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I feed her loriwet and loridry. I wouldn't ever give her those pellets, she wouldn't eat them. I also feed her apples, grapes, strawberries, canned peaches, occasionally some honey mixed in with her wet mix. Oh, you're right about the mess!!! I've got miniature lories (the varied and purple crown) a...

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Thanks guys. She hasn't done a coloured poo in three days. I've stopped giving her anything coloured to check if it's the food. That's what the vet recommended I do before I bring her in. I thought it was weird that she wasn't showing any other signs of being sick than the red poos. I might leave it...

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Hi guys, This question is about my lorikeet, Nibbler, but I'm hoping you can still help. I was cleaning my varied lorikeet's cage on the weekend and I noticed that there were red markings on her tray. It was the same look as her normal dried droppings, just like they had been dyed red. I'm really wo...

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Well, that cheeky little bugger!! Doesn't surprise me though, his such a determind and sometimes insolent little thing. He knows everytime i go to pick him up he has no choice but to get on my finger but he will still try to bite my finger or get away and then when he get on my finger, he yells at m...

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The other day Iago started squarking at me for a longer time than usual and when he stopped I'm like 'Don't be so silly Iago' and mimiced him in his squarking (though quieter of course) and he did a couple of quiet squarks back which shocked me. Was he mimicing me, or feeling threatened by my squark...

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I was watching Pirates of the Carribean 3 last night and in one scene I noticed the beautiful Blue and Gold Macaw was trying to keep his balance whilst his holder was climbing out a boat and I started laughing. You see, in order to keep his balance, he was flapping his wings whilst still holding on,...

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My fiance is adament that birds can change their sex within the first year like some fish can and I don't believe him.
He says it's so ratios of males and females in the wild stay the same.
Does anyone know of any birds that can change their sex?

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Hi guys, I was at my local avicultural society meeting last week and when I mentioned I had a Blue IRN they said that Blue's are the most aggressive colour. Now Iago does bite me occasionally (never takes any skin or chunks though) but I think that's just part of being tamed, not an aggressive thing...

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Hi guys, I recently moved into a three bedroom house from a 2 bedroom unit and I don't know whether to use the extra room as a bird room or keep them in the lounge room. I know that keeping them in the lounge room will give them more human interaction and will help with the taming of Iago to be arou...

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The pictures aren't coming up.

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Hi guys,

I'm hoping my lovebirds are going to breed soon and I'm trying to find them a breeding box but they're all too small. I want like an English budgie breeding box.
So I'm thinking of making my own but I'm not sure if you need a specific type of wood to make them out of. Anyone know?

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I'm currently in the process of switching my IRN from seeds to pellets. The instructions on the packet for switching says to mix a 50:50 mix of seeds and pellets, put enough water in to make the mixture sticky, form into a patty or rissole and put the fresh patty in it's seed container. Slowly decre...

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Hi guys, I know this isn't a lorikeet site but I'm hoping someone could halp me with a behavioural question. I have a 2yr old handraised varied red crown lorikeet (Nibbler) and we bought a handraised purple crown lorikeet (Anubis) a week ago. I'm trying to socialise them and get them to become frien...

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Yeah, the pics will be coming soon. I've actually got two new birds to show you piccies of cos I bought a mate for my lovebird Zorro a couple of weeks back called Tookie. I had the lorikeet (who's name is Anubis) in the room with us last night with a thin polar fleece blanket over his cage and he di...

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Hi guys, I did a very naughty thing on the weekend and bought yet another bird (that makes it 5 now). But I couldn't not get this one. It's a 7 week old hand raised Purple crowned lorikeet. Ever since I met my fiance he has said that he wanted one but they are almost impossible to get in Darwin. But...

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How gorgeous!!! My lorikeet likes to snooze on me by standing on my chest or pillow, laying her body down and resting her beak on my face.

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Oh, how adorable. What a beautiful range of colours

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Hi, my name's Danni and I have MBS. I have one blue IRN, one miniature red crowned lorikeet and two lovebirds. I had one lovebird until I saw this gorgeous violet masked lovebird on the weekend and had to get my other lovebird a friend. I am wanting to get another IRN in the future. It's incredible,...

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OH, how adorable. I love that growly noise they make.

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Welcome Julie. Can't wait to see the piccies of your birds.

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Wow, that's a great help. Thanks Angie

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That's fantastic to hear.

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Great. Thanks for clearing that up for me.

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Thanks, but do you mix their veggies and grains in with the pellets/seed or put it in a separate bowl?

