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Wednesday, December 30, 2009

No time to write, but more bird photos

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Pinks with my hand are the Fabulous Four ... promised to a buyer on Jan. 8 ... I'll miss them! The three birds, two Bourkes and a Sple...
Friday, December 25, 2009

Egg Results...

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It would seem that the little guys in the eggs being incubated weren't strong enough to make it out of their shells. Sad. I heard pippin...
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Thursday, December 24, 2009

Merry Christmas

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Merry Christ's Mass ... the reason for the Season.  God Bless one and all ... especially those too small to care for themselves.  Love a...
Friday, December 18, 2009

Incubated Eggs...

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As an update... The two eggs are still moving inside and alive. Whether they hatch or not will depend upon the strength of the babies. Since...
Monday, December 14, 2009

Homemade Egg Incubator ...

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Problem: An egg-bound hen with two abandoned fertile eggs. She’s fine now, and I’ll review how we helped her lay that egg in another blog. ...
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Friday, December 11, 2009

Feeding the Fabulous Four!

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Mama hatched all four of her Rosy Bourke eggs! Babies are doing fabulously ... each with a different personality, and all sweet and adorable...
Tuesday, December 8, 2009

BIRDS & CATS

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I grew up with birds and dogs. It never occurred to me that birds, especially small ones, would be safe around cats. In fact, I was stunned ...
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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