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November 15th, 2009
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| Look What I Did
I've been busy in the bird world this week.
Cupid is a yellow-sided green-cheek conure. He's 2 1/2 months old-he's eating adult food (and a lot of it). He's such a snuggler, that's how he got his name. His cage is HUGE, but the breeder was selling it at a really good price and bigger cage (with correct bar spacing) means more room for toys while I'm at work and can't have him out playing.
I also got four doves instead of two. The woman really needed to re-home them and they cinnamon-colored ones are older-8 years old. She really wanted me to have them so they'd have a good home for the remainder of their years.
The gouldian finches I went to the breeder for two-she had a HUGE cage for sale, so instead of two, I got six, although the cage can happily house 10, I decided to go with giving them more room to fly. They are all male, I didn't want any females because I didn't want to find homes for babies. | 
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November 15th, 2009
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| omg bb they are amazing! LOL i think you have MBS LOL
the cages look huge!
congrats on having an official zoO! jk! LOL
nah, you will provide awesome homes for these babies.. | |
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November 15th, 2009
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| Oh my! They're all SO beautiful.  Thanks for rescuing them.  | |
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November 15th, 2009
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Originally Posted by Tony G.  omg bb they are amazing! LOL i think you have MBS LOL
the cages look huge!
congrats on having an official zoO! jk! LOL
nah, you will provide awesome homes for these babies.. | Quote:
Originally Posted by iloveengl Oh my! They're all SO beautiful. Thanks for rescuing them. |
Thank you both so much  I had a green-cheeked conure years ago and they're just so fun. I've also had gouldian finches and they are one of the quietest and least-messy finches I've ever dealt with. They're also fairly calm or the ones I've had were. The doves are new to me, but when I called the woman, she had to re-home them due to health problems and she was a really good person who just had some bad things happen to her. | |
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November 15th, 2009
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| Doves are a nice quiet addition. We used to have diamond doves. Your conure looks adorable! I love feathered babies that will cuddle. And your Gouldians are magnificent! Another bird I would have if I had room! | |
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November 15th, 2009
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| They're so pretty. I love the conure, he looks so sweet.  | |
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November 16th, 2009
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| Hello BB. The birds are beautiful! Thanks for sharing.
Ken | |
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November 16th, 2009
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Originally Posted by gremlin Doves are a nice quiet addition. We used to have diamond doves. Your conure looks adorable! I love feathered babies that will cuddle. And your Gouldians are magnificent! Another bird I would have if I had room! | Quote:
Originally Posted by Lucy They're so pretty. I love the conure, he looks so sweet. | Quote:
Originally Posted by aquarist48 Hello BB. The birds are beautiful! Thanks for sharing.
Ken | Thank you! All of these babies are very precious to us and we feel very blessed to have them as part of our family The doves are Shelby's favorite since they won't bite and they're so soft. She still doesn't trust that Cupid won't bite her since he bit me at the breeder's house. He hasn't bitten since we brought him home. | |
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November 16th, 2009
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| What beautiful birds! I'm glad the doves found a good home with you. I love to hear them coo. | |
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November 16th, 2009
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| BB, they are just stunning I love birds, but due to the number of fish tanks, I am not allowed any, lol  I'm sure you will enjoy them! | |
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November 16th, 2009
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| Was this your little secret!!..lol.. I LOVE LOVE them. Before I got my gliders I was trying to talk my husband into letting me have a macaw. I love birds but he had one as a child and I guess it was super messy and noone really took care of it so he was against it. He just doesn't like bird poop!!..lol. | |
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November 16th, 2009
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| Yes, it was
The doves are quiet, but messy. The finches are quiet and not messy (they were hand-raised, so they're not panic prone like a lot of finches). The conure is loud when we leave the room and messy (he likes to soak his food before he eats it).
Budgies are quiet and not really messy.
I hope that helps you
Last edited by bolivianbaby; November 16th, 2009 at 02:20 PM.
