Camas, WA - We have ended the week with a clear change in dynamics, after Ocean Blue went to Bird Heaven: Sunny Jewel has shown great hospitality. While newly arrive Marshmallow cream hangs around where Sunny used to, Sunny does not seem to mind, and is very accommodating.
While Sunny seems very athletic, Marshmallow seems to be a little clumsy: She seems to miss the perches by a few nanometers and has to use her wings to finish the jump. She is also still very jumpy not too active and not too talkative.
That got me thinking about the life of a commercially grown parakeet like Marshmallow: Once parakeets are hatched, the babies will take four to to five weeks to fly out of the nest. Breeders suggest that once babies leave the nest, to separate them from their parents and keep them until the black color beak disappears, " because a baby budgie clear beak has a better price than with a black color beak." PetSmart says the parakeets they sell are not older than three months. So parakeets like Marshmallow were separated from their parents after a month or so, then transported to a store such as PetSmart and put in a cage with other parakeets, then sold presumably within days and transported to their hopefully forever home where they are put in yet a different cage!
Something else I learnt in this time is that i need a good portable vacuum cleaner, lik VacLife. It did not last last too long. Feathers and the fine bark particles bypassed the filter and clogged up the engine.
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| VacLife - was not suitable for bird cage cleaning |
I might see if I can repair or get a new one.
While Marshmallow and Sunny seem to be slowly adapting to their companionship, it may be a long journey and we hope Marshmallow has the stamina
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