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Post by criswell on Feb 5, 2022 13:49:11 GMT
Lovely photos. Our first budgie, Criswell was friends with our gerbils too although I was always to anxious to let him play with them. He used to sit me and watch the gerbils when they were out to play.
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Oct 6, 2011 7:41:27 GMT
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Post by Marianne Marlow on Feb 5, 2022 15:03:37 GMT
Patch and Eeyore are boys, definitely. But as for Squeak, looks very henny in the photos you posted! Of my 4 girls, two are cagebound as they cannot fly, one (Penny) was used as a breeder until the age of 5 years old (not by me!) and the other has french moult (Lyra). The other two, Daisy and Iris came as a set of four with Colin and Billy. I must have been mad to rehome 4 at once as they were a nightmare to settle in and are still the most trouble at night time. They sort of act as a flock within a flock and spend lots of time together. Iris is a lot of trouble, she bashes seed pots up and down, tries to tip the water bowls over and is a general horror. At the moment she is at the top of the curtain biting it. Here were the little flock of four earlier:
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Post by Loz on Feb 5, 2022 15:18:06 GMT
Four newcomers at once!
I felt frazzled with just two new budgies.
Squeak's behaviour, different from the other budgies in several ways, and his lack of a singing voice - all he can manage is two kinds of squeak, hence his name - make me question his gender sometimes.
However, there is definitely blue in his cere, a transition from the lilac/purple had had a month ago, and I am confidently hopeful he is in fact a boy.
I hope.
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Oct 6, 2011 7:41:27 GMT
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Post by Marianne Marlow on Feb 5, 2022 15:23:52 GMT
Hate to break it to you, but hens can have light blue ceres.. Boys are a deeper blue. Lyra.  |
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Post by Loz on Feb 5, 2022 15:46:32 GMT
Hate to break it to you, but hens can have light blue ceres.. Boys are a deeper blue. Lyra. Thanks for the warning, I will prepare myself! Squeak's cere is very like Mr Hibs' in colour and shade and his cere colour transition from young is following Eeyore's very closely - at one time Eeyore's gender was in doubt, too! I shall nevertheless brace myself for interesting news in the future. |
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Post by Marianne Marlow on Feb 5, 2022 15:49:26 GMT
  If Squeak starts biting the curtains or kicking seed out of the troughs, I'd start to worry for your sanity! |
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Post by Loz on Feb 5, 2022 15:53:03 GMT
If Squeak starts biting the curtains or kicking seed out of the troughs, I'd start to worry for your sanity! That ship has sailed! But I will look for the warning signs you suggest 🤣 |
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Post by Hezz on Feb 6, 2022 0:53:00 GMT
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Post by Loz on Feb 6, 2022 1:06:22 GMT
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Post by Loz on Feb 7, 2022 14:08:25 GMT
Just an observation today.
Young Squeak doesn't have a singing voice, or in fact any voice other than a high-pitched squeak.
He's asleep now but I can hear his call interspersed with Mr Hibs' long and involved babble ... which means Hibs has incorporated Squeak's squeak into his repertoire. That's very sweet.
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Post by criswell on Feb 7, 2022 14:22:58 GMT
Unless Squeak is talking in this sleep. I've often seen my boys chattering in their sleep. It is cute though if Mr Hibs has incorparated Squeaks call.
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Post by Loz on Feb 7, 2022 14:37:05 GMT
Sleep-talking is possible but I was deliberately observing Squeak at the time. He was head-under-wing fast-a-byes.
Really sweet.
Just watched Eeyore and Chocobo in a foot race, he was chasing Chocobo out of the lounge. I hadn't the heart to remind them both that they have, ah, wings 😂
These guys are impossibly enetertaining 😁
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Post by criswell on Feb 7, 2022 15:10:17 GMT
I think flying uses a lot more energy than running.
Your guys really are entertaining and I'm enjoying hearing about them.
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Post by Loz on Feb 7, 2022 15:34:26 GMT
Thank you, criswell ! If I had the camera equipment for it, I could easily make a web-based comedy-drama from the material they give me. Just now, Patch was on a perch being flanked by Hibs and Eeyore. All three of them were attempting to preen Patch at the same time, it was comical. Until the temper tantrums, of course. |
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Post by criswell on Feb 7, 2022 15:46:13 GMT
I had no idea how amazing budgies were until I had one. We took in an unwanted budgie that our neighbour was threatening to release. Within a few days I was hooked.
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