Elly

It get to around 20F to 35 F during the winter time, it was probably around that when it was snowing, yes she has lost her mask more and more with every blowout, if I had my other pics on digital I would show you her puppy pics looked just like yours, maybe I will hook the scanner up and scan them in my spare time .

thank you Kaz, she is a beauty at her age, she will be 14 on Dec 26th

thanks Kaz, I will I need to upload more now heheh

thank you all , I know what winter is like so I can understand wanting to be warm again as we always get snow snow and more snow...:sad: Here are more pics. tortiose at the Alligator Adventure, I thought he was SO cool and animated Bob the alligator with no tail, he was born like this, so they kept them there because he can't swim well and would die in the wild they had some HUGE alligators there, they have 2 Albinos on loan from China, and 10 from the Philliphines the zoo keeper said rainbow reef at the aquarium I love this picture it is the underside of a sawfish alien like huh my son picking up (omg my mind is blank those things lol) they are living fossils if you can help me out my husband and the 2 kids parasailing they had a BLAST the view from our hotel

congats, make sure the spacing on the bars is less then 1/2in and you are in business

OMG Jenene, I am so sorry, I wish I could give you a real hug but here is a BIG VIRTUAL HUG

throwback she is beautiful, isn't it amazing how their faces start to thin, I hope she keeps her mask, Niketa had a nice one just like that and started to loose it over time, Niketa loves to run through the rivers too but she is not much of a swimmer just a runner and she loves to run in circles in the water and dunk her head, during the summer we had a pool just for her , she will be blowing her coat soon that I don't look forward to.

your getting there, the ones you are thinning out just send them packing my way

ahhh that is horrible, you know I do things like that too so and it ticks me off to the extreme the chick you posted is beautiful

here is hoping all is going well!! (((hugs)))

Kaz did, she still has one Steele is his name.

microchipping is optional here but I think it needs to be done more often, the only thing is if you don't register their microchip then it is worthless, they will be running around soon surgeries never seem to get animals down like they do humans.

ah....okay, need more coffee this morning, good question to ask the vet

I believe if you go to uni or not life always comes full of questions of worth and more, you are doing great, let us know how you do on your exam I have no doubt you will ACE it.

fingers crossed an answer is found

busy busy busy....

yep, I agree a hen also now, as for Kaz's comment she is entirely correct .

if she has it do you think she should be raising a clutch, would that not to be too stressful if she is already sick?

well I am going to take a stab and say female and this is why, I remember a chick that Kaz showed me that had a really pink cere but it was flat and not smooth with the bulbous look around the nostrils and I swore it was a cock until she showed me the hen grown up and it was a female, but I could be wrong because it looks male to m at first glance.

omg if we had cutest babu of the month he would be a shoo in he is a doll, i love his smiling eyes and you look great

they are absolutely gorgeous, if I lived closer I would steal them both

absolutely stunning all of them are

it is odd behavior and I think he was traumatized to be honest, I left Merlin left for 8 days and he was completely okay with our pet sitter and I instructed her not to let him out and put her hands in the cage since she is not bird knowledgable. Birds start to mature and molt at 4-6 months old if it was related to this behavior you would have seen it already because he should have molted at least 2x by now so I don't know if that could be it. If it is I suggest that you make sure his cage is covered at least for 14hrs a day with darkness for the next week that will throw them back into a non-hormonal stage, make sure you don't have his cage next to running water such as a fish tank etc... Are you seeing an Avian Vet? or a regular vet that does make a difference too as avian vets are much more knowledgable because this is their field.

MB it sounds familar but it is so common to have the question come up more then 2x in a day or week that I don't always put it together and I am sure I said the same thing there too and I remember writing this 2x now.

One thing to remember also is budgies will bounce back after a friend loss. I know this first hand as Pretty died suddenly a year ago and left Merlin to himself. I never got another budgie and here is what I observed. Merlin was very quiet the first couple months but ACTIVE, he sang, ate, drank took bathes and started to warm up to me. Budgies will be quiet, yes they will call but a budgie that looks depressed where they are inactive, not eating or drinking or responding to you may be a SICK budgie not a stressed budgie, they do move on and they don't sit depressed like humans to, we have to remember that we can not put human feeling on an animal. They do live in the now, they move on very quickly and many a times it is best to bond with your single budgie for a couple months and then decide. It has been a over a year now and Merlin is simply an awesome budgie, he is not over affectionate, but he loves to sit on my keyboard, my shoulder and preen my hair, he talks now and he is not lonely.