Budgielover13

Here's hoping the shop assistant's hadn't noticed that the budgie's were suffering from scaly face and have since discovered the problem and have removed the birds for treatment :yes: . If this is the case maybe there're not as negligent as what was thought. :question:

Buying them may not be the anwser if you don't have adequate resources, yes it would be nice if we could all solve problems that easily but it's not always possible, but it's nice to know that you are concerned and I hope you have some success with the council, because obviously the shop needs to be aware of how to properly care for budgies and quarantine and treat sick budgies before putting them up for sale.

What a sweetie , You can tell just by the photo's that he's going to have a real personality. :chickendance:

Darc Man, I hope you enjoy the forum as much as I have, we are a great bunch of people and are here to help so don't be scared to ask anything and when I say anything, I mean anything. The wealth of knowledge on this forum is amazing. Anyway enjoy and just try to stay away because it's almost impossible.

Personally, I feel the shaggy loose feathers make them appear like they have mild cases of french moult and I totally agree with MB, that the size of the bird is okay but the feather should be more steamlined/tight, I think a tighter feather gives the overall look of the bird a clear line for good stance whilst being judged. (I'm I making sense ? I know what I'm trying to say just don't know whether I'm describing it right ). Lets just say I don't mind a big bird, I just like it to be defined not sloppy. :hap:

91. When you end up with a heap of loose seed in your handbag! 92. When there's a seed suck under the diamond in your engagement ring, but you don't even bother to try and get it out because you figure another one will just end up getting suck there.

How exciting new little pupies on the way, And MB, are you just very observant :bluebudgie: , or did you somehow have the heads up on the Cocker pups in the drawer?

My golly MB just reading that has tired me out ! How on earth did you keep your 2 boys entertained whislt doing all that, or did you get them involved, giving them little jobs to do, which I know at the ages they are, would love the praise once accomplishing them. Child labour sounds good to me under the circumstances .

Yeah, I know what you mean the pie, I love this site as you can say anything and know you're not going to be judged in any way, shape or form, and the support you get is amazing. I just feel frustrated when I don't get to get onto the forum, which has been a bit of late. There was my sons birthday :cake: to organize then there was this little hiccup and now Christmas :tree: is well and truely just around the corner and I have so much to do :bliss: , but I do have to keep reminding myself that I do deserve to give myself some time out and jump on the forum.

May your appointment today answer alot of your questions, and may your relationship with your son grow even stronger because of them . Good Luck with everything and I am thinking of you all.

Hey MB, What do you think about those gender selection programs/calanders etc? I know you have to pay for them but I'm starting to think it might just be worth the $200 - $250 that they all seem to charge.

Yep I did finally get a ring this morning right on 9.00am whilst at schools with the boys (who do not know about the pregnancy) and the hormones are on the decrease (Bummer) , which I handled fine as my gut feeling had told me this already, so decided I will continue and do my normal reading with the Preps, when I thought better ring my husband between kids and let him know that, what I thought it would be had been confirmed. Now I don't know whether this is my fault because I keep telling everyone that I'm in a good head space about the miscarrage (which I truely believe I am, as I wasn't pregnant for long (if I'd gone through all the morning sickness etc and it was quite a few weeks into the pregnancy it may have been a different story) and I do understand that these things generally happen for a reason) Geez brackets inside brackets are you meant to do that? :bump: Anyway i tell my husband and literally get a grunt back from him, and then silence so I basically say goodbye and hang up. Then I start to stew :tut_tut: . He didn't even ask if I was alright? So couldn't help myself and send him a texted message which will appear like I have accidently sent it to him, reading - "My husband loves me that much that it doesn't even cross his mind to ask if im okay", which would have been sent nearly an hour ago and haven't heard back from him but then again he properably doesn't think I realize I sent it to him. You know, I think I would just have like him to say something, - UPDATE THIS WAS INTERUPTED WITH A CALL FROM MY HUSBAND - was about to type anything - he has just rung and apologized for not thinking and actually asked a few questions about what the doctor had said etc so I'm instantly feeling much better. And as I said to my husband just now although I am in a good place with it all, just for a few moments after being told it hurts as you now know that there is no more slim chance. :thankyou: Thanks so much to everyone who has taken the time to read my "novel of a post" and has sent me their good wishes , my chin is up and there is always more chances when it comes to pregnancy :star: . Thanks again, Budgielover13 :thanks:

