Posted November 17, 200816 yr Hello all. Some of you may remember me as 'reitbauer3' or remember my birds 'Sonny and Cher'. We were here for a brief time in December 2006. I have been busy in the interim, with not much time to 'surf', but things have slowed a bit and I remembered this great site. Sonny is a blue and white male, and he is at least 5 1/2 years old. I can't get any better than an approximate age because he was found outside July 4, 2003, but I think he was a youngster then.. Cher is a green and yellow female. She had been given to my niece as a birthday present in August 2004, so assuming she was a youngster then that would make her about 4 1/2 years old or so. We adopted Cher from my niece February 2005 and the two have been lively happily (sort of) ever after for these last almost 4 years. You can read about their one and only attempt at raising a family by following this link: http://forums.budgiebreeders.asn.au/index....p;hl=reitbauer3 I hope that link works, I'm still unsure how to post things like that. If it doesn't work as a link, you can search for the topic "Laying eggs in a very small log." I will tell more about my funny little companions next time....
November 19, 200816 yr Hello and welcome back! If you have any pictures you can post up, we'd love to see your birds. :rofl: I look forward to hearing about them.
November 19, 200816 yr i've just read over your posts from last time you were with us... I'd love to hear and see an update on your feathered friends! Did you ever end up with little babies?
November 19, 200816 yr Author Sonny and Cher's one and only attempt at raising a family ended with no babies. Which was disappointing, but probably all for the best considering the awkward place Cher chose to lay, and the fact that I then became very busy. They have been mostly content in the intervening almost 2 years. When we adopted Cher, I thought at first that Sonny would be the one to be territorial about what was really his place to begin with. At first, Cher lived in her own small cage, and was only let out when Sonny was locked in his cage. Then Sonny would come back out after Cher had gone back to her cage. Sonny was never really left in his cage with the door closed for long. He has always been a "free-range" bird! The two would talk to each other through the cage bars, and seemed to be getting along, so we started to let them out together . That is when Cher decided that she was moving in with Sonny whether he like it or not! She flew up to his cage, and has been the one territorial about it ever since! Here is their home: While they are never locked inside, except in very rare circumstances, they also show an utter lack of curiosity about the rest of the apartment. They stay either in or on their cage, in their "tree" that I made from a pvc pipe and branches, or on the window sill. Occasionally one will land on the floor lamp or tv across the room, but that's the extent of their own self-imposed boundaries!
