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My local fruit and veg man thinks I am strange for buying the most expensive fruit for my birds. He must have felt sorry for me in the end because he gave me a tray of pomegranates!! My birds were very happy.

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My birds kiss me. I don't think an ice block lick is very different. I also share my toast with my guys. I like the idea of freezing some fruit. I think I will try that. My dogs also love ice on hot days.

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My guys love pomegranates but when they bite into them, the juice squirts everywhere and they end up with little pink dots on their faces. I call them their pomegranate freckles.

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My birds love corn, grapes, apple, pomegranates, peas, figs, broccoli, cherries, kiwifruit, pasta, cooked rice, dried pear, dried cranberries, dragonfruit, peanuts, millet, toast, nectarines, peaches, puffed corn, Cheerios, among other things. They don't like spinach, bananas, oranges, strawberries ...

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Make him part of the family. Put his cage where you can talk to him every time you go past. My birds love to interact with me even if they are in their cage. I had a very nervous bird who had little parrot panic attacks. He is now very settled and comes running to me if the other birds boss him arou...

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I didn't think it would take long for your bird to step up onto your forearm. It look my little one hardly any time at all after weeks of distressed squawking every time she stepped up onto my finger. Good news!

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I had a nervous bird who had little parrot panic attacks if I made her step up onto my finger. My vet told me that nervous birds are least confident about sitting on your finger. He told me to try getting her to step up onto my forearm until she gained confidence. I did this and now I have a bird wh...

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I know a ringneck named Ringo who happily interacts with cockatiels, quakers and conures. He doesn't speak english but makes good cockatiel, quaker and conure noises (and wolf whistles!!).

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Can someone explain this to me? I have two beautiful lutinos who were born in October, 2007. They are nowhere near reaching sexual maturity. The one I think is a boy (because he does boy things) has no sign of a ring yet. HOWEVER, for some time now, Flossie (the girl bird) has been thinking about be...

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My four IRNs have never even seen a pellet. They have a parrot seed mix, fruit and vegetables, cooked rice or pasta, and cereal. My vet said they can eat anything you eat except for chocolate, alcohol, salt, avocado and one other thing I can't remember without looking it up. After you get an IRN, yo...

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I love it when my birds talk. I was cooking dinner the other night and Bird said, "Whatcha doing?" I said I wasn't doing much and asked what he was doing. He said "No, whatcha doing?" so I told him I was cooking dinner. He said, "Oh, good boy". I thought it was hilarious.

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Hi, When I got my birds they were about 3 months old. They had been hand raised and were happy to sit on me. It took them no time at all to bond with me. They are not very interested in hanging out with anyone else although they sometimes will climb up onto my husband. I hope you love your new bird ...

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If she is hitting the deck hard her wings haven't been clipped properly. My vet clipped my birds' wings and they can glide around but don't have much uplift. Birds can hurt themselves badly when they drop. I am very happy with my last wing clipping. I am sitting in my office and there are two green ...

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I have two lutinos, one turquoise and a green. I love all my birds because of their funny personalities. But the yellow of the lutinos is something special. Their colour looks like it is painted on it is so perfect.

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My Tasmanian guys LOVE dragon fruit. They look so cute with their little dragon fruit smudged faces. They also love pomegranate when they are in season.

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Offer the bird your forearm rather than your hand. Apparently, birds are not comfortable sitting on your hand until they are feeling confident. It worked with my little panicky bird.

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I have one lutino who talks and one that has nothing to say. My turquoise and green babies are too little yet.

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I have two lutinos, a turquoise blue and a green. They are all beautiful. I called my green Summer because she looks like the grass in summer. I would love a grey but my husband is already calling me the mad parrot woman. I would also love a violet. Someone has just started breeding them locally so ...

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My avian vet told me that birds are often not confident about sitting on fingers. I had one who had parrot panic attacks whenever I made her step up onto my fingers. He suggested they are more confident sitting on your forearm so I tried that and she is now fine and happy to step up onto my finger. ...

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Two of my guys love a Croc they have called their own (a shoe not a crocodile). They drag it with them, try to carry it up their ladder, eat out of it and talk to it. I wash it every morning and put it back in their cage to play with during the day. Another of my birds has fallen in love with a big ...

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I call it their boy dance but my female does it sometimes as well. I love it when they do it.

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I have two lutinos. My female got very nasty at about the same age as yours. My boy cruised through without too much drama. They are now about 17 months. I can tell you that there is light at the end of the tunnel. Pinning her eyes is a sign she is about to strike! Don't let her do it. I put mine on...

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Remember that with their tail feathers, IRNs are quite long for their body size. You have to have a cage that will allow the bird to move around without damaging its tail. You also need to consider how much time the bird will be spending in its cage. If it is going to spend considerable periods of t...

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By a regular parakeet, do you mean a budgerigar? Strange they are called different things in different places. All my guys are ringnecks who live in the same very big cage (or around the house and on me). I don't know how your guy would get along with a bird of a different breed. I have noticed that...

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Hi, My avian vet told me to offer nervous birds your forearm rather than your hand. He said birds that are not confident find sitting on your hand quite unsettling. He said you can progress from the bird sitting on your forearm to sitting anywhere. I had a nervous little one who had little parrot pa...

