Keltoth
01-23-2006, 09:30 AM
Just a quick post to let everyone know that yes, I'm still here and no, I haven't abandoned the lovebird maddness world. I've simply been busy with work, birds and family, so my internet time has suffered the last few weeks.
On the lovebird fromt, all are doing well. Aeyu (female Dutch Blue Creamino) and Shadow (Olive) have three chicks (oldest will be 3 weeks old on Wednesday). I am excited for these chicks, as they will all have one dark factor (so will be Jades), all will be split for blue, and all the males will be split for Ino. SO many possible matches for future pairings... :D
Obi is STILL wearing his sattelite dish because he is STILL plucking if given the opportunity (nothing physically wrong, he just wants to be bald, it seems). This is becoming especially frustrating, as Anna is now sitting on 3 confirmed fertile eggs and 1 unconfirmed egg, the last egg having been laid on the morning of 1/20. Once those chicks hatch and age a few weeks, he is going to want to feed them, and he cannot get into his nestbox with his e-collar on his neck, To that end, he has started working on the hole of the nestbox, working on it every day and trying to enlarge it so that he can get inside while wearing his collar. It would be kind of funny if he weren't so pathetically anxious about the whole thing. It got so bad that I had to seperate them on days that Anna was due to lay because on her first egg, Obi blocked Anna from getting into her nest with his body and just would not let her inside - and it caused her to drop her egg outside her nestbox from the exertions, which resulted in a shattered Opaline egg on the bottom of the cage. I wasn't so worried about it at the time, thinking there was NO WAY she could have fertile eggs because of the mechanics that would be needed for them to sucessfully couple with Obi wearing his collar, but just for Anna's mental and physical well-being I decided Obi needed seperate quarters on egg-laying days - which was even MORE dramatic, as the two mates called back and forth to each other all day long until the egg was laid.
Anyway, while Anna and Aeyu took to the nest, none of the other couples have, so I guess I can be thankful for thet. Roxie and Skie have shown no signs of wanting to have another clutch, although Roxie DID desperately want a nestbox when she saw Anna getting one. I'll try to get pics of everyone posted to the website as soon as possible.
Catch you all later -
Eric
On the lovebird fromt, all are doing well. Aeyu (female Dutch Blue Creamino) and Shadow (Olive) have three chicks (oldest will be 3 weeks old on Wednesday). I am excited for these chicks, as they will all have one dark factor (so will be Jades), all will be split for blue, and all the males will be split for Ino. SO many possible matches for future pairings... :D
Obi is STILL wearing his sattelite dish because he is STILL plucking if given the opportunity (nothing physically wrong, he just wants to be bald, it seems). This is becoming especially frustrating, as Anna is now sitting on 3 confirmed fertile eggs and 1 unconfirmed egg, the last egg having been laid on the morning of 1/20. Once those chicks hatch and age a few weeks, he is going to want to feed them, and he cannot get into his nestbox with his e-collar on his neck, To that end, he has started working on the hole of the nestbox, working on it every day and trying to enlarge it so that he can get inside while wearing his collar. It would be kind of funny if he weren't so pathetically anxious about the whole thing. It got so bad that I had to seperate them on days that Anna was due to lay because on her first egg, Obi blocked Anna from getting into her nest with his body and just would not let her inside - and it caused her to drop her egg outside her nestbox from the exertions, which resulted in a shattered Opaline egg on the bottom of the cage. I wasn't so worried about it at the time, thinking there was NO WAY she could have fertile eggs because of the mechanics that would be needed for them to sucessfully couple with Obi wearing his collar, but just for Anna's mental and physical well-being I decided Obi needed seperate quarters on egg-laying days - which was even MORE dramatic, as the two mates called back and forth to each other all day long until the egg was laid.
Anyway, while Anna and Aeyu took to the nest, none of the other couples have, so I guess I can be thankful for thet. Roxie and Skie have shown no signs of wanting to have another clutch, although Roxie DID desperately want a nestbox when she saw Anna getting one. I'll try to get pics of everyone posted to the website as soon as possible.
Catch you all later -
Eric