bug_n_flock
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- Jan 2, 2018
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- Parrots
- B&G Macaw, Galah, 5 cockatiels, 50 billion and a half budgies. We breed and do rescue. Too many to list each individual's name and age etc, but they are each individuals and loved dearly.
Hi.
It has been a while since I posted here. Partly because of how busy we have been, and partly because I knew the next post I had to make, and I couldn't face it.
Fatty is dead.
I've never had so much avian tragedy hit me all so quickly, and I kind of hid from you guys. I'm sorry. After losing Pistol to lose Fatty too was just too much, and I kind of shut down for a bit.
Remember my plans for a bird farm? That is part of what did Fatty in. We were out of town looking at properties and my cat broke into his cage. I came home, heard Alex calling and assumed all was well. I went upstairs and saw Fatty's cage door sitting wide open and I just knew he wasn't ok.
Charlie had eaten his head, but I was able to recover the rest of him to bury.
And then a while later, just, *just* when I had gotten to the point that I could think about Fatty & Pistol without getting sad, my mom's landlord unplugged and emptyed my running and full freezer. It was a "misunderstanding" on her end she says, but who in their right mind thinks a full and running freezer is garbage?? My mom had asked the landlord to have her helper move the freezer out from the wall, and they moved it out for trash pickup. It had dog food, feeder rats etc for my snake, meat from my aunts farm, and animals to be taxidermied in addition to my precious Crayon, Pistol, and Fatty's bodies. I was completely destroyed, and there will be a lawsuit just as soon as I can bring myself to write up a list of what all was in the freezer.
We dug thru garbage in the middle of the night thru me sobbing my heart out, and we managed to find Fatty and Crayon. We never found Pistol. I was planning to bring my freezer to the farm on the next trip and bury my beloved birds. They deserved so, so much better than this and any time I think about it it tears me up anew.
The cage that Charlie nabbed Fatty out of, it only needed a small clip or something, and he would still be alive. I miss him so much. When I think about it, it is like it happened only just recently and I start crying again. Though, even the freezer incident was a few months ago now.
I do also have good news, though. We closed on a 60+/- acre property on September 15, and moved here roughly a month later. My man proposed to me shortly after closing on the property, and we are planning a wedding. And there is plenty of new life here, tho there will never be another Pistol with her puckish shenanigans or another Fatty Dingdong.
We have goats now. 9 of them. Also turkeys, chickens, quail, a mini donkey, rabbits, and we got some more budgies, and we are breeding them now. The first clutch is just fledging now. We left them as parent raised for the psychological and health benefits, but have been socializing them extensively. They are very sweet, cute little things, and they are a great solace.
My precious Alex bird is staying with my mom while we do a few rennovations that are too high risk for him to be around, and I miss him terribly. Going to fly back in a week ish for a visit with my mom and with him, and I am so excited!
I'm sorry I got so quiet here, and ran away from telling you guys what happened. It was more than I could handle, and I just needed a little bit of time.
I look forward to getting into more detail about how my life is now a bit later, and I look forward to chatting with you guys again and "seeing familiar faces" here again..
Here is 3 of the babies. The fourth has splay leg and does not photograph well. We have been taping his legs with sensitive skin medical tape, but do not have high hopes she will have normal legs as an adult. We likely will keep her for her entire life.
Bug
It has been a while since I posted here. Partly because of how busy we have been, and partly because I knew the next post I had to make, and I couldn't face it.
Fatty is dead.
I've never had so much avian tragedy hit me all so quickly, and I kind of hid from you guys. I'm sorry. After losing Pistol to lose Fatty too was just too much, and I kind of shut down for a bit.
Remember my plans for a bird farm? That is part of what did Fatty in. We were out of town looking at properties and my cat broke into his cage. I came home, heard Alex calling and assumed all was well. I went upstairs and saw Fatty's cage door sitting wide open and I just knew he wasn't ok.
Charlie had eaten his head, but I was able to recover the rest of him to bury.
And then a while later, just, *just* when I had gotten to the point that I could think about Fatty & Pistol without getting sad, my mom's landlord unplugged and emptyed my running and full freezer. It was a "misunderstanding" on her end she says, but who in their right mind thinks a full and running freezer is garbage?? My mom had asked the landlord to have her helper move the freezer out from the wall, and they moved it out for trash pickup. It had dog food, feeder rats etc for my snake, meat from my aunts farm, and animals to be taxidermied in addition to my precious Crayon, Pistol, and Fatty's bodies. I was completely destroyed, and there will be a lawsuit just as soon as I can bring myself to write up a list of what all was in the freezer.
We dug thru garbage in the middle of the night thru me sobbing my heart out, and we managed to find Fatty and Crayon. We never found Pistol. I was planning to bring my freezer to the farm on the next trip and bury my beloved birds. They deserved so, so much better than this and any time I think about it it tears me up anew.
The cage that Charlie nabbed Fatty out of, it only needed a small clip or something, and he would still be alive. I miss him so much. When I think about it, it is like it happened only just recently and I start crying again. Though, even the freezer incident was a few months ago now.
I do also have good news, though. We closed on a 60+/- acre property on September 15, and moved here roughly a month later. My man proposed to me shortly after closing on the property, and we are planning a wedding. And there is plenty of new life here, tho there will never be another Pistol with her puckish shenanigans or another Fatty Dingdong.
We have goats now. 9 of them. Also turkeys, chickens, quail, a mini donkey, rabbits, and we got some more budgies, and we are breeding them now. The first clutch is just fledging now. We left them as parent raised for the psychological and health benefits, but have been socializing them extensively. They are very sweet, cute little things, and they are a great solace.
My precious Alex bird is staying with my mom while we do a few rennovations that are too high risk for him to be around, and I miss him terribly. Going to fly back in a week ish for a visit with my mom and with him, and I am so excited!
I'm sorry I got so quiet here, and ran away from telling you guys what happened. It was more than I could handle, and I just needed a little bit of time.
I look forward to getting into more detail about how my life is now a bit later, and I look forward to chatting with you guys again and "seeing familiar faces" here again..
Here is 3 of the babies. The fourth has splay leg and does not photograph well. We have been taping his legs with sensitive skin medical tape, but do not have high hopes she will have normal legs as an adult. We likely will keep her for her entire life.
Bug
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I love that they are parent raised! Have you figured out if the splay leg is genetic, nutritional, or too little bedding? Those budgie hens can be o determined to get rid of it all!
