TG>     How is your love bird doing?  I've read a lot about them and
 TG> they sound like they could be neat to have.  
She is an absolute darling, when she isn't attempting to chew off a part of 
my anatomy!   She's at the chewing age, so when she gets too nippy, I just 
put her back in her cage for a while.
She's a veritable clown!  She will hang upside down on her perch, then try a 
few sommersaults!  She loves being in a vertical position.  
 TG> How did your hand fed finches turn out?  They seem to have a 
 TG> different nature so I wandered if they could ever really be tame.  
Well, what happenned was that when I banded them, the parents started 
ignoring them.  Worried that they would starve, I devellopped my own 
hand-feeding formula (mostly ground millet, chopped-up broccoli, and egg) and 
started feeding them this way.  I checked on them frequently, and when their 
crop was empty, I would feed them again.  One chick really warmed up to me, 
two were indifferent, and the fourth was downright wild.  I tried putting the 
chicks back in with their parents a couple of days later, and for some 
reason, they were accepted!  So I left it to the parents to finish the job.  
I'm sure that if I had continued to feed them though, that the friendly 
little one would have tamed right up, but that wild one never would have.  
Different personnalities, I guess... :)
 TG>     We should be getting the avairy soon.  
If I keep going this way, I think I'm going to need some sort of aviary too!  
But I'm kind of reluctant to let my lovebird socialize with the cockatiel and 
budgie, since I don't want her to loose interrest in human companionship.
I hope the new aviary goes well for you!  Had you ever thought of desinging 
 your own?  Take a few ideas from the differnet manufacturers, combine 
them for the features that you like...
Chris
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