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Post by Hezz on May 10, 2019 0:24:40 GMT
Good to hear from you Learner, you written that book yet Ohhhhh the joy's of owning Meeps aye, they can turn a clean cage or aviary into something that resembles the council tip in the shake of a stick My 4 in the aviary are currently stealing the seeding grass away from the Budgies and trying to weave it into the wire mesh, what they can possibly achieve with this, only a Meep must know NEST!!! Where there is a will, there is a way, particularly if one is a Meep, and a nest is absent.
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Post by Learner on May 10, 2019 6:25:11 GMT
Good to hear from you Learner , you written that book yet Ohhhhh the joy's of owning Meeps aye, they can turn a clean cage or aviary into something that resembles the council tip in the shake of a stick My 4 in the aviary are currently stealing the seeding grass away from the Budgies and trying to weave it into the wire mesh, what they can possibly achieve with this, only a Meep must know Book? I'm still decluttering and sorting through boxes and books and files from my teaching days as well as paperwork from my time looking after my parents as well as their old papers... (My mother appeared to have kept every family Christmas card from about 1940! She even had letters from her pen pal in Australia dating back to the first one written on the ship to Sydney. I emailed a copy to the daughter of my mum's pen pal - we are still in touch now and then). Without a doubt Meeps are Messy... My aviary looks like a gone-wrong wedding scene outside the church - not little pretty delicate spots of coloured rice-paper but fathoms of thin strips of shredded newspaper! How they manage to get it through the mesh onto the floor I don't know. Needless to say the budgies look at them from a distance with total indifference... that is until one of the Meeps decides to go 'flap-about' around the "Bird Room" (I call it the aviary shed). It doesn't happen often and the last few times the Meep has taken itself back in where it should be. The budgies, on the other hand evacuated out into the outside flight... Last time they simply sat still and looked. So... book writing may come when I can do nothing else - no nipping to the beach for a cycle ride with a young (fast!!) friend, no gardening or veg growing, no visiting elderly relatives or wandering to the shops... Book writing will be when I can get out and about and finally get everything else in order... It's an aim. Some evenings I spend typing up the book that my mother wrote towards the end of her time - it tells "Her Story" and she wrote it for her grandchildren. One day I will email a completed copy to my nieces and nephew and pass it on to my own children.. time yet for my own Book (I hope).
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Post by Shirls on May 11, 2019 7:04:08 GMT
My 4 in the aviary are currently stealing the seeding grass away from the Budgies and trying to weave it into the wire mesh, what they can possibly achieve with this, only a Meep must know You know what they are doing skysmum!!! They are making a nest, just like the house martins and swallows do!!! Apologies, typed this before I saw Hezz's post!!
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Post by skysmum on May 12, 2019 19:03:53 GMT
Yes little devils, it looks like the hanging gardens in there some days, i think they think they are weaver birds The Buds just roll their eyes and get on with their business even when a Meep whizzes past at 100 mph and nicks the grass out of their beaks So lovely to have your mums memoirs to read through and type out Learner, a great family treasure
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Oct 6, 2011 7:41:27 GMT
Marianne Marlow
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Post by Marianne Marlow on May 12, 2019 19:14:27 GMT
skysmum, do the meeps actually nick the grass out of the buds beaks? that is hilarious!
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Post by skysmum on May 12, 2019 19:24:32 GMT
skysmum, do the meeps actually nick the grass out of the buds beaks? that is hilarious! They truly do Marianne, you have to see it to believe it, the buds just freeze for a second in disbelief then carry on, they will steal anything and everything they can get their little beaks round if it will make nesting material. I think i posted once about Frank nicking off with my baby wipe while i was cleaning round, it's so quick you haven't time to blink
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Post by Learner on May 15, 2019 8:52:41 GMT
Training budgies (and Meeps!) What a well behaved, obliging crowd budgies can be! Each evening, when I decide it's "bed-time" for birds, I wander over to the aviary and just say to the budgies in their outside flight: "In you go.. Go on. In," and one by one those budgies remaining out in the flight hop down to the platform and toddle through the pop-hole. Then I simply lower their door and that's them safely inside for the night. Each evening, when I decided it's "bed-time" I wander over to the other end of the aviary and just say to the Meeps in their outside flight: "In you go. Go on. In... Go on... go in... flipping birds.. No not back out again! Go in!!" and they spend the next ten minutes or more, taking turns to go in and out and then out again.... Flipping hopeless daft little flitters! I had to go back almost every evening later as it grew dark in order to shut their outside flight door. But.. I am not one to give up easily. After weeks of this they began to get the hang of the routine. Sometimes I have to insert a piece of dowel through the mesh of the outside flight but frequently I simply close the outer door of the shed and say, "Come on.. In.. go on.. in you go" then once one of them flits in they others, after some indecision flit in too like parachutists in reverse.... So Meeps may be lively, flitting little characters but don't be fooled by them - they can and do learn. If they want to, they are able to be co-operative and follow instructions built from learnt experiences. I must admit it surprised me when it seemed as if they were responding - I thought it was pure chance the first few successful times but now it is routine. Meeps are marvellous little flitters.. Mine live in their own bit of the aviary. The budgies have theirs. I've not tried mixing them but it is a thought..
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Oct 6, 2011 7:41:27 GMT
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Post by Marianne Marlow on May 15, 2019 9:08:26 GMT
Those little meeps, willful little flitters
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Post by ffiscool on May 15, 2019 23:28:02 GMT
Clever little birdies eh, I think a lot of them like routine
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Post by Shirls on May 16, 2019 7:13:31 GMT
I don't have meeps Learner, but my budgies go in of a night time almost by command. O.K. it's only three, but once I carry Pip in on the taxi stick the other two know it's bed time, they either travel by the taxi or just fly in on their own! It's so lovely!!
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