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Just today the black dots started showing up. They are his feathers!

Just got done with the 3:30am feeding and can't decide if I should go back to bed for an hour or just get up and not tease myself. Kane is growing like a weed and yesterday morning weighed in at 86.4g. So he has doubled in weight in 5 days. Here is a picture from the 28th. https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/M_PzjWQ7m7Ufk40LzWY8w-0cIJkaZrPc_UXzJhsQU-Q=w380-h674-no And these are yesterday. Pat actually held him to, lol. https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/WzumVNCS5DRSGcTYOHyt_KvbJvXYMMpAVvZlvQCLlXQ=w380-h674-no https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/Bpk_hP9cSDMU3PywRihOx2FAPBo4w_9LqzIPSdHkPHI=w380-h674-no

He doesn't start until Monday but he is excited!

We have an eye open! His neak is changing to black now also. Amazing how fast this happens. It was almost from one feeding to the next with his eyes. Did i mention, i am tired. Pictures tomorrow!

Welcome! Love the name game, fun had by all!

I hear he has many distant relatives that visit often.

This was yesterday, look at those eyes now. He is just so darn cute right now, in no time at all he will be ignoring me like the rest and picking daddy over me so I am enjoying this while I can. No weigh in yet, not until his next feeding but he does eat like a, well bird, which we all know is a lot! https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/5yJJHukHDyXTD31UMP-WChuEiuAw1beQ3cawhCatRmo=w380-h674-no

Apparently i will never grow up, orherwise i would have learned something by now and when it comes to birds, i have not learned anything! Lol.

In just 2 days he has gained 22 grams. That has got to hurt growing so fast. Hubby is taking daily pictures when I am feeding him so of course they are on his phone, amazing how much difference a day makes. The slits in his eyes are getting longer and more pronounced so within the week we should see some eyeball! We had to do cage cleaning yesterday on every cage and Marley was such a help to me! Pat was able to clean all of the greys cages while I worked on hers. I was a little slower than him because every time I bend over to try and get to the back she would jump on my arm or back and she is a klutz so balancing her and cleaning do not go well together! lol

Meet Kane= Irish for Little Battler. Blue Throat Macaw @ 7 days old, whoops 8 days old now, it is the next day. Every hour and a half to two hours getting up and feeding, wow. Now I get why a lot of moms like breast feeding, they can just kick back and sleep through it ( I am guessing at that one, lol) He is just missing the 3rd joint of his wing and has some toes on one foot, but they are little stumps for the most part. Also had his tongue nicked but not bad and it will heal. At least he will have good balance, may not be able to fly but heck, that is okay with us. Pat is scared of him, doesn't surprise me though. In 30 years I have seen him hold just one baby. He is afraid he will break them. lol On a side note, my bosses mom had a stroke. Bleeding in the frontal lobe which is where the jibberish talk was coming from. She was insisting on leaving the hospital so they had to restrain her. I feel so bad for her, she just wants to be at home. https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/2l0YomTeGVoKldL611GkxVIm87OEnPxyRKBrLuVP0FI=w898-h674-no

Going to learn how to feed babies today. lol No pressure, I could only potentially kill the poor thing or deform its beak but really, no pressure. I have not made a decision yet but there is a chance if I do okay feeding and pick this mothering thing up easily, this baby will be coming home with me. His birdie mama wasn't to nice to him or his sibling and my friend is in the process of moving so taking on another baby is just too much for her to handle, she will do it but if I can help her I will try. I say another and not these babies because mama killed one of them already and this poor guy is missing a foot (maybe just the toes it was hard to tell in the picture) and the tip of his wing. With my band of misfits she knew I could take care of him and give him a chance at a good life so she offered. This cutie bug doesn't even have his eyes open yet. I am going out there to spend the day and make a fair decision to this little baby, myself and my flock so I have to get my heart ready to hurt if it is too much for me to handle. My boss told me already I could bring him to work with me for the feedings, however, she said this before corporate called and said they wanted to do an office visit on Monday and then her mother got sick. We work from her house and her mom lives with them and she is 92. They called 911 Friday after I had left to get her to the hospital and even though she was talking gibberish and didn't know who anyone was, she knew who the paramedics were and REFUSED to go. Every bit of this happened yesterday so I don't know what the outcome of the day was yet. I feel a bit selfish thinking about bringing a baby bird to work with all of this going on in my bosses life right now. (she also lives with and cares for her 50 year old brother who is mentally challenged) Who knows what this day will bring, I will let you know tomorrow, I will also try and get a picture of the baby.

Wow, it has been a while since I have had a moment to update. What a busy few weeks we have had from cars breaking down to Pat changing careers. His last day at Home Depot is next Friday. Scared but thankful, I have not seen him this happy in a very long time. Still at 16 birds for the moment and they are doing just great. Vincent is a booger and is a bit nippy when he chooses to be. One day he is just a cute lil cuddle bug, the next day he is Cujo and clothing and skin are his enemy. lol Chulo needs to get back in and get his beak done again, that thing grows like a weed. For years these birds never had any vet visits and they had not to bad beaks (except Chulo) and their nails were dull and just a tad to long. They move in here, get more perches, wood to chew, paper to destroy and now their toe nails are sharp as needles and they beaks are weed like in growth. What is up with that? And my Bongo butt, he has fallen for Gabby and now I am his back burner and only loved when I am cooking his dinner. He use to hang out on my shoulder but now he will fly to my shoulder, get a piece of whatever I am cooking and fly right back off my shoulder to Gabby or to his cage to eat it. I am not use to him ignoring me! Cotay and I were doing pretty good getting along for a while but now she is back to hating me. She dives after me to bite if I walk past her, One day the stinker jumped on my back when I was near the table where she was and was biting me, she was on my back though and I couldn't reach her to get her off, very calculating! Lily, Gus and Koko are still the same. Bubba, Oliver, Honey and Sunny, Mary Ann and Marley are just sweethearts! Ixta is doing good too, she is exploring things now and both her and Cotay are getting a few feathers again. Chacho, my poor boy, still hates Pat and I got a full blown attack one evening while I had him out playing and he spotted Pat. Ouch!! Well that is my update for now, lol.

