A New Addition to Our Flock!
Guess what? I got a girlfriend for Howie today. I went to our local feed store where I get my cat food and they had some English Budgies for sale. As you can tell Howie is a standard parakeet and is half the size of the new girl. I got her because she is lame. Her foot on the right side of the photo can not grasp the perch like a normal parakeet so she leans on the perch more on that side. I don't care if she is not perfect, all I saw is that she needed a home and Howie needed a girlfriend. He was putting some miles on his mirror. Anyways, G picked her out and at first glance I thought she was a green pigeon but she is parakeet. Genetics is an amazing thing because it bred the Jolly Green Giant of Parakeets. By the way, we thought of a name for her. Her name is Sumo-keet, you know as in Parakeet, or Sumo for short. She is a feisty thing and can probably take us down if we try to clip her nails.
posted by Angelique at 7:33 PM
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Thanks for taking a look at my blog, dadog! Howie looks a little unsure on whether they belong to the same species. So far, she is a sweetheart and they are slowly becoming buddies.
Once again, I stand and applaud your humanity! Thank you.
Monty, she is getting better and is more fiesty. She is now able to stand up and use her leg a little bit. She still leans heavily on the perch alot but she has bursts of energy when she chases Howie around the cage. Howie is so in love with her. He gives her moony looks all the time. It's cute!
Budgerigars origins are the more southern inland areas of Australia.
They are small ground feeding yellow-green Parakeets which travel in flocks.
Your English birds are probably 50th generation with years of specialist breeding in captivity to show for their excellence.
Those birds in Sth Australia are a straggly bunch and would bite your finger off before you said pretty birdie.
Incidently I live in a medium sized seaside town in eastern NSW Australia, named 'BUDGEWOI' Aborigine name 'Meeting of the waters' yes we do have other pretty birds here too, some have wings.
Thanks, Vest, for the info. I confess I don't know a lot about parakeets even though I have had a few over the years. They are pretty lively and chirp a lot. Sumo-keet is getting better and seems to have adjusted nicely in my Brady Bunch.
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