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Breaking news! I just talked to the vet, and Neles dna test came back as a boy!!! I wonder if we need to change his name now? [/color] Yes, after reading your description of Nele's behaviour I am not surprised. Females are generally much more one-person birds. I have previously two males and they w...

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Hi We have a 3 year-old female green called Spud and have just got a 3 month old baby albino that we are THINKING is male, but not really fussed either way. Still working on a name - Loki suits, but we are heading towards Floyd. Anyway, a bit off topic that bit, but I found this - now old - post reg...

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all I can say - especially to Julie - is you have to laugh!!
the poor kids just freak out!
ah well, yes. Wouldn't like to respond to the 'we all do it' thing!! lol
Cheers

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I could be wrong but I don't think you can, at least permanently.
Every IRN I have had plays with my glasses and all I do is cover my ear with my whole hand and they leave them alone for a while. They will always go after them as the arms are great for chewing on...!

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It gets quite embarrassing!! The perch is a bendy-bar fabric thing but one end doesn't have the bar-end. Instead it is fluffy. The bird is nearly 1 year old, not sure whether male or female Tail tucks right under the perch with wing/shoulders out and vigorous rubbing and little noises. Three times i...

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Right, finally an addition to this one. I have to bribe Ziggy with toast of all things to get him into the cage in the morning when I head off to work. No problems there. At night the same trick might work but I don't bother, I just trap him behind a perch so he can't get out and has to hop on it. W...

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but they look sooo cuddly!!! but really Donna is right. Ziggy growls and squeaks when he doesn't want another hand near him. Sometimes I then just use a finger to gently pat his head otherwise I leave him alone. ...mind you, he also does it when he can't get his own way or get to a toy he loves (my ...

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sounds exactly like Ziggy.
Ta
I will try that - distraction the best way. Ziggy is out all day when I am home, but does spend a fair bit of time resting inside the cage.

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Right, I've started this one up again as Ziggy is still a nightmare to get to bed. Worst thing is he now knows the words - time for bed - and promptly hops off my hand onto my chest then snuggles up under my chin. How can I refuse that!! As soon as I get him back on my hand he leans forward, hangs u...

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Nil is right - you want to get him used to your hands so avoid the towel if you can. Sometimes they don't mind (rarely), but generally I think most people only use it for clipping.
This will probably mean a few nips, but the bird has to learn that your hands won't hurt it.
Patience patience patience

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oooh, someone is odd one out!
I reckon a bloke!!

All 3 photos remind me of Max - the posing tight-feathered head of the first two and the puffed up face that I used to think was his grumpy face in the third one!!

But who cares - boy or girl, is an IRN!!

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minus five!!!
how are all the potatoes going to grow!!!

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How long have you had him/her? I got Max at 5 months and took loads and loads and loads and loads ...etc... of work. However every day was an improvement and every month - or sometimes less - was a MAJOR improvement. Don't give up. Never really going to be as cuddly (potentially) as a hand-reared (a...

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ooh rats...yuk!! ha! I know there are some lovers of them out there - and I must admit I had a few "pet" ones at school a mate & I used to let into places they weren't supposed to be.. ...and they used to come to us when we called. Anyway, put the cage on something - I am surprised i h...

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males in particular - beak goes dark red with black around the outside of upper mandible (if that applies to birds!!)
With girlies it stays light red with hint of black on upper mandible

hope helps..

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Cheers, thought it might be but doesn't do it to me or any other males. Mind you, is only me and him in the house normally so only sees other people when there are visitors. Am not looking forward to tomorrow as he will be on his own for most of the day as I will be on the road with work and the wea...

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Hi, I mentioned in a post a few weeks ago that when my mother went to talk to Ziggy (well, made clicking sounds really) he sort of went all mental, seemed to lunge at her and started calling but not calling. Hard to describe - sort of shouting at her really. I thought he was going to attack her. How...

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If he wasn't hand-reared you will just have to be patient and keep trying, but gradually. Let him get to really trust your hands. Sometimes they just don't like to be patted/stroked, but patient work might get you there. Have a trawl around the forum, there are plenty of comments on this type of thi...

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Indeed the wings are not clipped, best to go to an avian vet or specialist pet shop. A lot of people on this forum don't have a lot of nice things to say about pet shops overseas, but here it seems a bit different (NZ). Don't know where you are based somewhere cold by the sounds, so obviously NH. If...

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I will take a sample into a garden centre next week and find out for once and for all And - no native deciduous trees in NZ according to me...? I should stick to sampling beer and wine - how wrong I am!!! The Kowhai is a native - and deciduous (so don't anyone listen to me ever again on leafy woody ...

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Might take a couple of days for Tango to realise that things aren't the way they used to be. The other thing is, when they can't fly properly they become dependent on you for a lot of transport around the house - so make the most of it, cart Tango around with you at every opportunity. This will help...

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Melika could be right about missing the noise, if you started talking but not to Max - phone was a particular thing - he would get louder and louder trying to talk over you.

Especially when travelling in the car - he loved it and got really rowdy!

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Ha! Excellent, thanks.

Perfect name then!!

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that's him on my avatar

and this is another shot - he was a magnificent green male.

that was same as avatar and here is another boy pose..

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Max was always out, but yes, flew away. He had been a pretty wild 5 month old when I got him but he went everywhere with me (including in car for work) unfortunately he didn't like stuff touching his back and it started spitting when we were outside so he took off for the nearest cover - and was the...

