Posted July 30, 200717 yr I am thrilled to introduce my new budgie Wind Dancer. He is my first show type budgie. The larger budgies are extremely difficult to find in rural central Pennsylvania, and I was on a waiting list for a long time. His hatch date is 05/11/07 (or 11/05/07 for those of you who think we write our dates backward in the U.S.). He was hand fed by a breeder who lives about 2 hours away from me. Here is a picture of his parents: They are both cinnamon blues and look much more gray in this picture than they do in real life. And here is Wind Dancer: He is a cinnamon sky blue, with a lot of violet showing through, especially around his neck and rump. He is also my first hand raised/fed baby and such a sweetheart. Unfortunately, when I picked him up he had hand rearing formula on the right side of his beard that had dried hard and the breeder was unable to remove. She had cut off part of his beard in an attempt to remove it. I was unable to remove the part that remained and when I took him in for his "New Bird" check up with my avian vet he was also unable to remove it, so he ended up having a vet tech snip the rest of it off with a pair of surgical scissors. Now the poor thing is almost completely beardless on that side. Luckily, I was able to get some pictures from his "good" side, but in the third picture you can see what it looked like before the food was removed by the vet. Poor thing... Oh well, nothing his next molt shouldn't take care of. Warmly, PAdoula P.S. I love the site updates - The only bad thing about it was having to wait to post about my new boy! Edited July 31, 200717 yr by Daz
July 30, 200717 yr he is gorgeous, I live in Ohio so I understand trying to find a bird of show quality around these part.
July 31, 200717 yr Author He has nice markings but have you clipped his wings? Unfortunately, he was already clipped when I picked him up. None of my other budgies are clipped, and I have almost 40. My avian vet knows my feelings on wing clipping, so he was surprised to see the clipped wings, too. I literally had not seen this bird before I picked him up. I was on the waiting list and when my name came up I was given the opportunity to get the next blue/violet male available (which is what I wanted). The breeder discribed the bird to me, but didn't have photo's available and didn't mention that the bird would be clipped (and it never even cross my mind to ask). Fortunately, the clipped wings will be taken care of along with the missing half of his beard after his next molt. Please note that I am not trying to start a debate on the merits of clipping/not clipping. Everyone needs to do what they feel is best for them and their birds Warmly, PAdoula
August 5, 200717 yr He is just gorgeous! Poor lil guy having to get his hand rearing formula cut off. My Bobby is a sky/violet too, but as he is an opaline the violet shows through in his wings, and has darkened his skyblue to nearly cobalt!! Congratulations
August 5, 200717 yr Hi Winddancer, what a pretty fellow you are and most definately have a unique name!!!
