tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57190372766254450852024-02-10T00:59:23.009-08:00Parrotlet BabiesGinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17999893016360570002noreply@blogger.comBlogger41125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5719037276625445085.post-59879251626960428382012-05-19T15:42:00.001-07:002012-05-19T15:42:50.253-07:005 New Parrotlet Chicks Have Hatched!Awww,<br />
So cute! 5 baby parrotlet chicks have hatched. #5 hatched today! So sweet. They will turn out to be a variety of colors including turquoise, turquoise pied, blue & blue pied.<br />
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<img src="http://home.netcom.com/~gbellous/perch_psd_7_jpg.jpg" width="450" />Ginahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17999893016360570002noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5719037276625445085.post-1686948646972294272012-05-19T15:37:00.000-07:002012-05-19T15:39:00.020-07:00My Beautiful Turquoise Parrotlet BoysHere are some great photos of my sweet boys, Sidney a turquoise pastel (dilute), and Fletcher, a turquoise. They are so cute. The camera just doesn't do justice to Sidney's rainbow of colors.<br />
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I think Fletcher may be a lucida male as the blue eye streaks wrap around his head and he has a very deep violet cobalt rump.</div>
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Sidney is a good boy and loves me. Fletcher tends to be very shy. I am not sure why since I hand fed him from a very young baby and he got lots of loves and attention.</div>
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Even though Fletcher is shy (see him hiding under Sidney?), He is still a very sweet bird. Doesn't bite, he is just a bit skittish.</div>
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Gorgeous Sidney! I wish the camera could really capture his true colors!</div>
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Another little chick has hatched! So sweet!<br />
<img src="http://home.netcom.com/~gbellous/perch_psd_7_jpg.jpg" width="450" />Ginahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17999893016360570002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5719037276625445085.post-78475194837659742742012-04-10T14:11:00.001-07:002012-04-10T14:12:57.260-07:00Sad news!I am sad to report that Chico, my long time parrotlet buddy and first parrotlet pet ever has passed away. He was about 9 1/2 - 10 years old. he was such a sweet boy and taught all of my other parrotlets how to talk. he was not sick. I think he just passed away from old age. He was tired and acting funny the night before Easter. He was eating and had food in his crop. His droppings were normal as was his weight. I played with him a bit and cuddled him. <br />
I knew in my heart I was losing him and he would go soon. On Easter he passed away. I will always remember his funny personality and I will miss him terribly!<br />
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<img src="http://home.netcom.com/~gbellous/perch_psd_7_jpg.jpg" width="450" />Ginahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17999893016360570002noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5719037276625445085.post-8919502810141587492011-12-09T17:38:00.000-08:002011-12-09T17:38:22.606-08:00New Handfed Baby Parrotlets Available!2 new adorable handfed baby parrotlets available. They are sisters. They are about 8 weeks old and very sweet girls.<br />
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<strong><span style="color: purple;">Baby #1: Born October 5, 2011</span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="color: purple;">Blue Female Marbled Pied (split yellow).</span></strong><br />
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This little cutie has the most remarkable coloring, especially on her wings. I have never had a baby hatch that looks like this, she is gorgeous! She has a sweet disposition.<br />
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Here is the back view of her with her sister. She also has some nice white marbling on her chest as well.<br />
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<strong><span style="color: purple;">Blue Female (split yellow).</span></strong><br />
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This darling is a little sweetheart. She is a good listener too. She sort of whistles when I talk to her which is unusual for a female.<br />
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They really love each other a lot and are good friends. So sweet!<br />
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Dilute Blue (Aka American White) Turquoise Babies. 1 Male , 1 Female (she is a Lucida sub species)<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">So sweet, look at those little faces!</div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Male normal TurquoiseBlue split Yellow & Male TurquoiseBlue Pied split to Yellow</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Notice the lighter coloring on the male pieds body!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> Put the Turquoise Pied Male with the Dilute Blue Turquoise hen and because he is split Yellow you will get Dilute Blue Turquoise, & Dilute Blue Turquoise Pieds!</div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Blue Pied Male split Yellow! he would be a great match for either of the 2 females available. Put him with the Dilute Blue Turquoise hen and because he is split yellow you will get Dilute Blue Turquoise, Dilute Blue Turquoise Pieds, Blue, & Blue Pieds. Put him with the Green split Blue female and you will get Blue, Blue Pied, Green & Green Pied! Can't go wrong and neither of the females is related to any of the males (except her dilute brother).</div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">So sweet! A cute lil gal with a good nature! She is Green split Blue!