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Thank you for sharing this here. Saw it on various pet bird groups on Facebook last month or two as well. Best of luck to all of us! Edit: Just wanted to mention, this amendment also affects zoos and other scientific institutions, not just pet birds and private breeders, so it is extremely...

Happy is definitely a boy (four fertile eggs!) and Lottie is now a proud momma of two hatched chickies! I pulled one infertile egg and one with a puncture initially, so the hatched chicks are from eggs 2 and 3. Waiting on two more from eggs 5 and 6. Lottie didn't mind me checking on them at...

Oh, and as for hands, just be patient. A month is still not very much time at all for a new bird to settle in to a new enviroment. One he didn't choose to be in, whether pleasant or otherwise. His gentle beaking and happy sounds at the approaching treat in hand may not be interpreted correctly...

This may not work for everyone or every parrot, but I contact call back to my parrots (budgies, linnies, and tiels) with a clear loud whistle. It seems to make them feel better. Even if they can't see me, they can hear me and know I am not that far away. I just mimic what they do with each...

Hey Ira! Happy to see you here finally. And I love Cocoa's new name! How did that come about?

What age do Bourkes have their first molt? Can't seem to find this little fact online anywhere. :)

You have a veritable Easter egg basket there! Seems like a good breeding pair, just keep in mind their ages. Especially as females get older egg binding can become a more serious issue. Be sure they have plenty of calcium! Morning Bird brand (cheaper on Chewy than Amazon) has a liquid calcium...

Ok thanks!

Yep! Northern California - Humboldt County. It quoted me $33 to ship $60 worth of food - I think I chose the 10lb linnie mix and the 1lb bird salad. I don't know if you use USPS, UPS or FedEx and if it calculates purely by weight, but there's always the "if it fits it ships" one price boxes at...

Ahhh... Unfortunately the shipping is just much too expensive...

Yay!! I’ll probably buy both anyway and maybe mix them together. My budgies are used to either tiny diced pieces or thinly sliced stuff clipped up (carrot peelers are awesomeness, btw), and they tend to just ignore all big chunks of anything. So just in case… :D

She definitely looks fantastic and is still pestering Happy! But I rearranged the interior of their cage, and I separated Happy at night (they're asleep anyway so no contact calling then!), and then brought them outside two days in a row together. Haven't been feeding produce the past few days...

Ooooooo omg, your mix is awesome! I am definitely buying some then! Harrison's pellets (and only Harrison's) are just the best thing I had been able to find so far. Most real food mixes use sulfured and sweetened fruits and mask the quality of nuts with orange oil or something similar. I...

Questions about your linnie and budgie dry mixes! Does the dried fruit in these mixes contain added sugar, and is it sulfured? Are the nuts human-grade, or high quality/controlled for mold mycotoxins? These are the main reasons I use pellets (Harrison's organic, tried TOP's, they hated it) -...

I also started with a single hand-raised female linnie (Lottie), and later sought a male linnie because I knew I wanted to let them breed someday. I am currently trying to get Lottie to *stop* laying a second clutch of infertile eggs, however. It actually can be a bit of a challenge if your hen...

Thanks again for the quick response and the confirmation! I haven’t changed the arrangement of the cage yet, don’t know why that slipped my mind! I hope to have an outdoor aviary built next summer so I can properly separate pairs when I need to. But at the moment there’s no way for them to not...

I just wanted to update. I removed Lottie's mineral and calcium block on the 17th, and then removed her nest box on the 23rd when she spent most of a day out of her box and was clearly done sitting on her infertile clutch. I minimized her diet to just dry pellets the following day as well and...

I thought maybe lovebird, but better to know for sure than to guess! Thank you! The liquid chelated calcium I mentioned also is Calcivet, under the name of CalciBoost, by the birdcare company. And I normally bring them outside at least every other day for sunlight and fresh air, as long as the...

If I can purchase club registered closed bands then it would make sense to band them I suppose. I will check out the link you provided and contact the lineolated parakeet society as well. Thanks! I just looked at the order form for bands from the spbe. Is there a standard size that you use for...

I only have the high calcium options since she laid that egg. But I don’t know how long she needs to have extra calcium available to make up for what was used for egg laying? When they are not laying they are still on high potency pellets, and I always have the mineral block available, but not...