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Thanks for all the blessings to let Remy play with our phones :lol: I hope she grows bored of it soon because she will have weird cellular radiation disease one day or something she plays with it more than we do! I honestly think the appeal is because she sees us using them so much, she cant bear th...

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Look at that pretty girl :D My poor boy is still molting. It's been a tough long road for him. But Remy looks great :) We went a couple of weeks bathing her every other day - to the point of completely draining the water bottle and she was sopping wet and wanting more. Then we would put her in fron...

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I keep a locking tote on the bottom shelf of our end table with all the phones, remotes and anything else electronic lol. It's like a beacon for chewing. Skye will sit on the tote and try to chew his way in :lol: P.S. you aren't annoying because you ask for advice and then you apply it without aski...

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It could be as simple as her sleeping perch was disturbed. I may change my cages up occasionally, but I never disturb their sleeping perch. It's the one constant that I allow them in the cage. It's possible that Remy will once again be comfortable with going back once she gets used to her sleep per...

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All, another concern came up over the past two weeks regarding the whole prevention on breeding. Over the past two months, Remy has been getting comfortable with us and started putting herself to bed at night. Wherever she may be in the house, she knows when she is tired and flies back to the cage ...

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Thanks to you both! I guess we are overly concerned parronts :oops: :D Glad we arent annoying as we still have tons of questions! Also, we both have a 4 and its good to know that Remy can "de-shell" our phones whenever she wants. Its pretty ridiculous actually, whoever posted something abo...

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Hi all, there was an older post from a couple months back in the introduction section (http://www.indianringneck.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=17158&hilit=ipad), so I thought rather than hijacking that thread, I'd start a new one here from one of ellie's reponses. This was about someone's IR...

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I'll add what we think so far even though we've only had Remy since April of this year 1) female (we think as we are assuming this on the female mating stance when we pet her) 2) yes - she bit us every time we tried getting her to step up for about 2-3 weeks after we first got her. but it could have...

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All, another concern came up over the past two weeks regarding the whole prevention on breeding. Over the past two months, Remy has been getting comfortable with us and started putting herself to bed at night. Wherever she may be in the house, she knows when she is tired and flies back to the cage a...

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Ok.. thank you for the suggestions. We have officially decided to leave her in the cage all day when we are at work - at least during mating season. She crawled under the couch pillow last week into the corner by the cushion so we are going to make sure she isnt looking for nesting spots and wouldnt...

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All, I just wanted to say thank you for all of the assurance with Remy's molting. It was a very long process and is now down to one long tail feather left, but the rest of the feathers look really great, bright and shiny. It's really a scary sight to see the molting with a new IRN, we have been so w...

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That's great! I can't wait to see some videos. The next important step is to cue the behaviour without showing her the treat beforehand. Remy now turns around on cue, but she definitely knows she gets a treat out of it, so she expects to be rewarded, which is fine right? I have a bit of an issue te...

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I know folks want me to put up pictures, but I'm not really a techno kid, and I have perpetually lost my camera. Eventually I will. :oops: thats amazing. My fiance and I decided when its time to get a house, if Remy doesnt have a birdie room she can roam free all day/night long, we will get her the...

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WOW! I am TOTALLY buying that snack tray. Its different from everything else she has. I'm just hoping she is as excited about this as the clear ones since she cant really "see" inside it. Maybe if I get the snack tray, and the zig zag maze, I already ordered the nut drop one, that would be...

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Niff, This is the cage Rocky primarily uses now. I'm a huge fan of it and I promote it to everyone. I found it strikes a balance between what I want and what I can manage. It is very easy to maintain, and I love the extra touch of the nest box door high on the side. That is Rocky's personal door. H...

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I'll practice with the videos! :mrgreen: Here's an old one when Remy first moved into her cage (its changed a lot since then). Eating, easy foraging off the skewer with a tour of her cage, "cribs" style :lol: If this works, I'll post more so let me know! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppgv...

