reddawn 2,173 Posted December 22, 2012 Report Share Posted December 22, 2012 (edited) iv had flights way canaries in an they were excellent to sit an watch in the summer evenings an when ever i had some spare time, same as pigeons they been in my family longer than me, i had them for a few years, but nowt compares to a pet budgie i think im trying to talk the wife in to lettng me get 1 Edited December 22, 2012 by reddawn Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Millet 4,497 Posted December 22, 2012 Author Report Share Posted December 22, 2012 Moll had a budgie in the house Reddawn and he was a little cracker..Tomy he was called and he done some funny thing's.. too much to mention..he used to sit on the dog's and take food from your mouth while sat on your shoulder..he even talked but it sounded like a bad tuned radio... ..but a teflon kettle in a dishwasher killed the poor little bugger.. Tell your misses you would love a male budgie for a xmas pressant.. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
the_stig 6,614 Posted December 22, 2012 Report Share Posted December 22, 2012 Plenty of room yet Paul.. ..plus i have a indoor build in mind for any youngster's or spare bird's that need to be kept away from any breeding pair's.. Sounds like you got the bug for this bird lark mate....................same as me lately just i aint really got a scooby about birds ............this thread has been invaluable to me as ive got a mate building me an aviary in the new year........i cant be doing with learning by reading id rather learn by watching but they dont tell you much i dont even know what birds ive got ...they,re Canaries but what type is anyones guess........fascinating little things though i must be getting old !! get your daughter to stick some photos up gnash someone will soon identify them for you ,,, 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
fireman 10,774 Posted December 22, 2012 Report Share Posted December 22, 2012 Here is my new addition's 2 x irish fancy hen's and a cock goldie that have been gifted to me from a very good fellow to make up for my loss.. Grand pic of some grand birds from a grand fella Millet for sure and there'll produce some fine mules for sure,that one on the right is known as a buff with the white tipping to the feather,just for the slightly geeky among us . Gnasher i'd say more than half of what most bird keepers know was learnt by trial and error and by just watching the birds rather than reading up on it,bit the same as any animal you can read all you want about hunting or say boxing but by feck it's different when it's you out there in the field or ring eh? but it isn't to hard to tell them once you've been shown a few times and i'd say there's more types of terriers than canaries and we all know them at a glance. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
reddawn 2,173 Posted December 22, 2012 Report Share Posted December 22, 2012 Moll had a budgie in the house Reddawn and he was a little cracker..Tomy he was called and he done some funny thing's.. too much to mention..he used to sit on the dog's and take food from your mouth while sat on your shoulder..he even talked but it sounded like a bad tuned radio... ..but a teflon kettle in a dishwasher killed the poor little bugger.. Tell your misses you would love a male budgie for a xmas pressant.. we has a few mate but that was before we had the kids an noo my house is pandemoniom, if thats how ye spell it lol, all ours was same mate, would take food off us or teh dogs 1 we had was in 7 diffrent dogs mouths before it died of old age, ill get 1, dont know when, but i will 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
TUFFTY 1,476 Posted December 22, 2012 Report Share Posted December 22, 2012 Try fishing wire set up around the top of the flights and zigzag it across so the spar cant land Cracking 3 new one there matey teflon kettle in a dishwasher ?? How was that then mate? TUFFTY Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Millet 4,497 Posted December 23, 2012 Author Report Share Posted December 23, 2012 teflon kettle in a dishwasher ?? How was that then mate? TUFFTY Moll had a cast iron kettle that was painted black..i'm not 100% sure if it was teflon that killed them but when it was put in the dish washer all 3 budgie's in the cage started rolling around the cage floor..the window was opened and the bird's where all took outside..one recovered but the best one and another died pretty quick..i know that teflon on frying pan's is poisonous to budgie's so that is all we could put it down too as nothing else had changed or been done in the room.. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Millet 4,497 Posted December 23, 2012 Author Report Share Posted December 23, 2012 Here is a picture of the door's i have rigged up so the flight's can be opened and shut into seperate flight's when need be.. ..i was going to take the cross section out to save me bending down to pass through but it would of weakened the feed station. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Malt 379 Posted December 23, 2012 Report Share Posted December 23, 2012 Cracking set up there Millet! Is that a red factor towards the middle of the picture? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Millet 4,497 Posted December 23, 2012 Author Report Share Posted December 23, 2012 Yes Malt it's one of two hen's i have.. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Malt 379 Posted December 23, 2012 Report Share Posted December 23, 2012 Yes Malt it's one of two hen's i have.. Are you going to colour feed them mate? I've only ever seen factors kept together and colour fed through the drinking water, never seen them in a mixed flight. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Millet 4,497 Posted December 23, 2012 Author Report Share Posted December 23, 2012 I have not realy put much thought into it Malt but if i need to i will..they are to be paired with a goldie cock bird when the time is right along with 2 nice little irish fancy hen's.. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
the_stig 6,614 Posted December 23, 2012 Report Share Posted December 23, 2012 (edited) shame you lost one so soon -- the fella i know that racers pigeons got cut off branches on his flight to stop bop and cats getting on top dont know if that will do your job ...i put 6 inch nails in when i had mine and crossed orange bale string similar to the fishing line set up in earlier post ... Edited December 23, 2012 by the_stig Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Millet 4,497 Posted December 23, 2012 Author Report Share Posted December 23, 2012 (edited) I'll be on the phone to these fellow's later Stig.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hutO8FDC2dU&feature=player_embedded#! Edited December 23, 2012 by Millet Quote Link to post Share on other sites
TUFFTY 1,476 Posted December 23, 2012 Report Share Posted December 23, 2012 Millet, Will you be having some breeding cages set up as well? TUFFTY Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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