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by AJPeter
Sun Jan 29, 2017 12:11 pm
Forum: IRNs Behavior & Taming
Topic: Billie&Sanjay
Replies: 238
Views: 377099

Re: Billie&Sanjay

Trump could be good for America, they are different to us. 8 years and what has Obama got to show for it?
by AJPeter
Sun Jan 29, 2017 8:29 am
Forum: IRNs Behavior & Taming
Topic: Billie&Sanjay
Replies: 238
Views: 377099

Re: Billie&Sanjay

I weave the millet spray between the bars, as you say the clips are useless. Billie only gets two a week, she has been looking in her nesting box and walking in but no serious sitting, she flies to my chair as an excuse to get to the floor and then she looks for favoured nesting sites on the floor l...
by AJPeter
Sat Jan 28, 2017 11:41 am
Forum: IRNs Behavior & Taming
Topic: Billie&Sanjay
Replies: 238
Views: 377099

Re: Billie&Sanjay

Billie does not like strawberry, but blackberry would be all right. I was a encouraged a little today Billie sat inside her nesting box for one minute this morning. ,and longer this afternoon maybe she is getting round to it. l heard it said that once she starts sitting she has finished laying. Then...
by AJPeter
Sat Jan 28, 2017 8:31 am
Forum: IRNs Behavior & Taming
Topic: Billie&Sanjay
Replies: 238
Views: 377099

Re: Billie&Sanjay

Billie gets worried when l go out of the room, she knows the sound the door leading out onto the stairs makes as I open it and squawks in alarm, I am very pleased with the new cage there is room for her old sleeping perch between the bars at right angles to the new perches, what with the java branch...
by AJPeter
Fri Jan 27, 2017 1:09 pm
Forum: IRNs Behavior & Taming
Topic: Billie&Sanjay
Replies: 238
Views: 377099

Re: Billie&Sanjay

I sleep 10 hours like a log, am very thankful but l wake up every 2 or 3 hours to check the plumbing, I have had a letter too about the upgrade on the 9th, l just switch over to Freeview, why l pay Virgin their outrageous prices beats me Freeview have all the good programmes too. What is this new bo...
by AJPeter
Fri Jan 27, 2017 8:31 am
Forum: IRNs Behavior & Taming
Topic: Billie&Sanjay
Replies: 238
Views: 377099

Re: Billie&Sanjay

Billie only sings when she wants something, we had a little biscuit today and l put her bit in the nesting box but she kept singing for her supper to be handed to her in the end she did go down and carried each bit up to a top perch. She is locked in and hates it, l think out of boredom she will sit...
by AJPeter
Wed Jan 25, 2017 11:38 am
Forum: IRNs Behavior & Taming
Topic: Billie&Sanjay
Replies: 238
Views: 377099

Re: Billie&Sanjay

No such luck she has to sit on her eggs for 28 days at least before she goes into moult mode. She was very subdued today, she does not like being locked in, have to keep this up for a week or two just to make sure she has finished laying, another egg and it is the vet for sure! The last three eggs h...
by AJPeter
Wed Jan 25, 2017 9:28 am
Forum: IRNs Behavior & Taming
Topic: Billie&Sanjay
Replies: 238
Views: 377099

Re: Billie&Sanjay

When l let Billie out she makes a bee line for her favoured nest site, so I have shut her in all day, normally at this time she is moaning like the dickens that she can hear the Telly or see the light but she is very quiet uncovered but I will cover he up in a moment. With 5 eggs it is time to stop ...
by AJPeter
Tue Jan 24, 2017 11:47 am
Forum: IRNs Behavior & Taming
Topic: Billie&Sanjay
Replies: 238
Views: 377099

Re: Billie&Sanjay

I meant to add that Billie had a mineral block on her cage but she ripped it off and shredded it. I bet it gave her a tummy ache! :((
by AJPeter
Tue Jan 24, 2017 11:44 am
Forum: IRNs Behavior & Taming
Topic: Billie&Sanjay
Replies: 238
Views: 377099

Re: Billie&Sanjay

Sneaky? Billie is very upset. If she is on the floor when l go out she flies back to the cage, l very rarely catch her on the floor when l come in. I am only too thankful she is not laying eggs. #:-s
by AJPeter
Tue Jan 24, 2017 9:16 am
Forum: IRNs Behavior & Taming
Topic: Billie&Sanjay
Replies: 238
Views: 377099

Re: Billie&Sanjay

I just do not know what I am doing wrong every time I use the backspace to correct a typo it deletes everything, so I apologise for typos this is the second attempt to answer your email. Billie has shown no interest in her eggs but she is still looking for a nesting site, her preferred spot is betwe...
by AJPeter
Mon Jan 23, 2017 12:28 pm
Forum: IRNs Behavior & Taming
Topic: Very Quiet Baby-Normal???
Replies: 9
Views: 5935

Re: Very Quiet Baby-Normal???

