When I go to my moms next I am going to go digging through old pictures! It would be nice to post pics of my old birdies.



But since I am on a roll let me tell you the story of Pancha. Pancha was an old birdie, she must have been 40? or so when she died. We got her from a neighbor who had caught her outside after years of watching her flying around. She had one eye, actually two but the other was kinda shriveled up from an injury. We suspected she may have flown into a tree or something while she flow around town. So she was blind in that eye.


But she was the cutest birdie ever and oh so tame. She would sleep with us on the couch, clean our teeth (which at the time we didn't know that was bad for tiels. We have too much bacteria and stuff in our mouths, so it's not safe for them). She was a cinnamon cockatiel. She would lay eggs all the time but we never mated her. She had her "nest" under the couch and that's where she would go to lay her eggs. We would be sitting on the couch and all of a sudden we would hear all this hissing and she would run out from under the couch withher wings in the air protecting her eggs lol. I was so funny! hahaha She was so cute.


I loved breeding birdies. One time we could hear the baby birds chirping in the eggs before they even hatched. My mom and I kept hearing baby birdie noises but when we looked in the nesting box there were no babies. We kept listening and finally my mom picked one of the eggs up and you could hear the baby inside. I think it was one of the coolest things I have ever seen.

Breeding them was fun, we always had babies around. We pretty much kept all our babies. We did have some troubles with one clutch though, a baby boy was deformed. Instead of walking on his foot, his leg bent at the heal so he would walk on the heal instead, poor guy. We had a lot of joys with them though. I wish my mom would get some more birdies. She keeps begging me for my Bourkes girl but I won't let her have her lol.

Ok I went on long enough, hehe.