First Trish they are all still there!

 

Second - I am currently looking after 4 ringnecks for Trish till she can get over here and pick them up. They are happy in my Budgie Avairy (my Budgies are inside with the aircon)

 

So today I wet them with a hose a few times but they freaked out and scream and I could not work out why when the other week they LOVED the water.

 

See I left the hose sitting in the garden, and it gets hot, really hot so i was infact spraying the birds with hot water. I feel soooo bad, they are all fine, when I worked out what was going on I caught them all and checked them and gave them cool bathes and now my hands and arms look like I put them though a mince grinder but it was worth it.

 

By The Way i am now calling the Blue male, Sir Bites a lot, and his Hen is currently called F****** B****

I have done this once before also, I always run the water over my hand now before I spray the birds, or do anything with the hose really. I'm glad the ring necks are okay.

Its bad enough when you do it to your own birds but they guys are not mind i am just holding them for a while so it's even worse (not for the birds but for me)

 

I really hope I have never done this to my budgies!

It's something we've all done at one time.

Don't beat yourself up over it. You will know for next time - as the wise ones say "experience is the best teacher".

Oh boy, that is a post to put under Don't Do with Budgie, I think we have all experienced the hot water bit. Hugs, everything was okay so don't be too hard on yourself.

Ken used to just turn the hose on that was attached to sprinklers in his aviary without clearing the hot water out first. I have now screamed at him enough times that he remembers to check it first

running water with hand does not always work fully to be safe run water for a while as i have done this but i did run hand under hose but first half was in shade so after the second hose lenth came through birds got hot spray but alas only the second part of hose was hot so took a bit to become hot insted of to become cold just a note run for lenth of hose not till cool