I found me!

I literally lost myself; got a new computer and never got my stuff off of the old one. Seems like a difficult job, time consuming, so I have been procrastinating about doing it. Some day. Maybe :o)

Soooo....what is new?

Not much with me except hubby got laid off and I am done doing daycare but not by my decision. I am still watching my nephew, however my mom and I are sharing him, sort of. She watches him in the morning, and then I watch him in the afternoon.

This allows me to get my house back in order and I am loving it! Mom asked me how on earth I can find stuff to do for 4 hours!? LOL When my 4 hours are up, I am not done with my work so I can easily fill up that time. Mom says she gets bored. I say what she needs are some birds LOL

So, with the new schedule, it means changes in our lives. Especially for the birds. Well, at least for 2 of them...Peanut and Baby Joey. Oh, and Oreo because we are having some issues with him. I swear he is either part beaver or part termite. He is determined to eat our entire house!

He actually chewed through an electrical wire that goes to our phone! We had to get new phones, but that was the least of our worry of course. He could have killed himself. It happened on hubby's watch heeheehee

Anyway, it is very apparent that he needs more chewing opportunities, even though he has a lot, he needs MORE!

That is easy enough to fix. Next is Baby Joey. He is a lineolated parakeet and I really don't know much about them. They aren't all that popular, yet so there isn't much info out there about linnies.

What I did read is totally opposite of what I do with Baby Joey. Urrrrrchhhhhhhhhhhh go the brakes. Reverse and totally revamp my ideas about him.

Number 1 thing to do is to bring him out into the living room during the day. See, Baby Joey lived in the bird room during the day with 1 lovebird, 3 budgies and 2 cockatiels. According to the Lineolated Parakeet Society's webpage, linnies should not be living with budgies because linnies are so calm and quiet and it would stress them out too much. Uhoh. Mistake number 1.

And, then I read that linnies like to have a clean living environment so they should not live with dusty birds such as cockatiels. Oops, mistake number 2.

But, someone forgot to tell this to Joey. He flock calls a lot when he is out in the living room. He loves his budgie buddies.

But, (again), he is not as aggressive, strick that, he is not aggressive when given a break from the budgies. He was biting, a lot. Linnies are not aggressive by nature so this was not something to take lightly.

He was biting me a lot, and now since he has been in the living room, he has bitten me a total of 2 times.

Next is to move his sleep cage into my bedroom but since a clean environment is important to linnies (and I know it is important to Joey since he doesn't poop in his sleep cage), I need to clean my bedroom! LOL

Next item of business is Peanut, my problem child. *sigh* Gosh, I don't know where to start with him. He is in hormone overdrive and I really feel it is my fault because I have been lax in making sure he has lots to do :o( We've even stopped doing step up and he has been a booger about getting off of me when I need him to. He runs from one side of my shoulder to the other, down my back, up my head. Oy! It makes me not want to get him out of the bird room/cage.

But, item number catrillion and fifteen... impliment (implement??? sp??) some discipline in this house regarding the monster, errr I mean the Peeps ;o)

How am I going to do that? Lots of praise, lots of consistency, lots of patience, lots of play time, lots of things to do, and a routine.

I want to try to forgo a wing clip if I can... I will update my progress as I go :o)