Moulty Monty and the Fiends wish you all a Happy New Year!

Happy new year everyone for tomorrow (depending on where you are in the world it might have already happened..)

Have a great 2012 may you all stay healthy and happy.

The fiends are moulting

The budgies are really spiky at the moment. Their poor little heads must be really itchy.

Dumpling keeps trying to get me to preen him every time I go over to see him.

I made them some egg food:

Here is how I put it together:

Hard boil an egg for 25 minutes then cool it, cut it in half and peel off the shell.It has to be properly hard boiled otherwise your birds can get ill.

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Carrot, Broccoli and hard boiled egg

Grate about 2 inches worth of peeled carrot, and a washed floret of broccoli along with the egg into a bowl.

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Grated ingredients

OPTIONAL: I added a pinch of "Guardian Angel" as I had some handy but you don't have to do this.

Mix it all together and serve.

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Monty happily chomping away at his meal

Simple to make and very nutritious for your birds, moulting means that they need extra protein in order to produce new feathers.

IMPORTANT: Don't leave this out for more than a couple of hours and make sure you remove any traces of vegetable and egg that have been thrown around by the birds.


Read more:http://budgerigarsforum.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=budgiehealth&action=display&thread=356&page=1#ixzz1ax4uCYxX

A not so moulty Jerry

Jerry is looking a lot better now, last week he looked really spiky and moulty it was horrendous and now he's looking all feathery and lovely again.

The poor little boy had pin feathers all over his bonce, we were seriously thinking about grabbing him and preening him ourselves as Roswell was obviously neglecting to do this for him - well Custard wouldn't let him.

Here are photos from a week ago and today - judge for yourself.

Moulting birdies

The birds want the summer back, now it's colder they are losing feathers cos of the temperature change and they don't like it. They also squawk at the rainy cold weather and only want to fly about when it's sunny and bright. Sorry it's a short update...but the good news is - I have a computer to use which is running well with Ubuntu 10.04 - the bad news is my laptop gave up the ghost and we could not resuscitate. :( enjoy pics of the boys..