</div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Some nice breeder birds. They really want to go to nest, but I had to take their nestbox down as I needed the room to breed my turquoise birds. They are young 1 1/2 - 2 years old. He is split blue (possible split to Yellow) and he is a gorgeous Lucida male. If you live local I will include their breeding cage!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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<img src="http://home.netcom.com/~gbellous/perch_psd_7_jpg.jpg" width="450" />Ginahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17999893016360570002noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5719037276625445085.post-68559015939790492112011-07-17T20:28:00.000-07:002011-07-17T20:28:28.920-07:00Misty Has Babies!Great news! My pet parrotlet Misty has 2 chicks of her own. She is so proud of herself. <br />
Misty is an American White Turquoise (aka Dilute Blue Turquoise) Parrotlet. She is actually a very pale blue (almost white) with a yellow wash over her and a lime/yellow face. There are 2 chicks in the photo, one you see only his head, the other his body! She lets me pet her in the nest box and examine her chicks when necessary.<br />
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Poor dear kept laying eggs for me that were of course clear. I didn't want to breed her as she is my dear sweet pet, but I panic every time she lays eggs because she could get egg bound. She didn't like any of my pet males I tried to pair her up with, but then one day she settled on 1 sweet boy and went right to work. I didn't expect her eggs to be fertile the first time, but to my amazement all 5 of her eggs were fertile. Since she is a new momma she seemed to lose track of time and right when the eggs were ready to hatch she would break open the eggs and pull the babies out prematurely, thus killing the babies. It was an awful experience for both of us, but I knew she had to figure this out for herself. Thankfully she caught on with the last 2 babies and is doing a super job of taking care of them. (The egg in the photo was fertile but the chick formed poorly because the airspace in the egg was on the side instead of the end so it never fully developed or hatched. I knew this was a bad egg from the start as I use an egg candler, but let her keep it as I didn't want her to keep laying more eggs to replace any that I remove).<br />
<img src="http://home.netcom.com/~gbellous/perch_psd_7_jpg.jpg" width="450" />Ginahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17999893016360570002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5719037276625445085.post-12300878448452478862011-07-17T20:23:00.000-07:002011-07-17T20:23:30.675-07:00I have more Pieds & Turquoise Chicks!Awww, I have been busy hand feeding more little cuties. So far it looks like 1 blue pied male, 1 turquoise male, 1 mystery pied, & 1 too young to tell normal. Why do I keep getting just boys? Where are the girls?<br />
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The older 3 are from the same clutch. The tiny baby is from a pied pair that gave me 1 normal chick, probably blue or green split to blue.<br />
<img src="http://home.netcom.com/~gbellous/perch_psd_7_jpg.jpg" width="450" />Ginahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17999893016360570002noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5719037276625445085.post-9473865706442945502011-07-17T20:12:00.000-07:002011-07-17T20:12:23.312-07:00Look What I got At The Birdshow!I swore I wouldn't buy any birds, but I fell for these lil cuties. They were hand fed babies. They are mixed with English. <br />
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I am quite fond of the darker turquoise one. He is a clear flighted turquoise yellow face spangle. His wings have the loveliest scalloped markings on them. He is very sweet and seems so tame. The other one is a lovely diluted version, so he is a very pale blue with pale gray spangle markings. They are the same size, but due to camera angles one looks bigger than the other. He is a bit shyer. I also got a female Cremino 3/4 English. She is also hand fed but very shy , none of them bites at all. So cute!<br />
<img src="http://home.netcom.com/~gbellous/perch_psd_7_jpg.jpg" width="450" />Ginahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17999893016360570002noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5719037276625445085.post-70307814082611251472011-06-14T12:45:00.000-07:002011-06-14T12:45:35.509-07:00Little Tucker aka Baby #1 Went Home With His New Family!I am happy to report that Baby #1 now called "Tucker" went home with his new family on Saturday! His new "parronts" drove over 2 hours to come and pick him up. His new mommy, Amy has been watching him grow from a tiny egg to the big beautiful boy he became.<br />
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All of the babies took to Amy right away. They were climbing all over her and snuggling in her neck. We had a nice visit and I sent Tucker home with a nice care package of seeds, dried fruit, millet sprays, cuttle bone & mineral block & a toy! <br />
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He was having so much fun being out of the cage and playing with Amy that he didn't want to go into his carrier! I am sure he snuggled with mommy on the drive home! At last report Tucker had settled into his new home nicely. I look forward to new photos and updates about Tucker.<br />
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The other 2 babies have been hanging out with me everyday! I am keeping the Turquoise baby but I think I could let baby #2 go to a good family. If you are interested in adopting him (adoption fee applies) just send me an email! He is a little sweetheart! <br />
