Golden Wings Aviaries

23/06/2025

Everyone was treated to fresh rosemary today, freshly cut from the garden 😋

Whilst they were all playing, they also had a lovely spray down 💦

The birds absolutely love rosemary days, and watching them frolic and play is amazing! Its so important to offer enrichment for your birds as its vital for their mental health 😊

Happy birds mean healthy birds! 🐦

22/06/2025

A new piece of equipment for the birdroom arrived Friday and just in time for the peak temperature on Saturday, which was the first official day of summer! Whaaaaaheeeey ☀️

The temperatures reached a scorching 35 degrees inside the birdroom, and despite all other prior efforts, it made little to no difference to bring the temperature down 🌡

So we took the plunge and bought an air conditioning unit to keep them as cool as possible. Our main priority is to keep the birds as comfortable as we can and as stress free as possible. 😎

When you guys support GWA, whether that be adding a GWA baby to your home or interacting with the content and pushing the page out into the algorithm, the funds received always go back to the birds. 🐦

So its all thanks to you that the birds are happy and comfortable because without your support, I wouldn't be able to afford to spoil them 🥰

Whether that be the French millet, to the veterinary grade brooders for handrearing, to the new air conditioning unit, it's you that makes it possible! 🫂

The air conditioner we bought is homcom 10,000 BTU 4in1 portable unit which can be found here;

https://amzn.eu/d/fg0b09Y

Now it is very pricey at £269.99 and we also made sure to get the extended warranty, but the confidence in knowing that the birds are comfortable is really priceless. 😌

So, a huge thanks to you from the birds and humans at GWA for your continued support ❤️❤️❤️
You guys are amazing 😁🥰

21/06/2025

Let's do some networking! 🤝

If you have any type of social media, please post your links below! 👇

It doesn't have to be budgie/bird related 😁

Maybe you're an avid Baker and have an Instagram you would like to share, or maybe you offer gardening services via Facebook, or maybe even have a Tiktok page for true crime content, all is welcome here! ✨️

Just drop your links below and give each other a like and follow! Let's support small businesses 🥰

Let's share the love on the first official day of summer ☀️

My socials;
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Instagram;
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YouTube;
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Please note, my Youtube is very out of date but there are plans in the future to update everything so please feel free to follow 😊

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20/06/2025

Episode 2; Calcium and Vitamin D3
I hope you enjoy the video and if you have any suggestions for the next one, please let me know ❤️

19/06/2025

A special delivery here at GWA! Please welcome Steph, the yellow faced sky blue recessive pied Japanese crested hagoromo, to the GWA family! 🥰🥰🥰

18/06/2025

Another scorcher today! 🌞
How is everyone coping in the heat? 🔥

A lot of my birds have gone into emergency moult, including my chickens! 🐓

They're also on an egg strike, and im only getting one or 2 a day 😅

Im making sure to give plenty of fresh water stations, and im upping their protein and calcium to ensure they've got a boost while growing in their new feathers. 🪶

Just like budgies, they need extra supplements and care in this hot weather, and they also moult just as bad, just on a larger scale. 💊

One of my poor girls called Pinky looks like she's been in a bit of a scrap, missing feathers everywhere and loose feathers sticking out at funny angles 🤣

That'll be me running the vacuum round the garden tonight. Can you imagine what the neighbours are going to think 😅

17/06/2025

Look at these two! 😍

The last two babies from Romeo and Juliet (they're already in their forever home, but eggs were fostered), and they have left me in a real dilemma. 🤔

Many years ago, I bred an amazing clearwing that I let go, and I have regretted it ever since. 💔

Since then, however, I have had to cut down on my birds due to health issues back in December. This meant that the pair of clearwings that I purchased for a clearwing project had to go to someone else who was working on that project. 💪

This particular pair were horrendous parents. The mother would pluck the babies until they bled, and the father actually started unaliving babies as soon as they hatched. So eggs had to be fostered out at the earliest convenience. 🪺