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From my observations, there seem to be two main sorts of foraging toys that interest my guys. The ones that require brain power and the ones that require persistence. The problem with the brain power ones is that once they've figured it, they can do it quite quickly. I agree - I think most of the t...

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Thank you all so much for the feedback! It is really helpful to know what others have used considering the costs really do add up after a while. We have the push and pull one. It's minutes of fun for Nele. We find if we put more than a few teats in the top they tend to spill into the open side when ...

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Hi all, we have a few foraging toys for our 10 month old, Remy, but she has mastered ALL of them over the past two months or so. It's annoying (but great) that she spends less time getting out her nutriberries and baby carrots and other goodies than it takes for me to fill it. I also tried filling t...

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Is there a way she could go to work with you a couple of days per week? You could also manipulate the lighting in the winter a bit. As the sun is going down at 4-5 have a sun lamp on a timer turn on. That's the only thing I can think of. :D She definitely cant go to work with either of us during th...

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Heyo, It sounds like maybe Remy is too full to really want the treat. I haven't had to deal with lack of motivation for a while. Nele seems to be half piglet, though if he's really full he just spits the treats out and keeps doing tricks... Maybe try before breakfast? I don't know if you do this al...

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Hey, It sounds like doing great. I just want to add that it may be worth letting your fiancé and visitors be the sole source of all the best treats. This article has some other good tips http://www.rationalparrot.com/tease.html This was an EXCELLENT article, thank you so much. Both my fiance and I ...

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DNA is not that expensive. About $20 from avian biotech. Regardless of cost though, some people are just not lucky enough to have a DNA'd bird when they get him/her. The way you describe Remy's behavior leads me to believe its a she. Remy is a cute name for a girl too :D going on the assumption tha...

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thanks for the feedback everyone, I definitely do understand that longer days do weird things to the hormonal/breeding urges, so we started closing the drapes at night and leave it closed until 9am on the weekends, and as late as we can wake on the weekdays. It seems to help a bit with sleeping, but...

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We've had Remy for almost two months now, and although she (99.9% sure it's a she :lol:) is doing great, not a day goes by that we dont worry sick about her left home all alone while we are away working long hours. When she gets older, maybe we'll let her do as she pleases and keep her out of her ca...

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I found that the large flat surface made him less nervous turning around, for Skye anyway. All birds are different :) I guess I went over his head though. I never thought about it. I guess for birds that won't let you go over their head, you could place them on a small platform and walk around them...

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He/She is not DNA tested? IRN's are one of the few parrot species however that are physically different between males and females however. I recommend going to wikipedia and reading about them - short article that does give information on the differences between the two. ? No Remy is not DNA tested...

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Hi all... so this past week has been quite an accomplishment. We've had Remy for a little over a month now and just this past weekend, he has started bowing his head when we go to scratch his beak, and will roll his head back and allow us to gently pet and scratch his head and neck and back while he...

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Thank you, I have learned everything I know from you and the members on this forum, so thank you! I can only hope to help others the same way over time

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Thank you for this. So over the weekend, I crushed up a peanut into teeny pieces and used it as a lure to teach Remy to turn around. The first three times worked with the lure, but then after that, he went up my arm to my shoulder and would do it the next couple of times then. He just wouldnt turn a...

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Hi all - Remy is 9 months old now and after a little over a month of living with us, he is doing really well and has started to mimic our whistles :) He is super chatty now - in his own birdie chirping language, and sometimes whistles the wolf whistles, the cab call whistles and the sparrow whistles...

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That's certainly a sobering experience. I'm sure there is ample material for Rocky to hang himself in his cage at my house. It makes me think of fixing his foraging cup to not swing free. We'll see. -MissK If there is one foraging cup thats not too heavy, it might be fine with a shorter string. Jus...

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I've seen many birds that would lay down to rest, probably wouldn't hurt. I have a used huddle hut for birds in the past but heard horror stories about birds getting hurt so now will put a scrap of terry cloth on a small wooden platform mounted in the cage. Is this true? Some birds like to lay down...

