Crimson Bellied Nursery Journal 2010
One of our 2009 babies sent us a video. Thank you, Dan, for sharing your beautiful Tutu with bird lovers all over. Click here to see Tutu in her mature crimson feathers!
The updates on our babies from their new families is in blue below
July 9, 2010 Our oldest Crimson Belly went home yesterday! So, now we only have two of them here that we are still feeding. Here are some pictures from today
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(flew to Mike in Buffalo)
Well Ellie
played successfully with 7 visitors today. Our whole
family and Uncle Mark. She especially likes to
go under the girls pony tails. We learned that we can
pick her up from under the pony tail and she just lets
you hold her. She is superb. She walked all over all
who held her and she did not bite at all. Our two
youngest handled her very well. No hesitation on the
Ellie's part or the children.
 Her car ride from Buffalo to Rochester was pretty uneventful. She walked all over her mash investigating, but only had a few bites. I put it on a small paper plate and put it in her travel cage for the ride. About half way home she came over to the door and hung there the rest of the ride. She was enjoying the sun on her and looking at me as I drove. Her Unit was completely intact, with all her water and food still where you had put it. The water bottle was empty but there was still some water in the tray just below it. She did eat some fruit and seeds on the way home. She has beautiful color and her tail feathers are a great looking dark maroon. Just love the blue poking out in several places. She is just beautiful. Well she played with family from about 7 till 11 EST. We put her in her cage from time to time to see if she would devour her dinner. We put her on her perch out in front of her cage and she sat on that for a little while. She poked around her food investigating all her bananna, fruits, sprouts, mash, cracked corn, water, but she kept going back to her seed that came from Arizona. That, we were able to save all of after her trip. We put it in a tray in her new cage and she was happy poking around that. She has been climbing around her cage for a while now having a great time. She loves when we stroke her back. Especially when the girls held her. She nuzzled in the neck of all the girls and sat on the hand of all the boys. HMMMM. I wonder why that happened. She is so lovable and calm. Priceless. MH
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So I got off work early and got down to SeaTac where I picked her up. Strapped her cage into a seat and headed for home.
It was also time for our normal game night so I didn’t get a chance to mail you right away, sorry about that. But Lucy found our backlit keyboards the most interesting thing ever as she hopped about the keys. We then let her explore her new cage where we all found that she was a little smaller than we expected and she was able to slip her head through her bars! I guess I was judging based on my old conure’s size. EEEK So we moved some toys to her sleeper cage and I’m going cage shopping again for something she can use for now today. This morning we got her up and she was a little grumpy nipping a bit but seemed much happier once she got a little mash in her. And then I was off to work and Theresa has her for the rest of the day. :(
Nothing to really say, other
than she's a cutie.
But I thought you'd like to
see how much she's come to love our son Zack.
Rob
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July 3, 2010
Band 280 (Reserved by Thomas) Hello Beth and family,
Well, so far, so good. Peeka
and I are buddies now and she has adjusted well. She is
pretty playful and full of good spirit. She seems to handle
it well when I am gone during the day, and when I am home,
she has total freedom from her cage; it's the least I can
do!
I did nip her flights about
an inch. The 5 end feathers are even with the 6th. She can
still fly pretty well, but a little of the lift-off power
has been diminished. This seems to have calmed her down a
little, but maybe I'm imagining it. She's still pretty free
spirited.
I've managed to improve my
technique for handling such a petite bird, when it comes to
putting the flight-suit on, but I haven't committed to doing
it every day. It is my assessment that (I think) no matter
how regular you are with putting that thing on, a bird will
never be/act "normal" with it on. And, if the opposite is
true, it comes down to the fact that I just do not have the
dedication to be consistent every-single-time. I'm okay
with that, and the suit serves it's purpose when I take her
out. She does, however, scream and struggle desperately
when I try to put it on her. It's actually a little funny.
Once it's on, though, she's fine. I think she recognizes
it means leaving the house, too.
The daily formula feeding
ended about two weeks ago. I have mixed feelings about
that. I do have a little left and gave her some the other
day. She saw it and got excited and ate about 7 cc. This
brings me to a question of concern. I'm not sure why, but I
was under the impression the Crimson Bellies were big
eaters. My Caique had a huge appetite and refused little. Peeka,
on the other hand, eats very, very little -even of the
things I know she likes. Is this typical of the CB? She
seems healthy, plays with fervor and flies around the room,
gets in trouble, etc.; all the seemingly healthy bird
things. Yet, she eats very little. An example: If I give
her 3 grapes, she may nibble at all of them but only consume
about the quantity of one, before she's off to do something
else. Another example: So far it seems her favorite thing
to eat is pecan. She will eat the most of this, but even at
one sitting, may only consume the volume of half a nut or a
little more. She will/does nibble frequently, but in such
small amounts, and I never see her crop full -something I am
accustomed to seeing when feeding her the formula. Should I
be concerned? I'm not worried, given her seemingly good
condition, but it is on my mind.
Other than that, all is well
here. She seems happy. She's sitting on my shoulder eating
a piece of grape now. I love that slightly damp feeling of
grape bits.
I hope you all are well,
Tommy D
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June 28, 2010 Here is a movie that shows just what I keep saying about how silly these babies are. This was taken after feeding last night. The babies are all in a bucket that attempts to keep them contained while we are feeding. They do make it messy, so please excuse the mess. Click here to see a very cute mess!
