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Post by madaussie on Apr 23, 2009 18:50:46 GMT 10
I get them here as well every other day i know when there about course mine start to call .
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Post by meandem on Apr 24, 2009 9:11:49 GMT 10
Glad you're back and everything seems just about normal. What did you buy? Thanks for the welcome back. ;D I bought a cinnamon green cheek conure. Unsexed. Another job to my long list of things to do - sexing some birds Good to have you back Ellen  Do you really have wild king parrots land on you at your place? Shaun Thanks also for the welcome back, it is nice to feel wanted! ;D The kingies are were just crazy the other day, I haven't seen them so excited before.......ever. As I am typing I have them looking into the window here at me wondering why I am not feeding them. They only seem to be quiet around our house. Mick can get close, but he doesn't spend as much time with them as I do. I can put a sunflower seed between my lips and hold it and one of the males will take it from me. There are so many different types of birds that come to visit my yard. I just love to sit out the back and watch them all. The only ones I don't like too much are the white cockatoos. I still haven't forgiven them for letting out my green cheeks, and to top it all off  This morning there was about 5-10 cockies in the back yard and when they flew off they startled my elegants and my female pied elegant (the ones from Gunnedah sale) hit the wall flat out and broke her neck. Mick is not very happy! With all the deaths of the finches and now his little lady elegant - we are just having a really rough time of it.  |
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Post by Laraine on Apr 24, 2009 10:39:25 GMT 10
You sound like you are having the same luck as I am having. Poor little Elegant.  This morning I looked into the breeding boxes and found 2 lutino babies dead and 1 baby budgie. Don't know why. |
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Post by sypher on Apr 24, 2009 19:00:33 GMT 10
Oh No!  I feel for you Ellen. It must be hard to lose the elegant on top of the finches. The picture of the king parrot feeding from your hand is awsome! It would be great to have them all over you! Did it take a long time to gain their trust? The wild parrots around my aviaries are getting quieter all the time. I actually caught a wild king parrot not long ago in one of my aviaries. He was really quite when I let him out and didnt seem to phased by it all. Shaun |
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Post by sypher on Apr 24, 2009 19:03:04 GMT 10
You sound like you are having the same luck as I am having. Poor little Elegant. This morning I looked into the breeding boxes and found 2 lutino babies dead and 1 baby budgie. Don't know why. Laraine, did the babies have food in their crops? I lost an eckie chick earlier this year for no apparent reason also. It is heartbreaking. Hope you can find the cause. Shaun |
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Post by meandem on Apr 25, 2009 8:17:30 GMT 10
Thanks for your compassion. It means a lot. My heart goes out to you Laraine, I certainly can feel your pain. If I do lose a bird, I generally try and find out why it has happened. I have even had a friend come around and show me how to do an autopsy, now if I lose a bird for any unexpected reason, I check them out. I like to know why they died and what I can do to stop it from happening again. I hope you don't lose anymore. It is never nice to lose a baby or a fully grown bird. The Kingies..............It took just over a year to completely gain the kingies trust. In the first year, they would eat from a dish near me for a few months and then they disappeared for a few months and then around breeding season only the males came back and they were starting to get a little friendlier. One of them took the chance and ate from my hands. All the others looked on with curiosity. After the breeding season then hens were back with their partners - but no babies. At that stage then, I wasn't sure if they had a bad breeding season or if they babies were a little shy. Then the next year the same thing happened. We started out with about 6, and now I can have anything up to 16 come and visit the house. So either word has passed around that there is a good feed at my place or the babies have been just sitting back watching until they feel confident enough to come and eat from me. Trust me Shaun, it doesn't take much to gain their confidence - just a little sunflower seed.  We used to have a pair of them in the aviary and sold them, and whilst we are living here and they visit like they do, I will probably never own another pair. They are quite funny, because when I go to work in the buggy, they follow me over to the cabins, they don't come anywhere near me over there, but as soon as I get back home they are all over me. I love them, and I love that I have earnt their trust. I never feed them away from the house, because I am frightened if I do......... someone with the wrong ideas might do the wrong thing - and I don't want to ruin our relationship. |
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Post by mrsmacka on May 5, 2009 20:03:03 GMT 10
You are much kinder than I would have been. Number 9 shoe would have done for me
I hate losing birds whatever the cause
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Post by meandem on May 6, 2009 8:12:12 GMT 10
You are much kinder than I would have been. Number 9 shoe would have done for me I hate losing birds whatever the cause I have to be honest with you - that very thought crossed my mind!  |
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Post by norwichfinchman on Jun 15, 2009 19:31:13 GMT 10
That was a poor loss. I'm sorry to hear of your tragedy. In the UK we have simular problems with Stoats and Weasels. Most experience breeders make sure they are Rat & Mouse proof but a Stoat seem to be able to get in anywhhere. My mate had his Parrot Room visited by a stoat and it beheaded five of his Parrots. He caught it the next day. I went to a wildlife park last week and their bird house was visited by a stoat and it killed two Bali Starlings and two White Creasted Starlings as well as a couple of other birds.
I've never had a problem with them -Touch Wood! But I can tell you if they come you birds go!!!!!!!!!
Hope your flights are now secure and your birds have been replaced and your breeding season well under way?
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Post by meandem on Jun 15, 2009 19:42:12 GMT 10
Yep, floor cemented now. no little rascals can enter in. It would never have been ever able to reach the nests, only that up one door way we had a piece of timber there to stop the draught and we think he scaled that to get to the nests. It was quite a jump, but he made it!
A hard lesson learnt, but a lesson indeed.
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Post by norwichfinchman on Jun 15, 2009 19:53:57 GMT 10
In the Uk we have Stoats and Weasels who cause us the same problem. All experience breeders make sure our birdrooms and flights are rat and Mouse proof but the Stoat will get into your accomadation no matter how hard to try to keep them out. My mate had a Sttoat visit his birdroom and it killed five of his Parrots taking their heads off. Last week I went to a local Wildlife gardens and visited their birdroom and they told me they have had a visit from a Stoat and it killed their Bali Starlings and Creasted Starlings and also a couple of other birds. All birds were part of a conservation plan to be introduced back into the wild. They caught the Stoat the next day. I have never had a visit from a Stoat or a Weasel, touch wood?
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Do you really have wild king parrots land on you at your place?
This morning I looked into the breeding boxes and found 2 lutino babies dead and 1 baby budgie. Don't know why.
I feel for you Ellen. It must be hard to lose the elegant on top of the finches. 
We used to have a pair of them in the aviary and sold them, and whilst we are living here and they visit like they do, I will probably never own another pair.
