Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[Ponypoor]

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Great photo Alex, POW worthy

 

[Ponypoor]

Push for a new place. You have a right to sleep and not having to be choked by their foul stink

Not that easy, can get my own housing but with hotels running at around $200/night not so easy and too much they don’t pay me enough living out expense (LOA) for that price!

 

[Ponypoor]

I'm kinda stressed out having these all these birds in the aviary, as they breed like once a month and the finches have like 6-8 babies each, and with 22 pairs you can imagine how many I get every month! Not including the budgies I'm so overrun with birds I'm debating releasing sone of the more "wild" birds. They forage, make their own nest in the vines, they do good in winter, and they are fast enough to evade predators so they would be fine. Should I get rid of some of them? There are so many I can't sell them all!

Here is one of the example birds of what I'd release: (he's a tagged breeder make so he's staying)
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Um no!

They would be an introduced species and that would be bad for the environment.

Give them away, I am sure lots of people would love such pretty birds

 

[featherhead007]

Jaffar is softly complaining about his discomfort. I’m moving him into my bedroom for the night. His crop is full, but he’s not drinking water lately. And he’s been losing feathers as if molting. (He’s not done that before)

 

[ChicoryBlue]

Jaffar is softly complaining about his discomfort. I’m moving him into my bedroom for the night. His crop is full, but he’s not drinking water lately. And he’s been losing feathers as if molting. (He’s not done that before)

Hard molt, maybe for the first time?

 

[Ponypoor]

Jaffar is softly complaining about his discomfort. I’m moving him into my bedroom for the night. His crop is full, but he’s not drinking water lately. And he’s been losing feathers as if molting. (He’s not done that before)

Do you have some low dose aspirin you can give him to help any discomfort?

Dose is 1/2 a low dose aspirin.

 

[Gigachad poultry]

Um no!

They would be an introduced species and that would be bad for the environment.

Give them away, I am sure lots of people would love such pretty birds

I think I'm going to offer them for free, also I realize what I should have got. Although yes zebra finches are awesome I think instead of getting 15 pairs of them I should have gotten like 5 pairs so I could also have the space for other spieces like owl finches, gouldian finches, or even star finches. My parents might decide our current house isn't the right one and we might move. If that happens I will fo a count on all my birds so I can remove unwanted ones or get new younger birds! My aviary is so big I can't catch them easily so doing that would take super long. However it all depends on what my parents say. That would allow me to make my own possibly even better aviary.

 

[Marie2020]

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Barbara Beethov-hen threw up. Could something be wrong with her? Cockerel has done it a few times but this was a while ago and he doesn't really do it any more.

Have they stopped throwing up and are there any more symptoms??

 

[Marie2020]

Jaffar is softly complaining about his discomfort. I’m moving him into my bedroom for the night. His crop is full, but he’s not drinking water lately. And he’s been losing feathers as if molting. (He’s not done that before)

Could his eye be giving him pain? You said he's losing his eyesight

 

[Marie2020]

Teach your children to understand the difference between greed and love. Dying a chicks feathering is pure greed

Not to mention the cruelty