<img src="http://home.netcom.com/~gbellous/perch_psd_7_jpg.jpg" width="450" />Ginahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17999893016360570002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5719037276625445085.post-91535826960695786862011-06-08T12:35:00.000-07:002011-06-08T12:38:09.151-07:00Little "Buster" comes to visit the babies!I was thrilled to have "Buster", one of my blue pied babies visit yesterday! He has grown into such a big, sweet, gentle natured boy! I was worried at first that Buster would be aggressive towards the babies, but he was as gentle as can be. He has been with humans only, since he went to his new home about 4 months ago. Buster is now 7 months old. He was so cute with the babies. The first thing he tried to do was feed the babies.<br />
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This was how it was in the beginning. The babies stayed in their little "clique" and Buster was the "outsider". Buster pulled out all the tricks to charm them. He is very charming so it wasn't long before...<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Buster brought me some nice freeze dried fruit for the babies & I sent him home with a couple of toys & some nice fruity seed mix! I am so proud of the beautiful boy he has become!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Baby #3 - My Turquoise Male always wants to be in the middle. He will stop at nothing to get there!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Beautiful Boy! The Ring Leader!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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Here are the photos of his first "wing trim". <br />
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<div align="center">The wing is comprised of a few basic parts that give the birds their incredible aerodynamics.</div><div align="center"><br />
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</div><div align="center">The first 10 long outer feathers are called the Primary Flight Feathers (remiges)</div><div align="center">The second set of about 9 or 10 feathers next to them </div><div align="center">are called the Secondary Flight Feathers (remiges)</div><div align="center"><br />
</div><div align="center">I carefully cut about 5 - 7 of the long primaries. </div><div align="center">I use the Primary Coverts (that's the dark blue area above the Primary Flights as a guideline).</div><div align="center"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Repeat on the other side. I like to keep them a bit farther away from the Primary Covert line when they are babies. It is important to trim them evenly on both sides so the bird can maintain it's balance. The bird can still fly a little , but it can no longer fly up or far away. Some people may think this is cruel, but it is really for the safety of the bird. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">It is in no way painful for the bird. It is like having your hair cut.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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My little babies have grown up so quickly! Chick #1 is pretty much eating on his own now. He loves to come out and fly around. I have to clip his wings, but I just don't have the heart to "ground" him. He is the leader and he knows it!<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Chick #1 has the most white. It is hard to see in the photos, but the lower half is mostly white.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">He also has the lighter white colroing in his wings.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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Chick #2 is eating a little on his own, but he is my "cry baby". He cries so loudly for formula, but then when I go to give it to him, he shakes his little head ans spits it out (messy!). He has also taken his first flight yesterday. <br />
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It is so cute to watch them fly for the first time. The look on their little faces is so cute! They are so proud of themselves!<br />
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Chick #3 - My little Turquoise is such a beauty! His coloring is intense. He is gorgeous! <br />
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</div>A breeder friend of mine seems to think they may have pastel in them. <br />
All the chicks have a lacy pattern on them. The also still have this greenish cast to their wings, and they are iridescent. The babies have very silky feathers and are a very pale blue. They are also believed to be marbled pieds instead of the normal pieds. They have a mixture of white & blue feathers "marbled/mottled" throughout their bodies instead of solid bands of color.<br />
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<div align="center">This is chick #1. He is the lightest colored.</div><div align="center"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">This is chick #4 - It's a turquoise boy!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I think he might stay with me!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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<img src="http://home.netcom.com/~gbellous/perch_psd_7_jpg.jpg" width="450" />Ginahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17999893016360570002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5719037276625445085.post-9024930651252232032011-05-10T12:36:00.000-07:002011-05-10T12:37:51.157-07:00New Baby Parrotlet Photos - 2 - 3 1/2 weeks!I decided to take more photos of the babies as they grow so quickly at this stage! <br />
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Here is chick #1 - He looks to be a very light pied blue. He is the palest powder blue color (pieds tend to be lighter in color) with electric blue wings and rump. he has white feathers on the back of his head as well as a few on his lower belly, and 2 white feathers on his tail. I was hoping for more heavy markings, but he is so cute. He loves to be petted.<br />
