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SATURDAY, JUNE 10, 1950.igi-isleatleikleo-*1-rso-0-3 dail-:rsinParakeets Arc Family Pets. v .. rff C.%;} - ■■ Xer,ired-jQ-Bteirsrsforng3f■^V-' •*«v.s ( v- *V, ••* V -1' ^ - N-^x'/; v.. v '•- -V$--- ' ■'^ - -SW'Vj. -* '* Sj*lt; ;t^x■• H *»U1lareisISfBridc-TO'Bi »*4AIy name Is Timmy Kniebes. You’ro sweet!** the pet parakeet of the Milton Kniebes family chirps to Mrs. Kniebes as he perches on her shoulder. /“Timm}” is one of about 50 of the Australian birds which the Kniebes family has raised since last fail.(Herakl-Prcss photo.)J(The Milton Kniebes family at The family visited an aviai 1408 Niles ave. is finding the rais- wheie there were 1 000 parakeemg of parakeets an engrossing' and the lack of any odor is wh:hobby. j“sold” them on parakeets as petcLast fall, the Kniebeses visited! ‘They are one pec about whic! the Rev. L. E. Burgess, foimer pas-'the_neighbors can't complain,” UtAtor of the First Evangelical United Kniebes stated, |Brethren church, at Elkton and were attracted to the parakeets he was raising. *They came back to St. Joseph with two parakeets and now have about 50, with young they have laised as well as others they have purchased.Paiakeets, Mrs. Kniebes explained, are Australian birds, which are not to be confused with love birds.Of brilliant plumage in sky blue, aqua, green; chartreuse, yellow, white, mauve and purple, the parakeets make ideal pets.Their talent for mimicry and being able to “talk” is one of their accomplishments. However, it is only the male which talks and then only if he is. a pet. When placed witn ether biiris or mated, the parakeets will forsake human sound and speech for their own chirping.The Kniebes family has two pets.“Timmy,” which belongs to 10-year-old Valerie, has a vocabulary of 40 words and is 10 months j old. “Timmy” is allowed the freedom of the living room and flits happily from his cage to the curtains, or to a table where his pet doll stands and to the round mirier, where he peiches upside down and admires himself.The other pet is “Skipper,” whose domain is the kitchen. Both birds have not only won the family but “Ginger,” its eight-year-old . dog, who “rides” the birds on his back.The other birds are housed in cages in the basement of the Kniebes home. They play games, fight between themselves, or swing happily on some of the bars Mr. Kniebes has built in the cages.The mating pairs are kept separate with entrances to the nest j boxes where the eggs are hatched.* The eggs are about the size of marbles. The Kniebeses allow only six of the eight eggs laid twice yearly to mature at one time, believing that stronger birds will be produced.It takes two weeks for the tiny .birds to feather out and they arc Mr. Larsen is a^olot^ St. ean callowed to leave the nest box, which Episcopal _ enuren m Chicago, cis filled with cedar shavings, at which he is a member ho has a Isfive weeks. been soloist m many of the churcnMrs. Kniebes stated that para-jes on the Chicago northwest side, keets have a life span of 20 years.. He is a member of ine Tiuc Bin So inteiested have they become m, lodge No. 904 AF and AM and i the birds that Mr. and Mrs. Kniebes j in the maintenanrn and opeumontrJELEAXORA LAMB CRTAir. and Airs. II. T. Lambert o 2735 Bayside dr., St. Peteisbuig Fla., and 521 State sC announctj the engagement and approaching marriage of their daughter, Elea nora Margaret, to Stanley Norma Larsen, oldest v» of Mis Con stance Larsen, 3530 Dickens ave Chicago. 111.Miss Lambeit is editorial assist ant for rhe Plant Publishing com pany and associate conduct! css o America chapter. OES * She is at active member of Twin Cstv Play ers, inc., serving cii the board o , directors.. She hat also dircctcc plays at the Methodist churcr wheie she is a member of th choir.have joined the American Budgeree division of the sannary dLt-iiCi* o fthe correct name for parakeets j Chicago.society. ’The date for the weachng J;.aBarbara and Kay, their other two been set for July 22 at the Mrsdaughters, are also interested in the'Methodist church, birds and help with the feeding, | - „which consists of a mixture of oalsj l O , Ia _ _millet, canary seed, gravel and cut-| Donald Borton, son o* mis. Doio-tle bone. The birds are also treated}thy Borton, 1005 Mitmgan a\e. vill to parakeet seed and millet spray J leave tomorrow for Chicago toeiuei which is soaked in water for 48‘the U. S. navy. He was giaauaieci hours and then hung m the cages a week ago fiom St. Joseph n»gn| for the birds to pick at. I school.
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