It's almost time for the bird fair in Chattanooga again. :-) I'm planning to set up one more cage (a total of 4), which will be a community/non-breeding cage. In it will be my non-breeding societies and any youngsters that happen to come along in the future. I'll probably get a male diamond dove for the community cage at the bird fair. Just a male; no female. I'll probably pick up a couple of extra female societies while I'm there, if they have them separated by gender. No zebra finches, though! LOL! ;-) It sure is hard to resist them.
The societies are all doing fine. The one that was a puffy is still a little fluffed up, but acts/eats/drinks/poops just fine, so perhaps that's just the way it sits on the perch. If it was sick, it would surely have obvious symptoms by now. It's not SUPER-puffy or anything ... just a little more puffy than the others.
The trio on the bottom of the cage rack has padded the nest I gave them, and they just recently started sleeping in it (finally). The middle quartet doesn't have any interest in their nest. The top trio has mated a few times that I've seen, but there hasn't been any interest in either of their two nests. No eggs in any of the three cages. That's fine. If they have youngsters, okay, and if they don't, that's okay too. :-) I do think I'll pick up some woven-type nests at the bird fair. That's the kind of nests they had before, and I don't think they like these open canary nests quite as much. I just like the canary nests and Abba nest boxes because there's no chance of their toenails getting tangled. With woven nests, the fibers can snag their toenails, and can cause broken legs, or worse. I'll just have to keep a super-close eye on them, and perhaps I can come up with a way to hang the woven nests so that the birds can't sit on top of them. The tops of the nests seem to be more "grabby" than the interior, for some reason.
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