Green opalines need homes now!

[Chickobee]

We are now desperately seeking homes for some of our young birds. If you can help please PM me! Thank you.

Tonight I discovered that one of the females in a cage of seven juveniles had been attacked. She is seriously injured and is now in a small cage by herself. She is a beautiful Dutch blue and quite tame. Poor thing!

Now I am desperate to find homes for some of these other female babies so they don't hurt each other. They have been fine up to now but they are obviously starting to reach sexual maturity and are fighting. They are only four months old! I never thought they would do this until they got quite a bit older.

I have three medium green sf OF opalines, and three green sf OF opalines. They are all starting their first molt so they have freckles and they will be gorgeous birds in full adult plumage.

If anyone can take one or more of them please PM me. They have been DNA tested and I have six generation pedigrees for them. I live in the Seattle, WA area.

Thank you.

[LoveBug12]

Sounds beatiful...I would like to have one but I'm in California and just purchased a lovebird.

[Anneka]

Gosh, why can't you be closer to NY? :)

[Chickobee]

The little hen who got attacked by the other birds is doing so great! (I think I will call her Phoebe.) She is now in a cage by herself and she was way perkier yesterday. Last night when I put the neosporin on her wound I noticed that she has cleaned all of the blood off of her tail feathers and the wound looked dry and not as if she was picking at it. (So far so good.)

I have ordered an e-collar just in case she begins to pick at it when it starts to itch as it heals. That is supposed to arrive on Monday. I am hoping to not need it at all but I want to have it on hand just in case, so I'm also hoping it isn't needed before Monday.

I'm still looking for homes for some of our babies. They are beautiful healthy birds and when in their adult plumage I think the opalines are gorgeous. (That's the reason I have five adult green opalines. They were like potato chips and I couldn't stop with just one...:whistle:)

I can send pictures of them to anyone who is interested. They are all being trained to step up and, although they are not as tame as a single bird would be, none of them are "wild" like birds that are never handled. They have very sweet dispositions except that the hens are not wanting to share cages as they are getting a bit older. (3-4 months old now.) Some of them now balk at going back into their cages because they want to stay with me instead.

We really need to reduce the population of birds in our house before we go on our vacation in December.

None of the parents of these available babies are biters either. Even the hens would still come out to be sociable when they had babies and didn't try to attack except when we would reach inside their nestbox--and you can certainly all understand that! (The only bitey hen I have is Pixie and all of her babies are sold except for the cobalt male we are keeping.)

We never anticipated that the economy would change so much and that people wouldn't be buying birds--or much of anything else either. We had to search to locate any opaline breeders in Washington when we were looking for birds ourselves.

Please let me know if you are interested in one of them.

Thank you!