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<img src="http://home.netcom.com/~gbellous/perch_psd_7_jpg.jpg" width="450" />Ginahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17999893016360570002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5719037276625445085.post-48382490378026377392011-05-09T12:49:00.000-07:002011-05-09T12:49:33.888-07:00Unexpected Tragedy! : (I am shaking as I type this. I was just hand feeding the chicks with the plan of photographing them for an update to the blog. I always feed from youngest to oldest first. I had fed the itty bitty, (yes he is still hanging in there, but so small), then #5, then #4. I then pulled #1, 2, & 3 out as I usually do to feed them together as they are so funny and they beg like crazy and cry for me. They are all very bonded to each other as well.<br />
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I take turns feeding them each a little at a time. I had just given #3 (female) some food and was going back to one of the boys when she ran to me. She tripped on the towel (her nail got stuck) and fell on her tummy. I guess it forced some of the food in her crop into her air passage way. All of a sudden she was choking. I was horrified. I tried to open her beak and clear her air passage, but she was struggling to take in air and was really just pulling formula into her lungs. When a chick aspirates it happens so quickly and there is little that can be done. She started to pass out. I was shaking so badly telling her to stay with me. She died within seconds. I am still in shock. <br />
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Sometimes if a chick is being hand fed and a bit of food goes down wrong they will shake their head, and bring it up an out. I think since she tripped too much formula went into the air passage and she was probably already opening up her beak to breath in and make that begging sound when she started to choke. I have been going over an over it. This is the WORST thing that can happen to a breeder when they are hand feeding. I feel so responsible for her death, but there was nothing I could do.<br />
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She was actually the funniest chick. She had huge big round eyes which I found endearing. She really loved me stroking her and scratching her tiny neck and face. I just loved her as I have found that females tend to make very good pets. They get very attached to their owners and are very loyal, but people always tend to gravitate to the males because their coloring is more vibrant.<br />
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I had also noticed this morning before I fed her that she was going to be a Turquoise. This just made me sadder as she would have been my first Turquoise chick that I bred. I have such a heavy heart and a lump in my throat. I am still shaking. I can't believe I lost her. It makes me want to quit doing this.<br />
<img src="http://home.netcom.com/~gbellous/perch_psd_7_jpg.jpg" width="450" />Ginahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17999893016360570002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5719037276625445085.post-52556406996022641462011-05-09T12:33:00.000-07:002011-05-09T12:33:09.845-07:00Sunday - Still Going Strong! All of the babies are still doing very well. It appears that baby #1 & #2 will be blue pied males (split yellow). #1 has more white markings and #2 doesn't have any white markings that I can see, but he is a Pied. #3 is definitely a female and she looks to be a normal blue (split yellow), but she might be a turquoise. Will know for sure in another day or so. Baby #6 is still hanging in there. He seems very small to me, but he is a fighter so we will see what happens. All of the other chicks have 1 - 2 weeks of age over him so maybe that is why he seems so tiny. Still waiting to see what #4 & #5 will be. #5 will be pied as well. It was a nice Mother's Day, but tiring as I had to run home to feed that babies!<br />
<img src="http://home.netcom.com/~gbellous/perch_psd_7_jpg.jpg" width="450" />Ginahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17999893016360570002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5719037276625445085.post-744889335278915272011-05-09T12:28:00.000-07:002011-05-09T12:28:24.130-07:00Friday Night Follow Up I would like to remind everyone that the reason for this blog is to let people follow the triumphs and trials of hand feeding baby birds. It pains me when those bird mill breeders give their babies away for nothing because A), they breed them like rats, B) they don't pull the chicks for hand feeding until they are over 3 weeks old and getting ready to wean. They only need to eat about 4 times a day at this age and most of those breeders only feed the poor chicks 3 times a day. C), they just feed them and throw them back into the brooders and don't spend time playing with them.<br />
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In my opinion, the babies are never quite as friendly as chicks that are pulled at 2 weeks of age. There is so much work involved in countless hours of hand feeding and giving the chicks love and affection after eating. I spend a lot of time comforting the chicks and stroking them and scratching their little necks, etc. After the first week of feeding when they get to be about 3 weeks old they come running to me for food and love the attention and cuddle time they get after they eat.<br />
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There is so much that goes on that the general public doesn't know when they go to choose a new baby. Often times they are looking for the best price not necessarily the best quality.<br />
