Paulette
10-24-2005, 04:02 PM
As you all probably remember Jake was thrilled and so excited when we brought Hope into our home the first night....after quarantine I put Hope in a cage right next to Jake's and they would peep to each other and they played together during out of cage time for a couple of days......it was so cute. She began to eat immediately and I was relieved....she'd quit eating at the loss of her previous mate....Jake had this whole coconut shell in his cage with a bird hole on each side of it....Hope would go into Jake's cage and would nap inside his coconut....He would have a fit every time she'd sit inside it.....and would sit on top of it fussing at her....(2 days in a row) it was too funny...every evening I would take it out with her inside and hang it into her own cage.....this went on for about 3 days....at bedtime I would transfer Hope in the coconut to her cage...Then at play time they started going behind the play cage and preening each other and he would feed her...it was like a couple of teenagers in love and inseperable. Jake is used to doing the swishy on his cozy tunnel and Sara(his previous mate) would just ignore him....so I'm not sure Sara was a hen....because Hope, after sleeping in Jake's cage for a few days, bowed her head and raised her tail....she was so patient with him even though he didn't know how to swishy on another bird......and well, he got to swishying on his cozy again....my mom said take it away.....so I did.....Hope has been sleeping in the nest box and I expect eggs any day now. Jake has also become the dutiful husband and is defending the cage at every turn.