Starwing
Member
Hi everyone!
It's been quite a while since I updated on Kobus the
!
I promised that the next time I would post something it would be of
the playstand I was building for her at the time. It is done, and I will
post a pic of that along to make good on that promise! But...
... I still have some minor health concerns over my green little dragon.
When I last posted, I was going to switch over from seeds to Harisson
Pellets, and I can finally say that that has been a complete success.
It took some gradual "kidding her into getting some of the crumbs in her"
until she actually started eating the pellets themselves as her main dish,
but I can finally say her main diet now consists of pellets.
We still feed her plenty of fresh veggies every now and again, mostly
slices of carrot, pieces of cornflower, brocolli and the such.
We also tried to tone down the amount of fruits she gets to eat, because
she really likes them, but I know now that veggies > fruit.
I am going to have an appointment with an actual avian doctor between
now and some time (I haven't had a reply from their office yet) to check
Kobus on all diseases, check her feces under the mic, and have her (or his
) gender pinpointed by DNA. I feel I will be so much happier when everything is actually OK....
Kobus has been moulting for a while now, and her moult seems to have stopped among her large feathers, now mostly her small facial contour feathers and her belly.
I find a lot of these little facial feathers from her absolute forecrown (just above the nose) recently, and today I found one that seemed a bit odd to me. I now kind of know how bloodfeathers turn into "mature" feathers and how you can tell them apart by the color (dark/red vs white), and this tiny little blue feather seemed to have a dark black/red shaft. It's an absolutely tiny feather, and I haven't ever found large feathers like that, so I'm sure it's not as scary as I now presume it to potentially be, but I'll post a pic of it here:
Floppy for scale!
Close up of the same feather:
My girlfriend made an accidental close up of her that was really really sharp, so I'll post it here too. The little "plumes" on her forehead show really good here.
Her beak seems kind of flaky on this picture too, but I try not to worry too much about that, since I know I'm feeding her the best/healthiest I can...
I am, nevertheless, going to have an appointment with an avian vet sooner than later rather, so I'll share my concerns with her as well, but what do you guys think? Does everything still look "normal" to you?
NOW to make good on my promise!!!
(No really, I hate to break a promise)
The entire platform. We call it the "ship mast" since that is what I originally had in mind when thinking of it (anyone who ever played Donkey Kong Country will know)
I can has food here too??
Everything is connected to eachother by wooden plugs, and every piece of metal that I had to use for toys and stuff is stainless steel. No zinc poisoning for our pretty girl!
It's been quite a while since I updated on Kobus the
!I promised that the next time I would post something it would be of
the playstand I was building for her at the time. It is done, and I will
post a pic of that along to make good on that promise! But...
... I still have some minor health concerns over my green little dragon.
When I last posted, I was going to switch over from seeds to Harisson
Pellets, and I can finally say that that has been a complete success.
It took some gradual "kidding her into getting some of the crumbs in her"
until she actually started eating the pellets themselves as her main dish,
but I can finally say her main diet now consists of pellets.
We still feed her plenty of fresh veggies every now and again, mostly
slices of carrot, pieces of cornflower, brocolli and the such.
We also tried to tone down the amount of fruits she gets to eat, because
she really likes them, but I know now that veggies > fruit.
I am going to have an appointment with an actual avian doctor between
now and some time (I haven't had a reply from their office yet) to check
Kobus on all diseases, check her feces under the mic, and have her (or his
) gender pinpointed by DNA. I feel I will be so much happier when everything is actually OK....Kobus has been moulting for a while now, and her moult seems to have stopped among her large feathers, now mostly her small facial contour feathers and her belly.
I find a lot of these little facial feathers from her absolute forecrown (just above the nose) recently, and today I found one that seemed a bit odd to me. I now kind of know how bloodfeathers turn into "mature" feathers and how you can tell them apart by the color (dark/red vs white), and this tiny little blue feather seemed to have a dark black/red shaft. It's an absolutely tiny feather, and I haven't ever found large feathers like that, so I'm sure it's not as scary as I now presume it to potentially be, but I'll post a pic of it here:
Floppy for scale!
Close up of the same feather:
My girlfriend made an accidental close up of her that was really really sharp, so I'll post it here too. The little "plumes" on her forehead show really good here.
Her beak seems kind of flaky on this picture too, but I try not to worry too much about that, since I know I'm feeding her the best/healthiest I can...
I am, nevertheless, going to have an appointment with an avian vet sooner than later rather, so I'll share my concerns with her as well, but what do you guys think? Does everything still look "normal" to you?
NOW to make good on my promise!!!
(No really, I hate to break a promise
)The entire platform. We call it the "ship mast" since that is what I originally had in mind when thinking of it (anyone who ever played Donkey Kong Country will know
)
I can has food here too??
Everything is connected to eachother by wooden plugs, and every piece of metal that I had to use for toys and stuff is stainless steel. No zinc poisoning for our pretty girl!