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He is a flock creature. Seems like he is only doing what is natural for him. I would suggest you get him a feathered friend. I now have four ringnecks. While they are still very attached to me, they are also happy to keep each other entertained. I started out with two. Interestingly, four are no noi...

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Hi, You could try putting small amounts of food at different places around the cage so he has to climb to get to it. You can also use foraging toys, the ones you put food in so they have to work hard to get their meal. My guys' cage is bigger so they have to climb further. Also, they have lots of th...

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Parrots and rosellas in the wild have an orienting call. They will call out to find out where their flock is relative to them and they listen for the answer. I have two lutinos who call out to each other if they are at different ends of the room so I am assuming they are giving their orienting call....

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Mine love sitting on my shoulder as well and I have four!!! One of them also likes to sit on my head. I heard that you can assert yourself by making them step up, then step up again, then step up again. Let's them know who the boss is (though most of the time I think it's them). My birds snuggle int...

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I know what you mean about the bedtime blues. My four ringnecks hide under the coffee table when they realise I am getting ready to put them back in their cage.

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Hi, I have four ringnecks who live in a cage in my dining room/lounge room. They chatter throughout the day but they are quite quiet. The only time they are noisy is when I am cooking dinner. They can see me in the kitchen from their cage and they get a bit vocal then. But even with four, the noise ...

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My birds are all fine with me now but I had one who regularly had parrot panic attacks whenever I went near it. It now runs to me, takes food from my hand and sits on my shoulder and watches the world. Hang in there.

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I had two birds in a big cage and, after 12 months, introduced two new ones. After some suspicious creeping around, they are now fine. The original two are still bonded but the others have made the cage (and the rest of the house) their home, too.

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Hi, Mine were clipped (badly) when I got them, then I let them fly but they used to get into trouble. I go my vet to click the wings and he did a great job. They can now fly a bit (such as across the room) but can't fly up to the ceiling and can't fly over long distances. My guys are pretty happy bi...

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Hi, I have two Lutinos and I love them!! Mine were hand reared when I got them. They were only a few months old. I have heard that you can teach old birds new tricks. Patience is the key. Offer your bird food and toys between your fingers. Keep talking to your bird. I have a green IRN who had panic ...

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I would if I could figure out how. Is it hard to do?

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Sounds like she just wants to feel secure. She has been through quite a lot and the smell of smoke would make her feel uncomfortable. Most birds feel safe in their cage so I would give her the opportunity to come out if she wants but let her stay in there if she needs. Chat with her, handle her and ...

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The tantrum you describe (shoulders out, wings in, head down, pacing around) sounds like what I call my bird's boy dance. He does it when he is chatting up the other birds or my foot or anything else that takes his fancy. He also makes a funny sound when he is doing it. I thought it was more of a lo...

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My guys do that. It used to freak me out too but now I'm used to it.

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I was told that as long as the bird can more around comfortably without damaging their long tail the cage is a good size. But I have to say that I have a proper parrot cage that opens at the top with an additional perch as well as at the front. The cage is as high as me, about twice the width of the...

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When I first got my birds I was sold a cage that I was told was suitable but the bars were too wide apart. The birds would climb up in to the top corner and stick their heads out to see what was going on and would get stuck. I quickly too the cage back and swapped it for one with narrower bars. No m...

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Bird - lovely lutino
Flossie - also lutino
Freckles - turquoise (originally called him Breeze but he has little green spots on his blue feathers)
Summer - green baby because she looks like the colour of grass in summer time.

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My birds will eat lots of things, especially the things that I am eating. They will run up my arm to get what I have in my hand before it reaches my mouth. My birds' favourites include pomegranates (first choice), dried figs, grapes, dried cranberries, dried pawpaw (close second to pomegranates), sn...

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I recently got a new IRN named Summer. Unlike my other three who were really confident, poor little Summer used to have a squawking panic attack everytime I went near her. I read somewhere that if the bird is not confident stepping onto your hand, cover your hand with your sleeve. I tried this and s...

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My guys happily push everything off the table and watch it fall. They have a little wooden bucket of foot toys and they systematically throw them all overboard. My lutinos just love my mobile phone. They have learned that if they bite it or jump on it the light comes on. They try and take it away an...

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I had one gentle bird and one absolute terror who took big bites out of me. I learned to look for the signs that she was about to bite. Her eyes would pin and she would bob down ready to attach. I would withdraw what I was offering and she would stop. I also offered her foot toys, the sort where I c...

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Hi, I had the same dilemma. When I got my birds their wings had been badly clipped. After their feathers grew back in and they began flying and their flight became more graceful, they seemed really happy. However, I was then faced with a battle of wills every time they had to go back into their cage...

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One did, the other one couldn't be bothered!

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Bird is lutino, Floss is lutino, Freckles is turquoise, and Summer is green.

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My guys don't like being scratched but they are very affectionate. They like to preen my hair and my face. They will give me parrot kisses (pressing their beaks against my lips). One of them likes to gently mouth (for want of a better term) my finger and to have a good chat with my toes. They hide u...

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