New Babies!

For those of you who do not already know this.... I have a small, ok large obsession with animals of all kinds. I would love to live on a farm so I could take in every animal that needed a home. I have decided to blame my OCD mother who wouldn't allow a bunch of animals in her home. (I forgive you Mom)

One of my favorite things about being a Mom is being able to adopt all kinds of pets for the kids, but secretly for me.

About 3 years ago Blake and I adopted Isabelle, a sweet hand fed lovebird. When Izzie became super protective of her cage we decided to get her a buddy. We went and picked out another bird which Killian named Gus. Because it is hard to determine the sex of birds, we had no idea if Izzie was really a female, and Gus was a male.

One morning when I uncovered the birds I noticed a small egg in the cage. I called the bird store to figure out what the hell I was supposed to do. They told me in order for the egg to hatch it needed to be fertilized. Which meant, Izzie and Gus needed to be female and male, but it also meant that they needed to sit on the eggs and then when the eggs hatched, they needed to feed the babies. The bird store told me it was super rare for pet lovebirds to have babies in a home environment. I figured I would just get them a nesting box and see what happened. I waited for quite sometime but nothing happened. I was told to leave the eggs in the box or the bird would continuously lay eggs and it could deplete her energy.

I never looked inside because I figured if the little birdies hatched they would be noisy, right, like they are outside in nests.

Around Christmas Blake and I were just sitting downstairs talking, Blake looked over and said, "that isn't our bird, there is another bird in our cage!" Not only was there another bird in our cage, she was damn near the same size as Izzie and Gus. That means that they sat on the eggs, they hatched, they fed her and she grew to a full size bird without us knowing!!!!

My Sister-in-Law Jackie adopted her and named her Florence. Which I am so happy about because I get to see her all the time.

This past Sunday I decided to take the nesting box out of the cage, I opened the top as I was sliding it out of the cage and..........

Can you believe it... I am a certified lovebird breeder. :) Izzie and Gus had more babies, horny little turds.

These little ones are almost a week old.. If you are interested in owning one or both of these little ones let me know. They make great pets, and have great personalities. They can be a little noisy at times, but they are really funny, Izzie even loves to play with the dogs through her cage.