FoxersArtist
05-20-2008, 03:36 AM
Macaws Daisy and Popeye arrived this past week and we are really starting to get to know them. Their owners were both ill with serious auto-immune diseases and they were cutting down their flock of 8. Daisy is a blue and gold macaw who is full of energy and spunk. She was super hormonal when she arrived and has been plucking quite badly. She is attached to her buddy, Popeye who is a military macaw, but Popeye really could care less about being her love partner. He just wants to be friends. Popeye is mellow and easygoing and doesn't have a whole lot to say about much. He seems content with just about whatever seems to be going on. When he does get going, he sings a really amusing song: "I'm popeye the sailor bird, poop, poop!"
The very first thing I observed is that it seems like Daisy is driving herself a bit nuts being with another bird whom she totally adores but who shows very little emotion toward her. Since the birds had been vetted I seperated them and put Daisy out in the kitchen on her own perch next to Peggy Sue. Daisy instantly settled down and stopped her obsessive behavior. Her and Peggy Sue have been chatting it up with one another and seem to have very similar personalities. A few days ago they said "hello?" back and forth to one another so many times that I finally had to break it up before I died laughing.
Daisy will need some work but I think the major key will be in improving her nutrition. Her black "mustache" is grey and her blue and yellow feathers are pale. I think i'm going to keep the two macaws apart and adopt them out individually as this seems to be the most healthy for them dispite the fact that they get along. Both are wonderful birds, though I am partial to the sweet Popeye who is just a ball of feathered love. Daisy is not a big fan of me and left a nice welt on my arm but she loves andy and even lets him give her a nice long head massage.
Here they are!
http://i197.photobucket.com/albums/aa154/Foxersartist/Fosters/Posing.jpg
And more:
http://i197.photobucket.com/albums/aa154/Foxersartist/Fosters/Popeye.jpg
http://i197.photobucket.com/albums/aa154/Foxersartist/Fosters/Daisy.jpg
http://i197.photobucket.com/albums/aa154/Foxersartist/Fosters/Popeye1.jpg
http://i197.photobucket.com/albums/aa154/Foxersartist/Fosters/Daisy1.jpg
-Anna
The very first thing I observed is that it seems like Daisy is driving herself a bit nuts being with another bird whom she totally adores but who shows very little emotion toward her. Since the birds had been vetted I seperated them and put Daisy out in the kitchen on her own perch next to Peggy Sue. Daisy instantly settled down and stopped her obsessive behavior. Her and Peggy Sue have been chatting it up with one another and seem to have very similar personalities. A few days ago they said "hello?" back and forth to one another so many times that I finally had to break it up before I died laughing.
Daisy will need some work but I think the major key will be in improving her nutrition. Her black "mustache" is grey and her blue and yellow feathers are pale. I think i'm going to keep the two macaws apart and adopt them out individually as this seems to be the most healthy for them dispite the fact that they get along. Both are wonderful birds, though I am partial to the sweet Popeye who is just a ball of feathered love. Daisy is not a big fan of me and left a nice welt on my arm but she loves andy and even lets him give her a nice long head massage.
Here they are!
http://i197.photobucket.com/albums/aa154/Foxersartist/Fosters/Posing.jpg
And more:
http://i197.photobucket.com/albums/aa154/Foxersartist/Fosters/Popeye.jpg
http://i197.photobucket.com/albums/aa154/Foxersartist/Fosters/Daisy.jpg
http://i197.photobucket.com/albums/aa154/Foxersartist/Fosters/Popeye1.jpg
http://i197.photobucket.com/albums/aa154/Foxersartist/Fosters/Daisy1.jpg
-Anna