Macaw Midwifery

[yehudasf]

BS"D

On Tuesday, 18. October BG Banu (Princess), she whom I hoped to affiance to BG, will have finished 8 weeks of treatment for yolk peritonitis. During the course of treatment she has had to be hand fed twice daily (at first for medications & because she would not eat on her own, now because she is spoiled like green beef). She has laid 5 more eggs during treatment. Now she is perched on my right leg, trilling, trying (in vain) to find a feather to preen (on me), & having contractions about every 15 minutes. Joy, joy... I expect that she will demand to be held sometime around 0200 - 0315 so that she can, once again drop "would-be" junior into my hand. Bear in mind that I have had (in desperation for her health) her given Lupron to try to interrupt her ovulation cycles. Better I should have tried to stop Old Faithful from erupting by dropping in a Q-tip. Perhaps this winter I will be able to successfully "honeymoon" her with BG. Some change needs to occur, since I really don't fancy a later-in-life second career as a human nest box.