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lucky you - drinking virtually a prerequisite for my job! thanks for comments on pics - I could sit on my deck and look at that all day to be honest - or in the spa! Just waiting for farmer to cut some trees down then I can see the nearest skifield - big volcano 2.5 hr drive away. Never get any work...

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I know what you mean - however I resigned myself to Max being a female and me being "Dad" to a little girl and was looking forward to it but breeder was right and Max was a male. But hey, honestly I don't think you will be disappointed anyway - not really. I am worried I will be disappoint...

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Here s/he is up the rope heading for the curtains... http://i245.photobucket.com/albums/gg68/tepahu/curtains.jpg ...the trees in the background are the direction I last saw Max heading... sniff... and here is Ziggy being tempted by the evil drink!!! (note I kept the cap on!!!) http://i245.photobucke...

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that was supposed to be "desk" and "my camera"....

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yeah, thanks guys - a very solid one is sitting on my desj next to me camera right now, so obviously my worries are unfounded

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Is Billy wearing eyeliner???

he makes me miss my Max (flew away on christmas day - ooh, a poem)

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btw have you sent away the DNA test yet?

we (well, me anyway) are all getting fed up waiting....

...very tense....

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awesome shots - you not worried about not clipping?
Or I suppose (especially at this time of year) you don't take Billy outside?

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That is sooo cool!
Told you - baby steps (not that I'd know anything about babies?!?)
You're getting more and more hooked........

...and now she probably won't ever want to go back to the cage (at least for a while!)

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Really... clip the wings. They just take over as boss otherwise. And the worst thing is that they will fly away no matter how tame they are and how safe you believe them to be. Speaking from experience here - my Max only had 2 flight feathers and buggered off when he got a fright. believe me, they d...

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firstly, tango is only a baby, so you wouldn't want him/her to react - you don't want a pre-teen pregnancy on your hands! Would a random parrot take care of the babies? etc etc etc... Plus of course it seems Tango does the male dance, so unless he bats for the other team.... I have found that most I...

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cheers for - have been a few more normal ones recently....until he just let a dribbly one run down my shirt....sigh... yeah, lot of fruit - loves his apple and on soak seed but also eats anything and everything so must be healthy!!! typical IRN.. er, by the way - what is fid? god how ignorant i am!!

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me again...sigh Only a baby and prob normal, so apologies. Seems perfectly healthy, losing a few feathers - but then has been very hot for a long time now. Otherwise happy, talkative, into everything and sleeping on my other hand. Seems to be eating OK too. Very well in fact. There is poo in his poo...

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you're going to tell us something hideously expensive - here in NZ you'd probably pay $150 at the most (unless someone is ripping you off) - somewhere around 90 Euros...

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I used to leave Max with my parents when I went away. That way he had no choice!! He would have been a similar age to Oliver when I started doing that (18 months?). He was fine with them until I got home, (then wouldn't go near them) so maybe you should leave Oliver with your parents for a period of...

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An excellent thread!! I think what it really demonstrates is that very often the written word can be seriously misunderstood - especially the emotional context - and communicating without being face to face is fraught with dangers this way. But hell, this has been extremely useful in terms of traini...

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just found this thread - Ziggy loves pc and laptop too. Had to spend an hour repairing the keys on the laptop (I know how they work now) after he had pulled them off and dismantled the spring mechanisms and so on.
And yes, loves to crap on the keyboard!!!

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Bella I know what you are saying about the height of the cage in comparison to yourself. I mentioned the same to Ollie & Justin a few days ago when I saw Ollie's (sorry Justin, probably supposed to stick to Oliver (Osborne)) cage. The cage I got Ziggy is quite high, lower than me (5'7" - th...

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yeah, well, South Africans eh? (not knowing chooks) fantastic about Shanti - if only I could stop Ziggy being the opposite and wanting to go everywhere with me and chew everything!!! Well, at least stop chewing everything.. Is having nigh-nighs on my shoulder right now because he knows its bed time ...

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it actually moves by itself?!? ...oooh yuck!!!! heh heh. If it does it is a worm, if not, then a poo. The poo part of poos looks like a green-brown wormy-thing (depending on what has been eaten recently) and the wees part is usually white - although in babies seems to be clearish and quite viscous...

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Well, there you go - you can't compete with Greek mythology!!

Someone studied the classics...!
...never really realised just how philosophical and insightful Greek mythology was...

maybe all IRN's should be called Narcissus...?!? (male only obviously!)

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I agree wholeheartedly - as big as the room will allow. Especially if they are going to spend some time in it during the day. Hey Lene, hope you realised the 2nd language was a Kiwi dig at Aussies Bit of the old trans-tasman niggle - can't resist;-) Going to have to watch it tho - am seriously, seri...

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my opinion only (well, not mine alone as someone else suggested it), but I agree about the mirror thing. I have always been of the opinion that it is like another bird to them and they will talk to it cos it responds in kind every time, and in the end it will give the mirror more attention than you.

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Max was very tame bird but only towards me. At night when he was put in his cage you did NOT put your hand anywhere near - and certainly not inside!! As for cage attachment, at night Ziggy will only stay with me if I sit up on the arm of the couch. Otherwise he runs back & forth along the couch ...

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Hey Lene, at what age should you start this training stuff. Ziggy just wants to chew everything.
and I mean everything!!
She is only 13 weeks. Sleeping on my other hand as I type this (awkward).
Thanks
Stu

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