Introducing my flock!
Sept 3, 2020 5:50:07 GMT
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Marianne Marlow, Hezz, and 9 more like this
Post by Morgan on Sept 3, 2020 5:50:07 GMT
Hello all!
I want to share photos of my birdies and introduce the flock! I started out with a single budgie that flew into my mom’s window while I was staying with her for a time, after returning from living abroad. I found her previous owners and discovered she was the sole surviving baby of an ‘oops’ clutch in their outdoor aviary, and was only about three months old when she escaped. She had damaged her cere and bruised her beak pretty badly, but they let me keep her and I nursed her back to health.
She was so hungry the evening I brought her in that she ate everything I had to offer her at the time (I didn’t have any seed on me, so strawberry, veggies, bit of rice, etc.) and because the randomness of the event the phrase “when pig’s fly” occurred to me - so I ended up naming her Pig. Over time this evolved and her full name has become Princess Pig Strawberry-Buttons. But Pig will do just fine.
She is a dark-eyed clear, and the reason I became interested in budgie color mutations. She turned (approx.) one year old yesterday!
Pig didn’t care much for human company and was lonely by herself, so after a while I adopted two more budgies to keep her company. The previous owner thought they were both boys, but one ended up being a girl too! She’s the bossiest of all my budgies (so far?).
This is Monkey!
I believe she is a df yellowface type 2 cobalt normal, and she’s going through her second molt right now so she looks a little disheveled. I believe she is approx. 9 (whoops!) 10 months old now.
MoonGoat came with Monkey, and they could be siblings, about the same age. They get along well, but Goat seems to fancy Pig the most. Monkey can be a bit pushy, and Goat will even come to Pig’s rescue and chase Monkey away if she’s being too bossy! (This was more common when I had just the three of them.
Goat is a sf yellowface type 2 skyblue normal, and also going through his second molt, but a couple weeks behind Monkey.
Because Monkey could be a little too pushy with Pig, I thought I should adopt another boy to even their numbers. Enter Soul and Xephy:
I believe Soul is an opaline skyblue greywing(?), is approx. a year and a half old.
Xephy is a cobalt dominant pied normal budgie, approx. six months old now. Someone cut ALL his flight feathers and was completely flightless when I first got him, poor thing! He also ended up breaking four of his new flight feathers as they were growing in because ethereal were no other feathers to support them when he flapped his wings. He is also missing his two longest tail feathers which he dropped in a fright - probably because he can’t fly well, he’s my most skittish budgie still. But his new flights are coming in three on each wing now and he’s doing much better, so I hope he will soon gain more confidence and be less fearful when he can fly!
Most recently, I bought another set of baby budgies. I couldn’t help myself when I saw one with a particularly pretty tail at the pet store while buying new seed. I bought another as well to keep him company during quarantine. Meet Topsie Turvy and Chopper!
Topsie likes to squish himself upside down between one of his perches and the bars of his cage (I think to scratch his back because he has some tiny pin feathers there I noticed) and Chopper was named by my partner because whenever he tries to fly he goes backwards! (I was thinking of naming him Rewind or Retro, but he does look like a little helicopter for a moment when he’s trying real hard to go forwards and hovers in place instead). I believe Topsie is a yellowface (not sure what type yet or if it will be df or df, he needs a first molt first!) opaline cobalt budgie. And Chopper of course is normal green. I didn’t have any green budgies so I picked him out because he’s “just a normal” budgie. :3 I think he’s gorgeous! And I never noticed that normal green budgies (or at least Chopper does) have a little bit of turquoise on their underfluffies, as Hezz might say.
Well, that’s my flock of budgies... but I also have a linnie I’d like to introduce too! She is my only hand-fed and really tame bird, and her name is Love Letters, or Lottie for short:
Lottie is a creamino linnie - a turquoise based ino mutation. I will eventually be getting her a same species buddy, a normal green, so she can have a friend who speaks her language too.
I read that linnie’s have very sweet temperaments and sometimes are bullied by budgies if kept together, but Lottie is queen of the roost! She actually gets along best with Monkey (my dominant girl budgie) and MoonGoat, and everyone does very well with one another when out of their cages in the bird room - but she sleeps in her own cage and I keep an eye on her when everyone is together outside for bath time and fresh air. They all cry if they’re separated, so everyone goes in one of their flight cages together. It’s super cute!
Whew, that was a lot! Thanks for reading if you did! I love my birbs.
