Three Owners, One Bird

This story starts out with the Chupps getting a Cockatiel. They named him Buddy. But it wasn't till after they got Buddy that they realized that Mr. Chupp was allergic to him. They would have to give Buddy away. So They decided to ask us. Of course, since I loved birds, I was happy to take Buddy in! My parents thought about it for a while, and finally said, "Yes!" So the Chupps took the cage over to our house with Buddy in it. They told us every thing we needed to know about Buddy and left. We had a great time with Buddy.

                                                           We fed him,

                                                        played with him,

                                                        and slept with him!

          But we couldn't keep him forever because we had to pay $500 every time we brought a pet into our house. Thankfully our landlord told us we could keep him for a little while.
         "By Buddy!" We all said when Buddy's new owners were driving away. They seemed like good ones. What an adventure buddy had.



                                                                     

Ducks I Will Never Forget

In may of 2010, we hatched our own ducklings!
         We bought the eggs from Aloha Feed Store in Oregon. Then we got an incubator to put them in. They stayed in their eggs for about 21 days. But one day, we were coming home from somewhere. As we walked through the door we heard a peeping noise. We looked in the incubator and there was a little baby duckling all wet with a broken egg next to it. It was black with a little patch of yellow on its front. I named this one Oston(As in Boston). It was a female.
         The next duck to come out was a brownish-gold one. Kaiah named this one Sunshine. It was a also female.
         The next two to come out were blueish-grey with a gold patch on their fronts. One came out all tangled up so I named it Tangled. The other one I named Blueberry. They were both males.
          The last one we hatched looked just like Oston except smaller. This one was my favorite. I named it Blackberry. It was a female.

When they were old enough to come out of the incubator, we got a big bin and put sawdust on the bottom. Then we got a water and  food holder for them. After we had those things, we got a heating lamp and put it over the ducks to keep them warm.                                      The ducks ate, drank, played, and slept a lot.

                                   Oston is sharing some food with Sunshine

         As the ducks got older and bigger, we decided to give them a pool. After all we needed to give them a pool sometime, 'cause they're ducks!
         They loved their pool. We would put the pool out on our sidewalk, take the ducks out of their bin, and carry them to the pool.

                                                     They were really cute!
                                                           

                                                      We watched them a lot.           

         But all of this fun had to end someday. They were getting so big and stinky that we had to give them away. My grandparents offered to take care of them because they had lots of land. We agreed. So we loaded all the ducks into the car and left for my grandparent's house. The ducks didn't really like the trip. When they got out of the car they kind of looked a little dizzy. But they were happy to be out of that car.

  First they looked at their surroundings. Then they wandered around. They always stayed as a group.




When we left I was pretty sad. But I knew it wasn't over. Every time I went to my grandparent's house I couldn't wait to see the ducks!