thk 0 Posted April 11, 2009 Member ID: 3,445 Group: Site Members Followers: 0 Topic Count: 55 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 400 Content Per Day: 0.02 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 2,730 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 29/05/07 Status: Offline Last Seen: July 18, 2010 Birthday: 17/08/1948 Share Posted April 11, 2009 I've often wondered why.. ....... :rofl: ..... Maxie, my rather unsociable girl, insists on hanging upside down to eat out of the seed bowl. :doh: She has been doing this since I got her almost 2 years ago. She has one of the normal white seed dishes with cover that hangs from the side of the cage, it has a little "sit" bar for them to sit on and eat. However she hangs from the wire side of the cage, above the seed dish, upside down, dipping her head in the dish to eat. :hmm: Its a wonder the seed goes down (up??) to her tummy and doesnt just roll back out of her nose!! :rofl: Anyone else have budgies with strange eating habits??? Link to comment
Pearce 0 Posted April 11, 2009 Member ID: 4,449 Group: Site Members Followers: 0 Topic Count: 123 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 2,475 Content Per Day: 0.12 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 14,280 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 18/06/08 Status: Offline Last Seen: February 7, 2011 Birthday: 21/04/1991 Share Posted April 11, 2009 I've never seen it in my life but it would be funny to see. I guess she likes to be different:D Link to comment
Dezdemona 0 Posted April 11, 2009 Member ID: 4,785 Group: Site Members Followers: 0 Topic Count: 5 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 124 Content Per Day: 0.01 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 670 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 31/10/08 Status: Offline Last Seen: April 11, 2012 Share Posted April 11, 2009 It sounds very cute! I would love to see a picture Link to comment
Elly 0 Posted April 11, 2009 Member ID: 1,641 Group: Site Members Followers: 0 Topic Count: 414 Topics Per Day: 0.06 Content Count: 15,350 Content Per Day: 2.23 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 99,335 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 05/10/05 Status: Offline Last Seen: January 1, 2012 Share Posted April 11, 2009 I would love to see a picture of this I have never seen it either, if she could talk you could ask her but since she can't we will have to assume it is a lovely way to eat Link to comment
thk 0 Posted April 13, 2009 Member ID: 3,445 Group: Site Members Followers: 0 Topic Count: 55 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 400 Content Per Day: 0.02 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 2,730 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 29/05/07 Status: Offline Last Seen: July 18, 2010 Birthday: 17/08/1948 Author Share Posted April 13, 2009 Wasnt easy but I finally managed to get a photo of Maxie's upside down mealtime! Not a very good photo but she is very unsociable and if she thinks I'm near she quickly races back to her perch in "attack mode'!!!! I managed to pretend I was busy in the kitchen when I kind of snuck up on her... here she is... Link to comment
deb 0 Posted April 13, 2009 Member ID: 3,867 Group: Site Members Followers: 0 Topic Count: 198 Topics Per Day: 0.03 Content Count: 1,737 Content Per Day: 0.28 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 11,910 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 01/12/07 Status: Offline Last Seen: March 23, 2011 Birthday: 25/09/1970 Share Posted April 13, 2009 It is a weird way to eat but it must be comfortable for her or she would not do it. It is a cute picture. Link to comment
krosp 0 Posted April 13, 2009 Member ID: 4,621 Group: Site Members Followers: 0 Topic Count: 95 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 777 Content Per Day: 0.04 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 4,955 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 28/08/08 Status: Offline Last Seen: March 10, 2012 Share Posted April 13, 2009 Ahahaha I love it Cosmo's only weird eating habit (that i can think of) is that he has a dish like that too, and whenever he is finished eating, all these oat hulls are sitting on the lid of the dish. Somehow he must pick them up and eat them outside the dish, but for every other type of seed, the husks are on the inside of the dish. Link to comment
maesie 0 Posted April 13, 2009 Member ID: 3,838 Group: Site Members Followers: 0 Topic Count: 120 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 4,386 Content Per Day: 0.22 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 27,580 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 18/11/07 Status: Offline Last Seen: June 27, 2013 Birthday: 20/04/1979 Share Posted April 13, 2009 :rofl: :rofl: That is just too funny!!! I guess if it was an issue you could always try giving her a dish without a lid and see if she does it... but that being said... I think it adds to her quirkiness... :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: Link to comment
