Eggs?!?!!?

Had a customer come into the store today who was rather interested in the hayball we had in our canary's cage.
-As she hadn't realized right away that the bird within was a Canary and not a parakeet.

But apparently she'd never seen the hayball filled with hay before.
And wanted to know why we had that in the cage.

So I told her we kept the balls full of hay in specific cages so that the birds could use the hay to build nests.

To which she asked "Why would they want to do that?"

...Build nests?

Well....for one it's something to do, for two it gives them a place to sleep if they desire and three...it's so that they can lay eggs.

And her response to the laying eggs was a surprised. "You mean they naturally lay eggs!!" 

Like the concept had never occurred to her that the birds could do that without human interference or something.
But like. 
Yah? It's a bird. A female. Females usually reproduce and by doing that they lay eggs on occasion for the male to fertilize....it's a typical circle of life sort of thing.

But she just seemed so astounded that the birds would just go lay eggs.

And then was concerned because she didn't want her birds laying eggs.
Which really it depends on the bird.
Like our Finches? They lay eggs all the time it seems like.
The parakeets? Never seen them lay an egg.
I don't even remember them laying eggs when I had them growing up. 

Which there are some birds that don't lay eggs unless given the opportunity like nesting boxes and nesting material to do so.

In any case.
It was a rather interesting fifteen minute conversation for sure. 

-Sarnic Dirchi