Sugarbunnie Loft

Well, there are feathers everywhere at Sugarbunnie as Molting Season has officially begun. What a ragtag bunch of feathered folk we've got - missing tail feathers, new primaries poking out, goofy hairdos and hairdonts... Since we don't separate our pairs after breeding season, we use wooden dummy eggs to prevent any oops! babies from happening during this very important time of the year. We think it's stressful enough to have to grow a whole new body full of feathers - bringing up babies would be just too much for our little pijies! So, eggs are pulled in the cloak of darkness and secretly replaced with wooden fakes. We feel terrible, we love babies! But we know it's best for our birds. They sit on the dummy eggs like they're real for about 2-3 weeks before they figure out something isn't right. Poor guys. Anyway! We're looking forward to some nice new shiny feathers - and a lot less sweeping up of the old ones! Squab Watch: Update on Brutus - In case you haven't noticed, we're keeping him. But Brutus is still in the house and does not want to grow up. Still insisting on one hand-feeding a day, we are actually going to let Danny bunk with him starting tomorrow to see if he can't get our little spoiled bratty pants to start acting like a grown up. Sometimes you need an annoying older brother to get you to start acting like a big boy. Brutus has some personality though - he's a real Brooklyn in the making!!

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