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GreycieMae's toybox


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Everybirdy needs a toy box. Wife has been after me for - I don't know how long - to build Rio, our Jardines, another hidey-fort for the aviary. He loves to hang out in little wooden boxes and the GreycieMae loves to turn them to splinters. So I decided to build GreycieMae a hanging toybox that I've been promising for a while now. It didn't take long. I had all the tools I needed in a pile from a fence job I finished that day. I was in the middle of a putting up some insulation/wall board and was waiting on my daughter who I sent on a gofor job to get more insulation. So this took about 35 minutes from raw fir strips to finished GreycieMae hanging skybox!!!

 

I know I hit a home run when the birdies get possessive and wanting to fight over the new toy. Looks like I'll have to be building another soon.

 

 

 

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Too cool for school! It would be great if you would set up a Sterling Ranch Etsy shop so we could buy some of your GreycieMae specials. Love this one!

 

Hmmm...an Etsy shop. Sell bird toys so I can buy more bird toys. Is that like selling drugs to support my drug habit? :D

 

 

 

Love this idea! Looks like greycie is having a blast!

 

If you look closer, especially in the first couple photos, you'll see the look of annoyance on her face. Her and the Caique had been in a standoff over the new toy for a while when I decided to bust out the camera. Same thing happened when I hung GreycieMae's birthday net. She hates sharing anything with Toby. She'll share her food with me all day but Toby can shove off!

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This morning, I went looking for Kura to feed her breakfast. Found her right where she's been since October 3, sitting on her 2 now totally mangled eggs. "Well, maybe I'll get her back tomorrow".

 

When I saw this thread I thought, "Oh it's a cool new hangout!" Then immediately, "Oh crap, it's a nest box." Sorry to be a kill-joy & all. But since I don't wish a broody hen on anybody else, I thought I should share that.

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This morning, I went looking for Kura to feed her breakfast. Found her right where she's been since October 3, sitting on her 2 now totally mangled eggs. "Well, maybe I'll get her back tomorrow".

 

When I saw this thread I thought, "Oh it's a cool new hangout!" Then immediately, "Oh crap, it's a nest box." Sorry to be a kill-joy & all. But since I don't wish a broody hen on anybody else, I thought I should share that.

 

 

There were similar comments on the Grey FB page. However several others jumped in a said it's not nearly closed in enough to send a normal grey into broody mode. It's a LOT less closed in than a cardboard box (which she's in right now shredding to bits). I would consider a cardboard box a broody box but lots of people give those to the greys to shred.

 

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It's always going to depend on the bird. Which is why I debated saying anything & then decided to lead w/my problem child.

 

In the wild. ekkies nest in rotten tree trunks. So logically, would you think she'd be looking for a hidey hole like say a cardboard box? But this ain't my first rodeo. So no cardboard boxes & nothing enclosed as soon as I realized she was going to be a hormonal little hen.

 

Soooo, she started laying in her food cups. Aside from the floor, it doesn't get any more open than that. And since she doesn't quite fit into a cup, I'm pretty sure that's got to hurt week after week.

 

I guess it's been 5 yrs now. I can't stop her (so far). I can't encourage her. But I can't stand to see her tortured, either, 3 times a yr. So I compromised. I bolted a ferret litter box into one corner. Still not giving her a suitable nest, by all accounts. But sure enough, she laid this next clutch there, like I expected.

 

GreycieMae is going to do her own thing. Hopefully, she won't be laying eggs & all like that because trust me, it takes a lot of the fun out of things. Double extra if she has egg binding problems. But since prevention can be the best cure, like I said, I felt like I should at least offer it up for consideration & hope I'm totally wrong.

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