Happy Easter

Well its now April... not sure where March went.... Rodents have been eradicated and a plan has been put in place to stop them returning....including getting rid of all the compost heaps.  The Bird House is looking good.... but quite full.  Oscar and Spud have moved in.... Oscar has moved in with Dave.... who doesnt exactly seem to be thrilled about it.... somehow I dont think they are going to bond, so I might move Oscar in with Big and Spud who have settled in together fine... Im pretty sure Spud is a girl and Big is her mum so all good there.  Petal has another clutch of eggs I havent candled them yet. And Pedro and Eva are moulting.  Mocha the Chocolate Rex Rabbit is hoping to pursue a carrier in acting and has his first video on youtube.


In the House the 1st eggs in the incubator didnt do to well but I think that is down to me not really knowing weather they had started to develop when I put them in.... so not knowing when they were due to hatch and not getting the humidity right...also i put 3 in then another 3 a week later...the 2nd lot started to develop but none made it to maturity.  only 2 hatched and one hadnt absorbed the yolk sack and died within a day. The other after hatching out the wrong end of the egg took a while to start feeding and unfortunately died about a week after..... so not a good start.  I have read lots of info from books and online and a lot of it is contradictory so its all a bit trial and error.  So going on what i have now learnt about the incubator i need to set a plan in order for the next attempt...... but i also want Pedro n Eva to have another go at hatching some eggs themselves!

 Phoenix and Snuggly are doing fab...... Phoenix started flying a couple of weeks ago and Snuggly has just made his first flight this week.... but as usuall is a bit accident prone.... he has had a few crashes including 1 into the washing up bowl this morning.... luckily i was washing up at the time so towelled him off n he sat on my shoulder till he dried off..... in fact he stayed there for most of the day.



 I got the DNA test results and certificates back a couple of weeks ago and surprisingly Phoenix is a Girl and Snuggly a Boy.... Phoenix is a Pineapple and Snuggly a rather special Blue Pineapple....

and we have come to the decision to keep them both......on one condition...... that we reduce the number of Kakarikies as its getting rather a lot of work for me.... and as I now have 4 who arnt in bonded pairs now would be a good time also maybe it is time to retire petal from breading as she wont stop laying and I dont think Bruce is very fertile so she is sitting on eggs a lot for no reason..... she does seem to like it tho.... She will probably stop laying if she doesnt have a nest box.  So if anyone is interested..... let me know!  

for some reason im having probs uploading pics ..... so will edit this later and add more pics then phoenix and Snuggly have changed sooo much over the last month its amazing!!!!