thk 0 Posted April 13, 2009 Member ID: 3,445 Group: Site Members Followers: 0 Topic Count: 55 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 400 Content Per Day: 0.02 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 2,730 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 29/05/07 Status: Offline Last Seen: July 18, 2010 Birthday: 17/08/1948 Author Share Posted April 13, 2009 :rofl: :rofl: That is just too funny!!! I guess if it was an issue you could always try giving her a dish without a lid and see if she does it... but that being said... I think it adds to her quirkiness... :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: I wonder..... if there was no lid ..... would she fall in, ......kind of do a nose dive... ?? You're quite right, she does have a quirkiness,I have never been able to understand why she is so aggressive towards me.. so I guess I'll never understand why she eats upside down.. (probably.. because she can!!! :yes: ) Link to comment
Elly 0 Posted April 13, 2009 Member ID: 1,641 Group: Site Members Followers: 0 Topic Count: 414 Topics Per Day: 0.06 Content Count: 15,350 Content Per Day: 2.23 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 99,335 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 05/10/05 Status: Offline Last Seen: January 1, 2012 Share Posted April 13, 2009 awesome you got a picture that is way too cute Link to comment
Dezdemona 0 Posted April 13, 2009 Member ID: 4,785 Group: Site Members Followers: 0 Topic Count: 5 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 124 Content Per Day: 0.01 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 670 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 31/10/08 Status: Offline Last Seen: April 11, 2012 Share Posted April 13, 2009 ahahahaha what a cutie! Link to comment
Cory 0 Posted April 13, 2009 Member ID: 5,098 Group: Site Members Followers: 0 Topic Count: 56 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 293 Content Per Day: 0.01 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 2,030 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 27/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: May 16, 2011 Birthday: 23/04/1989 Share Posted April 13, 2009 (edited) That is very cute Edited April 13, 2009 by Cory Link to comment
krosp 0 Posted April 14, 2009 Member ID: 4,621 Group: Site Members Followers: 0 Topic Count: 95 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 777 Content Per Day: 0.04 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 4,955 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 28/08/08 Status: Offline Last Seen: March 10, 2012 Share Posted April 14, 2009 Ahahaha I love it Cosmo's only weird eating habit (that i can think of) is that he has a dish like that too, and whenever he is finished eating, all these oat hulls are sitting on the lid of the dish. Somehow he must pick them up and eat them outside the dish, but for every other type of seed, the husks are on the inside of the dish. Here, I got a photo of Cosmo's weird eating habit: It's nowhere near as funny as Maxie though! I think it's a good thing that I don't have Maxie- she would develop a complex because I would be laughing hysterically at her every time I saw her eating! Link to comment
splat 0 Posted April 14, 2009 Member ID: 3,340 Group: Site Members Followers: 0 Topic Count: 202 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 4,891 Content Per Day: 0.25 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 27,770 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 17/04/07 Status: Offline Last Seen: April 19, 2014 Birthday: 13/05/1958 Share Posted April 14, 2009 that's real funny Link to comment
CaspersRose 0 Posted April 14, 2009 Member ID: 2,008 Group: Site Members Followers: 0 Topic Count: 43 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 560 Content Per Day: 0.08 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 3,390 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 01/02/06 Status: Offline Last Seen: March 19, 2010 Birthday: 01/05/1981 Share Posted April 14, 2009 Ahahaha I love it Cosmo's only weird eating habit (that i can think of) is that he has a dish like that too, and whenever he is finished eating, all these oat hulls are sitting on the lid of the dish. Somehow he must pick them up and eat them outside the dish, but for every other type of seed, the husks are on the inside of the dish. Here, I got a photo of Cosmo's weird eating habit: It's nowhere near as funny as Maxie though! I think it's a good thing that I don't have Maxie- she would develop a complex because I would be laughing hysterically at her every time I saw her eating! Haha... Smokey is similar with his oats... I find that the corner of his cage below his seed bowl is always piled with his oat hulls... but not the husks of any of the other seeds! I wonder what it is about the oats? Link to comment
Momtobudgies 0 Posted October 5, 2020 Member ID: 9,265 Group: Site Members Followers: 0 Topic Count: 0 Topics Per Day: 0 Content Count: 1 Content Per Day: 0.00 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 5 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 05/10/20 Status: Offline Last Seen: March 13, 2021 Share Posted October 5, 2020 Haha this is cute. My female budgies Honey also does the same. Sometimes I find her holding both side of the cage and hanging her head upside down like huh? I came here to see if it is normal. I find it veru funny and cute but I was worried if she is stressed. Link to comment
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