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June 24, 2010 These babies too are back sleepers. The oldest is flying to us and is very friendly.
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| June 11. 2010 We brought in all 3 of Tyler and Millie's babies. Today I sent in the dna samples to have them all sexed. They are all skittish right now due to the surprise of coming from a quiet, dark nest box into our home. I have heard of babies getting stress bars in their feathers due to this type of change, but have yet to see it in our babies. Stress bars can also be caused by a poor diet. Feather quality tells you a lot about the health of a bird. |
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But, we just brought in Tyler & Millie's clutch. They have three, and all are doing well. We should hopefully be getting pictures today and put them on here sometime later.
June 3, 2010. This group of babies is getting ready to meet their new families. They are all doing very well and are so enjoyable. We have many visitors and the children love playing with the babies. Once they grow up a bit, feeding becomes much easier. We always try to include the children in what we are doing in our kitchen. Yes, it gets chaotic, but a good time is had! Here is a feeding from June 1. You can see how big the babies have gotten!
The samples have been sent in on the dna sexing and I am just waiting to see what gender each bird is. Then, I will know which bird goes to which family. I bet they will tell me tomorrow or the next day.
| May 27 These babies are growing up so fast. The oldest two are now flying, and we are having a lot of fun with that! They are loving their fruits and mash, and are all wearing flight suits regularly. | Band 276
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| May 18 These baby Crimson Bellies are so friendly! They love to be held, scratched, and cuddled. The two oldest have graduated from the brooder into a cage and have even started eating their fruits and veggies every day. |
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| May 15 All of Rhett's babies are inside with us now! | Band 276
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May 7
We pulled Rhett's first baby inside
and there are three more in the box. Here are some pictures of
the one we have inside. We candled Tyler and Millie's eggs and at least two are fertile. The other ones looked clear, but they could be too young to tell yet. We will keep updating as we know more! |
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May 3 Rhett and Scarlett are hatching out babies!! Their first one hatched already! They are now on four babies!!! Tyler and Millie are on eggs....who's on second?
April 18 The flight suit manufacturer asked us to make a new movie of how to put on a flight suit. She wanted us to put one on very slowly. Lisa and Jess did this with a Crimson baby. Click here to see it.
April 11 Click here to see Crimson Bellied Playtime!
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April 10 We are preparing for these babies to go home to their new families. They all get in a flight suit daily, practice flying with us and are serenaded by piano and violin. My oldest has young piano students who are very good with them. We have not yet trimmed their wings for the first time, but that will happen soon. |
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Band 265 Reserved by Kristin ni TX. See update below
I should have sent an
update on Bella (band 265)(Crimson Bellied) long before now.
She is wonderful and doing well. She has one crimson belly
feather on her tummy, and of course beatiful crimson under her
wings. As I mentioned before, she knows 'step up' and 'poop'
and now makes a kissing sound. I think she is going to be a
good talker as well... there's only one problem... she seems to
be 'learning' English from our Green Cheek Conure, Otis. At
night I'll hear her practicing phrases that Otis says - complete
with the same odd cadence he uses! It's incredibly cute. Now
that the quarantine period has ended, Bella and Otis have been
moved gradually closer and closer together - now they have cages
right next to each other. They are spending some time outside
(with us) together. They've gotten into a few squabbles that
we've broken up, but now are getting along pretty well. They
spend most of the time together hanging out on our laps preening
each other. We'll have to wait and see if they continue to get
along well enough to eventually share a cage. For now we're
just enjoying that we can have them out together. In the past
week I feel like Bella has really bonded with us, and lost all
of her initial nervousness. We experienced the same thing with
Otis a month or so after getting him - we enjoyed having him,
and playing with him, but weren't sure what he was thinking, or
really wanted... and then one day, it just seemed to click - we
could tell when he wanted to just hang out on us, or wanted to
tousle, etc. I forgot how good that moment feels when you
realize your new bird is now forever a part of the family, and
everyone (and every bird) is comfortable with the routine. Hope
all is well with you guys. I keep checking the website just to
see all the cute babies you guys are raising! Just because our
family is complete, doesn't mean I can't ooh and aah over the
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| April 3 These babies are so much fun now. The 2 sisters are flying around and the boy is still real snuggly. We are flightsuiting them regularly and taking them out to see the spring flowers here in AZ. Jess is playing with the camera and took some close-ups of the eye for our link about parrot vision. |
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| March 30 The oldest baby is flying! And, they are all doing so well. Such a joy and privilege to get to raise these babies. The genders are in. I am using a new DNA company called JP Birds. |
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March 24
Click here to see the
babies after their last feeding.
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| March 19 Time has flown. The 2 oldest babies are in a cage for the first time today! I did send in the sexings to JP Bird company a few days ago. After, I get back the results, we will know which bird is going to whom. |
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| March 10 And, now there are two! We have brought in a second Crimson Bellied! |
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March 9, 2010 The Yellow Sided
Green Cheeks are all in their new homes. I love hearing the
stories from their new owners. One went to Colorado via Houston
and one went to Connecticut via Cleveland. The third one stayed
here in Arizona. Now, our focus is on the baby Crimson Bellies,
There is just one baby inside, but our plan is to bring in
another tonight. The brooder we use is mighty big for just one
wee baby!
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