Lucille, Didn't know ya had birds!

[Karen Hulvey]

Lucille:

I just read in another post that you have 14 birds. Wow. What kinds? Are you a breeder?

I raise peachfaced lovebirds, society and zebra finches and have 1 pr of Timneh African Greys.

 

[Lucille]

Karen, I hope you and I will be good friends as I see you are a 'bird person' too. I have a zoo here at my house, reptiles, fish ,birds, dog, cat...lol
I have everything from parakeets to lories to an umbrella 'too named Moosie; birds are very special to me.
In fact, I think everything is very special to me. Fauna in particular is special to me, but I've got enough to do here at the house, thank goodness I don't hafta cage and feed everyone here......
I actually have one little peachface that is handicapped. He is colorful and spunky and loves to play with his little bird toys.
And, no I'm not a breeder (unless you count my 2 sons lol) these are my pets.
I'm glad you are here, and a bird person, Karen.

 

[Karen Hulvey]

Hey great, another bird person. Yay! I, too, have birds, snakes, 3 lizards, 2 tortoises and cats. No dogs or kids, however.
The peachfaced LB is my favorite bird. I have them in a ton of different colors. I'm working with breeding the "blue" morphs.

I have a PF that is handicapped. He is splay legged and I could not fix it when he was a baby. He gets around normally and is just a sweetie. I also have Spitfire and Wilma as my pet LBs. Here's a couple of pictures of Wilma.

 

[Lucille]

Wilma is a cutie!!
Any other readers of this thread have birds? Tell about them!

 

[NewEnglandReptile]

MEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!

Here is "Rafiki-Chuy-Pepe le Tweet-Alfonso-Junebug-the-Third" - aka "THE FEEK!" aka my Mister Mighty Metal Monster Munchkin Meatball Man. 100% USDA Certified Spoiled Rotten Brat. Aka "he who rules all that is cute & monstrous & demonic and meatball-ish."

THE FEEK! was my first PF & I just LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVE him! Hatched here, now 2 years old (as of Jan. 7th).

Here he is carousing with our resident "Usual Suspects:"

Enjoy!

Kara

 

[Karen Hulvey]

Wow, I love lovebirds. The Feek is a pretty guy. My favorite bird is the lovebird.

Do you breed lovebirds? I ask this because that Dutch blue is a very young bird.

Is that a Princess of Wales Parakeet? It's beautiful.

Here's a pic of some of the babies that I'm handfeeding. They're just about weaned.

 

[Karen Hulvey]

Okay here it is.

 

[NewEnglandReptile]

Wow, I love lovebirds. The Feek is a pretty guy. My favorite bird is the lovebird.

Do you breed lovebirds? I ask this because that Dutch blue is a very young bird.

Is that a Princess of Wales Parakeet? It's beautiful.

Here's a pic of some of the babies that I'm handfeeding. They're just about weaned.

The Feek says "THANK YOU!!!" (which is unlike him - he is often cocky) . Lovebirds are just the greatest little feathered things on Earth, aren't they????

We do breed them...in addition to the normal PF's we've recently started branching out into the various color mutations. The Dutch Blue - "Germ" (Kev's bird) is maybe 4 months old in that pic, and such a little sweetie pie!

And yes, that is our male Princess of Wales - "Lola" (seemed appropriate), along with Nigel, the English budgie. We're hoping to find a girlfriend for Lola sometime soon, as I'm DYING to hand raise some POW keets. Lola has one of the best vocabularies of any bird I've met to date, and he's a royal - albeit somewhat neurotic - flirt!

I sent you an e-mail about lovebirds earlier this evening...let me know if it shows up.

Thanks for all the kind words - can't wait to see more pics of some of your babies. Wilma is just a swoony DOLLFACE!

K~

 

[Karen Hulvey]

Whyyyyy??? My pictuers aren't working.

DOH! I didn't resize it. It was HUGE and I guess that's why it wouldn't load here.

 

[Karen Hulvey]

I'm working on the blue series birds. I also am working on the orange faced ones too. Here's a pic of some violet babies. It's not the best posed pic but those little turkeys wouldn't sit still for a second. That was taken about a week ago and as they feather out they're becoming real beauties.

 

[NewEnglandReptile]

Stick a fork in me - I'm DONE!!!!! GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASP!

Your babies are GORGEOUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Please excuse me while I pop my eyeballs *back* into my skull!

Can't wait to show these pics to Kev - what awesome little Yummies you have!!!!


***Quick note: we call them "Yummies" since we say "yummie yummie yummie" in a silly, high-pitched voice while we're hand-feeding. The same birds go nuts when you say "yummie!!!" to them as they grow up - it is TOO cute!

 

[NewEnglandReptile]

And might I add...my face hurts from grinning so much. Your little ones are simply AWESOME.

Thanks for the smiles!

K~

 

[Karen Hulvey]

Oh my, I'm blushing. Thank you so much for your compliment. Here's a pic of my orange faced double dark factor cinnamons. I still haven't figured out exactly what mutation they are. The flash kinda washed out some of their color but one has an orange face and the other has a yellowish face. Their flight feathers are a cinnamon color but for whatever reason their parents started chewing on them just before I pulled them. I'm hoping they didn't do irreparable damage to the flights. What I like is the DDF which makes the rump grey. This pic was also taken a little over a week ago and these two are turning into little gems.

I'm emailing you back right now but I'm writing a book so it's taking me a little bit of time.

 

[NewEnglandReptile]

Oh wow...can't wait to see what those will look like as adults!

I'll admit - lovebird genetics are still somewhat of a mystery to me - trying to understand what combos are sex-linked & what splits to whom, where & how.

How many adult pairs are you working with at the moment (if you don't mind me asking)?

K~

 

[Karen Hulvey]

I don't mind at all.

I have 14 pr of PF LBs and 3 pr of black masked LBs.

The first pic is of a pair that I have that produced some awesome babies, 2 were violet and 2 were whiteface Australian cinnamon violet. You'd never guess that these two birds would produce those babies but I have no idea what those two bird's genetic lineage is either.

I kept back their entire first clutch and my violet babies today are from their violet babies I kept back. They were only ready to breed this year. The other two are on eggs right now. (Those two are pictured in my Avatar)

The second pic is of one of the two pictured in my Avatar in it's adult coloration. It didn't stay white. There is no pure white albino peachfaced lovebird because there is no pure blue PFLB. If you notice, all the violet lovebirds have a tinge of green on their wings.

And I thought I was the only one who talked with the silly high-pitched voice to my babies. I always call mine "hungry, hungry hippos. Who's the hungriest hippo here?" LOL

 

[Karen Hulvey]

Okay, the pic w/the four birds, the one on the top left is one of the birds pictured in my Avatar. The blue one on the top right is it's sister.