FEATURE


for buying from the Birdcare Company is to buy from them at the shows as their goods are always discounted there! I thought the parents may want to nest again which would explain the pulling of feathers from the babies’ heads but once the babies were removed they didn’t show much interest in breeding. The babies were a noisy little rough and tumble crew between the three of them and when let out to fly always followed each other around the room calling to each other. In late 2016 I moved back to the UK. It was while moving an accident happened and the parents and two babies escaped from their travelling cage. Something had moved in the back of the van and dislodged a door slightly even though I had taped all the catches shut. It was just enough for them to squeeze out and


escape while the van was being unloaded without me seeing. The first baby was still sitting in the cage looking confused. They stuck around the trees in the area for a day and the mother actually returned to her cage which I left outside on top of the other pair’s cage so the sounds would draw them in. Unfortunately after that day I never saw the father or two babies again but was thankful that the mother came back. I hope they survived at least a while, enjoying flying free; we have feral Ringneck parakeets so who knows. I did put them on the lost register but no luck. The mother and son lived quite happily


together for about six months until I arranged another trip back to Belgium to get another unrelated male bird from the breeder with five pairs. He also had a


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