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Remy has been molting pretty much the entire month of May and is no where near done.. he is just now growing his chest and wing pin feathers.. the ones that have barely opened are in a bright neon green color. This is very slow going... he is 9 months old now and had tons of pin feathers on his head...

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You can probably cut out dinner. Think about birds in the wild. They do their foraging for food all day. An hour before dusk, most wild birds will be settling down and having their "social hour". They're not thinking about food at that point. My birds will pick off of my dinner, but not m...

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He used to have the down exposed but its growing back now. If you look at the horizontal line of his chest feathers they look raised. That's because all the new ones underneath are pushing through. I wish I had thought to take pics of Skye when he was at his worst. I just felt bad for him. It was a...

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Hi all, I've been posting about our 8.5 month old IRN, Remy, over the past few weeks as he has been with us for a month now. We've been really dedicating our time to making sure he is taken care of the right way with love, diet, time, cage size, toys, etc... and I realized the hard way that you can ...

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I think your bird is spoilt for choice and so picks and chooses his fav foods and turns his nose up at the rest. My vet is of the opinion that most pet parrots are overfed. He was horrified to learn that I was giving my guys an almond each a day for going back into their cage on cue. He said that a...

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I just took these now Notice how patchy his head and chest are Awwwww so cute! I definitely see a similarity in the molting process, thanks for posting. The chest is very patchy - although your bird doesnt have any down exposed like Remy does. I noticed today Remy's head looks better and has tons o...

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Skye can you post pics whenever that gets done? We are looking to move into a house in the next year or two and its never too late to start planning!

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As for his eating...think of it like this. Everyone has days they don't feel like eating certain things. Everyone has days they feel like eating junk food for dinner. IRN's are the same way. Some days they love peppers, and others they don't touch the peppers. Maybe for Remy, try rotating his food....

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What a cutie :D he looks completely normal to me. Molting can sometimes last quite a while. Especially their first big molt. Skye is just now starting to look a bit better. He's still losing though. He lost two tail feathers and a flight just yesterday. And the bottom of his cage looks like there w...

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You would need to have them attached together so he cannot slip out between. Ellie has someplace posted a pic of her bird actually hanging onto the split between two hanging bits of stuff. I don't think I would be laid back enough to just curtain my bird in outside, but I am a little nutty about pr...

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MissK wrote:Don't worry. If it's keeping you up at night, go get a bad haircut with your bangs (aka fringe) cut too short and a big hunk out of the back. Then you will be on the same page!

-Missk

you guys are the best

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We bought a birdy bunk for our first IRN, a blue male. He totally ignored it for the month and a half it was in his cage. When we got our new violet female, we put it in her cage - she LOVES it!! Sleeps in it almost every night - even over summer :shock: They are funny little creatures :lol: I'm gl...

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Your bird looks to be in a full molt. My baby Skye looks the same right now. It makes them very itchy and uncomfortable. He will get pin feathers all over so be careful not to pull on them. He looks to be in the losing down stage. Soon you will notice pin feathers around the face and head. It's all...

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Variety is always good and it sounds like Remy has great variety. One thing I've noticed with IRN's, is that they like routine habits. It took my baby 2 weeks to realize that breakfast is at 7 and everyone eats during that time. I was wasting a lot of food with him before that. Now when I place the...

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One more thought, a little out of the box - For screening your deck, how about second hand actual screen doors? You could literally hinge them together for a little screen room, and they would automatically be a good height. If you couldn't use a modular door size/shape floorplan, you could drape a...

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With the new bigger cage I would try to keep his cage unchanged for awhile until he gets more comfortable. The constant changes to moving around, and inner cage structure may be what is stressing him out. Let him settle for a week or two with nothing changed and fall into a routine with him. And li...

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Really comes down to 1) where's the sun and 2) what's on the other side of the window. Rocky loves the living room window, and I had his cage against it for the first month or so. It screwed with the human traffic pattern, though, so he had to move across the room. I know he would rather be by the ...

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