Sooooooooooooooooooooooooo............the new cage arrived. They have luxury!
I inspected them all again when I moved them and treated again for mites. It's very subtle but they have improved since the last treatment. As per
monotwine advice I checked their wings. No sign of lice, phew. Some are ok but others have dry skin all over including wings. Delivery of further mite treatment and deworming is still due but they are looking a little better, not fine but not worse.
Their new cage is next to my zebra/society cage and the UV lamp. It's this side they are all sitting. The girl with few wing feathers is far more confident in this cage and is hopping from perch to perch so is happily sitting with the others.
One girl, red head/white chest seems fine. No sign of mites or dryness. In the other smaller cage she was a little snappy with the others. I'm assuming in this bigger cage she will settle. She's the only one who has made any sounds.
The little vulture face doesn't have any growth yet on her head but is still active. I think the next molt will be interesting to see what happens. She's got a black head as there are teeny tiny feathers peeking through so can't wait to see her head fully feathered.
Here they are closer up.
) Their noise is kind of like if you roll your tongue, like touch it to the top of your mouth, and then add a little higher pitch noise in there but it's faint, it's VERY pretty... (i only have males, so I'm not sure about the female chirps) and then then have a high pitched whistle, but again, not very loud. My zebras drowned out the Gould noises all the time!!! LOL My little Squawkers meeping and beepin all day. I wanted to ask, how difficult was it to cut their nails? For some reason my gouldians nails are REALLY long. i got the special bird nail clippers, but I haven't done it b/c I'm petrified (and when I catch mine, they bite me!!!) LOL I say good for them, but it's not fun for me! But i've bought some rough perches to try to file them down but it didn't work, so I think I 'm going to have to cut them (btw, anyone know how/why this happens? like how their nails could have gotten so long when I got them they were just under a year old)? Let me know how trying it was... Thanks!!! And things look great btw, love that cage, keep up the good work, one thing about Goulds when you are "nursing"them back to health you can SEE the difference which is rewarding in itself!