We normally buy a real tree, so maybe this weekend, if we get it too early it's dying :hug: :raincloud: before Christmas even with some water every day.

Hi Guys, Well I'm well and truly letting the cat out of the bag here, but I am so anxious I can't take it anymore! Tuesday week ago I did a pregnancy test because although I hadn't jotted down the date my last period had started I was pretty sure I was overdue and I had some heart burn, not really taking it seriously I told my husband that I would buy I test and test myself whilst with some girlfriends of mine. And to my surprise (good one) it was actually positive :yes: . I went to the doctors the very next day for a blood test, which also came back positive . In my excitment I told a few people, just could keep it totally to myself otherwise I would have literally burst . Anyway last Friday afternoon, just 3 days after finding out that I was pregnant I started to spot , so I jumped on the web and found out that if you are going to miscarry there's really not much you can do as generally this means the pregnancy is miscarring for a reason, so tried not to stress to much and still went 10 pin bowling on Friday night (I'm in a league), and I'd also read that even bed rest was a bit of a myth - if it's gonna happen it's gonna happen, then went ice-skating Saturday morning, during which I must admit the spotting got a little heavier, anyway have I mentioned at this stage it's still just brownish and not bright red, well on Sunday during our Christmas BBQ, it became a bit more of a bleed rather than spotting and a little more on the red side, so I'm thinking I don't think it was meant to be. Now during all of this, I rang my Obstetrician's rooms on Thursday after the blood test came back positive and was told to ring on Friday when his secterary was in. Which I did at 9.15am Friday to be told that she was busy and would ring back, I was asked if I had seen him before and I said yes but it was 6 years earlier, anyway come 2.00pm on Friday after the spotting had started and I hadn't heard anything from them I decided to ring back, to which Sue his sectetary answered and stated she'd been really busy that she wasn't at her desk and could I hold whilst she returned, yep not I problem I say and then I wait, and wait, and wait, until finally another women answers the phone and says she's going to have to ring you back and asked my name. When I stated my name she promptly repied You've already left your name this morning and she will get back to you, without really even giving me a chance to explain how I was anxious as I was spotting, and with her tone didn't feel like telling her either. Monday still bleeding but not heavy, during the whole weekend the only time I switched from a panty liner to a pad was at the BBQ and was quickly able to convert back to a liner, and no pain (maybe just a slight dull ache, but thats it). Anyway I ring the Ob. again and start to explain, how I'd rang the Thursday and Friday when the women cut me off to say she was the lady I had spoken to when leaving the messages for his secterary, then once again prompting stating to me that she couldn't find me on the records, so this time I mentioned that my surname was spelt without an E on the end and that I had actually seen him just last year for a simple treatment (which had slip my mind when I'd spoken to her on the Friday), and guess what she found my records is 2 seconds flat and her tone changed instantly :hi: (when she realised I was a previous patient of Dr***) and when I mentioned the whole spotting/bleeding thing she was a different person, stating that she would have to speak to the Dr and get back to me which she did within minutes :bow: . Anyway to try and wrap this post up I was instructed to get 2 pregnancy hormone tests 2 days apart to see (basically) if they are increasing things should be fine or deceasing meaning that I probably have or are about to miscarry. So I had the first on Monday and the second this morning at 8.45am, so I rang at 4.00pm to found out the results and the receptionist said she'd get the Dr to call me back and I told her I would be home all evening so he could get me on the home phone and surpise, surpise guess what NO CALL!!! :tut_tut: I would have thought if there was a chance he wouldn't ring this evening that she would have mentioned now you do realise he may not be able call until tomorrow- or something when I told her "I'D BE HOME ALL EVENING" ( thought a obstetrician's secterary would know how anxious I would be :doh: ). So once again the wait starts. I'm in a good head space with the possibly of losing the pregnancy because I realise these things generally happen for a reason, but it's the not knowing. I was really happy on Tuesday because I'd had one of the test and I knew that I was on the way to knowing where I stand, but now I've had the final test and haven't be called back, I feeling frustrated and just a bit over it. Anyway (is that the 50th time I'd typed that) anyway now that I have spilled the beans I will difinately let you guys know that second I :question: find out.

