[Bea]

Yesterday the tiels went from this:

To this:

That's right, there are now separate boys and girls rooms for the tiels! I was talking to Laura about Bailee plucking Cookie (which he's still doing), and it got me thinking about how unfair it is to leave Cookie to get plucked because i didn't want to upset Bailee or un-make my master piece. She's looking so scrappy these days with missing feathers and pin feathers, and she's usually so pretty with her sleek feathers so it's just not fair to leave her in the same cage as Bailee the wife plucker.

The girls have taken to the separation very well!! They wander around playing and eating and preening. The boys were a little less impressed. I walked in to find them snuggled side by side looking lonely. I think Bailee's trying to figure out how he's going to get any action now that there are cage bars between him and Cookie!

 

[Ozzy]

wow handy cage you got there that it can split back up!
poor boys lol but atleast your girls are happy

 

[Laura]

Thats such a great cage Bea that it comes apart so easily, I know what a hard decision it was to do but I am sure Cookie appreciates it isn't it funny how the boys take it so much harder then the girls when I separated Lee and Minnie he called and called and she could have cared less

 

[Nutmeg]

lol
Glad she wont be plucked anymore !
hehe

 

[Kfontan]

Poor Bailee :lol:

Do you think this will be a permanent thing?

 

[Nutmeg]

kfontan i think it will be
inless there behaviour changes like stopped eating or weight loss.

thats what i think that way cookie doesnt become bald ^^

 

[birdieness]

Great job bea. Exactly the same thing i had to do. And i must say, Slush is starting to look sooo much better. Not sure she will get all get feathers back and it may always look a little patchy but its no longer completly bare and able to see the skin. I can't even let hugs and slush out. Looking at getting slush a friend next year after i move. One who doesn't have plucking issues. Going to look for a adult to go with her (any gender).

 

[xxxSpikexxx]

It is better this way, Iam sure Cookie is not enjoying being bald it is winter you know

 

[Bea]

Do you think this will be a permanent thing?

Possibly, i'll see how we go. It's just as easy having it as two cages, so it doesn't really bother me which way i keep them.

 

[Kfontan]

I have this picture in my mind of the girls partying it up with the budgies completre with buffet and DJ, and the boys just grumbling miserably saying the following:

Bailee: "It's your fault!"
Snickers: "No, it's your fault!"

Men

Will it take long for poor Cookie to get the bald spots covered?

 

[Bea]

Will it take long for poor Cookie to get the bald spots covered?

It shouldn't. She's covered in pin feathers at the moment though, poor girl.

 

[Jade]

Poor Cookie
Is this because of the whole fustration thing with Bailee? like, him headbutting her for stritches but she didn't really give him any?

Get well soon Cookie!

 

[Bea]

I think it is a lot of hormonal frustration. He's beginning to get friendlier again, around me anyway. He still tries to pluck Cookie when they're all out for play time together.

 

[Kfontan]

Men never learn.