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TheOddFlock

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I forgot to uncover the cages this morning, as I was in a rush. I came down to charge my phone about half an hour before posting this, and that's when I realized I had forgot to uncover them. When I did, let's just say I broke into tears. Lucky, my baby budgie, was dead. When I removed lucky from the cage I noticed lots of bite marks on his feet, and a big crack in the side of his beak. There was dried blood in the crack (or it looked like dried blood) and my guess was that lucky had been attacked by Opal after I moved Lucky to Opal's cage.
At first I though Jordan had attack, since I had a cage divider in her cage (Jordan on one side, budgies on the other), but when I was filming a goodbye video, i showed lucky to all of my birds and Jordan just "cried" and wanted to preen him, Opal was avoiding him, and Elvis just wanted to court him, I don't think Elvis realized Lucky was dead.

Jordan was Lucky's first birdy friend after being introduced to my flock, Opal was the last one to get along, but maybe she didn't get along well enough.

I made a little speech video in honor of Lucky, (and a little certain someones hatchday tomorrow) and gave the flock some of Lucky's favorite food, seeds.



:sorrow: R.I.P Lucky, you can now fly free with Chrissy, Clicky, Cassie, and Feather Weight, over the rainbow bridge.
Fly free my little baby, fly like you've never flown before!
 

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:sorrow:I'm so sorry.
 

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Oh no! What a terrible shock. I am sorry. :sadhug2:
 

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I'm very sorry for your loss.
 

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I am so sorry:(:sadhug2: please don't blame yourself! He is flying free now:sorrow:
 

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I am sorry for your loss.
 

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I'm sorry for your baby's loss, it's always sad to lose a little one.

I've never put any of my baby tiels or gccs in a cage with existing residents cause I was always afraid that they'd be picked on (specially the gccs who can be very mean).
 
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I'm sorry for your baby's loss, it's always sad to lose a little one.

I've never put any of my baby tiels or gccs in a cage with existing residents cause I was always afraid that they'd be picked on (specially the gccs who can be very mean).

The thing is, they've been housed together before, both of the budgies had been housed with Elvis at the same time, but after Opal bonded with Jordan, things might have changed in the way Opal saw Lucky. She might have seen him as a threat to her cage mate or herself. Opal is hormonal.
 

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I'm so sorry for your loss :sorrow:
 

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The thing is, they've been housed together before, both of the budgies had been housed with Elvis at the same time, but after Opal bonded with Jordan, things might have changed in the way Opal saw Lucky. She might have seen him as a threat to her cage mate or herself. Opal is hormonal.
:sadhug2::sadhug2::sadhug2:
 

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I'm so sorry for your loss, it must be so heartbreaking and a shock to you bless :sadhug2:
 

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The thing is, they've been housed together before, both of the budgies had been housed with Elvis at the same time, but after Opal bonded with Jordan, things might have changed in the way Opal saw Lucky. She might have seen him as a threat to her cage mate or herself. Opal is hormonal.
I'd meant to mention in my other post too though, fids are like little kids sometimes, they're besties one minute and are having a knock-down-drag-out in the next (at least with the gccs it seems that way). The tiels usually just do a whole lot of hissing and wing-spreading. Still a shame.
 

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I'm so sorry for your loss..... :sadhug2::sorrow:
 

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So sorry for your loss :sorrow:
 

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:sadhug2: sorry for the loss of your baby Lucky :(
 
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