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Mandy

I know what you mean

It makes me laugh when Gandalf preens and scratches around her ears and you can see them under her feathers, when she starts poking around with her claws it makes me cringe a bit though.

Mandy

It might be getting a little bit noisier round here (though not much) I'm getting a baby Sennie in a week or so. I'm just waiting on him/her weaning.

I've popped some pics in my photobucket,
http://s100.photobucket.com/albums/m40/ ... s/?start=0

Mandy

That's lovely, thanks for sharing.

Mandy

A couple of short vids (appologies for the poor quality) of Gandalf flying to my hand, we've only been working on this for a few weeks so I'm quite pleased, especially since she wasn't hand reared.

Forgive the lovebirds and the dog making a racket in the background.

http://s100.photobucket.com/albums/m40/ ... V00086.flv

http://s100.photobucket.com/albums/m40/ ... V00088.flv

Mandy

That is great!

I think the game they're playing is, 'lets train our human to put the beads back in the jar'

Mandy

I looks highly impractical and way too small.
Cages like that look cute to our eyes but does your bird really care if it looks like a little house? Size, safety and ease or performing maintainence taskes, ie; feeding, cleaning etc are more important than a sweet design.

Mandy

Gandalf loves bananas! She will happily fly over to my hand while I'm trying to eat one and swipe an inch off the top in one bite, fly back to her cage and tuck in. She makes a really cute mushy, squidgy noise when she eats 'nana.

Mandy

kyria wrote:Yep ! Normal .. this is our male Jordan at about that age feeding our Kai who is older;

Very normal

Jordan (is that the lutino?) is very cute, I love the bouncing/ hopping around, Gandalf flies or walks everywhere.

Mandy

I got Gandalf when she was 12 weeks old and she had her first moult at around 9 months of age, all tail and body feathers and all but the two first primaries on each wing were moulted out from what we could tell.

Mandy

I used Avian Biotech, not sure if they have a lab in the U.S, I think they do. It only took 4 days to get the result, they emailed it to me as soon as the test was done and then they will send me the paperwork next week.

Mandy

Hen!!!

I just this minute had the result emailed to me, just in time for Gandalf's (hmmm funny name for a girl lol) first birthday tomorrow.

Mandy

I've just sent off for a feather collection kit so that I can have Gandalf dna sexed. He/she'll be one year old on 19th of May and it will be nice to know with a some degree of accuracy whether Gandalf is a he or a she (I think a hen though I always give male names until proven otherwise, no idea wh...

Mandy

If you have visitors coming round slice a few oranges and lemons in half and place them in a bowl in the room, these will freshen the air nicely.

Mandy

By personality we are meaning it's individuality and traits as a bird, the unique things that make a bird a bird, you don't buy a parrot and expect it to act like a dog or hamster, parrots have common traits in behaviour etc that make them unique, this is what we are asking any potential owner to fu...

Mandy

Please don't buy a bird just for it's potential to mimic, or even partly for it's potential to mimic, some ringnecks will talk, some won't, the same goes for any special of parrot, even birds renowned for their talking ability like CAGs. Choose a bird and admire it for the ways in which it is differ...

Mandy

I'm lucky, he will eat practically anything so it is easy to give him a great diet. I think in the pics he is tucking into Carribean Crunch Beak Appetit mixed with some soaked, sprouted pulse and seed mix and grated carrot. Every mealtime it's all I can do to persuade him to wait until the bowl is i...

Mandy

Well here are Merry and Pippin, sorry the pics aren't great but they never sit still! http://i100.photobucket.com/albums/m40/Seraphina426/Parrots/DSC00061.jpg http://i100.photobucket.com/albums/m40/Seraphina426/Parrots/DSC00064-1.jpg http://i100.photobucket.com/albums/m40/Seraphina426/Parrots/DSC000...

Mandy

Gandalf's mummy evidently didn't instill in him the importance of good table manners.

Somebody pass him a napkin.

Mandy

Beautiful horse

I used to keep Shetland and Welsh section B ponies for driving and in-hand showing, I miss them but I don't miss the worry.

Mandy

I was contacted earlier in the week by a member of Simon's R/C racing club, they were looking after two young lovebirds that belonged to a relative who had recently passed away but they couldn't keep them due to an allergy. They asked if anyone could take them and I said I would love to. They arrive...

