Congrats on your new babies to be! Can't wait to see lots of pics. Dummy eggs will slow down the egg laying and the female will sit on infertile fakes instead of real ones. I'm not in the position to have baby birds here (doing cat rescue....they don't mix) so if Butter starts really getting hot & heavy with her un-named boyfriend..I'm in trouble! K-9Soul posted a good article on slowing birds down..not sure if it pertains to budgies but guessing so.
http://petoftheday.com/talk/showthre...threadid=70086