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This is the
Resting Room,
as Jo calls it.
Resting means we just had a clutch of babies and were put in this room to
recondition and get our bodies back to normal and ready for more clutches.
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Jo only likes us to breed every 5 or 6 months.
Some of us give her a hard time and try every which way possible to breed
before our time, but she keeps changing our homes around or taking away our
happy huts to try and make us
forget. To make matters worse,
she keeps close watch and if she sees us wives building on the bottom of
the cage or us Dads regurating to Mom, presto - - Our homes are remodeled.
Then
there's this room that us guys like to call our version
of the HAPPY HUT.
This
is where we all come to have
babies. Jo keeps our Hut really
quiet, she’s the only one we see when we are in here mostly.
Jo, she’s really considerate – she knows we like piece and quiet and
no disturbances when we are taking care of our eggs and babies.
We always get fed good when
we are resting, but in here we really get the royal treatment.
We would appreciate more seeds, but she is still pretty stingy with
these, until our chicks hatch. Then
we get a little dish at supper every night.
She keeps a close watch over the heat and humidity in our Hut, for our
eggs and babies. She
doesn’t let the humidity go any lower than 50%, usually she like it
higher. If she notices the humidity has been lower than she likes it, she
will mist our eggs for us. Normally
us wives will lay anyway from
5 to 8 eggs for her. Most
of us are just like clockwork (both us lineolated and lovebirds too), 23 days later, the eggs start
pipping and popping. We
only have our babies for 12 days or so, as then she takes them and feeds them
for us. Most us are not scared of her, as when we are in the Resting Room, we
let her hand feed us seed and the odd few of us lovebirds
she lets escape and stay out for a new minutes, so we know Jo will take
good care of our babies for us. Our
room is nice, all windows with 8 foot ceilings.
But Jo’s living room has 19 foot ceilings with a hot wood stove, so she
never lets us stay out too long so we won’t escape, by choice or by accident,
into that part of the house.
| NURSERY:
So the first thing us babies see in the Nursery when
we open our eyes, is JO. Boy, is
our Mom ever big! We are just
little farts!! Well she keeps us
nice and warm and we get fed really often, about 5 times a day. Unless for some
reason, she has had to pull babies really young (5 days).
She dosen’t like pulling that young, but if she has too, she feeds the
little guy every two hours. Our Nursery is upstairs in a Room of our very
own, far away from the stove and big windows. This way we
can romp and roam around (with supervision of course) as much as
we want. She usually maintains the temperature in this room
around 25-30 deg.C., depending on the age of us. |
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She really keeps a close watch on our heat and humidity levels too.
Usually when we are about 8
- 12 days old, she puts this closed metal band on our right leg.
I guess that tells our new Moms and Dads where we came from. I hear she even has them engraved with TRA (Tiny
Rascals Aviary). As we get older, she really keeps a close
watch on our weight as we get moved from the Brooder, over to the Big Guy Condos.
She starts
putting bits of food, cereals and pellets and broccoli and stuff on the bottom
of our cages. She even trusts us
with a bit of water. We don’t
make her feed us as much now, she’s had enough, and we start to pick at the
big bird food.
She weights us morning and
night and takes us out a lot
during the day for short plays. Some
of us are stubborn and make her feed us right till we are 8, 9, some of us even
10 weeks, but she doesn’t give up on us and keeps feeding us as long as we
want is. Eventually we give in and eat all our pellets and cereals and veggies
and stuff. She won’t let us go to
new homes till we can maintain our weight for at least 3 or 4 days.
Our Jo, she is so fussy. Only
after we can maintain our ideal weight, which varies between all the different
species of us, do we learn what seeds are all about and man are they good!!
We all get to roam around on this big warm blanket when we are just wee
farts and at Christmas some
guys got their picture took with
Santa. Jo and Lou,
they love taking our pictures. If
you like they will e-mail you pictures upon request.
We also got this play gym we
like a lot. We
like to play out of our Condos and the older we get, the longer we get to stay out
and play. As soon as we
let on to Jo that we can fly pretty good, she clips some of our flight feathers.
We can still fly around “our” Nursery, but Jo don’t want us escaping
up into the rafters in that big room. They
have a monster fan in that room and we could end up in a big accident.
See, with some of our flights clipped, we can’t really fly to good
“up”, just “down” or across. This
is sorta something like clipping our toe nails, we would only recommend the
experienced Mom or Dad clip us.
Usually we only stay with Jo and Lou till we’re 8 or 9 weeks old, then
we go to our new Mom and Dad’s home. This
is what Jo has been preparing us for.
A lot of people Jo sells one of us to, come back and see
her again in 5 or 6 months to get
us a friend. We both still love our new
Mom and Dads but we love each other too and now we have someone to play with all
day if our Mom and Dads are working. We even stay really friendly to our Moms and Dads when we
grow up and have our own babies. If
you want, Jo has this Available Babies page, on our Web Site and you can e-mail
or call or and reserve one of us.
If you want to talk to Jo she really loves to talk to everyone about us.
To BE Continued............................
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