I've been soooo busy that I haven't had a chance to update my birdie blog. There hasn't been a WHOLE lot going on, bird-wise, but I do have one new youngster from Onyx and Blackie, hatched about 10 days ago. I also got some new birds at the Chattanooga Bird Fair a couple of weeks ago ... a male and female crested zebra, a couple of female zebras with unusual coloring, and some society females. I'll try to get some photos and add them to my "Meet My Birds" page soon. :-)
Patches and Sugar's two youngsters are doing okay. They're fully weaned now, and they're re-growing their feathers. Patches plucked them one day while we were asleep. Needless to say, we moved him to his own cage right away so that Sugar could finish raising the youngsters in peace. The two youngsters are Powder (white; gender unknown as of yet) and Ash (normal pied; male I think).
The new birds from the bird fair include Sandy (fawn pied female), Tawny (silver pied female), Copper (recessive silver female), Kristy (crested black cheek female), and Alfalfa (crested male).
I've also had a few pairs to have mishaps with their eggs, mostly young females who haven't quite gotten the hang of laying the egg IN THE NEST rather than letting it drop from the perch (splat!). After 2 or 3 dropped eggs, usually the hen figures out that she should put the egg in the nest, but usually they won't incubate a single egg. I've been gathering the single eggs, and have a whole little mixed-up clutch under one of my society trios. So far they're incubating their little hearts out. :-)
I've got another society trio on eggs of their own. They're also incubating very nicely.
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