Love my purple budgies! Richard is a red violet, Mara is a cinnamon violet so her colour is diluted. In the cabinet hoping for some beautiful babies soon!
Went from such a happy surprise at finding an unexpected cinnamon in the nesting area to her getting sick and a lot of $$$ spent trying to diagnose her to no avail and thinking she was gonna die and then suddenly her health improved a lot for like no reason but she still has weak stamina and yesterday I almost lost her, the flyscreen on my bedroom window had fallen out and I'd not got around to putting it back, she somehow contrived to fly out of the budgie room and into my bedroom where the curtain was open, the window wide open sans flyscreen and I was going frantic looking for her, well she up on the curtain rod above the open window.
If my hair starts going grey I'm gonna blame this bird 100%
Thanks to u/Big_Sheepherder_9943 for this superb photo of a lovely fairy wren couple! Relationship goals ❤️
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Or spirits, whatever you want to call them.
For the benefit of a smoothly running household, free of mould and unwanted guests, appliances that don't tend to break down, generally good vibes, etc.
Do you partake in established practices, like the Cult of Bes? Or use ancestor spirits? Or find local spirits endemic to your particular region, or even down to your specific abode? If the latter, how did you find them?
Picked up some tube stock plants the other day and the label fell out of this one and I can't find it. I imagine some variety of melaleuca but if anyone can help with the specifics I'd be grateful, thanks
I must include state and city apparently when asking for ID so, Western Downs region, QLD
Been finding these magic bean looking things in my yard, they are not from any trees in my yard and after careful observation I came to understand they are dropped by aerial creatures after finding one on the back of my heifer one morning, and also finding some on the ground that looked like they'd been shat by bats. Seeds are approx 1.2cm in length. There are many of them.
Western Downs region, southern QLD.
as you can see, this poor bird has a badly injured leg, that's the bone poking out. I first noticed this bird only a couple of weeks ago and my first thought was to catch her and get to the vet but I'm glad I didn't because they almost certainly would've euthanased her but this bird is a trooper, every day I watch her pulling grubs out of the ground. She can forage. She does just fine.
Yarraman, QLD. About 1.5m tall. Growing as weeds around a pylon.
Utterly unbothered
Skyblue dominant pied whitecap, one of my absolute favourite mutations, just love the way the gold from his face washes down into the blue and turns it that teal shade ❤️❤️ (and that gorgeous fella in the background who is a recessive pied violet spangle)
I have a budgie with a scary medical problem (in that we don't know what it is) who requires ongoing steam therapy treatment to assist her breathing.
Currently she is receiving steam therapy in the bathroom with hot shower running with F10 in a steam humidifier thing per vet's advice but this is inefficient for the long term (she keeps using up all the hot water) so I was thinking of building her a nebuliser.
I've never set one up before and wanted to ask if there is any particular type of nebuliser device I should be looking for? Product recommendations are welcome (I am in Australia).
I understand it's a matter of connecting the nebuliser device to the chamber via a hose, this I can do, but wanted to check if there's anything I need to know before purchasing a nebuliser device. In case of any off-gassing or whatever that could be harmful to a budgie? Or one that's particularly well suited for birds?
Read this when I was very young, in the 1990's, in Australia. It's not Funnybones. Just the one skeleton.
It was about a lonely skeleton who went outside to make friends but everybody was scared of him.
Really sounds like u/PassiveAgressions might've been asking about the same book in this 6 year old unsolved post that I found in my searching.
The art style was colourful and bold, a bit reminiscent of Roger Hargreaves' illustration style with the bright colours and outlines. At one point the skeleton upsets a fruit stall and fruit goes everywhere.
I seem to recall it being called "Mr Nobody" but the results I get from searching that title do not match.
I have also seen this post with this top answer and while I could not find an image of that book specifically, I looked at the artwork of Ninon Philips and it is nothing like this book I am looking for.
Rosie is convinced I'm cheating on her with a book, possibly multiple books. It's true. I'm so sorry Rosie. I totally deserved you screaming directly into my ear at 100 decibels. (I swear to god only mentally unsound people own birds lmao)
And ofc I had to explain to my 3 yr old why Rosie didn't like the fruit she gave her. Dammit Rosie just be polite and eat the Anko fruit.... lol she had some real apple soon after
She's in the bathroom in a tiny cage hanging from a towel hook with a hot shower running and below her is one of those Vicks steamer things (brand new, so no vicks smell) that's got F10 disinfectant in it. Twice a day for 15 minutes we do this. And then her medicine - which apparently tastes really bad so I'll try mixing it with hand raising formula so she doesn't just gurge it back up.
I was so hoping it was just a mite problem.... still waiting for tests but vet was thinking polyomvirus with possible psittacosis. The polyomavirus would explain some things but not her respiratory problems.
Fun!