Paulh29 0 Posted July 24, 2006 Member ID: 2,365 Group: Site Members Followers: 0 Topic Count: 52 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 374 Content Per Day: 0.02 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 2,845 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 29/05/06 Status: Offline Last Seen: December 4, 2009 Birthday: 29/10/1955 Share Posted July 24, 2006 (edited) Hi people, I got an email from a friend today about their friend that lives in Merriden WA, it's a country town about 5 hours east of Perth. She loves budgies and apparently does well with breeding. Below is a copy the email. We took our grandies back to Perth Saturday and had a phone call early Sunday morning to say someone had broken into our aviary and breeding room. I have lost 90 percent of my stock including breeding pairs and fledged chicks. They left the under a week old chicks to die. Be warned....even locks can be taken off. The person/persons levered the hoop that holds the latch back on the aviary, put a garden fork against the door, out went the birds what the cats didnt get including the quails. The breeding room....the took the whole bolt off the door with a screwdriver as they couldnt unlock the lock....that is missing. I have wonderful neighbours who called the police.....they cleaned up the dead chicks, buried them along with the cold eggs. None of the equipment was taken. At this point in time I just dont want to start up again, I cant afford to anyway. 70 adults and over 130 rung chicks went and about 30 more unfeathered chicks. The vet took some that were left in the nest box and is hand feeding them and will bring them to me today to feed them. Edited July 24, 2006 by Paulh29 Link to comment
Guest Lin Posted July 24, 2006 Share Posted July 24, 2006 How absolutely devastating! Those poor people, losing all their birds. I can understand why they feel they don't want to start again, but I hope they do - just to show the animals that did this that they can't win! Link to comment
**KAZ** 0 Posted July 24, 2006 Member ID: 1,976 Group: Site Members Followers: 2 Topic Count: 521 Topics Per Day: 0.03 Content Count: 25,294 Content Per Day: 1.27 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 152,977 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 24/01/06 Status: Offline Last Seen: January 6, 2015 Birthday: 07/01/1956 Share Posted July 24, 2006 What mongrels !! I hope all petshops have been informed that cheap birds might be doing the rounds. But chances are someone will be using these birds to start what they think is a small business. Would have to be someone who knows what was there or has been on the premises before. Makes you not want to trust anyone ever again. Link to comment
Riebie 0 Posted July 24, 2006 Member ID: 2,060 Group: Site Members Followers: 0 Topic Count: 88 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 861 Content Per Day: 0.04 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 6,195 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 19/02/06 Status: Offline Last Seen: January 10, 2012 Birthday: 25/07/1978 Share Posted July 24, 2006 Utterly speechless... Link to comment
Shawna 0 Posted July 24, 2006 Member ID: 1,917 Group: Site Members Followers: 0 Topic Count: 129 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 1,431 Content Per Day: 0.22 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 10,905 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 07/01/06 Status: Offline Last Seen: March 5, 2010 Birthday: 11/12/1968 Share Posted July 24, 2006 If the chicks are "rung" couldn't they be traced if they showed up in petsores, etc. I know I'm being optimistic but perhaps petstores could be alerted to watch for the numbers on the rings???? Link to comment
Guest Phoebe Posted July 24, 2006 Share Posted July 24, 2006 (edited) Disgusting, so sorry this had to happen to them. Edited July 24, 2006 by Phoebe Link to comment
Cheeky 0 Posted July 24, 2006 Member ID: 1,796 Group: Site Members Followers: 0 Topic Count: 63 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 894 Content Per Day: 0.05 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 6,145 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 27/11/05 Status: Offline Last Seen: January 4, 2018 Birthday: 04/04/1978 Share Posted July 24, 2006 oh my goodness thats absolutely awful! poor people! Link to comment
hath 0 Posted July 24, 2006 Member ID: 70 Group: Site Members Followers: 0 Topic Count: 25 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 847 Content Per Day: 0.04 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 6,535 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 25/10/03 Status: Offline Last Seen: January 30, 2020 Birthday: 30/09/1969 Share Posted July 24, 2006 exactly the same happened to me i know exactly how they feel Link to comment
Zebra 0 Posted July 24, 2006 Member ID: 1,938 Group: Site Members Followers: 0 Topic Count: 70 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 1,201 Content Per Day: 0.06 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 8,740 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 13/01/06 Status: Offline Last Seen: May 16, 2015 Share Posted July 24, 2006 That's horrible How can someone do this !!! I hope the police will chatches them Link to comment
*Nerwen* 0 Posted July 25, 2006 Member ID: 5,064 Group: Site Members Followers: 0 Topic Count: 121 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 5,817 Content Per Day: 0.29 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 39,375 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 14/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: July 18, 2014 Birthday: 20/02/1982 Share Posted July 25, 2006 I'm so sorry to hear this :ausb: The poor birds. I to wonder if the pet shops could be warned about sale of stolen birds, but it sounds to me they just let the birds fly free. I would still put up info about the ring numbers some could be found by people later. Link to comment
Daz 0 Posted July 25, 2006 Member ID: 4,838 Group: Site Members Followers: 0 Topic Count: 247 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 4,882 Content Per Day: 0.25 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 36,650 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 19/11/08 Status: Offline Last Seen: July 2, 2022 Birthday: 02/02/1964 Share Posted July 25, 2006 exactly the same happened to me i know exactly how they feel I was thinking of you when I read this Hath. :ausb: Link to comment
Paulh29 0 Posted July 25, 2006 Member ID: 2,365 Group: Site Members Followers: 0 Topic Count: 52 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 374 Content Per Day: 0.02 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 2,845 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 29/05/06 Status: Offline Last Seen: December 4, 2009 Birthday: 29/10/1955 Author Share Posted July 25, 2006 (edited) This is the latest email on this sick ordeal Things are looking up as I post this topic. They say when you fall off a bike, get back on again. So I did. I cleaned oout all the cabinets, washed everything , checked what birds were left and put some pairs down to breed. I have 8 pairs. The local vet is a budgie breeder too and she rescued some chicks and hand fed them yesterday and showed me today what to do. Now Im a mother again said my husband. The MBC I believe are rallying around and giving me some birds. The most upsetting thing Paul is the way someone let the helpless newly hatched chicks die. I believe now after talking to my neighbour that someone has deliberately let them out. Cheers Paul Edit: Topics Merged Edited July 25, 2006 by daz Link to comment
Boris' Slave 0 Posted August 6, 2006 Member ID: 2,138 Group: Site Members Followers: 0 Topic Count: 164 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 1,481 Content Per Day: 0.07 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 13,140 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 14/03/06 Status: Offline Last Seen: October 12, 2011 Birthday: 10/02/1973 Share Posted August 6, 2006 Just now read this. :sad: How very upsetting. How can anyone with such low intelligence survive? People with brains would never contemplate doing that. Link to comment
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