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MARCH 2003 JOURNAL
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Here we are March 10, 2003 and Jo's just getting the Journal up now. Excuse this time, same old one, same old....says the birds come first, then the customers, then the website. So in other words she has been real busy. It's me here, the little violet masked at the top of the picture list next door here. For now I'm sharing my living quarters with that little linnie brat right below here, but for how much longer, were not sure! That little one drives me nuts! Stretches those little legs of his waaaayyy up so he can get right in my face to squeek at me! Until this morning Jo was going to separate us, but then I guess I made a big mistake, as she caught me this morning preening that little brat. So now she says she's gonna keep tabs on us for the day again and we'll see what tonight brings. Really I don't mind him when he's quiet, he's actually kinda cute, he just yaps too much! Jo thinks he's sooooo cute. Humbug. You know huh, that he even gots his own page dedicated to him. Gets his picture took every day. Eat ... holy this morning he weighed in at 52 grams and that's before breakfast!! Jo hasn't weighed me yet. She sorta treats me with kid gloves as us masked stress very easily and she has lost a baby due to stress. If she were to sit me on that big scale all by myself, you can be sure I would be freakin. Jo has raised so many babies now, she can tell by looking at me and how much I eat if I am on track or not. Later on in the weaning stages she'll be puttin me on that big thing, I'm sure. Let's see, it's been a while, what else is new here. I can tell you there has been a lot leave us here in the last couple weeks. The three little seagreens of Little Pearl and Seawillys left last week. I guess they are doing great in their new home and have been dubbed the Three Amigos! With them also went two whiteface guys and a cinnamon. Then there's a lady who bought three of Jo's babies two weeks ago and now is buying some more. She is also buying one of Jo's pairs downstairs, Sidney and Slick. Jo got them all disease tested for her last week in preparation to go and they came back nice and healthy. That makes four pairs now that Jo has sold and says that's it for awhile. She still goes out to the Resting Room and misses them all. If only there were more hours in a day and more room, she would be keeping them all! Next door in the brooder beside me here, there are three more cinnamon pieds and two more seagreens. They are only bout 2 and 3 weeks old. Things are really pretty quiet in here. (Ha that will change very soon now that the Breeding Hut is back in action!) The little amercian cinnamon got herself a new home yesterday and is going to Fredericton to live, next week we think. Jo had another lady and her husband from Fredericton visiting yesterday to see us all as well as our homes. Now they've gone home to build a nice big home to get ready to adopt some of us. Who's the lucky ones? We don't know yet, she loved us all, just marveled at all our many beautiful mutations and is having a hard time deciding. How does the saying go..... Potato Chip Syndrome......... A lovebird is like a potato chip, one is never enough..............maybe she's be like a couple other folks we know and buy a whole bag!!! O.K. lets truck on downstairs. In the Resting Room we have 5 brand new marriages, prearranged of course! Jo set them all up yesterday, all whiteface violets and silvers, and now today has to come up with names for them all! Probably next week we'll be able to introduce them all to you. So far, so good, they are all getting along with their new partners just fine. Candy and Mango, the fischers, they are bad. They have a real thing about food being in their dishes. If Jo uses clip on dishes, first thing they do is dump them all! So Jo puts on dishes they clamp right onto the side that they cannot get off. What do they do, get right in and THROW all the food out. Jo says, she gives up! She fills them and fills them and still they usually end up eating off the floor as that's where they seem to figure their food should be! She even took to putting their dishes down low, almost on the floor and they still dump them! Out there we also got Cookie and Coby and Brooke and Dhillon trying to get cozy. Jo's caught them in action more than once and interrupts their sessions. NOT NICE! She's told them, wait just three more weeks Pleassseee and she'd be more than happy to put you to nest in the Breeding Hut. Summars coming, time to get all the curtains back up on all those windows. Then of course there are the five new pairs that will more than likely figure they should be first to get to the Breeding Hut! Last stop, Breeding Hut. Out here you have Opal and Archie laying more eggs, so far they have three. Then you have Benji and Alley sitting on eggs, you have Misty and Noah sittin on four eggs, you have Sundance and Cassidy sittin on five eggs, Sunset and Buster they are still building. She's on her second bundle of willow branches, working away at building. Then there's all the linnies who are spending their time in the nest box, but so far no eggs. Any day Jo keeps hopin. Not only does Jo love her linnies, but she has orders to fill!! Last note for the day, we have to whisper this one so as she won't hear us, Queen Betty has been behaving herself lately and this is almost to good to be true. Jo just marvels at that bird, as many eggs as she lays, you look at her and you'd think she's the healthiest bird in the Resting Room. O.K. one more last note, Poor Betsy. Every day now for a week Jo has to watch her making out with her most favoriate toy. Breaks Jo's heart to see this. Jo's hopin she may finally have a friend coming for her. Mind you, it will be a baby (and they have not been sexed yet so not sure if a male would even be in the clutch) but if things turn out, Jo will just have to do this introduction very slowly and carefully. O.K. gotta go, babies are calling for lunch. March
16th. Here we
are again everyone. If Jo
would give me a name now we’d be all set.
I’m the little silver violet whiteface next door here with
Jodie, Jo’s daughter. Man oh Mr. Man, am I spoiled!
Jo’s says its too bad I’m a keeper or I would make some
family a pretty nice feathered friend.
I let her do most anything with me, turn me upside down, scratch
my belly, I hang on her finger upside down by one leg.
I’m almost scared I’m gonna get the nickname Badness as
that’s what Jo’s always calling me.
