Our New Flock :)

Ginene · Post by **Ginene** » Mon Oct 14, 2013 5:54 pm

chirpy
Thanks

I have got to take better ones...these birds are absolutely beautiful and my camera phone doesn't do them justice!!!

Ginene · Post by **Ginene** » Mon Oct 14, 2013 6:11 pm

A few more pics...

: Penny & Leonard

: Twinkle, Geri, Tom & Pumpkin

: Bert & Ernie

: Larry, Mo, Ruby, Curly & Max

Nanajennie · Post by **Nanajennie** » Mon Oct 14, 2013 6:49 pm

Nerien I am sure Ginene will be doing a head count in the bird room before she takes me to the Ship! I am taking a train to Statin Island then coming back to Vermont with my dental office, Dr Palm is taking us on a cruise and chartering a Bus there and back. Other wise I would LOVE to swing by your home and get some soc's

Nanajennie · Post by **Nanajennie** » Mon Oct 14, 2013 6:51 pm

OMG!!! I want to take a bite out of those CBs!!! they look like Easter Peeps! LOVE the pics!

Ginene · Post by **Ginene** » Mon Oct 14, 2013 6:57 pm

Nanajennie
Right??? They're gorgeous!!! And only $100 for the pair!!! The FIGHT all day long! "I'm the alpha male!" "No...I'm the alpha male!" Lol!!! Men

Nanajennie · Post by **Nanajennie** » Mon Oct 14, 2013 7:02 pm

Ginene Oh boy! they look so serene and innocent LOL! LOTS of drama here, I put the Pied males in with Lucy and Woodstock. Woodstock is bonging with Royal Blue and Lucy is terrorizing Barry White.

annoying.

You should see the feathers all over the place! Lucy is such a creep sometimes. I think she has an egg stuck though, I hope not. Here we go again! Lucy the egg laying machine!

Ginene · Post by **Ginene** » Mon Oct 14, 2013 7:14 pm

Nanajennie
Oh No!!! LUCY!!! Always causing DRAMA!!! Zebbies are professional trouble-makers

! I hope Shabby and Cheek are doing well with Ann & Andy. I was thinking about moving Ernie in with the Stars and Owls...but I don't want to combine the birds yet. Bert is such a bully

chirpy · Post by **chirpy** » Mon Oct 14, 2013 7:20 pm

Uh! So gorgeous!!!! Wish I could see them in RL!
I wanted to ask, are those water dispensers deep? As in the water spout part look quite deep so lots of water is in that part (hard to explain)
Where'd you get those? They look as if the water doesn't get "stuck"

Ginene · Post by **Ginene** » Mon Oct 14, 2013 7:47 pm

chirpy
They're fantastic!!! I bought a dozen @ ladygouldianfinch.com. They also sell them at ladygouldian.com. I buy the 7oz ones. They are top shelf dishwasher safe

. I'm still waiting for my green singers and Max (society) to drink from theirs, so I can stop putting water bowls on the cage floors. They always manage to get pooped in...YUCK!!!

chirpy · Post by **chirpy** » Mon Oct 14, 2013 7:59 pm

Ginene oh I need some!!!!!

And I know their bath water gets icky! I need to make those tunnel baths for them! Thanks so much for getting back.. So I take it they don't get stuck!

Ginene · Post by **Ginene** » Mon Oct 14, 2013 8:08 pm

chirpy
Not at all...and they are easy to clean and don't get yucky/gunky. Best of all...they are inexpensive

. I was thinking of changing my baths to the Ruth's jar ones too, but I spent a fortune on the Lixit ones. I like them a lot...and I make sure there aren't any perches above the baths.

chirpy · Post by **chirpy** » Mon Oct 14, 2013 8:31 pm

I make sure there are no perches too but these soc's just love to poop in the bath in the seeds and the lafebers! Like really.
I also saw Roseanne take a dos right into the spout f the water the second I turned to leave!

Nerien · Post by **Nerien** » Mon Oct 14, 2013 8:51 pm

Those Lixit bird baths make real nice seed bowls, too, that's what I use for my budgies. Being shallow, they don't build up a layer of hulls that bury the seed below, and several birds can feed at the same time. Easy to remove and clean, too.

To keep them from getting pooped in, and the water trays also, I invented a bunch of covers:

I also have those water tubes, I love them. As long as you position the spout higher than the perch it's next to, they stay clean. (Otherwise they hang their butts over them and poop inside when perching.) They're really inexpensive, between $1 and $2 depending on size, so you can get extras to rotate for cleaning, easy to clean, easy to fill. I have at least 2 on every cage, so that if something happens to one, there is always a back up. I got the 3 oz size (I think it was, short wide ones) for the finches and bigger ones for the parrotlets.

Ginene · Post by **Ginene** » Mon Oct 14, 2013 9:00 pm

Nerien
You Rock, Ruth!!! You need to get yourself a few patents on the stuff you invent!!! Awesome ideas!!!!

Nerien · Post by **Nerien** » Mon Oct 14, 2013 9:05 pm

I took that same hang-on perch and took off the wooden perch part, and just put a whole rectangular lid on the frame, upside down so it makes a tray, and hung that in the parrotlet cage to put fresh foods and treats on, either directly or into clips above it. They drop 90% of what they nibble at, that way it falls on the tray and they can then eat it from there. Saves so much wasted food and mess in the bottom of the cage. And...it covers the food bowl below, giving twice the usable space up the side of the cage.

FINCHforum

Our New Flock :)

Re: Our New Flock :)

Re: Our New Flock :)

Re: Our New Flock :)

Re: Our New Flock :)

Re: Our New Flock :)

Re: Our New Flock :)

Re: Our New Flock :)

Re: Our New Flock :)

Re: Our New Flock :)

Re: Our New Flock :)

Re: Our New Flock :)

Re: Our New Flock :)

Re: Our New Flock :)

Re: Our New Flock :)

Re: Our New Flock :)