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What a pretty keet! I’m glad you were able to catch him, poor baby. I realy need to add yellow and green to my stock again. I forget how pretty they are! 😀
I miss my budgies. I used to breed them but I’m not allowed to have birds because of my husbands health. They told us they are too dusty for him to be around.
dragonessjade wrote:Aw, cute. I have never smelled one before, what do they smell like?
Sort of like parakeet seeds!
wolflodge100 wrote:What a pretty keet! I’m glad you were able to catch him, poor baby. I realy need to add yellow and green to my stock again. I forget how pretty they are! 😀
if I was into breeding more birds right now, I’d swap with you! I have no blues anymore, just yellow and greens. And one nice grey one. We have a NO EGGS policy in the aviary as well as the factory.
Melody wrote:dragonessjade wrote:Aw, cute. I have never smelled one before, what do they smell like?
Sort of like parakeet seeds!
And what does that smell like? I haven’t owned any birds…hehe
Poor budgie. To the owner’s credit, they may not be local! These guys can fly hundreds of miles. Anyone remember that african grey that turned up in Los Vegas, but the owner (and the spot he got loose from) was somewhere on the east coast, I think? These guys can really go. Even if they are clipped.
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My art: featherdust.comdragonessjade wrote:Melody wrote:dragonessjade wrote:Aw, cute. I have never smelled one before, what do they smell like?
Sort of like parakeet seeds!
And what does that smell like? I haven’t owned any birds…hehe
Oh, I can’t describe a smell..go into a pet shop and smell the bird section where they keep the food and stuff. That is what sort-of what parakets smell like! It is interesting to me how birds smell, You don’t think of them as having a distinctive odor. (I don’t mean a bad odor.)
Nambroth wrote:Poor budgie. To the owner’s credit, they may not be local! These guys can fly hundreds of miles. Anyone remember that african grey that turned up in Los Vegas, but the owner (and the spot he got loose from) was somewhere on the east coast, I think? These guys can really go. Even if they are clipped.
Of the countless birds I’ve found as strays (Over thirty!) I have only managed to find three of the owners!
Escapees! This is how Manhattan has flocks of things like masked lovebirds flying around. The oddest birds I see here end up being flyovers of things like Indigo Buntings and Sparrows that shouldn’t be here, or just ones that are pretty rare in my area. 😛 They tend to only show up around migration, but we occassionally get an oddball during the summer.
Very pretty keets!
Melody wrote:dragonessjade wrote:Melody wrote:dragonessjade wrote:Aw, cute. I have never smelled one before, what do they smell like?
Sort of like parakeet seeds!
And what does that smell like? I haven’t owned any birds…hehe
Oh, I can’t describe a smell..go into a pet shop and smell the bird section where they keep the food and stuff. That is what sort-of what parakets smell like! It is interesting to me how birds smell, You don’t think of them having a distinctive odor. (I don’t mean a bad odor.)
I am guessing it is simular to when you smell a baby’s breath after it has eaten from it’s mother. Haha, the employees are gonna look at me funny and probably wonder why I would smell bird seed.
Well, now that the ducks are gone, we have… a budgy! Our guess is that it escaped from someone’s house. No one came around asking, though… We tried (but not very hard) to catch it, but we sucked. It yaked away all day, hidden in the neighbour’s maple tree. Here is some suggestions from my experience catching these guys. You will notice that if he stays around, he will get weaker because he is not getting enough of the right kind of food. (Unless he has found a bird feeder somewhere).I can tell by the look in his eye that he is already pretty tired. This will make him much easier to catch if you have a net.
He will be attracted to another parakeet. If you wish to try trapping him, and you have a friend or neighbor who has another keet, you could use it as bait (keeping the bait keet safely locked up in his own cage)With the help of another bird, you can probably draw the loose one down to food and be able to trap him. Parakeets will readily hop into a cage to get food, since they are used to them. Arrange a string to shut the cage door from a distance. This works better than a box and stick type trap, that is, if you have an appropriate trap cage to use.
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