I want to share photos of my birdies and introduce the flock! I started out with a single budgie that flew into my mom’s window while I was staying with her for a time, after returning from living abroad. I found her previous owners and discovered she was the sole surviving baby of an ‘oops’ clutch in their outdoor aviary, and was only about three months old when she escaped. She had damaged her cere and bruised her beak pretty badly, but they let me keep her and I nursed her back to health.
She was so hungry the evening I brought her in that she ate everything I had to offer her at the time (I didn’t have any seed on me, so strawberry, veggies, bit of rice, etc.) and because the randomness of the event the phrase “when pig’s fly” occurred to me - so I ended up naming her Pig. Over time this evolved and her full name has become Princess Pig Strawberry-Buttons. But Pig will do just fine.
She is a dark-eyed clear, and the reason I became interested in budgie color mutations.
She turned (approx.) one year old yesterday!Pig didn’t care much for human company and was lonely by herself, so after a while I adopted two more budgies to keep her company. The previous owner thought they were both boys, but one ended up being a girl too! She’s the bossiest of all my budgies (so far?).
This is Monkey!
I believe she is a df yellowface type 2 cobalt normal, and she’s going through her second molt right now so she looks a little disheveled. I believe she is approx.
MoonGoat came with Monkey, and they could be siblings, about the same age. They get along well, but Goat seems to fancy Pig the most. Monkey can be a bit pushy, and Goat will even come to Pig’s rescue and chase Monkey away if she’s being too bossy! (This was more common when I had just the three of them.
Goat is a sf yellowface type 2 skyblue normal, and also going through his second molt, but a couple weeks behind Monkey.Because Monkey could be a little too pushy with Pig, I thought I should adopt another boy to even their numbers. Enter Soul and Xephy:
I believe Soul is an opaline skyblue greywing(?), is approx. a year and a half old.
Xephy is a cobalt dominant pied normal budgie, approx. six months old now. Someone cut ALL his flight feathers and was completely flightless when I first got him, poor thing! He also ended up breaking four of his new flight feathers as they were growing in because ethereal were no other feathers to support them when he flapped his wings. He is also missing his two longest tail feathers which he dropped in a fright - probably because he can’t fly well, he’s my most skittish budgie still. But his new flights are coming in three on each wing now and he’s doing much better, so I hope he will soon gain more confidence and be less fearful when he can fly!
Most recently, I bought another set of baby budgies. I couldn’t help myself when I saw one with a particularly pretty tail at the pet store while buying new seed. I bought another as well to keep him company during quarantine. Meet Topsie Turvy and Chopper!
Topsie likes to squish himself upside down between one of his perches and the bars of his cage (I think to scratch his back because he has some tiny pin feathers there I noticed) and Chopper was named by my partner because whenever he tries to fly he goes backwards! (I was thinking of naming him Rewind or Retro, but he does look like a little helicopter for a moment when he’s trying real hard to go forwards and hovers in place instead). I believe Topsie is a yellowface (not sure what type yet or if it will be df or df, he needs a first molt first!) opaline cobalt budgie. And Chopper of course is normal green. I didn’t have any green budgies so I picked him out because he’s “just a normal” budgie. :3 I think he’s gorgeous! And I never noticed that normal green budgies (or at least Chopper does) have a little bit of turquoise on their underfluffies, as Hezz might say.
Well, that’s my flock of budgies... but I also have a linnie I’d like to introduce too! She is my only hand-fed and really tame bird, and her name is Love Letters, or Lottie for short:
Lottie is a creamino linnie - a turquoise based ino mutation. I will eventually be getting her a same species buddy, a normal green, so she can have a friend who speaks her language too.
I read that linnie’s have very sweet temperaments and sometimes are bullied by budgies if kept together, but Lottie is queen of the roost! She actually gets along best with Monkey (my dominant girl budgie) and MoonGoat, and everyone does very well with one another when out of their cages in the bird room - but she sleeps in her own cage and I keep an eye on her when everyone is together outside for bath time and fresh air. They all cry if they’re separated, so everyone goes in one of their flight cages together. It’s super cute!
Whew, that was a lot! Thanks for reading if you did! I love my birbs.
I had forgotten about this post - I'll blame it on stress from dealing with Tweetie Pie's illness! I do love the pictures that everyone posts
It’s the only yellowface mutation to do that, crazy genetics! He’s also opaline and a clearflight pied (as previously mentioned) and now I’m super curious if his tail is going to molt out the white and come back in yellow from his yellowface? So exciting!