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Murphys Laws Of Birdkeeping

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  1. The best bird in the aviary always dies.
  2. Your best hen never lays fertile eggs
  3. The pair nesting in the cage that is hardest to get into always have eight chicks
  4. The pair you are really counting on lays 8 fertile eggs and all addle before hatching
  5. Budgie droppings are attracted to breeding cage roofs.
  6. You always run out of seed on a Sunday night when all nests are full of chicks.
  7. You move a 3 day old unbanded chick from a pair of greens to a pair of blues (knowing you can identify it later) with the same age chicks and discover later they are all blue.
  8. The only chick that misses banding is in the best condition for the spring show and is a stormer.
  9. You inadvertently pull out one of the prime throat spots on your best bird one week before the show.
  10. Your second best bird looses one tail feather a week before the show.
  11. You discover an hour after that the bird you just sold, you had been keeping for a special pairing.
  12. The power in the shed fails when it is minus 25 with an 80 mph wind and there are chicks in all the nest boxes.
  13. One of the birds you left at home was better than the birds that won.
  14. No matter what clothes you wear to to work, if you look hard enough you will find budgie feathers in them.
  15. Out of town visitors always visit your aviary the day before your major weekly clean out.
  16. Every time you think you have had a fabulous year, you visit your friend down the road, who is having an average year and has raised twice as many chicks as you have, with only half the number of pairs.
  17. Every vehicle you own has bird seed in it (and some of your friends)
  18. Budgie down is attracted to beards.
  19. Every aviary is built 25% too small.
  20. Your best bird ends up in your worst show cage.
  21. Bird seed is attracted to the living room carpets.
  22. The city works department only does heavy construction next to your property during breeding season.
  23. Droppings adhear to the side of the band where the number is, not to the year or code that you already know.
  24. One of your best birds loses it's tail feathers just before the show so you take it along anyway and throw it on the cage floor in case the judge gives you some credit, and sure enough he doesn't, but you still try to explain to him that..... (see the next one)
  25. Tail feathers are attracted to show cage floors
  26. Eight out of nine Lutinos are pure yellow (guess which one is wrong classed? )

Edited by Daz

nice, the beard one made me giggle.

 

as well as beards they love curly hair! :)

Heheh I love it

 

 

I don't get the last one :wub:

One is a double factor yellow spangle

Edited by Bubbles

  • 3 months later...
  1. The best bird in the aviary always dies.
     
  2. Your best hen never lays fertile eggs
     
  3. The pair nesting in the cage that is hardest to get into always have eight chicks
     
  4. The pair you are really counting on lays 8 fertile eggs and all addle before hatching
     
  5. Budgie droppings are attracted to breeding cage roofs.
     
  6. You always run out of seed on a Sunday night when all nests are full of chicks.
     
  7. You move a 3 day old unbanded chick from a pair of greens to a pair of blues (knowing you can identify it later) with the same age chicks and discover later they are all blue.
     
  8. The only chick that misses banding is in the best condition for the spring show and is a stormer.
     
  9. You inadvertently pull out one of the prime throat spots on your best bird one week before the show.
     
  10. Your second best bird looses one tail feather a week before the show.
     
  11. You discover an hour after that the bird you just sold, you had been keeping for a special pairing.
     
  12. The power in the shed fails when it is minus 25 with an 80 mph wind and there are chicks in all the nest boxes.
     
  13. One of the birds you left at home was better than the birds that won.
     
  14. No matter what clothes you wear to to work, if you look hard enough you will find budgie feathers in them.
     
  15. Out of town visitors always visit your aviary the day before your major weekly clean out.
     
  16. Every time you think you have had a fabulous year, you visit your friend down the road, who is having an average year and has raised twice as many chicks as you have, with only half the number of pairs.
     
