Nesting
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Nesting
When I cleaned Peep's cage today he started to shred newspaper and tuck it under his feathers like he would if he were nesting. He doesn't have a mate any more so maybe it was wishful thinking. The days are a bit longer and it was sunny today (but quite cold). It's starting to feel more spring-like.
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- Jaye
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Re: Nesting
Aw, Peep is asking for a mate, methinks.
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- Killerbunny
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Re: Nesting
What a cutie!
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Re: Nesting
Is he a Lovebird?
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RIP Stephen the BSW Tom and my coffee companion.
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RIP little Muppet the rescue cat.
Re: Nesting
He's a peach-faced lovebird. I've had him for a long time. He is hand tame. He was hand fed as a baby. When he has a mate, he becomes protective and not so hand friendly. I got him when he was about 8 months old from someone who didn't want him any more. I bought a female lovebird (Sunny) from a pet shop, who was older than him and not hand tame. I let them have one hatch in 2000. There were 4 chicks that hatched from the 6 eggs she laid. A friend of mine bought all four chicks for his aviary. Sunny died a few years later. Lovebirds don't seem to be very popular here any more. The fact that they are long-lived may be the problem. Some people get tired of them.
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I have the dates wrong. I picked up Peep on Christmas Eve day 2005, so he's almost 15 years old. I read they can live up to 20 years. I got Sunny March 10, 2007. The chicks hatched in Dec. 2007. Sunny died Feb. 2013.
Sunny The chicks The four chicks. You can't see it in the picture but their backs are turquoise blue.
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I have the dates wrong. I picked up Peep on Christmas Eve day 2005, so he's almost 15 years old. I read they can live up to 20 years. I got Sunny March 10, 2007. The chicks hatched in Dec. 2007. Sunny died Feb. 2013.
Sunny The chicks The four chicks. You can't see it in the picture but their backs are turquoise blue.
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- Killerbunny
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Re: Nesting
Lovely. He is a really old fella then!
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RIP Stephen the BSW Tom and my coffee companion.
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RIP little Muppet the rescue cat.
Re: Nesting
Handsome boy, love the chicks, didn't know you could get them with turquoise down the back must have been really pretty as adults.
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