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The babies are doing fine. I had to pull ALL of the babies on Friday morning from the parents for hand feeding because I noticed that baby #6 seemed to be in some sort of distress. I was hoping to take more of them after mother's day as I had already pulled chicks 1 - 3 and have been hand feeding them. <br />
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When I examined chick #6, I noticed that he seemed to have an impacted crop. One of his parents had fed him large whole seeds and large particles that were too big for his tiny system. I warmed up some water to the proper temperature and fed this with barely a trace of formula in it. I gently massaged his tiny crop to break u the hard mass of food in it. I checked him every hour. I could see that each time I fed him that the hard mass was getting smaller. The water would go through and bring a bit of the hard mass with it each time. The chick was looking shrunken and dehydrated and redder in color. I stayed up all night with this tiny chick no bigger than half the length of my pinkie finger. I went to bed assuming that he would pass away during the night. Imagine my surprise when I checked first thing in the morning and he was still fighting. His color was better, he look more hydrated and his crop was pretty much empty.<br />
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I slowly re-introduced very thin formula into his crop. I fed him every 2 hours. So far he seems to be doing okay. He is so tiny so I don't know if he will make it, but he is strong and he is a fighter. The other chicks I took with them seem a bit confused but i a few days they will see me as mom just like chicks 1 - 3 see me now. They are so cute. I love them.<br />
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<img src="http://home.netcom.com/~gbellous/perch_psd_7_jpg.jpg" width="450" />Ginahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17999893016360570002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5719037276625445085.post-1645244883452885482011-05-05T09:14:00.000-07:002011-05-05T09:14:31.062-07:00Breeders for SaleI am offering a few pairs of my breeders for sale. I am reluctant to sell them, but I need the room. I have limited space available where I keep my birds and I need to sell a few of the pairs. I hate to sell them at this point as it is right in the beginning of breeding season. Most of the pairs have been going in and out of their nest boxes.<br />
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<strong><span style="color: #0c343d; font-size: large;">Ruby & Jackson - $150.00 pair</span></strong><br />
Female - Ruby: Fallow split blue<br />
Male - Jackson - Blue split fallow<br />
They are about 1 1/2 years old.<br />
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Fallows have red eyes, thus the reason Ruby got her name!<br />
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<img src="http://home.netcom.com/~gbellous/perch_psd_7_jpg.jpg" width="450" />Ginahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17999893016360570002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5719037276625445085.post-88849867636971739962011-05-04T18:32:00.000-07:002011-05-04T18:40:37.480-07:00Ella Displays Her Motherly InstinctsI had the most wonderful discovery this morning. I was able to study the strong bond that develops between a mother hen and her chicks. <br />
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I never realized that this happens because as most people who breed birds will tell you, we see some pretty heartless, horrible things that occur in the nest box.<br />
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Ella & Mochi are raised indoors in my bird room. Most of my breeders pairs (I only have a few) are kept outdoors in a covered protected area so I can't watch the interaction of the parents with their chicks, but Mochi & Ella are hand fed babies themselves so they have always been indoors.<br />
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As mentioned in an earlier post I gave Ella a new chick to raise. I gave her a 2 day old chick when her youngest was already almost 1 week old. She accepted him without any question or doubt, but I didn't realize just how devoted she is to him.<br />
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I was having bad dreams last night that the teeny baby had died in the nest. When I went to check him this morning, he was off to the side of the nest by himself. This is the second time I have found him like this. Usually I have to move all of the bigger babies to find him at the bottom of the "dog pile" where he goes to stay warm. <br />
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I immediately panicked and went to pick him up with the idea that I would take him from her and feed him myself. I was shocked that he was so warm and not ice cold which is usually the case when a young chick gets separated from the clutch. I also noticed that his crop was almost empty and the other chick's crops all had differing amounts of food in them. I went to warm up some formula to hand feed him with. <br />
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When I returned, Ella , who had been out of the nest box, raced back into the box. I could hear her chicks peeping which means she is feeding them. So I decided to check back awhile later to see if the chick had been fed.<br />
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I checked back a couple of hours later and when I opened the box, Ella was sitting next to her clutch (not on them like she did when they were tiny). She was hissing at me and wanted me to leave, but she finally left the box, and what did I discover? A very happy, warm, fat, well fed, teeny baby. <br />
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Ella is such a good mother that she instinctively knows that this tiny chick needs extra attention so she seeks him out of the pile of older chicks. She actually pulls him out from under the pile (no easy task), and moves him under her so she can sit on him.<br />
