RandomGemini
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Nice to meet everyone! I’m not terribly new to bird keeping, but am new to parakeets and suddenly, I have four of them. LOL!
My original mated pair are George and Grace. Purchased from a local bird store who rescued them about a year ago. I was told they are a mated pair, and have successfully had a clutch of babies with their previous owner. George and Grace are around two years old and I cannot get these two to touch me except for George touching his beak to my nose through the cage bars. Grace will feed from my hands, but does not like to be handled and allows it only for millet. I’m working on it, a few minutes at a time, several times a day, but it is slow going. I did not plan to add to my flock until these two were hand tame.
And then the other day, my daughter found two parakeets flying around her patio of her apartment building. She has four parakeets and they are incredibly vocal and sing all the time and I think that is what attracted these two birds. We have been to the avian vet with them and are keeping them isolated while we search for their owners, but I have been told by local bird fanciers that a lot of people let parakeets go at this time of year. And we have had no legitimate owners come forward at all. The local pet store that the birds came from (we were able to trace that through the bird mill they birds were bred at) does not keep records of sales by band number. I will keep looking. Until then, I have Neo and Trinity (who may end up being a male, at which point, we’ll start calling him Morpheus.)
Lots to learn here. Never had this many birds at once before. I usually keep two at a time.
Looking forward to getting to know you all!
RandomGemini
My original mated pair are George and Grace. Purchased from a local bird store who rescued them about a year ago. I was told they are a mated pair, and have successfully had a clutch of babies with their previous owner. George and Grace are around two years old and I cannot get these two to touch me except for George touching his beak to my nose through the cage bars. Grace will feed from my hands, but does not like to be handled and allows it only for millet. I’m working on it, a few minutes at a time, several times a day, but it is slow going. I did not plan to add to my flock until these two were hand tame.
And then the other day, my daughter found two parakeets flying around her patio of her apartment building. She has four parakeets and they are incredibly vocal and sing all the time and I think that is what attracted these two birds. We have been to the avian vet with them and are keeping them isolated while we search for their owners, but I have been told by local bird fanciers that a lot of people let parakeets go at this time of year. And we have had no legitimate owners come forward at all. The local pet store that the birds came from (we were able to trace that through the bird mill they birds were bred at) does not keep records of sales by band number. I will keep looking. Until then, I have Neo and Trinity (who may end up being a male, at which point, we’ll start calling him Morpheus.)
Lots to learn here. Never had this many birds at once before. I usually keep two at a time.
Looking forward to getting to know you all!
RandomGemini