I was trying desperately to get a 2nd violet clearwing baby boy from them as I had a lady waiting who had seen the first one I bred and had totally fallen in love. ❤️

However, this was easier said than done, not only due to the birds being horrendous parents but the various mutations and types that were being produced in the clutch. Baring in mind that both birds were Violet clearwings, they produced; albino daughters, violet, violet grey, and mauve in both genders. Leaving a very slim chance of actually producing the violet clearwing baby boy that my lady wanted. 💜

After 4 months, we were blessed with a full clutch. 6 gorgeous fertilised and growing eggs. However, i was on borrowed time knowing that the eggs needed to be fostered out before they hatched due to the parents' unpredictable behaviour. 😒

I ALWAYS check my nests at least once daily. This particular nest check caught the father actually destroying the eggs. Sadly, 4 were lost, but I managed to save 2, safely fostering them into other nests. 😫

Those babies thrived and are now just days away from fledging, and im in love with them both. Each with their own superior quality. 🤩

One little girl with the cleanest clearwing wings I've ever seen in my life, easily compared to the Australian heritage clearwings but a more diffused body colour. And one boy, with the most outstanding vibrant body colour but slightly heavier marked wings. 🪽

I contacted the lady who wanted the boy, and after all that effort, she had changed her mind and no longer wanted a baby 😅🥴

The issue now is, Im in love with them both, and I know they'll make the most amazing show birds and will go on to vital additions to the improvement of clearwings in the UK.

But...
I dont do the clearwing project anymore, and my heart burns knowing that they would be wasted with me. Do I keep one, both, or none? Enjoy them for what they are or..🙈

Do i let them go and know that they were my final contribution to the progression of the clearwing project in this country?

What do you think? 🙊

Help me 🥴😆

16/06/2025

I had a call the other day asking me for birds and my prices. So we had a chat over the phone for about 30 minutes about the birds, the types I breed, how they're raised and fed, etc, and what my setup is like. 🏡

The response i got was, but I can get a budgie from Gumtree for £20...

And do you know what? It's so incredibly frustrating and disheartening when I've taken time out of my day to give advice on supplements, housing, diet, treatments, and general care for that person to compare my birds to someone else's. 😪

The lady who called me said that she wasn't happy with the breeder advertising on Gumtree because they were breeding in their bedroom, and she wanted to buy from a professional breeder with a professional setup.

But she didn't want to pay for that privilege. 😩

Now that's absolutely fine, and there are budgies and breeders out there to fit every budget. However, you can not expect to buy a rare type budgie, thats had all its supplements, treatments, high-quality diet, coming to you semi tame, etc. for that price.

Everything i do is planned out to save the new owner as much money in the long term. All of my birds have their regular supplements, so you know their general health is perfect, and you won't need to worry about deficiencies down the line. 🙃

They're treated for parasites before they leave me, giving you an up to 3 month window before they're due again. 🦟

They're all given fresh veg chop so you know that they will come ready and willing to continue this is the new home with no fussiness. 🥕🥗

They're all used to having water treatments, so they won't get fussy when the water tastes different. 💧

They're all handled daily, are used to sounds like the vacuum, bangs and knocks, music, singing, and other general noises, thus reducing the chances of night frights and increasing the ease of further taming in the new home. 🐦

All of these little extras add to the cost, but it gives you 100% peace of mind ❤️

Just today, I received my order of Anjou French red millet. With delivery, this cost me just over £200. Do the birds need it? No, will it affect their quality in any way? No.. but they love it. And that's why I bought it. I take great pleasure knowing that my birds aren't bred on a budget, that they dont get the basics just to survive.

I want them to THRIVE! 😁

I want them to be awesome pets as well as having the confidence that they'll also make good breeding birds too! 🪺

Now, to just get all this millet sorted and packed, and I'll be done for today 😅