Posted July 30, 200817 yr Some of you might remember that I had Storm the egg smasher in with Harley. Well i chucked her back in the avairy and since then Harley has been really depressed. I have brought in cage mates for him even Blue (his best friend) however nothing has worked. Harley somehow broke a bunch of his flight feathers and is now going through molt on of the worse I have ever seen on him. At one stage the whole front of his head looked red. I gave him extra Vits in his water I even took him to the vet and got him a vit A shot, added some different seeds, gave him lots of fresh veggie but nothing seem to snap him out of it. I even gave him back his FAV mirror (yes i know he should not have had one but he loves it so) and nothing. So he now looks miserable... he is showing every one of his years and I was starting to fear that I would lose him Anyway was moving some birds around in preperation of my breeding room being finished by the end of today and I caught Storm by mistake on a whim I have put her back in with Harley. There has been such a change, he is parading around his cage, singing to her and trying to feed her, lots of "kissing" and other general matting behaviour... so I guess he just wanted his girlfriend back I figure that if she makes him happy then I will try and keep them together even if she does smash egg. I might give them another try at breeding later in the year and just try to get to the eggs before she smashes them but otherwise i think I will just set them up in their own little house and let them live their lives out in sin...
July 30, 200817 yr That is great that he is happy again. Sorry but going to go off topic but can budgies bleed when they are moulting. I am wondering what you mean by his whole head being red.
July 30, 200817 yr Author He had pin and blood feathers above his cere so that in the light his head had a pink tinge to it. Basically all the feathers above his cere came in as blood feathers and pin feathers so it looked like he had a red head for a few days. he is now preening himself something he has not done for a week! Yipppeeeeeee
July 31, 200817 yr Poor Harley. I am so pleased he is happy again - must be true love if he even rejected his mirror
July 31, 200817 yr Author I know that scared me caus normally if I put the mirror in there he would not let anyone near it and would spend all day with it, it has these counter bead things on it and some other dangly things and he plays with them all and really just would spend all his time with it so he only got it for short periods of time when I was going to be away or he was being left along for the night so that he had something to keep him busy so when he looked at it and went "huh mirror.. oh well" I was almost in tears but now he is getting back to his old self.
July 31, 200817 yr Author They say you never forget your first love She is his third... but shhh we will not tell her that
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