DonnaBudgie
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A roast beef sandwich and a can of Pepsi, the highlight of my day. Taking a break from Massive Bird Mess Cleaning Day. I have a large cage, 5 feet x 2 feet x 3 feet with a center plywood divider, on my adjacent enclosed porch. 8 budgies live in this cage- 4 girls on one side and 4 boys on the other because if they so much as see each other the girls will start laying eggs. This cage is very difficult to clean thoroughly so I mostly don't except for the cage paper every few days. The mess in the porch was getting to be pretty awful. Up until a couple months ago cleaning it was almost impossible because It needs to be cleaned outdoors with a pressure washer. There was no way to get the cage outside from the porch without carrying it through the living area up 5 steps, through the bedroom and out the back door. But we just built a large flat deck off the porch so I no longer had a good excuse for neglecting the horrid mess. Plus I have to take all the resident budgies out and put the boys and the girls into separate cages into order to clean the big cage. These budgies aren't tame so I need to net them to get them out and I hate doing that. Two of them bit me hard and wouldn't let go!
I'm halfway through with this cleaning project that makes me wish I didn't have birds. I've inhaled a huge amount of budgie dust which isn't any good for my asthma but it had to be done. The cage is outside being washed. The porch (which literally resembled the bottom of a bird cage) is clean and I'm waiting for my husband to finsh cleaning the cage so I can redecorate and put the birds back.
I'm exhausted. I was up most of the night thinking about how I was going to do this cleaning project. None of the budgies got to fly free today and they're not happy about it. Joey keeps throwing her food bowl onto the floor of her cage in protest. The bowl weighs about as much as she does and she doesn't even have arms!
I'm halfway through with this cleaning project that makes me wish I didn't have birds. I've inhaled a huge amount of budgie dust which isn't any good for my asthma but it had to be done. The cage is outside being washed. The porch (which literally resembled the bottom of a bird cage) is clean and I'm waiting for my husband to finsh cleaning the cage so I can redecorate and put the birds back.
I'm exhausted. I was up most of the night thinking about how I was going to do this cleaning project. None of the budgies got to fly free today and they're not happy about it. Joey keeps throwing her food bowl onto the floor of her cage in protest. The bowl weighs about as much as she does and she doesn't even have arms!
