance!
p.s. i have worked with animals all my life, used to be a fulltime member of RSPCA but judt do not have any experince in plovers!!

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Re: masked lapwing eggs please help!!!
« Reply #1 on Sept 29, 2008, 2:30pm »

How long have they not been turned for? if its longer than 12 hours then they are stuffed. keep them around 27 and turn every 2 hours a 1/4 of the way.

I have raised plovers before best way is to put the eggs under a chook or jap quail

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Re: masked lapwing eggs please help!!!
« Reply #2 on Sept 29, 2008, 5:42pm »

i have turned them about 4 times so far, thankyou zooyouthben for the advice they are prob dead now anyway, 29 views....one reply, awesome thanks guys

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Re: masked lapwing eggs please help!!!
« Reply #3 on Sept 30, 2008, 10:28pm »

sorry but I know nothing about these types of birds. Thanks Ben for the reply......you have more experience in this sort of thing.

I didn't even know what it was until I saw the word "plover" and that is quite possibly why others did not reply either. They didn't know what they were.

So sorry.

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Re: masked lapwing eggs please help!!!
« Reply #4 on Oct 1, 2008, 9:27am »

This is the first time I have seen this post, and my first response was "What is a masked lapwing" Like you Trace, I had no idea what one was, and lucky for us Ben knows what he is talking about.
I'm sorry no-one replied too, it is sad if she has lost her babies. We have plovers here at the dam and they always seem to lay their eggs in the strangest places. There is one here at the moment that is nesting on the side of the road in the gravel!

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Re: masked lapwing eggs please help!!!
« Reply #5 on Oct 1, 2008, 10:39am »

By the time I saw this thread Ben had already replied - I know what masked lapwings are, but have no idea about keeping eggs.

This is a forum, and you can't expect that people are going to available straight away to answer your question, or that everyone is going to know the answer - and why reply to the thread if they didn't?

It's a pity that no one was around who knew what to do when you posted, but to be honest I find it a bit rude that you seem annoyed at the response you got.

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Re: masked lapwing eggs please help!!!
« Reply #6 on Oct 1, 2008, 2:01pm »

I agree, firstly I had no idea what a lapwing was, and secondly I see no point in wasting a post saying 'I dunno'
Also common sense would suggest that a call directly to a wildlife carer would be the quickest way to ensure a response in an emergency.
We can only endevour to share our knowledge on topics which we have experiance in, for a non-domestic species a 4 hr response time is pretty good I reckon.

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Re: masked lapwing eggs please help!!!
« Reply #7 on Oct 14, 2009, 9:02pm »

I know alot about plovers. I know that Masked Lapwing eggs can survive out in the open for all day, however this is rare. Make sure they are warm at all times. If you want any more info on lapwing eggs just ask me