Post by Marianne Marlow on May 16, 2019 15:42:30 GMT
Custard still still continues to enjoy life, despite his liver condition. He’s moved into Hector’s cage at night time, as this means he gets the large seed trough mostly to himself and I can slip in a little piece of millet to try and keep his weight up. I still give him a beak trim every 2-3 weeks and he eats okay. He was never a budge to be stick trained, but I am able to get him to step on the playground if I hold it up and then transfer him to the cage doors, he will usually hop in at night time.
Hector is cage bound due to his inability to fly. But every evening while I clean his cage, I transfer him to Blithe and Basil’s lair and Blithe will preen and sometimes feed Hector. Hector tolerates Blithe in small doses. Blithe can be overwhelming! Last week I left Hector’s cage door open for a few minutes to let him have visitors. I looked up to see him outside of his cage on the rope perch, squawking and flapping at me. I almost had a heart attack as I leapt forth and rescued him.
Blithe is continuing to be the energetic bundle of fun that he is. He feeds and preens Hector through the cage bars. If I dare to try and preen Hector this way, Blithe will fly over and bite me. Blithe enjoys sitting on the swing by the window and singing. In fact he enjoys singing anywhere, the playground, the rack on the wall, in front of any mirror.
Lucy and Polly have been spending lots of time together. United in their love of George (Hefner), they sit in Polly’s cage and either chew things, sing to the mirrors or just sit around on swings preening their beautiful selves. Lemon shares Polly’s cage at night times, they tolerate each other well most of time time, but I wouldn’t say that they are friends. Lucy shares a cage with George at night time.
Basil and Lemon have become firm friends. When Basil arrived here with George, he eventually forged a very strong friendship with Roswell. When Roswell passed away, Basil was a little depressed and didn’t really play with anyone is particular. Lemon arrived with a pretty bad case of scalyface and was in quarantine for 4 weeks, having treatment before he met the others. Basil and Lemon sit together and Lemon feeds him. Lemon is the dominant partner in the relationship, so much so that Basils cere seems to look like a hens. When he arrived all those years ago, it was bright blue.
George is affectionately known here as George Hefner. There are two hens here and George feeds them both. They both only have eyes for him. They don’t fight over him, as long as when he’s sitting with them, he feeds them equally, or he may get a biff from Lucy.