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November 16th, 2009
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| I love your birds...especially the finches..their color is amazing. I saw a green cheek in the petsore the other day while budgie shopping. It was so cute..it was playing with our fingers( on the other side of a glass cage) like a kitten. It would charge our fingers and nip at them then back up and duck down... wiggle it's little butt and charge again...but in a playful way not an aggressive way. It was so funny. Then we found this little fella in a different store and fell in love with him...he is now our newest feathered addition. This takes our bird count to 3 .. 1 parrotlet and 2 budgies. | |
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November 16th, 2009
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| Thank you.
OMG-He is GORGEOUS! I've never seen a budgie with quite that shade of blue! Let me know when you name him. He looks like such a sweetie! | |
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November 16th, 2009
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| welcome to pleacoprincess and BB's animal farm!!!!!!  beautiful birds!!!! congrats to you both! | |
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November 16th, 2009
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Originally Posted by Shawnie welcome to pleacoprincess and BB's animal farm!!!!!! beautiful birds!!!! congrats to you both! |  Thank you very much | |
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November 16th, 2009
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| Someone is gonna get in trouble for having too many animals and not having a Zoo License. | |
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November 16th, 2009
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Originally Posted by navyscuba Someone is gonna get in trouble for having too many animals and not having a Zoo License. |  she should start charging admission for visitors ..even family/friend members!!!!(gotta support that bad habit of yours somehow!  ) | |
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November 16th, 2009
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Originally Posted by Shawnie she should start charging admission for visitors ..even family/friend members!!!!(gotta support that bad habit of yours somehow! ) | You're absolutely right! Fishlorians would not have to pay admission though since their enabling (I'm not naming names)  caused most of these tanks to appear out of thin air | |
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November 16th, 2009
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Originally Posted by bolivianbaby You're absolutely right! Fishlorians would not have to pay admission though since their enabling (I'm not naming names) caused most of these tanks to appear out of thin air | Yeap just like mine they show up like the fog. | |
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November 16th, 2009
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| I have named him already...his name is Beau as he was bought as a beau for our female budgie...lol | |
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November 17th, 2009
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| WOW!!! sorry I missed this...THEY R BEAUTIFUL!!!!!!!!! U know I love birds!!!!!!..Now u need a BIG one!!!!!...lol....good luck with them!!!!! | |
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November 17th, 2009
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| Beautiful birds. I always wanted a finch but never actually went through with it. | |
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November 17th, 2009
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Originally Posted by DRock914 Beautiful birds. I always wanted a finch but never actually went through with it. | Thank you. You should go through with it. Gouldians are not as messy and "spastic" as other finches. They're also available in a variety of colors. Nope, I'm not an enabler  .
Plus, right now they cost about 1/2 of what they normally would due to the economy. AND there are a lot of birds that need new homes because of the economy, so you could save a life or two | |
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November 17th, 2009
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Originally Posted by lorabell WOW!!! sorry I missed this...THEY R BEAUTIFUL!!!!!!!!! U know I love birds!!!!!!..Now u need a BIG one!!!!!...lol....good luck with them!!!!! | Does it count that my parrotlet THINKS he is big?? | |
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November 17th, 2009
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Originally Posted by bolivianbaby Thank you. You should go through with it. Gouldians are not as messy and "spastic" as other finches. They're also available in a variety of colors. Nope, I'm not an enabler .
Plus, right now they cost about 1/2 of what they normally would due to the economy. AND there are a lot of birds that need new homes because of the economy, so you could save a life or two | Right now is not a good time due to the economy, I stretched myself with the fish tank lol. I also have a cat that comes in and out of the house all day. How would the cat take to a new little bird (this cat is a big hunter)? | |
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November 18th, 2009
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| And here is how Cupid got his name: | |
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November 18th, 2009
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| Adorable! My cockatiel would cuddle up under my chin all the time. I still miss her. One of the lovebirds I raised (Twitters) was also very much a cuddle bug. He would fall asleep in my hand. I almost named him Cuddles, but he just talked too much to be named anything but Twitters.
Twitters asleep in my hand: | |
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November 19th, 2009
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| That's too precious Gremlin! Cupid fell asleep on my arm at the breeder's. That's the moment I fell in love with him and knew he was mine. | |
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