Around this time December last year I was bragging about the new young male I had got at auction very cheaply. It dosent do to brag, as just before we left on our Christmas break he was found dead in our Aviary. I was shattered as in him I had forseen the start of a new era in breeding for me, thinking I had him for 4+ years of breeding. So never count your chickens before they are hatched. Worse was to follow, on returning home in the New Year, one of my breeding females is missing, the person intrusted with their care has not said Peek-a-Boo to me. They were not a bird person and most probably think I would not miss one bird, needless to say I will have to make other arrangements this year.

Very sorry to hear about your bad news

 

PS I have missed you

I know how you feel

 

I took a chance and entrusted the budgies welfare to my husband for 2 weeks while I visited my sister for Xmas. Two days before I was due back disaster struck and I lost 3 of my most valuable birds .... According to my hubby "they just fell off the perch with no warning". Yeah, right.

Edited January 6, 200916 yr by renee

sorry to hear about your birds. hope you find someone to look after them next christmas...

Did you ask them where the bird went? Did it die or did they take it?. You should tell them you are deeply disappointed in them that they could not take care of your birds properly.

Very sorry to hear about your bad news PS I have missed you

Glad to know somebody missed me. It was an awful holiday, no T.V no shops only a General Store and Roadhouse. Too cold to swim, too windy to fish or take boat upriver, so spent the best part of 3 weeks playing Yahtzee and scraping down Wrought Iron Railings of front verandah of house. Then at Sunset the same same type of view each dayYou have to feel sorry for me. And guess what, barring the unforseen will be repeating next Christmas, like we have for the past 17 years. Sucker for punishiment aren't I. Ha Ha Ha.

Did you ask them where the bird went? Did it die or did they take it?. You should tell them you are deeply disappointed in them that they could not take care of your birds properly.

Can't be bothered. I had looked after this neighbours Garden for on 2 years while she nursed a sick Parent in Tasmania, last year I did not have all the birds and what I did have she sort of looked after, just didn't do the little extras that I had asked. This year went through it all again with her, and again she didn't do. So will just not bother again, This year garden "YUK" also + our Serena, so just will not ask again.

sorry to hear about your birds. hope you find someone to look after them next christmas...

Yeah! Will teach me not to gloat again, but yes I was devastated at the time, glad I had not paid $100'S of dollars for him. that happening to him sent me on a mad frenzy cleaning out the Avaries, sold a lot of my young birds, just kept a few + the older females for this years breeding, and it is one of the older females that has gone missing.Will certainly find someone else next Christmas. This person thinks I am over fussy with my birds, and just waste time doing the little extras for them

I know how you feel I took a chance and entrusted the budgies welfare to my husband for 2 weeks while I visited my sister for Xmas. Two days before I was due back disaster struck and I lost 3 of my most valuable birds .... According to my hubby "they just fell off the perch with no warning". Yeah, right. :glare:

I know how you feel I took a chance and entrusted the budgies welfare to my husband for 2 weeks while I visited my sister for Xmas. Two days before I was due back disaster struck and I lost 3 of my most valuable birds .... According to my hubby "they just fell off the perch with no warning". Yeah, right. :glare:

Am lucky with my old man, he, when I am not around is just as fussy as I am, different story when I'm on the scene, but who cares as long as they are looked after. He has in fact been known to take his stubby down to the Avairy and sit in there while he drinks it. Often wonder what the conversation is like.

very sorry to hear about your loss :glare: hugs

I'm so sorry :bluebudgie: