A Match Made in Heaven Part 3

Fully grown, Kiwi is 7 week old, Bubu (the orange face) is 5 days younger.

I'd like to give an update on my hybrid lovebird, Kiwi and Bubu (read: Boo boo). As you can see from the picture above they looked fully-grown but they are actually under 2-month old. So they're still toddler, like babies who are learning how to crawl, and they will put anything they can reach into their mouth. And oh...boy, kids in this period can sometimes be a real handful!! 

Momma Olive was tending and feeding her babies.

Olive and Elmo have been a great Momma and Daddy!! He's a real example of a husband/father who brings home bacon!! Ha... Right after the first egg hatched, Elmo started to regurgitate and feed his wife. Since the newborn needs soft foods, Elmo feed the food he had chewed so it could sit for a while in Olive's tummy before she fed the crying baby. This goes on until all the babies grew up to about one month old. And as the babies' feathers grow and they started to stick their heads out of the nest's window, Elmo will directly feed them since the babies  no longer need soft foods, thus he can feed the seed he just chewed. And he still feeds them until today. Maybe he will continue to do so for a couple more weeks.
  
(Different poses of the babies while sleeping... )

 

Feathers growing, color setting...

As you can see here, they got both parents' genes. Though they get the color of the mother, but they also get some traits from their mother, which is the shape of their beak and ring on their eyes. They are also more colorful and interesting. While Kiwi's back and wings is dark green like his mother but he has a 3D coating of metallic purple on his back too,which can only be clearly seen if we put him under the light. Bubu's head and neck is dark orange with lime green on the chest and tummy. she also has some orange tone on her tail.

As far as I observe them, I haven't found any sign of weaknesses or character problem people addressed these hybrid lovebirds. Still, I feel sorry that some people consider breeding hybrid lovebird as an irresponsible act.I especially feel sorry for people like me who is accidentally ignorant of this. My defense is they are still a lovely and cute creature despite the fact that they are probably sterile and consider as mutant.

And I know people are probably not interested in having them but I'm happy enough to keep them as pet.

Playing in the hanging bed