African Love Birds.

[Nordic]

Never been much of a bird keeper (save for a chicken that became a rooster and 3 zebra finches), but I have bred quite a few species of fish... and off course we are outnumbered 2.5 to 1 when it comes to cats...

There is no lower feeling than when you feel responsible somehow for anything bad that happens to the pets we try to do only the best for...

 

[GK]

Our rainbow lorikeet died sometime last night / early this morning.

There are some ropes strung around his cage for him to climb and swing on. He'd chewed out the end of one and frayed it.

At some stage his foot got tangled in it and he panicked. we found him hanging by his foot. Poor little thing must have had a heart attack from the panic. The big parrot was quite distressed and kept calling out to him.

We've had birds for years and never had anything like that happen.

Bad news about the Lorikeet 🙁

Last weekend one of the two quails in my parents aviary died of natural causes so they decided to donate the remaining one to me.
Bad idea. I let it loose in my aviary in the evening and the next morning it was dead, pecked to death by the four quails already living in my avairy. They started chasing the new commer around when I first put him into the cage, but I though nothing of it, attending to other things that needed doing instead.

Vicious little bastards!