A Lesson I Had To Learn

okay so we had a plan we where people with a plan and all that went down the drain.

The plan was the I would have all the Budgies and Pippi would have the two pairs of Quakers. Hmmmm so now I have all the Budgies, one pair of Green Cheeks and one pair of Quakers.... just wait how did that happen!

It seems that the cafe below Pippi's flat had a small issue with the noise, and as they own the building we had to remove one pair of Quakers last night and they got moved into my breeding room. We hope the other pair will now settle and shut up but if not then I will have both pairs at my house and the green cheeks will go to Pippi as they make little to no noise (well so far anyway)

So the plan is to sell the green pair we have (they are true aviary birds and hate everyone and everything) the Blue pair are really nice and talk to you. I am currently bidding on two separate cages/aviary’s on e-bay and knowing my luck I will end up with both and have to borrow money from Mum to pay for them until my Cheque clears.

The Green pair are starting to look nice now that they are getting a little bit better of a diet (not that they are eating what they should be but we are working on it) We had an offer to buy them but the lady is TAS did not want to pay $158 to ship them there and then she needs to drive an hour and the door to door service cost $448 and there is no way she would pay that for them.

So I am going to set them up and hopefully they can get their own avairy and will settle, if I put them around the side of the house then the dogs and people can not get to them and they might settle and not be so loud if that happens then I will keep them and try and get a round of babies out of them. If this does not happen then I have one pet store that will take them but I am going to be taking a really big hit with the cost!

On another note, I hope I get one of the Aviary’s as I know that I can split it down one side and put a walk way in and I should be able to have two pairs of Green Cheeks in there.

The two guys I have are great characters and have settled really well and now don't care about me changing their water and feed but I do really want to get them in a bigger cage. I think that over the next year I will do a Cull of my Budgies and outside of a few old fav's like Harley, Blue & Flame then I will get rid of the rest. I might keep Lemon and Lime as they are a cute old couple that I don't think will be around much longer and if anything happens to Lemon (she is going blind) I think Lime would just lay down and die as he started to do this when I pulled Lemon from the aviary and noticed that after about three days he had stopped eating and was just sitting in the corner so I had to pull him as well.

It's funny, I was all up for Quakers, and now I am swinging more towards the green cheeks as they have a big bird personality in a little body. Yes there is not as much money in them but they are really cute!

So all depends on what happens with Mork and Mindy (the Blue Quakers at Pippi's house) and if they are allowed to stay or not. If not them there will be big changes at my house and the Green Pair will have to go as I am sure that I will not be allowed to keep two pairs as the noise is going to be an issue. I never knew just how much noise these guys could make and I know people warned me but I really thought it could not be that bad! More fool me! So I have learnt that I am an impulse person and I don't do things in half’s and with birds I am going to have to learn to ease into things not jump into things.

However in the end I am glad that Rex and Stumpy (the green Quakers) came into my life as they have taught me a lesson and I hope that I can improve their life (and their diet) maybe they will stay with me, maybe I am only to have them for a while but either way I think they are better off.

*Edit on a side note, if anyone knows anyone who is looking for a pair or wants to talk to me about taking Rex and Stumpy on PM me, I might get to the stage where I might just let them go for free but I am not there yet!

Edited January 20, 200916 yr by Angelic Vampyre