  17. Every vehicle you own has bird seed in it (and some of your friends)
     
  18. Budgie down is attracted to beards.
     
  19. Every aviary is built 25% too small.
     
  20. Your best bird ends up in your worst show cage.
     
  21. Bird seed is attracted to the living room carpets.
     
  22. The city works department only does heavy construction next to your property during breeding season.
     
  23. Droppings adhear to the side of the band where the number is, not to the year or code that you already know.
     
  24. One of your best birds loses it's tail feathers just before the show so you take it along anyway and throw it on the cage floor in case the judge gives you some credit, and sure enough he doesn't, but you still try to explain to him that..... (see the next one)
     
  25. Tail feathers are attracted to show cage floors
     
  26. Eight out of nine Lutinos are pure yellow (guess which one is wrong classed? )

 

 

-_-:wub: How true Daz :beer:

how true! you absoulutly hit the nail smack on its head! ! Love it! :wub:

Heheheh... You sure do have some time on your hands there Daz (Laughing out loud)....

 

I really appeal to the Visitors coming the day before the BIG CLEAN : )

 

 

hehehh (Laughing out loud)

Always the way

  • 1 year later...
  • 11 months later...

okay well I don't want to sound skeptical but those Murphy's Laws are my mainstay experiences as a Novice breeder ... :P :rofl: :rofl:

okay let me see i been breeding show birds for 6 months exactly now lets see what laws i have coped lol

 

highlited in red

 

 

 

 

 

  1. The best bird in the aviary always dies.(lucky for me before i started getting better )

  2. Your best hen never lays fertile eggs
  3. The pair nesting in the cage that is hardest to get into always have eight chicks
  4. The pair you are really counting on lays 8 fertile eggs and all addle before hatching

  5. Budgie droppings are attracted to breeding cage roofs.
  6. You always run out of seed on a Sunday night when all nests are full of chicks.
  7. You move a 3 day old unbanded chick from a pair of greens to a pair of blues (knowing you can identify it later) with the same age chicks and discover later they are all blue.
  8. The only chick that misses banding is in the best condition for the spring show and is a stormer.
  9. You inadvertently pull out one of the prime throat spots on your best bird one week before the show.
  10. Your second best bird looses one tail feather a week before the show.
  11. You discover an hour after that the bird you just sold, you had been keeping for a special pairing.
  12. The power in the shed fails when it is minus 25 with an 80 mph wind and there are chicks in all the nest boxes.
  13. One of the birds you left at home was better than the birds that won.
  14. No matter what clothes you wear to to work, if you look hard enough you will find budgie feathers in them.
  15. Out of town visitors always visit your aviary the day before your major weekly clean out.
  16. Every time you think you have had a fabulous year, you visit your friend down the road, who is having an average year and has raised twice as many chicks as you have, with only half the number of pairs.
  17. Every vehicle you own has bird seed in it (and some of your friends)
  18. Budgie down is attracted to beards.
  19. Every aviary is built 25% too small.
  20. Your best bird ends up in your worst show cage.
  21. Bird seed is attracted to the living room carpets.
  22. The city works department only does heavy construction next to your property during breeding season.( only in my case the next door persons jack hammering and grindding lol )

  23. Droppings adhear to the side of the band where the number is, not to the year or code that you already know.
  24. One of your best birds loses it's tail feathers just before the show so you take it along anyway and throw it on the cage floor in case the judge gives you some credit, and sure enough he doesn't, but you still try to explain to him that..... (see the next one)
  25. Tail feathers are attracted to show cage floors
  26. Eight out of nine Lutinos are pure yellow (guess which one is wrong classed? )

 

i haven't showed yet but i took my albino baby to club judging

and as the law also would have

he pancaked him self to the floor of the show cage lol

flat as a tack (as law would have him do )

luckily the judge decided to peel him off and perch him see how he sat

(out of around fifteen birds ranging from beginners to our champion breeder(he brought 4 birds)along

my boy got second reserve on the night ,> not quiet sure if thats okay :P or what it means really but i like the sound of the second part :D )

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