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Saturday, November 28, 2009

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Our first babies this Fall. Mom with four youngsters. All are one to two weeks old.
Friday, November 27, 2009

Thanksgiving Dinners to Shut-ins

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This isn't going to be about birds... For the past five Thanksgivings, my husband and I have delivered meals to shut-ins. The turkey din...
Thursday, November 19, 2009

Privacy Please ...

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Mated bliss photos show male on top of hen below. Spicy, is a tame male Bourke with normal coloring. He is also the tiny, newly hatched chi...
Monday, November 9, 2009

The Birds & the Bees, if You Please …

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Birds do it, Bees do it, Even educated fleas do it, let's do it, let's fall in love… Sorry, this is only about birds. The photo is...
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Monday, November 2, 2009

Weaning Babies

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The easiest "starter" food for baby parakeets is spray millet. Fuchsia is now sharing a cage with other babies who were reared by...

Temporary Housing for Babies

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If you're hand feeding babies, you need to keep them warm. Fuchsia is in a small cardboard box, shown here. The top folds down to keep...
Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Hand Feeding Baby Birds of the Smaller Kind…

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These photos are of Fuchsia, the Rosy Bourke baby I previously wrote about. In these photos she/he is 18 days old. How do you sex a Bo...
Thursday, October 22, 2009

Keep an Eye on Your Chicks, Part 1

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By watching your chicks, you have a chance to catch any kind of situation before it’s serious. Checking babies daily is a good practice, b...

Keep an Eye on Your Chicks, Part 2

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Over the years I’ve saved several chicks by checking on them daily. In the case of one I’m feeding right now, I checked him three or fou...

Transfer Cage

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From time to time, you will need to move your birds. Any cage will do, but I like this one. It’s especially useful in order to thoroughly cl...
Wednesday, October 21, 2009

OWLS

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I had the most wonderful experience last night. At 9:00 p.m., as usual, our dog came and told me he needed to go outdoors before going to b...
Thursday, October 8, 2009

Banding Small Baby Birds

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A note on the photos above: Budgerigar parakeets are bald when they hatch and that’s normal for them. Baby Bourkes, shown here, hatc...
Sunday, October 4, 2009

Nest Boxes

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Small parakeets like Bourkes and Splendids are resourceful. I had one hen lay an egg in a feedcup for lack of a nest box. If that happe...
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Friday, October 2, 2009

All Babies are a Blessing, Human Babies Most of All, and Even Baby Birds!

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I confess to being stridently Pro-Life. I ask myself why people can be terribly upset over drowning kittens or puppies, but allow the des...
Thursday, October 1, 2009

Breeding Grass Parakeets

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In earlier posts I should have mentioned that both Bourkes and Splendids are "Grass Parakeets" so named because native wild bi...
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Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Splendid Scarlet-chested Parakeets

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The lovely bird above left is a female Splendid parakeet from Australia. Her colors are more muted than her mate's. However, her ma...
Sunday, September 27, 2009

Not all Parakeets are Budgies! Bourkes Are Too.

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When most Americans hear the work parakeet they think of a budgerigar parakeet. In fact, there are 36 different species of parakeet from ...
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