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That's good to know about belach... i assume then that using it for cleaning cages and toys etc is fine as long as it is well rinsed too... any residue just evaporates and leaves salt behind. I will feel much more at ease when doing the "big clean" these days. I was always in two minds as bleach is such a good cleaner that it was the best option in that regard, but I was SO paranoid about getting all the bleach etc rinsed off as I thought any residue might harm the birdies!

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74 When do we find out if someone got the magic number... when they have posted it, or when we get to zero?

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before I found the box, I had considered a cotton sock!

I had wondered the same thing, but we have a set of electronic kitchen scales and I popped him on them and he just sat there!! It might have been a very lucky first attempt, I haven't tried again since, but I did have a little box ready and would have zeroed in the scales with the box sitting on them, then put Smokey in if plan A hadn't worked out so beautifully!

Yay!

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I was just wondering what others do about letting their birds' wings grow out. Smokey is as tame as I had hoped he would become (will let me pick him up, sits on my finger and shoulder etc) and I was thinking of letting him have a go at being wing-ed! I have been just clipping the new flights as they grow in, and am concerned that if I let them grow in he will have individual long feathers that might get caught on things (as with the concern re: clipping all but the outside flight feather) etc until the rest of them have grown in. Is it best to just trim these feathers so they're a bit shorter and don't get caught, or will it be okay just to let them all grow back individually in their own time? I was thinking of just gradually clipping fewer flights, so just the first 5-6 to begin with, the 4-5 and so on as they grow back.

Smokey has been with us for four months and he was a baby when we got him. He is a fairly small budgie (compared with previous budgies I've had) and I am wondering if it is just that he is genetically a little guy, or whether he should be bigger? I weighed him about a week ago and he weighed 35g. I can feel his little chest bone when I run my finger down his front, but it isn't visibly protruding or anything. I think he is a little on the skinny side, but he has a constant supply of seeds and water, and I have even added one of those millet munchie things (we call them birdy num nums... the block things with sultanas etc through them) to see if he'll fatten up a bit. He is VERY active and apparently happy, but I know budgies are the masters of disguise when it comes to their health. Is he just little, or should I do something to get a bit more weight on him? I am so used to having bigger, more solid budgies that I have no idea if he's just on the little side of normal.

If God didn't intend for you to make such decisions He wouldn't have provided you with the knowlegde or skills to do so... the little one was lucky to be in your hands and not those of someone who was ill equipped to manage the situation. Thats a very comforting way to look at the whole prospect. Thankyou :angel1: You're welcome

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If God didn't intend for you to make such decisions He wouldn't have provided you with the knowlegde or skills to do so... the little one was lucky to be in your hands and not those of someone who was ill equipped to manage the situation.

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Hehe... you could have a little feathered rugby team in that lot... they hold a pretty good scrum together! And they have the size advantage on their side too!

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I LOVE that bottom picture!

He's such a handsome budgie! Glad he's getting back to his old self!

Jailbird: "Prison denims just don't suit me! They're so faded and drab... I'm innocent, I tell ya! " Prison Guard: "Yes, well, that's what they all say!"

Hehe! Also I had a beautiful blue budgie called Casper!

Hehe... a bit like people and yawns! One starts, and everyone else is off as well!

a bit - just getting over tonsilitis and now just have a head cold. Have you managed to avoid the sniffles this winter?

I really doesn't seem that long ago. It happened over night for us, of course, and I remember getting up that morning to find my whole family in disbelief huddled around the TV. My Dad had got up during the night and turned his radio on because he couldn't sleep, and heard the reports of the first plane hitting the tower. So he got up and watched the TV all night and all morning, and saw all of what unfolded after that first plane in real time... Most Australians, I think, have only seen the most of it in replay because it happened overnight for us, but Dad says the feeling of disbelief and strange emptiness was so chilling seeing it happen in real time.

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