PINK Flea Market Find and baby pics

[petek]

Found this lovely pink Swing Away can opener at the flea market today. I was thinking it might look good in Kitchen #3.
Along with a pair of pink electric scissors.
Darn if I didn't just miss an old Waring Blendor for being too slow.

 

[petek]

Nobody doesn't like babies , cute and pink

These little budgies (parakeets) are about 5 days old and have already tripled in size

 

[bethann]

Cool Pete!

I love the Swing-a-way! Can't really say I've ever seen electric scissors before. Good find!

 

[petek]

Ahd here's some more

These little beauties are step siblings to the ones above, same cock, different hen and are 7 days old. Note the open eyes and the pin feathers already coming thru.

OK Toggle..here ya go...

 

[bethann]

Sorry Pete

Didn't mean to post in the middle! I didn't realize that you raised parakeets. Must be something to watch them hatch.

 

[Kevinpreston3]

I love parakeets!

We had them growing up. My grandma had two of the green/yellow type. We had a few of the blue ones, then an all white one. The last one we got was a blue one, then went back to get the all bright yellow "albino" (although he just looked yellow to me) one that my mom thought the others were picking on and was shivering and scared in the corner.

Those two lived for years and years!

Nice sweet pets. Good luck with them!

 

[bostonwash]

They look sooo delicate.

I thought I needed to be careful with the 3 kittens I have been fostering for the last 2 weeks from the local humane society. I am always afraid I will step on them with my size 13 feet.

So quaint, Thanks for sharing those pics. It will be interesting to see what they look like in a few weeks, months. Can we ask for an update?

 

[petek]

I raise mostly canaries, but off and on a few budgies , they're more hassle than they're worth trying to find homes for them. This will probably be the last batch of the normal parakeet sized one and then I'm switching over to the English Budgies which look like they're on steroids, about twice the size. I have one English hen now, she's like a pigeon almost and so fat she can barely fly but a few feet, but she's happy. LOL

 

[tomturbomatic]

Pete, How fascinating! Can you show us a picture of the English hen? I have never seen or heard of that type. How did you get the hen off the chicks to photograph them? I am used to seeing water fowl with down, but these bare naked ones are altogether different. If this was in the normal habitat, would the parents stay on the nest to keep the newly hatched budgies warm? Do they make noise for food? Are they in some type of brooder to keep them warm? Thanks for the photos.

 

[Brneyedgrl80]

That's so neat. One of my friends is a huge bird lover and she raised her Goffin Cockatoo since it was an egg. That bird loves her to death!

The only thing I raised since birth were 6 gerbils (I bought a pregnant gerbil). They were the cutest little things. Little pinkies.

 

[toggleswitch]

COOL.

No Pete, I'm not TOUCHING any of those open lines AT ALL.
But who the hell would have taken you for a breeder......

I was thinking about a Guinea hen (un, no that is not slang for ones of a certan European ancestry of a country near the Mediterranean).

But I dont know how to pluck the flight feathers. I hear they are excellent bug control, and a great source of eggs and fertilizer.

[Oh yes I have heard frequently that I am FULL of fertilizer. Problem is getting it onto the lawn.. LOL]

 

[toggleswitch]

HI Brneyedgrl80:

Tell me more about a Giffin cockatoo.
Do they speak?
Do they roam about freely outside their cage?
How old can they become?
What is the average age?

Cool on raising gerbils. I don't DARE. Veg and everybody else would have a FIELD day teasing me.

 

[bostonwash]

Toggle if you acquired an animal we would need to contact the ASPCA. Please spare the innocent your wrath!

Seriously though, you are a hoot! Please, put ME on your buddylist. I would contact you directly but my need for self protection prevents me from initiating such contacts. (I'm shy).

 

[toggleswitch]

Steve B/W:

You have been on my Yahoo Buddy list for ages, "seeking your approval"

SHY.... HA!

Now you take that back! As evil as I can be...well OK AM... with adults, I could (in all seriousness) be the Pied Piper with children and small animals. But DEFINITELY NEVER WITH GERBILS! LOL. I make a great mother. Case in point, I mean, some peple actually call me a mother f----- all the time!

 

[toggleswitch]

Steve B/W-

Size 13 feet huh?

 

[toggleswitch]

PeteK

How do hatchlings eat/get fed.
Don't their beaks hurt your nipples?

Seriously I'd like to know.

 

[bostonwash]

my foster babies

They like to hang out downstairs. And look what they have found. A 1978 coffee Lady Kenmore Washer.

 

[bostonwash]

they agree that it needs a good cleaning

 

[bostonwash]

adding detergent to the dispenser