Murphys Laws Of Birdkeeping

[daz]

• The best bird in the aviary always dies.
  
• Your best hen never lays fertile eggs
  
• The pair nesting in the cage that is hardest to get into always have eight chicks
  
• The pair you are really counting on lays 8 fertile eggs and all addle before hatching
  
• Budgie droppings are attracted to breeding cage roofs.
  
• You always run out of seed on a Sunday night when all nests are full of chicks.
  
• You move a 3 day old unbanded chick from a pair of greens to a pair of blues (knowing you can identify it later) with the same age chicks and discover later they are all blue.
  
• The only chick that misses banding is in the best condition for the spring show and is a stormer.
  
• You inadvertently pull out one of the prime throat spots on your best bird one week before the show.
  
• Your second best bird looses one tail feather a week before the show.
  
• You discover an hour after that the bird you just sold, you had been keeping for a special pairing.
  
• The power in the shed fails when it is minus 25 with an 80 mph wind and there are chicks in all the nest boxes.
  
• One of the birds you left at home was better than the birds that won.
  
• No matter what clothes you wear to to work, if you look hard enough you will find budgie feathers in them.
  
• Out of town visitors always visit your aviary the day before your major weekly clean out.
  
• Every time you think you have had a fabulous year, you visit your friend down the road, who is having an average year and has raised twice as many chicks as you have, with only half the number of pairs.
  
• Every vehicle you own has bird seed in it (and some of your friends)
  
• Budgie down is attracted to beards.
  
• Every aviary is built 25% too small.
  
• Your best bird ends up in your worst show cage.
  
• Bird seed is attracted to the living room carpets.
  
• The city works department only does heavy construction next to your property during breeding season.
  
• Droppings adhear to the side of the band where the number is, not to the year or code that you already know.
  
• One of your best birds loses it's tail feathers just before the show so you take it along anyway and throw it on the cage floor in case the judge gives you some credit, and sure enough he doesn't, but you still try to explain to him that..... (see the next one)
  
• Tail feathers are attracted to show cage floors
  
• Eight out of nine Lutinos are pure yellow (guess which one is wrong classed? )
  

[Admin]

daz said:

• No matter what clothes you wear to to work, if you look hard enough you will find budgie feathers in them.

that is SO true!!

daz said:

• Budgie down is attracted to beards.

cant say ive ever had that problem

[Billie]

They were great.
I've got one...
There isn't a hoover made that can remove budgie seed from the carpet.

AND on hard floors the hoover actually spits seed half way across the room.

Billie x