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[OLD MOTHER SATIVA]

This is why you train them to fly to you, so you can go outside and it will fly down to you.

It happened to some friends.

yes of course..but once outside in the large and confusing outside its a tough thing for a budgie to get back..


they can be retrieved [sometimes]..its a tough job being a budgie

 

[Big_Lou]

yeh thats sad..there are no dumb budgies ..just dumb or at times tuned out..budgie owners[close window doors]

This is why you train them to fly to you, so you can go outside and it will fly down to you.

It happened to some friends.

Yeah, he was (reasonably?) well trained, at least enough to fly around the house and land on select people. My parents told us (placative lie?) that he, as many animals do, went off to "pass away in the wild".
To be fair, he was very old.

 

[OLD MOTHER SATIVA]

well said..yes it happens..only rule i try to have is not open windows or doors when budgie is out of the cage..

 

[Big_Lou]

well said..yes it happens..only rule i try to have is not open windows or doors when budgie is out of the cage..

That was the odd thing, though; the doors/windows would almost always be open when he'd be out of his cage. He'd go NEAR them but never flew out. (shrugs)

Do birds suffer from senility/dementia, I wonder?

 

[OLD MOTHER SATIVA]

i understand and heard of other losing their birds by thinking they would never fly away

it can just take one lapse of budgie thought pattern to have a serious problem happen like fying out the window

..what can happen will happen

i doubt senility..just made the wrong move..well you know us seniors

 

[Olive Drab Green]

I dunno, seemed to be a pretty even split when I was a kid. (Budgie/parakeet)

We had one in the 70s/80s. He lived quite a few years, and then one day when my sisters were cleaning his cage he just flew out the window.

I thought that was a Limey thing. I guess you learn something new every day.

 

[OLD MOTHER SATIVA]

and thanks for your budgie talk patience Ttystikk

Budgerigar...Maori word that means "good to eat"

 

[Olive Drab Green]

and thanks for your budgie talk patience Ttystikk

Budgerigar...Maori word that means "good to eat"

Lul.

 

[ttystikk]

and thanks for your budgie talk patience Ttystikk

I used to have a cockatiel, I love birds!

 

[ttystikk]

Lul.

Tastes like chicken.

 

[Michael Huntherz]

I used to have a cockatiel, I love birds!

I had a hand raised cockatiel that escaped just like @OLD MOTHER SATIVA's budgie! Sad stuff, friends.

 

[Frajola]

This is why you train them to fly to you, so you can go outside and it will fly down to you.

It happened to some friends.

true.

 

[DesertGrow89]

Pot size is not a reliable indicator of eventual results, lol

True, a big part of the problem was trying to grow at 44 lattitude with cheap greenhouses. We had temps hitting 115 in mid summer and lows in the 30s in october.. PM was definitely a problem. I've heard silica and neem oil sprayed twice a week in flower is a great PM preventative. A 1% hydrogen peroxide solution worked well for getting rid of the stuff, but the problem was it spread so quickly and was virtually uncontrollable. They had us doing foliars 2-3 times a day with a 2 gallon fogger on 260 plants.. It was dumb. Almost always used thrive alive green and yucca, some expensive crap from nectar of the gods. Terpinator was used in flower, which is just 4% soluble potash derived from potassium sulfate... Another expensive bottle of water from the hydro store.

 

[Vnsmkr]

True, a big part of the problem was trying to grow at 44 lattitude with cheap greenhouses. We had temps hitting 115 in mid summer and lows in the 30s in october.. PM was definitely a problem. I've heard silica and neem oil sprayed twice a week in flower is a great PM preventative. A 1% hydrogen peroxide solution worked well for getting rid of the stuff, but the problem was it spread so quickly and was virtually uncontrollable. They had us doing foliars 2-3 times a day with a 2 gallon fogger on 260 plants.. It was dumb. Almost always used thrive alive green and yucca, some expensive crap from nectar of the gods. Terpinator was used in flower, which is just 4% soluble potash derived from potassium sulfate... Another expensive bottle of water from the hydro store.

I lol'ed when I read this. I certainly agree with your assessments. Tell us how you really feel lmao

 

[Vnsmkr]

If you work an IPM program in from the get go then those problems are minimal...most people just try to manage it after its already an issue

 

[DesertGrow89]

If you work an IPM program in from the get go then those problems are minimal...most people just try to manage it after its already an issue

Excellent point. They had us spraying in rotation azamax, azatrol, and zero tolerance fungicide/insecticide. Neem oil I'm sure is cheaper and probably more effective than Rosenthals or any other product out there at the dro store.

 

[Vnsmkr]

I used to have a cockatiel, I love birds!

We had cockatiels, cockatoos, parakeets, and a 75 year old parrot who had one eye; the other was put put by a rock when she was riding in her cage in the back of a truck in the 30's. She was the coolest old parrot ever, loved us kids, hated the parents lol. She sang and talked as well. She died when she was in her 80's in our years.

 

[Vnsmkr]

Excellent point. They had us spraying in rotation azamax, azatrol, and zero tolerance fungicide/insecticide. Neem oil I'm sure is cheaper and probably more effective than Rosenthals or any other product out there at the dro store.

Neem cake mixed into the soil from the get go takes care of 90% of that shit imo....

 

[Olive Drab Green]

Excellent point. They had us spraying in rotation azamax, azatrol, and zero tolerance fungicide/insecticide. Neem oil I'm sure is cheaper and probably more effective than Rosenthals or any other product out there at the dro store.

If I use 2 teaspoons of neem in my watering, the bugs disappear for at least 2 weeks.

 

[Big_Lou]

Neem cake mixed into the soil from the get go takes care of 90% of that shit imo....

I use neem paste on my choppers. Best toothpaste available.