Happiness is a bird
Budgerigar family in the bird house in Henndorf
From the perspective of Gut Aiderbichl
(written by Gisela Pschenitschnig)
We got Purzel, Pupsi, Blue and Fritzline from an old lady who gave them away for health reasons.
As ornamental birds, the four have now found a new forever home and have settled in well. Here they join in with the lively budgies, enjoy living together, but also find plenty of opportunities to retreat.
The new bird house also offers the birds an open-air garden that directly adjoins the bird house. True to the idea of Gut Aiderbichl, people and animals can also get close to each other in this enclosure.
Gut Aiderbichl cannot offer the exotic birds the original freedom they find in their native Australia. But keeping them in our bird house with an adjoining free-flight garden is still better than keeping them alone in a cage in a living room.
The birdcage and childhood memories
In the 70s and 80s, it was quite "normal" to have a Mucki or a Fritzi in the form of a budgie sitting in a cage. It was also thought to be comfortable because it sang and made noises, tilted its head, nibbled its finger, etc. In reality, budgies "surrendered" in their cages. Their immediate partner was the human, on whom they were dependent.
Budgerigars fly in flocks of thousands in the wild. In households, they may sometimes be allowed out of their cage and fly around the home a little. Luck is a bird, but luck for the animal is NOT.
The former sleepy rose garden has been chirping since the summer of 2022
Since the bird house was completed, well over 100 ornamental birds have been living there. The number of residents increased when the Gut Aiderbichl staff were asked to collect 300 ornamental birds from an apartment. They had multiplied and multiplied, everything was out of control. The birds were brought to Gut Aiderbichl's bird house in Gänserndorf and 100 of them were moved to Henndorf.
We can't offer them the vastness and trees of Australia, but we try to give them a fair home so that they feel comfortable: the Burlis and Hansis and now also Purzel, Pupsi, Blue and Fritzline.
Go out into nature, let your senses come alive.
~John Muir
Visit our bird house, be greeted by our birds in the free-flight garden and be infected by their zest for life. Yours sincerely, Gisela
