The New Lovebird Cage

(Tony the builder-again!)

I love this picture, partly because he's putting on but mostly because it's how he is. Smiling. Happy. Joyful. I appreciate that more than he knows. He always brings me up when I am down.


I'm also excited to have the bird cage. It has made the waiting for the eggs to hatch that much harder. Tuesday will be day 23. I'm hoping we have a few hatch out of the 6 eggs that we have.

Below is the stand for the cage.

Here is Tony putting the cage together.

And here is the cage finished.

I love these branches that the guy threw in for free too. Aren't they natural looking?

Now, to get the playground together. There were lots of pieces, but it went together with ease. Tony and I both were thankful for that!

Finished it's absolutely beautiful.

The playground on top of the cage.

A close up of the playground.

Now if I could only move the birds into their new home! I plan to move mommy and daddy over to the large cage once I start hand feeding the baby birdies. The baby birdies will stay in the brooder box until they are old enough to put in the weaning cage (which will be the cage that the mommy and daddy are in now.) I'll decide later on, after we see how everything goes with the baby birds, who we are keeping and who we are selling. It'd be really nice to have a tame non breeding pair in the big cage.

Our Love Birds

I can't remember how long ago it was that I decided I wanted lovebirds. A friend of mine's mother had a pair years ago and I was fascinated with them. I think they are so beautiful. I have never studied them or attempted to acquire any simply because I've never been around birds in my life and I wasn't so sure that I could take care of them or if I really wanted to.

A few weeks ago another friend of mine purchased three lovebirds and three parakeets. I went over for a visit and my interest was rekindled but I was still very hesitant. I began searching online and learning about them. This led me to craigslist and I was baffled that there were so many available in our surrounding areas. I sent out several e-mails mainly to ask WHY so many people were getting rid of them. The majority of the people said they simply didn't have the time to spend with the birds. I had one lady that kept coming back to me and in the end she offered me a breeding pair, cage and all for $50. My husband and I decided we couldn't say no. I picked them up on Saturday. Here are their pictures.

Peeping out

Aren't they gorgeous?

I'm so amazed.....and..............

They've laid eggs!

There were five day before yesterday and today when I checked there were 6!

I have really high hopes of being able to eventually tame the parents but will have to wait until after the eggs have hatched. At the moment I am preparing to pull the clutch and hand feed them so that we will have tame birds for the parents to learn from. It's going to be a job and I am praying that I can do this....I CAN do all things through Christ who strengthens me. :) If there are any bird lovers out there with tips, please feel free to share with me!

Oh and I had to edit this to add a sweet blessing from the Lord. I had ordered the cubes to build the Guinea Pig cage weeks ago. I had no idea when I chose the color purple that I would be getting lovebirds in a purple bird cage just a couple of weeks later. How sweet is it that their cages match? Tony asked me if I thought God really paid attention to those little details just for me, and I replied, OF COURSE HE DOES! I'm so special to my Father!
(He knew this...he was just picking on me!)