bug_n_flock
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- Jan 2, 2018
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- Parrots
- B&G Macaw, Galah, 5 cockatiels, 50 billion and a half budgies. We breed and do rescue. Too many to list each individual's name and age etc, but they are each individuals and loved dearly.
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Well, the bird pasta was quite a hit. Wahoo! Today I am making a big pot of bird safe greens: kale and collard. One of my favorite dishes, but Mr. Bug won't touch veggies usually, so often when I make a pot of greens at least some goes bad. Not this time, hopefully. I'll share with the birds!
Also.... WOW, ok. Our budgie flock is about to nearly double in size. The cockatiel guy and I have been talking.... we are going to completely buy him out of birds. Birds, cages, nest boxes, books, food, everything. He has 19 birds now. 2 pair from a semi local breeder, 2 pair from a breeder a state away. The rest are the offspring of those 8 birds. He has records on who is related to whom, takes care of them correctly, and feeds them properly. In the end, it was too good a deal on too good of quality birds. We couldn't say no. We pick them up Friday after this'un. The guy is 2 hours away, so it will be an all day project I'm sure. So.... for the next month, our bedroom may have 21 birds going thru quarantine. However, that just may be too many quarantine birds too close to the rest of our birds. We may try to figure out somewhere else to quarantine them for the safety of all involved. Maybe a room in the 2nd mobile home, maybe we will throw up a shed outside(after this heat wave passes, fall weather is mild here), IDK. We will figure it out. Maybe just clear out the large walk-in closet in the bedroom and put the cages there for quarantine. Still in the same building as the rest of the flock, but a little farther away from them. Rather than being 2 doors between them and most of the birds, there would be 3. And Alex and Hima would be 2 doors away rather than 1. IDK. What do you guys think?
For the tiels, we have been thinking about names. So far the front runners are:
Riff(hen) Raff(****)
Bonnie(hen) Clyde(****)
Hiro(****) Mitzy(hen)
Any suggestions?
Also.... WOW, ok. Our budgie flock is about to nearly double in size. The cockatiel guy and I have been talking.... we are going to completely buy him out of birds. Birds, cages, nest boxes, books, food, everything. He has 19 birds now. 2 pair from a semi local breeder, 2 pair from a breeder a state away. The rest are the offspring of those 8 birds. He has records on who is related to whom, takes care of them correctly, and feeds them properly. In the end, it was too good a deal on too good of quality birds. We couldn't say no. We pick them up Friday after this'un. The guy is 2 hours away, so it will be an all day project I'm sure. So.... for the next month, our bedroom may have 21 birds going thru quarantine. However, that just may be too many quarantine birds too close to the rest of our birds. We may try to figure out somewhere else to quarantine them for the safety of all involved. Maybe a room in the 2nd mobile home, maybe we will throw up a shed outside(after this heat wave passes, fall weather is mild here), IDK. We will figure it out. Maybe just clear out the large walk-in closet in the bedroom and put the cages there for quarantine. Still in the same building as the rest of the flock, but a little farther away from them. Rather than being 2 doors between them and most of the birds, there would be 3. And Alex and Hima would be 2 doors away rather than 1. IDK. What do you guys think?
For the tiels, we have been thinking about names. So far the front runners are:
Riff(hen) Raff(****)
Bonnie(hen) Clyde(****)
Hiro(****) Mitzy(hen)
Any suggestions?