Recent content by Lisa

In the past I have had the help of a family member to trim nails while I would hold my birds wrapped in a small rag. Now this helper is no longer available and I’m not comfortable doing nails on my own. Any tips? I do not want to have to take them anywhere or have anyone come in since I have...

Okay! Good to know thanks!

Yes, i will be left with a male and female' siblings which i would not want to breed and the breeding pair. Thanks for the insight! When not breeding do you cage multiple birds together based on sex or mix them together? How many do you keep in one cage? Is this...

I would like to keep them all. However the two older green males belong to my daughter and she will be taking them with her when she moves out in a year or so, hopefully in the same cage. For cages i have a prevue 528 small animal keeper and 2 other cages of similar size, 2 larger cages one is...

The 2 males and 1 female are right at 5 months old. One male is 3months. The Parents are around 3yrs old housed together, not tame and do not get out of their cage.

I am in need of direction on how to house multiple Linnies in same cage if possible. This spring was my first time breeding and hand feeding Linnies. I decided to keep 2 males from the 1st clutch for pets. The boys have done well together in a large flight cage. I do see a fair amount of...

DNA has been sent in on the 2 greens. Don’t know why but they seem like boys to me! Anyone want to tell me what sex you think the two grey wings are or maybe still to early to tell? I’m sure the one green is a wild green but the other? Dark green or olive? Thanks everyone!

So I am happy to report we have 4 babies that have been pulled for hand feeding! The oldest 2 that we pulled first are almost agile enough to climb out of the Tupperware container in the brooder. They are great eaters too! Of the 2nd two we pulled the youngest, the blue one is now eating well...

I am so excited my Linnie's eggs are starting to hatch! It has been about a day now since we started hearing little squeaks ( day 23 from 1st egg ) but we can't catch both parents out of the nest box at the same time to check on babies. The few times mom has been out dad is in there covering...

Thank you both so much! I’ll keep you posted😊

So my Linnie’s have laid 5 eggs. The first is due to hatch any day. I am planning to pull them for hand feeding at about 2 1/2 weeks unless there is a problem and I need to start one earlier. I was thinking I would pull all at the same time to avoid the parents getting stressed since they are...

Congratulations they are beautiful!

It is perfect thanks! Does it help prevent aspiration if you hold the babies upright for feeding? I watched a utube clip on hand feeding Linnies and the woman said Linnie’s like to feed laying on their backs.

Thank you guys so much for all of this information!! I really appreciate all your time and effort!! Linnie girl I did as you recommended and looked up bird anatomy. I found lots of information on the Kaytee website about hand feeding. They also have charts you can use to keep track and...

Can you please recommend the frequency and how much volume to feed during each of these ranges of days? Should you just watch the crop to know when to stop feeding. What does the crop look like when it has the ideal amount of form I have watched multiple hand feeding videos on utube but I am...