Posted November 7, 200519 yr Does anyone else collect their budgies feathers when they moult? I've been collecting them since Blinkie's first moult and i came home today to find mum had been messing around with the bird stuff and had 'accidently' tipped more than half down the sink thinking the container was empty (she's nearly blind). :ausb: I could positively kill her right now, she had no business touching that stuff and now months and months of feather collecting have gone to waste and she hardly gives a ****!!!! I nearly had enough to make a nice fluffy Blinkie feather bookmark too.
November 7, 200519 yr Awww I know the feeling!! Im sure blinkie will think of a way to get her back...a nicley aimed poop in a cup of tea prehaps? :ausb: hehe Im sure she ment well...
November 7, 200519 yr Aww Bea if you like i could send you some of my feather collection I've found myself searching the bottom of Apples cage and the outside aviary on the lookout for "Pretty" feathers.. My 8 year old daughter has show and tell each Friday at school and she was running out of things to show so i suggest she collect the feathers, i should have known it would become MY job to collect them :hap: But on the upside we are now getting a nice little freezer bag full of multi coloured feathers (the things we do) Cheers :beer: Una
November 7, 200519 yr Parents :yelling: Being one I am sure she feels terrible and I am sure Blinks will get her back too Hugs
November 7, 200519 yr I collect their feathers too. I used to just save the "pretty" ones, but then I noticed even the plainer feathers have a shimmery quality to them in the right light, so I am indiscriminate in my feather-saving habits now. If it is clean (LOL) I will probably save it. I have some purple ones from Blueberry and Arctic that I especially like, and for some reason I think it is really neat to find either one of the spots, or a feather from the cheek flashes. I guess because they are so small and you rarely find them - at least I don't. But have you noticed that what looks like tons of feathers on the floor doesn't look like so many once you get them in the bag???????
November 7, 200519 yr I know you must be feeling a bit peeved after all that collecting but if your Mum couldnt see in the pot too well its just an accident, Blinkie will loose LOTS more feathers for your bookmark I promise. Try not to be too hard on her she probably feels terrible.
November 7, 200519 yr Besides, the feathers during the second molt are going to be brighter and prettier than the ones from the first. I collect them too but I'm picky about which ones. (Lord knows there are WAY too many to try and collect them all! The vacuum does that for me.)
November 7, 200519 yr Mine too Terri, what annoys me is when I take the base of the big cage outside to through the mess in the dustbin, its right outside my door and its been windy past few days, so you can imagine what happened, yep all the mess just blew back in all over my lounge floor hehe!
November 7, 200519 yr I don't collect the feathers at all, not even off my rainbow lorikeet. I have lived through three children collecting, feathers, snails (which get released back into MY garden ), slugs, slaters, rocks (why do they have to be stored in pillow cases?) etc etc etc. I refuse to collect anything myself.
November 7, 200519 yr awww poor bea. i dont collect feathers either. i only have one green feather that was peanuts and it is in a pot all on its own. the fact that i only have one makes it all the more special to me.
November 8, 200519 yr I don't collect the feathers at all, not even off my rainbow lorikeet. I have lived through three children collecting, feathers, snails (which get released back into MY garden ), slugs, slaters, rocks (why do they have to be stored in pillow cases?) etc etc etc. I refuse to collect anything myself. My youngest daughters name is Milly (Amylia is her full name but we just call her Milly) so she has this obsession with Millipedes .. they don't go so great in pillow cases, but she still try's (Laughing out loud)
November 8, 200519 yr You've got to love these kids don't you? My youngest likes to collect slaters (I think they are called wood lice elsewhere, not sure), and then my oldest likes to feed them to the finches. Fun and games - you can imagine how mortified the youngest is with his pets (and they all have names ) being devoured by the finches
