The Long Incubation Eggs laid, the pair settles down for the long haul. Canary eggs take roughly two weeks to incubate, and Baby Doll must do all the work herself. Peepity likes to sit on the nest and pretend he is a hen, but male canaries aren't actually able to properly incubate an egg; the area of their brain that controls these instincts in the hens, is in the male taken up by the braincells dedicated to his song.

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