Irissama
New member
- Feb 11, 2011
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- Parrots
- 4 Budgerigars, 1 Kakariki
Got a story to tell. :O Today we got a call from mom's workplace and we went to pick up the budgies I had given them. One of the residents isn't getting the "Don't play with the birds!" part and has been messing around with them. By some accounts he even may have been shaking them and such. I didn't give them these birds to be messed with, so back home they are!
The older one is my own late girl's baby boy Blue. I had given him away when he was a baby to my aunt along with his sister. She wasn't really responsible with them and let them have babies. In the bottom of the cage. One day I went to check out their latest clutch (they had babies at repetition... Sigh) and I noticed there was blood on the perch. Blue's claw was bleeding. I warned my mother and aunt that I believed he was getting beaten up by his sister and they shrugged it off.
Well one morning I got woken up by my mother saying we had to go pick him up ASAP because he had been massacred. When we got there my aunt had taken him out of the cage and put him in a plastic cup with tissues. The poor guy was in REALLY terrible shape. Missing feathers, blood all over, a mauled wing, his claws were just beaten to an undescribable pulp. They told me to just let "nature take its course" but I decided to take him to the vet instead. We had him on medicine and he ended up pulling through. He's got a lot of toes missing but he's still alive today.
I had given him away last time because when his mama died, all hell sorta broke loose. She was keeping law and order and now Pat (the mate) and Godzilla (the older son) were having REALLY nasty fights over who would get Blue's attention. And it happened that at the same time, a neighbor came over to my house and asked me if I wanted her budgie cuz she was sick of him. So I took Blue and Gus (I knew the new guy was healthy, I've been seeing him all the time) and isolated them in my room and then moved them away the same week. They were instantly happy and snuggy with each other.
Looking at them go today, they seem really all happy. I wanted to keep a small quarantine but even though it's been months, Blue had recognized the place and wouldn't stand still. He instantly jumped to his mama's old cage where he was born and where the other two are. The other two accepted Gus. There's been no fight, they group together and chat as a bunch and then return to their own cages. Now I got all my four boys happy and healthy.
And Pixel the Kakariki is staring at the newbies going "OH NO THERE'S MORE OF THEM."
The older one is my own late girl's baby boy Blue. I had given him away when he was a baby to my aunt along with his sister. She wasn't really responsible with them and let them have babies. In the bottom of the cage. One day I went to check out their latest clutch (they had babies at repetition... Sigh) and I noticed there was blood on the perch. Blue's claw was bleeding. I warned my mother and aunt that I believed he was getting beaten up by his sister and they shrugged it off.
Well one morning I got woken up by my mother saying we had to go pick him up ASAP because he had been massacred. When we got there my aunt had taken him out of the cage and put him in a plastic cup with tissues. The poor guy was in REALLY terrible shape. Missing feathers, blood all over, a mauled wing, his claws were just beaten to an undescribable pulp. They told me to just let "nature take its course" but I decided to take him to the vet instead. We had him on medicine and he ended up pulling through. He's got a lot of toes missing but he's still alive today.
I had given him away last time because when his mama died, all hell sorta broke loose. She was keeping law and order and now Pat (the mate) and Godzilla (the older son) were having REALLY nasty fights over who would get Blue's attention. And it happened that at the same time, a neighbor came over to my house and asked me if I wanted her budgie cuz she was sick of him. So I took Blue and Gus (I knew the new guy was healthy, I've been seeing him all the time) and isolated them in my room and then moved them away the same week. They were instantly happy and snuggy with each other.
Looking at them go today, they seem really all happy. I wanted to keep a small quarantine but even though it's been months, Blue had recognized the place and wouldn't stand still. He instantly jumped to his mama's old cage where he was born and where the other two are. The other two accepted Gus. There's been no fight, they group together and chat as a bunch and then return to their own cages. Now I got all my four boys happy and healthy.
And Pixel the Kakariki is staring at the newbies going "OH NO THERE'S MORE OF THEM."
