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12/19/2006 Merry Christmas Everyone!Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
Well, 2006 is on its way out & we will be ushering in a new year shortly.
Hopefully, everyone will get what they want for Christmas. Let's see, do I have a
wish list? Nope. I've been too busy with my critters to even think about Christmas
this year. If I were more organized, maybe having a houseful of birds wouldn't
be such a big deal. But, alas, I'm not as efficient as I'd like to be. Sometimes I
walk into a room & forget why I entered it. So I end up taking extra steps to do
something which should've been done earlier. Maybe I can make a New Year's
resolution to get more efficient... Hmmmm...
This year has come and gone so fast. The family keeps growing. Vicki now has 3 grandchildren, Kelli has one, and I have 15 fids (feathered kids). My last addition to the family was 5 tiels. One lives in a hospital cage on his own because he's about 21 years old, and is somewhat crippled. When he falls off his perch he ends up on his side & can't right himself to a standing position. I call this a "gyroscope" problem, but I think the medical terminology would be more like "post CVA" or "stroke." The other 4 share a Tiki cage, a large square cage 108 inches in circumference that has a homemade playpen on top of it.
There's one mated pair and two single females in it. I call them Eenie, Meenie, Minka & Moe. I've never had cockatiels before & have found that they are gentle, sweet, and adorable birds to interact with. Plus, they're quiet by far, compared to the conures. All of them share my living room with me. The only problem associated with having them is that they produce a lot of powdery dander, and they poop everywhere. However, the pluses way outnumber the minuses in their case.
I've also found that tiels startle easily. Jack, my neighbor, knocked on the door this afternoon & right afterwards I heard a fluttering of wings, then a thud. The fluttering was the wings of 3 of the tiels; the thud was one tiel doing a crash landing on the opposing wall. So, in order to keep them safe, I'm going to have to trim their wings really short so that they can't fly.
The conures & Tuxie, the Senegal parrot, are all doing wonderful in the glass room. I wheeled 4 cages of birds outside yesterday & hosed them down. Then, today I cleaned 4 more. Now I have just one more cage to do, that of the tiels, tomorrow. Oh, the work is never finished!
Cheers, Cindi. TrackbacksThe trackback URL for this entry is: http://cynthus850.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!F962585D80372CC7!591.trak Weblogs that reference this entry
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