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The baby lovebirds are doing fine and they grow by the minute! We haven’t decided on the names yet but we are seriously considering your suggestions!

For those that have been following me on and , you guys probably know that my bird family has expanded considerably!

KuKuNehNeh and I have 7 lovebirds now in total and they are:

Bluey was very quick to start a family after Uno and for the 2nd batch of eggs that she laid, 3 were hatched out of the 6.

Look at the size difference! The two larger chicks are only 2 days apart from each other with the oldest one at 12 days old at the time of the pic above and the smallest one is at 2 days old. Before the birth of the runt, we had probably accepted that were only 2 chicks from this batch but this little one surprised us all.

The 2 larger baby lovebirds are now 15 and 17 days old and are being handfed. They don’t have names yet! So to save us from the lack of imagination and them from being called Bird #1 and Bird #2, help me think of names to call them!

Leave me your suggestions in the comments below!

Try not to give names longer than 2 syllables.  When I want the lovebirds over, it’s hard to say “Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious! COME HERE!”

I leave you with more pics of the lovebirds!

 

I haven’t been updating on the lovebirds and so to summarize. Bluey has recovered from her toe injury and has been doing well. Greenbean proved that perseverance worked and he finally won Bluey’s heart (the other side of the story is that Bluey got horny and gave in) and they actually started a family… or at least tried to. Bluey laid 4 eggs in total but only 1 egg managed to hatch and what better to name the little lovebird than Uno!

Uno is here in my house this week because she is just short of 3 weeks old and needs to be hand fed 4-5 times a day to ensure that her cut tummy is satisfied and she becomes tame from all the human handling.

The picture above either makes people squeal in delight or disgust so bear with me if you belong to the latter group.

It is by no means an easy feat to hand feed baby lovebirds with her being so young. Bluey was already close to 4 weeks old when we got her and we only need to feed her 2 times a day. Uno was robbed extracted from the nest at 14 days old and needs to be fed 5-6 times a day. Her baby formula has to be also at the right temperature at 41 to 42°C. Too cold and she’ll refuse to eat it; too hot and I’ll cook her inside out.

Uno is quite travelled for her young age and has been staying at Ang Mo Kio, went to Rasa Sentosa Resort for a stay over the weekend and is now residing at Jurong West for the week. So to make her feel more at home, I made a little tent for her.

 

Like the last time when I had Bluey over for 4 days, I just hope I keep little Uno alive so that KuKuNehNeh keeps me alive.

HUAT AHHHHH!!!!

Check Uno’s growth process at KuKuNehNeh’s blog.

Day 1

Day 4

Day 9

Day 14

Uno grows almost as fast as a magic bean sprout!

 

I was sitting on the couch with Bluey perched on my left shoulder when I felt a warm sensation just above my shoulder blade. Thinking that Bluey has used me as a toilet again, I turned my head to the left as I tried to look for the poo and looking very much like a bad impersonation of an owl; I spotted a black spot and turned around to call out to KuKuNehNeh.

“Eh Dear, I think Bluey shit on me, help me wipe leh.”

She was handling Greenbean and automatically grabbed a sheet of toilet paper and walked towards me.

She paused in her footsteps and spoke with mirth in her voice, “Dear! That is not shit!”

“Huh? Then what is that?”

“IT IS YOUR MOLE LAR!”

Our lovebirds, Bluey and Greenbean bring such joy and laughter in our lives and as much it is painful to see them not getting along even after spending 4 weeks together, it is even more painful to see that Bluey’s injured toe is still not healing despite all the medication thus far. The pus in Bluey’s left toe has not even shrunk a millimetre and the poor bird has visible patches all over her body due to all the feather dropping she has been experiencing for the past 3-4 weeks. We are seeing the vet, Dr. Gloria of Mt. Pleasant soon this Friday and we would probably ask if she is confident enough to do an operation to take out the pus. She has expressed before that it is difficult to operate on a bird of Bluey’s size but we hope that it can be done.

I really, really hope the best for Bluey’s toe, the last thing we want for the intelligent, adorable, 5-month-old lovebird is to have her lose her life or a leg.