Weight of Hwameis

Out of curiosity, I weighed my Hwameis today.

Male - 63g
Female - 60g

I think it is a good practice to have a healthy baseline weight for all birds (individualised of course). Have not thought out a good method to weigh the Shamas yet as tgeir cage is too big for my digital scale.

Extending the service to manageable Shamas....

Female 1 - 33g

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Spotted Dove - addition to the flock

Added another 2 Spotted Dove to the flock. So far, Lanun, my existing resident dove outshines them even though they are much more expensive birds.

Hope the new additions lives up to the expectation....




.... of not embarassing their new owner at the padang :D

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Switching food

I always have problem of getting fresh stock of Golden Cup Jambul food. So, as an experiment, I have switched them to richer food (NutraPro). Hopefully they do well on it. Anyway, as I give them a lot of fruits, I am not too worried.
I know of experts of these Bulbuls who feed their birds 100% fruits with an occasional grasshopper every now and then.


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Pride of a fruit seller

I have been buying fruits from a stall for a long time. Basically bananas (pisang nipah) and papayas for the bulbuls. It probably didn't cross the seller's mind that I was feeding them to the birds.

One day, out of curiosity, she commented that I appear to like the pisang nipah very much. Sheepishly, I told her its for the birds to eat. Immediately she became alarmed and ask me not to buy them. She offered me the over riped ones for free (in pic below). Not a bad deal.... as they are still of good enough quality & not rotten. I settled for a discounted deal as its for long term.

Well, she could have just keep quiet and sell me the usual stock. But I suppose a sense of pride of her fresh & beautiful fruits preceeds other considerations ;-)





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