(This journal entry has been added 7/2019. Sorry for the delay, but I am returning to keeping the Bird Room Journal up to date!)
2019 has been a strange year, outdoors. March, April and May have been warmer and much sunnier than normal
In the bird room, progress has been going according to plan!
- I have learned a few things about the effects of the changes in my diet plan. I have been mostly satisfied.
I am keeping notes, and will post a summary of what parts of my new diet worked/didn't work. :) - The Good News: Most of my 'most anticipated' pairs produced some very, very nice youngsters. There were also some unexpected beautiful babies from new pairs.
- The Bad News: Most of the newly purchased birds and several of my oldest pairs did not produce a single chick! In early April, when these pairs were not beginning to nest, I began putting fertility vitamin supplements in their water, and increasing their protein, in both seed and softfood. I understand why the old males (8-9 years old) did not produce fertile eggs, but the new young hens who layed/set and still did not hatch a single egg, are a mystery to me. Four of 6 birds from one breeder died! Three of four hens from another breeder sat in an empty nest without building or laying eggs. But they sure were happy just sitting in the nest for days on end.
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| Here are the first youngsters, hatched in April! I haven't taken photos up close, but there are many very nice ones! |
My rocking chair is still in the bird room, but the seed tub is all that is sits in it
In my life away from the canaries, the ranch work has been busy.... and keeps getting even more busy!
Here are a few of my other 'animal friends':
