MeanLaureen
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First let me post a disclaimer - I'M TOO FREAKIN' YOUNG TO BE A GRANDMA - I'M ONLY 36! (okay, technically I guess I'm not too young but throw me a bone here and tell me I'm just a baby myself okay??)
Earlier this year one of my parakeets (I had 7 keets and a cockatiel - now I only have 6 keets and a tiel
) laid an egg on the bottom of the cage. Wingnut (Matt named them) was actually sitting on it so I thought we had something going here. We're gonna have a baaaaabbbyyyyyyyy (insert Awwwwww here)
I used to raise finches so I'm not completely ignorant on the raising birds hobby - just never had keets lay eggs. Matt and I went out and bought a nesting box in keet size and a cage that would be big enough for the box with room for the parents to live too. We got home and set it up and then realized - we had no idea who the daddy was!!!
I had my money on Twister, my green keet, because, well - he's my favorite - (Way to go BOY!) But then again, maybe it was Whirly Bird, the lavendar keet or Peabody, the half yellow half green keet (the name tells you where the green is..lol)
As we debated on who the daddy was we found out in a very.. ummm.. graphic way. (cue Barry White music!) Buzzby???? We thought Buzzby was a girl! Buzzby is a white keet with a few tiny blue spots on her... ahem I mean him. I found out that it's hard to sex a white keet because of their coloring. So, Buzzby was the daddy.
We moved them into their new cage and moved the cage into our bedroom to give them peace. As soon as Wingnut settled down (we thought) on her perch she started shifting her birdy butt around. Then PLOP! Out dropped an egg onto the cage floor 12 inches away!. Matt's eyes were close to the size of a half dollar at this point..lol
Anyway - long story short (too late, huh?) nothing came of this clutch of eggs. They didn't like to be isolated from the other keets and the eggs turned out to be duds.
So yesterday Matt notices Wingnut all wedged down into Pixel's (the cockatiel) food dish. She's sitting on an egg! Time to figure out what the heck we are going to do. Move the parents to the other cage with the nesting box and give them some piece like we tried before? Move them and leave the cage next to the cage the other birds are in? Move these birds out of this cage and put the nesting box in here? (That would mean relocating Pixel back to her own cage and she REFUSES to live by herself - this bird is so attached to her little buddies - they look just like my pixar clipart when they are all sitting together on one perch in the cage!)
I hope we get some babies this time - how cute will that be! And of course you guys will get blow by blow action with pictures as they grow up.
Wish us luck!!
Earlier this year one of my parakeets (I had 7 keets and a cockatiel - now I only have 6 keets and a tiel
) laid an egg on the bottom of the cage. Wingnut (Matt named them) was actually sitting on it so I thought we had something going here. We're gonna have a baaaaabbbyyyyyyyy (insert Awwwwww here) I used to raise finches so I'm not completely ignorant on the raising birds hobby - just never had keets lay eggs. Matt and I went out and bought a nesting box in keet size and a cage that would be big enough for the box with room for the parents to live too. We got home and set it up and then realized - we had no idea who the daddy was!!!
I had my money on Twister, my green keet, because, well - he's my favorite - (Way to go BOY!) But then again, maybe it was Whirly Bird, the lavendar keet or Peabody, the half yellow half green keet (the name tells you where the green is..lol)
As we debated on who the daddy was we found out in a very.. ummm.. graphic way. (cue Barry White music!) Buzzby???? We thought Buzzby was a girl! Buzzby is a white keet with a few tiny blue spots on her... ahem I mean him. I found out that it's hard to sex a white keet because of their coloring. So, Buzzby was the daddy.
We moved them into their new cage and moved the cage into our bedroom to give them peace. As soon as Wingnut settled down (we thought) on her perch she started shifting her birdy butt around. Then PLOP! Out dropped an egg onto the cage floor 12 inches away!. Matt's eyes were close to the size of a half dollar at this point..lol
Anyway - long story short (too late, huh?) nothing came of this clutch of eggs. They didn't like to be isolated from the other keets and the eggs turned out to be duds.
So yesterday Matt notices Wingnut all wedged down into Pixel's (the cockatiel) food dish. She's sitting on an egg! Time to figure out what the heck we are going to do. Move the parents to the other cage with the nesting box and give them some piece like we tried before? Move them and leave the cage next to the cage the other birds are in? Move these birds out of this cage and put the nesting box in here? (That would mean relocating Pixel back to her own cage and she REFUSES to live by herself - this bird is so attached to her little buddies - they look just like my pixar clipart when they are all sitting together on one perch in the cage!)
I hope we get some babies this time - how cute will that be! And of course you guys will get blow by blow action with pictures as they grow up.
Wish us luck!!
Sure hope that things work out! I have heard that a lot of birds lay dud eggs.
