One of our new Parrot Finches:
The Momma Bronze feeding babies:
Saturday, August 13, 2005
Thursday, August 04, 2005
Aviary News
Well, one of our Gouldians died today. Its was a very sad thing. Phoenix saw that the bird seemed a little puffed up yesterday, and today we found him dead where he perched for the night on one of the feeders. It greaves our hearts on losing even a little life from our aviary, and we are both saddened. What perplexes us is that we do not know why this happened. The bird seemed in fine health before yesterday, and there was no clear signs of any sort of illness. Just in case we have put some antibiotics in the water, hoping that nothing more will happen.
In other aviary news, a cat tried to get in to the aviary, opening up a three inch gap in the mosquito netting. This would not have been an issue, for the cat would not have been able to get through the plastic netting. Well, later that day, a snake tried to get in though the gap in the mosquito netting, but could not get though the plastic netting. Phoenix then pulled a croc hunter move, grabbed the dangerous reptile (ok, it was a ribbon snake, maybe not so dangerous) and took it to the local state park and released him.
Anyway, in response we are putting up some chicken wire to keep out the riff raff. Hopefully will be done by this weekend.
Got a table saw to make Gouldian breeding boxes... made a couple with a jigsaw, but due to my unsteady hand, could only make 2 boxes out of material enough for 4. Table saw has been very helpfull thus far, and hoping to make more gouldian boxes to sell on ebay and such.
In other aviary news, a cat tried to get in to the aviary, opening up a three inch gap in the mosquito netting. This would not have been an issue, for the cat would not have been able to get through the plastic netting. Well, later that day, a snake tried to get in though the gap in the mosquito netting, but could not get though the plastic netting. Phoenix then pulled a croc hunter move, grabbed the dangerous reptile (ok, it was a ribbon snake, maybe not so dangerous) and took it to the local state park and released him.
Anyway, in response we are putting up some chicken wire to keep out the riff raff. Hopefully will be done by this weekend.
Got a table saw to make Gouldian breeding boxes... made a couple with a jigsaw, but due to my unsteady hand, could only make 2 boxes out of material enough for 4. Table saw has been very helpfull thus far, and hoping to make more gouldian boxes to sell on ebay and such.
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