Finnie

I'm so very sorry for you.

Finnie goes off to delete Nubbly's post.....

We have a filter on our computer to block inappropriate sites. But if it blocks something we want to see, we (the parents with the password) can go in and add the site to the "allowed sites" list, and then it is not blocked anymore. Maybe your friend can ask her parents to get BBC "allowed", if she is planning to breed budgies. If her parents are supportive of this endeavor, maybe they will agree that it would be good for her to have the support and encouragement she can find here.

They sure grow fast, don't they? Look at him, all outside the box! :thankyou:

Your birds are beautiful! :thankyou:

I guess the idea is that since she's been taken away from where she wanted to lay her eggs, and has been put in a strange cage all alone with nowhere to nest, then she will give up. But she can't help laying the eggs that have already developed, those have to come out, regardless. So she just lays them off the perch in the hospital. (That's what my hen Colleen did, when I didn't want her to go for a second round.) It's a different scenario than if she were laying in a nest box, and you took some eggs away to encourage her to lay more.

I would take away any eggs as soon as they're laid, don't give her the chance to sit. Is the hospital cage large enough for her to be comfortable for a couple of months? I'm thinking it might take a long time to break her of this cycle.

Wow, they even LOOK yukky!

If I remember correctly, Marigold laid an egg in the main cage, back in August. Then you divided the cage and gave her and her partner a nest box, in which she laid more eggs. Then the other hen squeezed in and attacked her, but she wasn't hurt too bad. At that time you moved her into the hospital cage. My questions for you are: 1.) Did she ever lay any eggs off the perch in the hospital cage? 2.) How many eggs, when did she stop, and how long did you keep her in the hospital cage before moving her back to the main cage? (Or did she stay in the hospital cage this whole time?) My reasoning behind the questions is, I would think that isolating her in the hospital cage the first time should have gotten her to stop laying. Going back in the main cage with her mate might have triggered her to go back into condition and start a new clutch, and, hopefully, another stint alone in the hospital cage should break the cycle again. (She may have to lay one or two off the perch again.) You may have to give her an extended hospital stay, so she gets well and truly over this idea she has to breed. Or maybe at least enough time in there to rest so that if she is really determined, she is in good health later down the road. Of course, if she's been alone in the hospital cage this whole time and has just randomly decided to lay again with no partner, then any eggs she lays won't be fertile. But in that case, I don't have any other ideas on how to help you. Maybe someone else will know.

I've had budgies fly into walls and things until they learned their way around. When that happened, I clipped their wings, and that helped, and by the time their wings grew back, they flew fine and didn't hit things. I think they were more used to it here by then. It sounds like you hit the jackpot with a friendly bird that comes to you. Does he have a name?

Rotten Socks?! Why would anyone grow such a vegetable? I don't think we have those over here. I'm glad Greg could get the pole out for you. There are just certain jobs that I way prefer my husband to use his muscles on, than to try it with mine, and kill my back, and still have no effect.

Aw, shucks, thanks, everyone!

Yay Amy, Pinkies!! How exciting. And your first two on the same day! I love in these photos how they are synchronized, like they want to do everything the same. Especially the top photo with their little bent elbows! :rofl:

That has got to be some hot, hard work, Splat! What are those poles just to the left of the beans, will they be in your way? And by the way, just what is a "broad bean"? If it's anything like a Lima bean, then I agree, worst vegetable ever! :rofl: (Also, what are "chokoes"?)

No...it was the sliding door on the nestbox :rofl: Oh. :rofl: Can you put a clip or something on it? I might have to. The new nestboxes I just had made have lighter weight doors. ( Not my choice ) If a budgie wants to play around with them they can lift them up. Oh dear. Well now you know, you can prevent it from happening in the other ones.

No...it was the sliding door on the nestbox :rofl: Oh. :rofl: Can you put a clip or something on it?

They're all very nice. I love this Giant One! It's a shame about the YF chick. Was it the glass sliding door from your older post? Who would have thought a budgie could push that hard to open it. :rofl:

Oh, no! What are you planning to do, make gratuitous spelling errors? You will be my downfall- I can't even get the spell check to download! :rofl:

Thank you Rachel and GB! :rofl:

Thanks, Amy :rofl:

Very cute! Congratulations!

Thank you, Nubbly. The plum eye is already a surprise. The cock must be split for cinnamon, because I'd say it's a really long shot that both parents would be split for rec. pied. Finnie has never seemed to be.

It's like they're having a little pillow party! :sadsorry: 3rd Chick has arrived: Healthy looking, fed, and was walking around like a penguin! And, I believe this is my first ever plum-eyed chick!

In th old pictures, I agreed with Dave, but in the new pictures I agree with Kaz and AmyS.

Oh, no, such sad news Good bye, Omelette. It is good she has so many offspring for you to remember her by.