Hi guys, I also cleaned up at the Christmas party, I will post some photos in the next day or two, have some personal matters to deal with at the moment so I haven't been able to get on the forum anywhere near as much as I would like, hopefully these will be sorted by Thursdays and I won't be so distracted and I'll be popping up everywhere .

What a great job your doing, I wish I was a little more confident with supplyment feeding etc, as I may have saved a few budgie chicks by now, but I have just brought a copy of a book called "Hand-Feeding and Raising Baby Birds" and going to get stuck into it tonight and hopefully if my help is needed in the future I may have a little more success.

Beautiful birds and I love your natural perch/play gym it's so good to know that more and more budgie owners aren't just buying the run of the mill dowl perches and are using nature as it should be used. :rofl:

I can just see it now, the chicks in the nest box and Dad comes in and the chick panic "Sh*t! His done Mum in and now his coming for us!", "Hang on a second taste that stuff it's great give us more!", "I don't care if it makes a mess, just hurry! I WANT IT NOW!" :rofl:

What a beautiful looking tank, I'm envious as I once had a tropical fish tank with all sorts of beautiful fish and I just couldn't seem to keep on top of it and the fish kept dying, so out with the fish and I now have a gorgous tortoise called "Thomas the turtle engine" in it. they seem to be quite a bit hardier, and he is a lovely social tortoise who doesn't hide away everytime you bring him out. and actually seems to enjoy being with you.

I'm so sorry that you have lost wild cock bird, may things take a turn for the better soon, I currently have a hen with 3 chicks whose partner decided to drop off the perch for no apparent reason before any of the eggs hatched, and although her last chick (chick 4) died today it hatched with a 6 day gap so was much smaller than the other 3 and I suppose with only Mum to feed them the others where just to dominate, I did give the smallest a top up before I had to go out today but unfortunately it obviously just wasn't going to make it. It's sometimes hard but what's meant to be will be and you can't always change what's going to happen. Keep your chin up and who know Mum might be a bright bird and copes fine with bringing up the chicks. Good Luck .

Yep, certainly do, everytime I'm cutting up the vegies for the birds I think how healthy I would be if I just ate half the vegies they do. The sad thing is I always seem to feel to tired at the end of the day when making dinner to bother with the fresh vegies that I cut up for the birds in the morning when I'm still fresh, I me and my family end up with the same old frozen peas and corn. What a bad Mother I am, feeding my birds better than my children. :tut_tut:

Hey MB I hope she pulls through for you, I know how much time and effort you put into your animals and I really don't know how you do it, with 2 little boys to keep you on your toes aswell. Keep us posted to her progress.

Look what I found when I wasn't even looking for it a couple of older shots of "Smiggle" that I'd forgotten all about taking. I'm wrapped, these aren't great photos as every time I put the camera close to "Smiggle" to get a good shot he would lean into it and want to investigate. I'm just happy to have these, because although they don't really portray "Smiggle" as he was "a cheeky little devil" they are better than nothing which is what I orginally thought I had.

My heart goes out for you, I recently lost my pet budgie and know how you would be feeling .

You could almost pass her off as one of those orange canaries.