Oh no - not budgies!!!

[Jen]

A couple of years ago we completely got out of Budgies and said we would never have them again. I certainly said I would never bother handraising any more of them.
On Thursday we were talking to a close friend who had decided he would have to sell all his budgies as they were too much work at the moment as he is quite ill. He has hundreds of birds but finds the budgies to be the most time consuming. He said he would take them to perth on Friday but unfortunately any babies would have to be disposed of as they couldnt be sold and he has such a big flock of budgies he would never be able to work out which were the parents. Well I couldnt let that happen so after he caught the 90 adults I went through the boxes and collected the babies and now have 18 budgies to handraise of various ages. Luckily a few will be eating on there own before long which leaves me with about a dozen or so to raise.
There were some absolutely stunning adults taken to Perth and will probably end up at Birdworld so if anyone is after some nice colours from bright aqua coloured pieds, to lemon yellow to rainbow coloured you might want to pop down there ASAP.

Jen

PS Message to mods
Couldnt decide if this should go in Budgies or handraising so just stuck it here. sorry about that

[Mandav]

lol , and to think at the moment my budgie's are free to a good home and even then i got no takers cause no one even wants to buy them , lol good luck jen at least their in good hands

[Silvercloud]

Wow, good luck with them Jen.

The post can stay here as it's not specifically about either topic really.

[Jen]

Well two have been offered homes so far! One is a little pale yellow one with black eyes. My friend fell in love with it the minute she saw it and loved its colour which I said was the colour of butter. She said Exactly, thats why i am going to call it "Marge, short for margarine!" Well I've heard some funny names before but I recon a budgie called Marge is pretty cute.
Another has been offered a home with a family of two teenage girls. Maybe i should talk them into taking two, one each. Theres a plan, now only 15 to go.
So far the ones that have coloured up are quite a variety.
white with black eyes
yellow with black eyes
an albino
a lutino
some lavender coloured ones
a lavender with cinnamon markings
some aqua with yellow heads
and some blue with yellow heads
luckily my friend doesnt breed green ones as they would be even harder to get rid of.

[Mandav]

wow what an array of colours , my mums looking for a handraised lutino , she'd prefer a male but , so let me know how u go with them

[silkiechick]

wow sounds like a pretty little bunch! Good luck!

[Peter]

oh dear god! And i thought hiding a guinea pig was bad enough! Good luck with the

Pics...cough cough

doesn't matter what section you post it in, its all good

[Silvercloud]

They sound gorgeous Jen.

[Helen]

They sound very pretty. I might be boring but I still love my budgies.

[karen]

I love budgies, great personalities in such a little package.

[Jen]

mandav said:

wow what an array of colours , my mums looking for a handraised lutino , she'd prefer a male but , so let me know how u go with them

No worries, the older lutino is going to be a hen I think but there is another I am not sure on yet so I will let you know.

Jen