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Mr n Mrs Piker

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Mr n Mrs Piker

Say Hi To Hollie

June 15th, 2012
Say Hi To Hollie

Hollie is 16 years old, she is very light grey, fully feathered and absolutely gorgeous, she lets us both give her head tickles but when Stevie is home she’s all him and ignores me lol.

Hollie is not a talker, but she does have some lovely whistles and sounds.

We have been told that Hollie is a bit of a screecher, but so far we have not found this, she makes the usual noises that you expect from a Parrot and she is not any louder than my own four lol.

She came from a lovely couple who sadly need her to be re homed.
They do come on site and mentioned all my birdies by name, loved the pics I post etc which put them at ease knowing that they were doing the right thing by handing Hollie over to the AGPC.

We have converted Hollie on to AnimalZone Fruit Blend Pellets as she was on a poor diet.
She now also enjoys veg, toast with a bit of Palm Fruit Extract on and a bit of Apple, we are also trying her on other safe fruits.

They did ask if we would keep her, but we had to sadly decline.

The cage she came with is very small and is of no use, so she will need a new cage when she moves to her forever home.

Hollie also has a crop infection, after consulting my Avian Vet we got her the correct medication, and now she’s on the mend, she should be fully recovered within a week, so she will be fit and healthy and ready to move to a forever home by the end of next week, which will be great for her as she would of been with us for 3 weeks by then.

She’s covered at night and sleeps very well, she is a very happy birdie, but understandably a bit nervous, when she’s nervous she does bite her nails, but this will pass as it’s calmed down lots since she’s got used to us here.

Who ever gets her will be very lucky to have her as a companion.

Julie


Rosie’s Results

June 14th, 2012
Rosie's Results

Just a small update on Rosie, she went to the vets for a full check up and blood work done.

And we got the all clear for her.

Rosie came to us with Airsacculitis, but this has now been sorted and she’s now in great health. We as you can imagine are over the moon as this is something that can be hard to sort out due to it being in the air sacs as well as the lungs.

 

Rosie is still getting on well with Frodo and Bilbo, and we now have another birdie added to our Hobbit flock, we have re homed Charlee Chica (was Charlie Boy) but name change due to finding out he’s a she lol

Rosie and Charlee Chica are getting on very well, so that’s nice that the girls are happy together.

 

Julie

 


Charlie Boy Becomes Charlee Chica Baggins!

June 12th, 2012
Charlie Boy Becomes Charlee Chica Baggins!

That’s right a name change, why you may ask, well we have been waiting on the results from the blood tests that were done, one of the tests were DNA and they’ve come back as being a female, so really Charlie Boy was not what we wanted.

So Stevie and I have been sat here chatting about Charlie and have decided to change her name to keep with the Lord of The Rings theme.

So now Charlie is CharleeChica Baggins, she was the wife of Bingo Baggins and mother of Falco Chubb-Baggins.

It just had to be done as we’re very big fans of Lord of The Rings and now she really is a Hobbit :)

Also we found out that Charlee Chica is vitamin A deficient, but that is something easy to rectify as it’s down to diet and that’s something we’ve been working with her since she came.

All in all, everything is going great and she’s getting on well with our other three Hobbits, Frodo, Bilbo and Rosie.

 

Julie


Charlie Boy – Small Update

June 1st, 2012
Charlie Boy - Small Update

I know it’s not been long since the last update of my Charlie Boy, but I had to share this with you all who are following his story.

Today Charlie Boy went on one of the play stands, I’m soooo happy.
I’ve been putting the play stand closer to his cage for months now, but today I moved it right next to his cage and he tentivly went on it.
He then happily sat there preening, it’s great that he now will have some where else to play and feel “safe” instead of the top of his cage.

I’m hoping in time he’ll be happy to venture on all the other out of cage toys too.

 

Julie


Charlie Boy Has Found a Forever Home

May 12th, 2012
Charlie Boy Has Found a Forever Home

Like the title says, Charlie Boy has found a forever home.

He’s staying with us and we are very happy to have him, that now means we have four wonderful birdies that we love very much.

Charlie Boy has a huge vocabulary, and loves to sing, chat, whistle etc. It’s never dull listening to him..lol
Charlie boy has been very hard work, screams like he’s being murdered if you put your hand in his cage and he lunges and attacks you, he strips the skin off your hands with his very painful bites and he hates to come out of his cage etc.

So working with him has been a long and slow process and most of the time very painful, he’s made me cry on many of occasions

But I’ve never given up on him, I’ve slowly gained his trust to the point of being able to give him tickles through the cage bars, this as you can imagine has taken lots of patience with him, everything has to be done slowly.

Although he was in a new cage, it was thought that maybe another new cage would help, so Stevie and I decided to buy him a new cage, it has a landing platform and is bigger than the other one we were using.

Charlie boy has now very slowly started to come out and stand on the landing platform, that in it’s self is a huge step for him, he also is happy to let Rosie in his cage and have a play, he’s getting on well with Rosie and yesterday Frodo went over to Charlie boy and all went well.

He’s still very scared and nervous but he’s trying hard

But yesterday Charlie boy and I made HUGE progress, I did as I usually do, keep my hand near him, talk to him softly, no sudden movements etc, but this time instead of doing it inside the door of his cage, I did it on the landing platform and he let me give him lots and lots of head tickles, he gave me playful bites/nibbles and he put his foot on my hand twice, this is something he’s never done, it was great.

We’ve done the same thing again today, everything slow, etc and he’s let me give him lots of tickles again and he put his foot on my hand for longer.

As you can see lots of patience has worked and I’m hoping to continue to build on this, next step for him will be “step up” although I don’t think he’s ready for that just yet but I’m sure it will be soon if he keeps letting me do this with him.

He’s also now starting to let Stevie give him beak rubs, although he still will bite Stevie if gives him more than a few rubs, but Stevie is working with him on that.

I feel so proud of him as he’s come such a long way

It was definitely worth spending the money on a new cage for him and this time my tears were for joy, he’s a wonderful birdie.

Julie


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