Wednesday, October 10, 2012

The Steam Mole's proofs are in. I'm tempted to offer the print-out on e-bay to cover the ink cost! (no, not until its release date)

My friend's partner gave me two cuttlebones (there are hundreds of millions on the beaches here) assuring me her chooks loved them. I've tried them before. My chooks asked 'where is the porridge? Where is the fish? Where are veg scraps? not even a bit of bread or a bit of cooked potato? What is this rubbish? We don't eat polystyrene...' last time so I hadn't got around to trying again. The two were lying on the net box... and blow me if a Green Rosella didn't grab it and go and pick at it on the lawn.

And you thought it was just budgies.

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  1. Birdseed companies sell cuttlebone, trimmed to a standard size, with an aluminium hook in a cardboard box - for $1.50 each. And they sell to the people who keep a "bird in a cage" very handily.

    Seems you've got an opportunity for an export market to the mainland.

    Ian

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    1. I think that's what the market will bear, not what the suppliers get. They're nearly as common as dirt on beaches in many place :-(

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  2. Why do birds like it? Do they use it to sharpen their beaks, or does it provide some rare mineral?

    Seaboe

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    1. I have NO idea. I seem to recall its a calcium carbonate foam, so as a source of calcium seems possible. They use it in making jewelry molds so perhaps the budgies are secret fashionistas? ;-)

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