Mandy

That's great

I'll keep my fingers crossed for you.

Mandy

I've taken some new pics and a video of Gandalf, now aged 11 months. He isn't doing anything especially exciting in the video as he's too busy noseying at the workmen outside today.
Sorry about the low quality of the video, I'd forgotten I had my phone on the lowest quality setting.

http://s100.photobucket.com/albums/m40/ ... 6/Parrots/

Mandy

Hi all,

I've not been around for a while, probably since last October or so, it's a long story, won't bore you all to death with it here.

Gandalf my albino IRN is now 11 months old, time has flown by so fast.
I will take some new pictures of him soon, he's really growing up now.

Mandy

Will Gandalf take a chunk out of my hand or won't he, can you stand the mounting tension???

http://s100.photobucket.com/albums/m40/ ... ideoDJ.flv

There was sound on the original but unfortunately this vanishied when I uploaded it to Photobucket.

Mandy

Rosie isn't so cute anymore as she is 8 months old now and a much taller and more graceful young lady. Will have to take some more pics as Dash my collie is growing fast too.

Mandy

Here's a short clip of Gandalf playing with his Widget foot toy, seems to be his favourite right now, apart from bits or screwed up paper and wooden clothes pegs.

http://s100.photobucket.com/albums/m40/ ... V00023.flv

Mandy

Ooops that was me, sorry

Mandy

I'm so proud of my baby. Gandalf is now 16 weeks old and has begun to try talking. Several times over the past few days he has been sitting on the top of his cage pinning his eyes like mad and trying to say 'Watcha Doin?' It isn't really words yet but definately has the rhythm and infection of the ...

Mandy

Gandalf certainly seems to enjoy the Harrisons anyway I guess being so young he was ready to try anything!
I hoping to get a CAG toward the end of this year, early 2007 and will probably put that onto Harrisons too, I know the breeder weans onto pellets but I'm not sure of the brand yet.

Mandy

How cute is that! Bootiful soggy birdie!

Mandy

They are really lovely but we need more pics!!!! Pleeeeeze!!

Mandy

http://i100.photobucket.com/albums/m40/Seraphina426/mini-DSC00006.jpg http://i100.photobucket.com/albums/m40/Seraphina426/mini-DSC00005.jpg He seems to be settling in well for a parent reared bird but he is still just 13 weeks old I suppose, I'm really pleased with him, he'll have been here a week ...

Mandy

Well I ordered a bag which arrived yesterday and he does appear to be eating it, I'm following the conversion advice on the Harrisons website so fingers crossed.
I bought the smallest bag so I've only spent £7 if he decides he doesn't like it.

Mandy

I'm really happy this morning Gandalf let me tickle his cheeks and the back of his neck, not just tolerated it ( he was reluctant at first) but dropping his head right down and really looking like he was enjoying it.

Mandy

I decided to try him on Harrisons because I used to feed it to the last bird I had ( a white fronted amazon, now left home for a life of unashamed baby making) I've also used Zupreem in the past and found it very good. I don't have the problem of my vet high pressure selling as the surgery doesn't s...

Mandy

Dani03 wrote:ps. get those pics asap! I want to see another albino finally...

Dani

I've posted a pic in the photo forum

Mandy

Here is the first pic of my 12 week old baby.

Mandy

Thanks for the advice Mik, I never feel stupid cooing and chatting to my birds, I tend to talk like that to all my pets, I am a dog trainer so I'm used to using a high pitched motivational tone of voice, not manically excited but light and calm and soothing. I had another brief session with Gandalf ...

Mandy

As some of you will know I am a new mum to Gandalf a 12 week old parent reared albino IRN. I collected him on Saturday and have been spending time sitting by his cage letting him get used to me being around and talking to him. Today I took the plunge and started the training process, I let him out o...

Mandy

Gandalf has been here 24 hours now. At the moment he is being fed the same seed mix he was eating at the breeders, I offered him a bowl of peppers, carrot and brocolli this morning and he has been eating that all day in preference to the seeds. I do want to change him on to Harrisons however instead...

Mandy

Hi, My name is Mandy and I have just bought (today) a 12 week old albino IRN named Gandalf, ( I don't know the gender but I'm just treating him as male until I'm proven otherwise). Gandalf isn't hand reared but has been raised in close proximity to humans and is fairly steady when you approach his c...

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Hi from Derby, UK