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Hi guys, just wondering if you should leave some sort of food (such as a seed mix) in the cage all day? I give Iago some veggie's and grains in the morning and fruit when I get home from work at about 5 but I also leave his seed bowl in there all the time incase he gets hungry during the day. There'...

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That's a good idea. I can't find any pellets for my fids in Darwin, I wish I could but Iago and Zorro both really love their seeds and it would be hard to switch them over.

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They are so beautiful.
Sorry to hear about your daughter's boyf, you just can't be too careful now days. I pray he has a quick recovery.

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OK, finally I know what MBS is!! And I soooooooooo, have it! We started with Nibbler, our Miniature Lorikeet, then came Zorro, our lovebird and now Iago our IRN. On the weekend I almost bought another Lovebird to keep Zorro company while he's a Mum's place but it was a green peachface and Zorro's a ...

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That is so fantastic!!! I can't wait for Iago to become even that comfortable with me.
You must be so excited.

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Ditto on that one!!!!

I'm big on giving the ANZACs the respect they deserve and usually march with my stepdad on ANZAC day. UNfortunately I'm moving this week and wont be able to.

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That sounds yummy.
I like cooking and my other half is always so crest fallen when he sees me cooking and I inform him that it's not a yummy cake for him but for the birds.

I'll have to give your pumpkin balls a go on the weekend

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That's so cool.

My other half was watching the new James Bond movie the other day and he told me that Iago went off, dancing about and singing to the opening song and the Bond theme music.

At least they both have good taste.

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OMG!!!! He is so beautiful, i was cracking up so hard the other girls in the office had to come over to see what was so funny!!!!

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Hey people, Does anyone have a good daily recipe that their IRN's just cant resist? i'm looking for a grain and vegie mix that I can give to Iago daily. I've tried a couple of recipes with pasta, cous cous, corn flakes etc but he only nibbles at them. I want something he loves so much that he looks ...

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Ha ha, you gotta love that song!

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Hey, don't be knocking Vegemite!!!!!

There's nothing better than a fresh piece of whtie bread smothered in lots of butter and vegemite. YUM!!!!!

My mum will actually eat it by the spoonful, I can't do that though.
But the salt content would be way too high for a parrot.

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Peanut butter hey? I'm going to have to try that.

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He's so beautiful. Good to know I'm not the only one who is forever cleaning the mess made from my birds eating

Can't half tell he loves what he's eating.

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Oh, I am so jealous!!! I wish I could find the variety of birds up here as you do down there. (I live in Darwin)
And on top of it all, you got given them!!
They sound gorgeous though, can't wait to see the pics

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Thanks for that, I feel a little better now about him moving. I finally found something that iago can't exist (I was trying so find something to get him to come to me). It's oranges, I put some in his cage for the first time last night and within a minute it was gone!! But of course it had to be a f...

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Hi Guys, Just giving you an update. Iago's doing ok. I've sat by his cage quite a few times now with his dor open. I also slowly creep my hand inside, inch by inch, VERY slowly. He doesn't seem to like it very much. Actually, he doesn't seem as bothered if my palm is down, but if my palm is up, he g...

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I would imagine that keeping them in separate cages would make it easier to tame them but I'm no expert. But at the same time, they may be very upset about being removed from each other, especially if they are a breeding pair.

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Thanks for that. I'll have to put it to my partner tonight because he's the one who does the clipping.

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Thanks for your comments guys. We only have one of his wings clipped, that's all I've ever done on my birds in the past. I mentioned clipping both to my partner and he said that they can learn to fly just as well with two wings clipped than both unclipped. He said having only one makes it so they ca...

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Thank you so much for your replies and support guys. I'm so glad that Iago and i have a chance to have a great relationship. I spent some time sitting in front of his cage yesterday, sometimes talking to him, sometimes just reading a magazine. He fluttered a bit a first and then calmed down. I event...

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Hi everyone! How excited am I to find this site!!!! It's exactly what I need. I became the new owner of an 18month old Blue male IRN about a month ago. He's so beautiful but unfortunately not tame as yet. I have been trying to tame him over the past month and I now know that I was doing it totally w...

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Red poos

Mimicing?

Whopping of his life

Can birds change sex?

More aggressive colour?

Where to put in the house?

What type of wood for breeding boxs?

Dominant behaviour??

MBS strikes again!!!

Do I leave food in the cage all day?

Any yummy recipes?

Have I blown my chances for a relationship with my new IRN?