Hand feeding the seedeaters

Acquired a pair of young merboks (wild specie) and now hand feeding them. Never hand fed seedeaters before. Luckily they are quite big already and appears healthy.



Used the special handfeeding formula used by parrot breeders. Should be suitable and nutritionally complete as they are seed eaters too ???
Anyway, made them into small pellets and air dried them so they turn into convenient little packages that I intend to feed much like how traditionally mung beans are fed to such doves.



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Nest Box for Java Finch

Partially completed nest box for the Java Finch. Commissioned 30 of these to be made. Hope they are suitable for the purpose - which is producing 100 chicks per month muahahaha!





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What a Mess - molting

I have heard many friends complaining about watery droppings before. I was never too bothered by it though. Maybe because my Hwameis and Staw-headed Bulbul never seems to have dry droppings hahaha! Now, I shall crack my head and try different concoctions to address this troublesome and messy manifestation.

Which incidently, the below is the amount of mess created by my molting Male Hwamei. He got the habit of playing with the paper liners. Most people seems to be of the opinion that a Hwamei would become "jadi" after a molt in captivity. Anyway, I am keeping my fingers crossed that "most people" are correct ;-)


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Green Tree Snake?

I don't know the name of this green tree snake yet but googling up the description (green tree snake) shows a different specie. Anyway, it is what it is...... a green tree snake.
When a I was still a young boy, one such specimen dropped down from a tree not a few feet from me. Then I observed it stretching up towards the branches to get up back to the tree. Ever since then I have an uneasy feeling standing under a tree :-D

Didn't know it can be tamed and played with. Below is an encounter with a friend's pet.
The birds appear to tolerate its presence. Normally perched on the fence, table (when his daughter does homework) or anywhere convenient if it's not inside the glass aquarium.

Beautiful fella but still looks skinny to me.


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