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Post by Loz on Jul 27, 2024 16:12:38 GMT
I'm glad Peter is doing better!
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Post by Azalea on Jul 27, 2024 16:27:21 GMT
I think my budgies are becoming less scared of me.. Last night when I put my hand in a cage to try and get some of them to come out. George biffed at me, then Daisy and Iris made biting gestures at me Ayla just jumped on my hand, because although she can be feisty to the other budgies, she is all cute and fluffy with me! Wonderful news!
If you offer food/treats in the palm of your hand, it sometimes helps to have your pinky/little finger facing the bird, not a thumb. This happens to me fairly often. A bird wouldn't grasp the thumb side with their foot, or perch on my thumb, but they had no issue with pinky/little finger side. Maybe thumbs look like an awkward perch to them?
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Post by Azalea on Jul 27, 2024 16:38:11 GMT
I think my budgies are becoming less scared of me.. Last night when I put my hand in a cage to try and get some of them to come out. George biffed at me, then Daisy and Iris made biting gestures at me Ayla just jumped on my hand, because although she can be feisty to the other budgies, she is all cute and fluffy with me! I loved reading this. It's the same as with food. If one brave budgie decides that the human - the hand, the shoulder, the top of the head or whatever - is safe, it can encourage the others. It happens all the time here (except for Prothall - he doesn't trust that human, no matter what the others say). Mhoram was very wary of me at first but now he's married to Smudge and Smudge likes sitting on me ... and so Mhoram likes sitting on me. In fact, he hopped onto my shoulder today and Smudge was nowhere to be seen! That's a first. Yes. This is one reason why the "If you have more than one bird, they'll bond with each other and ignore you!" mentality is not good, in my opinion. (I've heard of this misconception.) A bird can benefit from observing another bird.
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Post by Azalea on Jul 27, 2024 16:41:42 GMT
Well Peter seems fine now anyway. He's about 6 and a half and has been here for about 3 and a half years. But as he is an exhibition bird, they do not usually live as long I am glad that Peter is better. Why don't exhibition birds live as long?
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Post by Marianne Marlow on Jul 27, 2024 16:44:02 GMT
I'm not entirely sure why, but all of my longer lived birds have been pet types. Sky lived to 12, as has George. I have had other pet types live to between 9 and 11 years too.
My exhibition birds have only lived between 4 and 7 years.
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Post by Marianne Marlow on Jul 27, 2024 16:46:36 GMT
I've just noticed that The love of pets lady has done a video on it
It wont let me link it here, so I have copied it instead.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXrGPfL_zeQ
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Post by Loz on Jul 27, 2024 17:06:33 GMT
I'm not entirely sure why, but all of my longer lived birds have been pet types. Sky lived to 12, as has George. I have had other pet types live to between 9 and 11 years too. My exhibition birds have only lived between 4 and 7 years. Human meddling in the genetics of animals usually throws up this sort of thing. Breeding for visual characteristics inevitably leads to non-survival aspects also coming to the fore, due in no small part to close-breeding practices. This is a bit of a bugbear for me so I will hopefully say no more.
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Post by Marianne Marlow on Jul 27, 2024 17:10:13 GMT
It is one for me too lozI wish health would be bred for, rather than big floofy feathers.
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Post by Azalea on Jul 27, 2024 18:25:17 GMT
A similar thing happens with dogs. Some breeders develop "mini" and "teacup" versions of breeds, which causes them to have health issues.
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Post by matt82 on Jul 27, 2024 22:21:07 GMT
Put hedwig to bed 2 hours ago so i could watch the boxing in, am starting to think he may have wanted to watch it, he hasn’t stopped chatting away! 🫣
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Post by Marianne Marlow on Jul 28, 2024 7:56:45 GMT
Not now but last night. Said in high pitched voice twice "Bedtime Rocky" Rocky flies into his bedtime cage! Good boy Rocky!
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Post by Loz on Jul 28, 2024 8:20:01 GMT
Good boy, Rocky! Poor Finrod. One of his wings has a bit of blood on it but the other looks very bloody. I've searched for discarded blood feathers but nothing yet. I cannot see any obvious missing feathers on his wings. I'm either looking at a couple of shed blood feathers or he may have been attacked. I am reluctant to capture the lad to inspect his wings in order to try to satisfy my curiosity. Finrod is acting fairly normally, his flying is absolutely fine. Right now he's on the sky snake nearest me, burbling & singing very sweetly. I'm not sure what to make of it as yet.
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Post by Marianne Marlow on Jul 28, 2024 8:57:35 GMT
Oh poor Finrod. I hope he's okay. Maybe he had a night fright and bumped it?
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Post by Loz on Jul 28, 2024 9:51:59 GMT
Oh poor Finrod. I hope he's okay. Maybe he had a night fright and bumped it? Possible. I'm at a loss. I did hear a brief commotion yesterday afternoon when I was out of the room but I am sure I would have spotted a big bleed at some point!
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Post by Azalea on Jul 28, 2024 11:44:40 GMT
Not now but last night. Said in high pitched voice twice "Bedtime Rocky" Rocky flies into his bedtime cage! Good boy Rocky! Great!!!
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