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I also realize that the reason she didn't feed him was that she was waiting for his crop to empty completely and she was also waiting for her food to digest into the thinner crop milk a young chick needs. You see, as the chicks get older she knows just what to feed them and one can see bigger portions of seeds in the crop as the babies gets older.<br />
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I find this all so amazing & heartwarming. She is a wonderful mama to take such extra care with the orphan chick I snuck into her clutch.<br />
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I took this baby from it's other parents because I noticed they were feeding their last baby big seeds in it's crop when it was only a few days old and the chick later died of many complications, one of them being a bad digestive system that shut down and caused it''s death.<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Here is a closeup of his tiny head, magnified by the camera lens. I see blue for sure, maybe green on the front of his head which would be nice! Again, be sure to click on the images for a closer look.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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<img src="http://home.netcom.com/~gbellous/perch_psd_7_jpg.jpg" width="450" />Ginahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17999893016360570002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5719037276625445085.post-81954263208180215432011-05-03T13:56:00.000-07:002011-05-03T13:59:24.433-07:00Awww Look Closely! 6 chicks!So, <br />
Now there are 6 chicks....but that is because I added a baby from another nest. He is from the last pied pair that had a chick and then it died Well, they had another chick hatch on Saturday. They seemed to be doing a good job with him, but I didn't want to take any chances, so I pulled him and gave him to Mochi & Ella.<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">See the new Itty Bitty baby ? He is 3 days old. Chick #5 who was the bitty baby is now triple the size in 1 week. He is the pink baby at the top of the photo (not banded yet.)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The oldest chick is very shy and hiding under the chick looking into the camera! So cute!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Ella doesn't seem to notice that I gave her an extra baby but that is because I took the two oldest babies to handfeed. I put them back in the nest for the photo!</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><img src="http://home.netcom.com/~gbellous/perch_psd_7_jpg.jpg" width="450" />Ginahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17999893016360570002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5719037276625445085.post-79686314055279900892011-04-30T18:26:00.000-07:002011-04-30T18:30:52.728-07:00Chick #1 - 15 Days OldHere is chick #1. He (She) is now 15 days old. I have banded him as well as chicks #2 & #3. Chick #4 will be banded in a day or so, and Bitty baby # 5 will be banded in about 4 days or so. Look how fast they grow!<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">This chick is looking like a female to me, but I will know for sure in a few more days!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">You can see it is banded with the #60. The bands I chose for this year are black with white writing.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">It also carries the initials GCB and CA 11</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Look how quickly the pins on the wings have come in. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The tail is also starting to emerge and the first showings of the head and body pins are forming. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The down feathers are also present and will pop open in a few days!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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<img src="http://home.netcom.com/~gbellous/perch_psd_7_jpg.jpg" width="450" />Ginahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17999893016360570002noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5719037276625445085.post-26236461261238062522011-04-28T09:53:00.000-07:002011-04-28T10:54:13.578-07:00New Photo - 3 days - 11 days OldThe babies are now actually 13 days, 11 days, 9 days, 7 days & 4 days old!<br />
Baby #5 is hiding down in the middle to keep warm!<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5rl1pXp1sjTCEys3Unwz-6Mz32bQfTXeGQC4AqfxgLu4ofp-X55qvDkRetMrtY5681ouSL4lAyTqiR2s8etKDvDyIqa1ji6i-95UCzwk3eQ3llo1LSmb7T0H9GStIO_ylCcCzWBym1GY/s1600/ella_mochi_chicks_3_and_11_days_c.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" j8="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5rl1pXp1sjTCEys3Unwz-6Mz32bQfTXeGQC4AqfxgLu4ofp-X55qvDkRetMrtY5681ouSL4lAyTqiR2s8etKDvDyIqa1ji6i-95UCzwk3eQ3llo1LSmb7T0H9GStIO_ylCcCzWBym1GY/s320/ella_mochi_chicks_3_and_11_days_c.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>It seems that baby #1 has clear nails, baby # 2 has clear nails, baby #3 has darker nails & baby # 4 looks to be getting darker nails. Baby # 5 is too young to tell yet. Clear nails are usually a sign of a pied baby, but again, too soon to tell. I can see that the wings on baby #1 are going to be dark so if it is a pied it will be a light pied like the mother (meaning it won't have a lot of heavy pied markings). I should be able to tell if it is male or female in about 5 - 7 days more. 3 of the 5 chicks have opened their eyes a bit. So cute! You can also see the beginnings of the pin feathers on body and heads coming in, finally they will get some fluff!<br />
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