Really she finds I am just such a beautiful pastel soft violet,
and not knowing yet if I am a boy or a girl, she just can’t decide
what to call me. But
hey I can tell you that Jo and Lou got some names all made up for the
new pairs. (Now she has to get Lou
to work updating the Lineage Page for yous). Let’s
see we got, Tyler and Taylor, we got Homer and Honey, we got Jesse and
Jodie (ya just guess who they are named after…. Next week there will
probably be a Chantal and Vance!), we got Chucky and Chuckles and lastly
we go Corky and Courtney. The end of this week Jo has three male linnies coming for the
three lonely females. YEEHA
Course we won’t see them in this house till they get all that
disease testing done. Guess
they are going to stay with a friend of Jo’s up the road, till their
results come in from Health Gene. Then
will be come here, get themselves some wifies and make some beautiful
little babies. Speaking
of babies, our little violet masked that’s sharing a room with the
Baby Album baby, is growing up fast and furious.
He is very shy, as masked babies tend to be anyways, but Jo is
going slowly with him. She’s
just in a stew now as she doesn’t want the little linnie baby to
become shy as well. She was
watching them today and the little linnie baby was picking and yappy and
being a regular little annoyance to the masked, but he seemed to be
taking it all in stride quite well.
And
while we are on the subject of babies, while there may not be many here
now, that’s all about to change very quickly.
Misty and Noah as well as Sundance and Cassidy should start
hatching their eggs this week. Then
remember there are four pairs of linnies laying eggs now with Grady and
Tula to start laying sometime in the next couple weeks Jo hopes.
And just want is she hopin for from that couple, well a little
lutino linnie would suit her quite nicely she says!
Jo took a count and saw that Opal and Archie have six eggs laid
so far. She’s hoping they
stop there. Then
Jo took a count of Alley and Benji’s eggs this week and darn near died
with she counted SEVEN eggs. The
last time Jo peeked in last week, she could not even see the eggs as
they had a big dome nest built out of willow.
Well when she looked this week, they had the top of the dome all
gone and almost like a hollow built into which they had seven eggs piled
high. So what does that
mean? Hopefully not babies
hatching at the bottom of the hollow she hopes. She’ll have to keep her eyes open on these two come
hatching time. Days are longer now and already Jo has had to put the curtains back up in the Resting Room. Yes, you guessed it, Dear Queen Betty is at it again! Down goes the light, down goes the humidity levels, Jo says she’s putting the kibosh on this behavior before everyone gets started. Tis the season! Jo goes out there to the Resting Room and starts giving Betty a big lecture. Ha. Betty comes right up to Jo’s nose at the side door and just starts yipping right back at her with Barney right on her heels. Cookie and Coby, Flo and Foxy, Brooke and Dhillon….they are all the same. All of them have been getting lectures daily, as if Jo thinks that’s gonna help or they are gonna listen, better still! Oh
ya and I almost forgot. All those adults are pretty happy campers
now. Jo found out from her supplier that Roudybush has removed the
preservative from their foods of January this year that Jo did not
like, so now they all get to continue eating their loved Roudybush.
March 23, 2003 and bet you thought we'd never be back. Life has been pretty hectic round here lately. Punky here by the way. O.K., now you want to know who Punky is. Why it's still me here, the little silver beauty that gets to live here. Spoiled, oh that word has nothing on me! I'm still in the Babies Room as my partner just got born this week, so I'm a loner for the next couple months yet. I share my cabin right now with the little seagreen who's still waiting for new foster parents. So how do you like all the new toys here Jo made us this week? She ordered this 100% cotton rope from the Birdy Boredom Busters along with some big monster buttons and all kinds of good stuff. You can find their address on our Links Page. Jo likes it so much she is going to order more. Then she got some Wiltons Paint from a store called the Scoop and Save in Fredericton and painted some of the wooded knobs you see on our new toy. Now tomorrow she says when she does her big clean, some lucky guys are gonna see these new toy. Misty and Noah as of today are on baby number three hatching all with big plum eyes. Then Sundance has two babies hatched so far and Benji and Alley have their first one hatched. Those two have such a neat little hollow nest made, with all the eggs piled and stacked up, that Jo took their first born right away and fostered it to Sundance and Cassidy. She was kinda nervous I guess that it would end up at the bottom of this big pile of six eggs to go! Then this weekend the linnies should get started on their hatchlings. Opal has 6, Lucy has 5, Dot has 5, Tilly has 5 and today even Tula got started and has one big egg laying there. Guess it didn't take Grady long to get into the swing of things. Now if only Sunset and Buster would get the hang of what that Hut is all about. They have the most beautiful nest made of willow, but so far no eggs. Maybe they think they have to wait for the Easter Bunny? Now I have a cute story to tells you. Jo just got a call a half hour ago from Cindy in Fredericton who bought one of Jo's lovebirds 17 months ago. She already had a male before. These guys names are Sweetie and Birdie and are spoiled rotten. Well Cindy started emailing Jo a week or so ago as Sweetie's vent area was swelling up and Cindy, not being the experience Mom, did not know what was the matter. Well Jo very gently told her "Get ready, your family is now going to expand". Poor Cindy did not really want to hear this. She is so fearful that something might happen to Sweetie. These birds are fed their veggies, pellets, seeds, sprouts and very well taken care of, and Jo told her not to worry, things would be just fine. Things are just fine O.K.... get this one.... Sweetie laid her first egg today... the best part ......where........ right in Cindy's hand!!! That gives you a little indication of how bonded these birds are with their Mom!! Cindy took the egg and put it in the little basket she has in Sweetie's cage. Remember as Cindy did not know what was happening till too late, they do not have a nestbox, but I guess they are very, very content in their little basket. They have living quarters both upstairs and downstairs, so Jo advised her to keep her in one cage now, so Cindy has chosen to keep her in the cage upstairs to give her more peace and quiet for the next coming month.
TINY RASCALS AVIARY
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