What a wasted day yesterday. We had this great idea to bring Lily out to the kitchen area, cage and all, so she could be with us more and maybe get out of her cage. Big mistake, huge! lol Even though she didn't scream back in the room with the other Toos, she sure did in the kitchen wanting to go back there with them. Heart breaking. So we loaded her back up and put her back in there. Peace and the balance of nature is right again. On the bright side, we got to do a good cleaning under and behind the cages. :-)

If i could do away with mine i would but i am addicted to WordFeud!

Happy Forever Home Day you lucky bird! Congrats!

Mine all have monster beaks so to me it looks fine. Nothing some wood and chewing couldn't handle. :-) Haha, after I submitted that post, I saw Bongo in the side picture, see now, that is a monster beak. (he had a liver condition when he was a baby which caused his beak to grow out funny. It grows away from his face instead of downward like most birds and is really thick.)

Too cute and they seem to have some really strong personalities! Can't wait to hear more, welcome to the forum!

So this bubble in my head just keeps getting bigger... Hubby cut the cable line over the weekend while he was making the moat safe for the dogs. Couldn't get it fixed until yesterday so no tv and no internet. Found a few things out while disconnected from the world. #1- the stereo still works and we found the cd we had been looking for for the last 4 or 5 years. #2- Vincent is a dancing fool! He loves music soft or metal and can dance to the rhythm. #3- If you take your mobile phone off the wi-fy setting, you can get on the internet through your service provider. Too bad I found that out while at work yesterday. :-( and after they got our lines back together.

He isn't there. :-( they just refer you to the emergency clinic that will not give out any advice until "you bring them in". Needless to say, coming out this weekend will not be able to happen. Pat said we can try for the 17th. BTW, he is looking at mobile campers, lol. He is having issues finding one that is just right for 19 birds, 3 dogs and a cat though, he is such a goof!

Sometimes it is so hard and I feel like I am not doing a good job with these guys. It is just that when it rains, it pours. I was playing with Lily yesterday when I got home and had noticed some crud over her nose that morning. I thought she had maybe slung some food and it got stuck or something so I didn't pay too much attention to it. But while we played I noticed she was breathing weird, like her nose was plugged up. Couldn't see anything so we went about our play time. Oliver always sounds like that because he has damaged sinus cavities and we have fought this since the day he moved in so I guess it is a sound I am just use to. After I had put Lily back up I noticed Chulo had food all over his beak, since he is partially blind and has the scissor beak I figured he went to far into his water and that was just the outcome but as I looked harder, his nose is running really bad. It was running down his beak on both sides. I first thought, okay, his food bowl is pretty low and he had to go almost upside down to eat and I know when I turn my head upside down my nose plugs up so maybe that is it. I also then saw that Pat had put those nasty organic pellets from TOPS in his bowl and we had decided a while ago that they made almost all of birds sneeze so now I am blaming that for this nose congestion thing we have going on. What really sucks is that it is a holiday weekend and vet is closed so if anything should come of this, we are screwed. Being a grown up is not fun at all!!!

We never really know until bedtime, if all the cages are occupied, we got em all! We did miss poor Cotay one night and found her on the kitchen table hiding in her box when we were giving out the night time nut snack. She totally missed dinner but I don't think she minded at all.

Pat came home from work sick yesterday. However he didn't give in to it until all the birds were out and I got home from work. I managed to make some chicken and dumplings for us and rice with some chicken for the birds. I also managed to get all the birds up for dinner, not as quickly as they would have liked, except for Ixta and Cotay. I finally gave up and went and got Pat to get them. lol What a spoiled mess those 2 are. Sonny took all the water bowls out of the cages for me in the macaws room, doors and all. I sure wish she would learn how to wash them out and fill them back up! Oh and still waiting for the dirt for the slim moat we have going on with the 1000's of frogs and tadpoles. Been slowly draining it and can see the bottom again, just in time for 30% chance of rain this weekend! Yeah!! Because we do not have enough mosquitoes breeding either!

That is exactly what I was thinking! I looked at all the pretty things on the top of that stove and thought, goodbye pretty salt and pepper shaker, you will be broken soon or hidden in the cabinet! lol I love when birds fly, trust me I have several that do, but now things are on a whole new level! You will have to start looking up for the things you want to protect, the pictures on the wall, the mantel. lol And now you will have to be watching those doors like a hawk!

Feet washed as much as Pat could, she is such a brat to me. She chases me down and gives me this look that just is flat out scary! I would just love to write a book, going to have to really think about that one. A series of children's books since the birds ARE kids. Tantrums, potty training. What to eat what not to eat and the best seller, how to get what you want every time! Lol

I think i have a second burn now. First one pealing second one under it! Lol.