It takes time for birds to settle down after a move, when they feel more secure they will announce their presence aon you won't be able to stop them. Read all you can on our forums.
by AJPeter
Mon Jan 23, 2017 12:21 pm
Forum: IRNs Behavior & Taming
Topic: Billie&Sanjay
Replies: 238
Views: 377099

Re: Billie&Sanjay

Alan had Billie about 4 years before l got her but l do not know old she was when he got her, l assumed she was about three and that would be about 7 when l got her, she started to lay 6 months later. But Alan only gave her sunflower seeds no fruit no veg. Billie has been chomping on cuttle fish bon...
by AJPeter
Sun Jan 22, 2017 11:47 am
Forum: IRNs Behavior & Taming
Topic: Billie&Sanjay
Replies: 238
Views: 377099

Re: Billie&Sanjay

The desolation of Smaug, and episode 1 I recorded earlier in the year l am waiting for episode three the big battle scene, when l got the Tivoli box l lost my recordings of Lord of the Rings, so it was good see Episode 1 the Fellowship of the Ring come by again but now l am waiting for episodes 2 an...
by AJPeter
Sun Jan 22, 2017 9:05 am
Forum: IRNs Behavior & Taming
Topic: Billie&Sanjay
Replies: 238
Views: 377099

Re: Billie&Sanjay

Where was I? Well a new thread means you have to start again, well not from the beginning. Billie has laid 4 eggs and has two dummies all on the grid, her last egg was laid three days ago, and the egg before that 9 days, 3 were laid over 6 days. Billie loves her new cage she is constantly up and dow...
by AJPeter
Fri Jan 20, 2017 10:20 am
Forum: IRNs Behavior & Taming
Topic: Billie&Sanjay
Replies: 238
Views: 377099

Billie&Sanjay

Okay?
by AJPeter
Fri Jan 20, 2017 9:37 am
Forum: IRNs Behavior & Taming
Topic: Billie2
Replies: 1140
Views: 5551939

Re: Billie2

Get out
by AJPeter
Wed Jan 18, 2017 12:49 pm
Forum: IRNs Behavior & Taming
Topic: Billie2
Replies: 1140
Views: 5551939

Re: Billie2

Can't say Billie has a favourite food, she picks them, up or drops them, her plumage is smooth and not ruffled her eyes are clear, her poops look normal, sometime l have a job to find them in such a big cage. She sits on the floor a lot with her tail up, she is indicative of hormonal behaviour. I mu...
by AJPeter
Tue Jan 17, 2017 11:22 am
Forum: IRNs Behavior & Taming
Topic: Billie2
Replies: 1140
Views: 5551939

Re: Billie2

I bought some cauliflower today, it gives me flatulence but Billie might like it as she is eating vegetables again. Did the video show the chariot race well? No more loose feathers, and she rearranges the eggs but does not sit on them, l shall feel a lot easier when she does start to sit, She was si...
by AJPeter
Mon Jan 16, 2017 11:23 am
Forum: IRNs Behavior & Taming
Topic: Billie2
Replies: 1140
Views: 5551939

Re: Billie2

Ah! I put the newspapers under the grid in the tray l think she would rip up the news papers and think she is making a nest and start lay again no l will wait until l am sure she has finished laying, perhaps after she starts to sit on these before putting on news papers on the grid' I tried Billie w...
by AJPeter
Mon Jan 16, 2017 7:34 am
Forum: IRNs Behavior & Taming
Topic: Billie2
Replies: 1140
Views: 5551939

Re: Billie2

Billie likes to abseil down the bars too, yes it is now 5 days since the last egg, but she has gone 12 days once between laying. One thing she likes is a nap mid day, and she wants a lot of cuddles on my arm, she still wants to masturbate on me but her demands are getting less stringent. She often g...
by AJPeter
Sun Jan 15, 2017 12:00 pm
Forum: IRNs Behavior & Taming
Topic: Billie2
Replies: 1140
Views: 5551939

Re: Billie2

I would not use Flash gel, it tastes awful both for us and for parrots, the seed catches catch poop as well and so far nothing has hit the floor. She is still hormonal wanting to masturbate on me which of course l do not allow. She keeps going into the box and rearranges the eggs, 3 and 2 dummies. T...
by AJPeter
Sat Jan 14, 2017 11:49 am
Forum: IRNs Behavior & Taming
Topic: Billie2
Replies: 1140
Views: 5551939

Re: Billie2

What a relief that some else had washers to spare! I put the old cage out by our waste bins and it went by mid afternoon, l kept the perches and small bowls, the perches l put in lower down to make it easier for her to get to the nesting box, l sent you a photo from my mobile phone. There were no eg...
by AJPeter
Fri Jan 13, 2017 12:22 pm
Forum: IRNs Behavior & Taming
Topic: Billie2
Replies: 1140
Views: 5551939

Re: Billie2

LOL! That's enough/ Just as l submitted my email the cage arrived. One part was too heavy to lug upstairs so l went to Emma and asked her if l could borrow Nathan, "Oh he does not live here any more!" She goes through boyfriends like a yoyo. So I unpacked the cage and took it up piece meal...
by AJPeter
Fri Jan 13, 2017 7:04 am
Forum: IRNs Behavior & Taming
Topic: Billie2
Replies: 1140
Views: 5551939

Re: Billie2

Billie can count, l was expecting to see another egg this morning, but there was none! Royal Mail delivered the parcel from Northern Parrots a day late, but no sign of the cage. It might still come, Billie is banging her bell and wanting me to turn off the TV she is covered, l shall ignore her until...
by AJPeter
Thu Jan 12, 2017 12:53 pm
Forum: IRNs Behavior & Taming
Topic: Billie2
Replies: 1140
Views: 5551939

Re: Billie2

I ordered other things form Northern Parrots to take advantage of the free delivery, these other things are coming by Royal Mail and l thought that was today but nothing yet maybe to morrow the cage is coming from Liberta direct and might be the carrier you said. Billie is fast asleep by 4 pm, l kno...
by AJPeter
Thu Jan 12, 2017 7:34 am
Forum: IRNs Behavior & Taming
Topic: Billie2
Replies: 1140
Views: 5551939

Re: Billie2

I don't know about that, however if l take it slowly it should go together with no problems, if Be... can do it so can I. Yes we are very excited, Billie is yelling for me to leave the sitting room to her she is covered up with two fleece blankets so it is nice and dark inside her cage but I have th...
by AJPeter
Wed Jan 11, 2017 9:22 am
Forum: IRNs Behavior & Taming
Topic: Billie2
Replies: 1140
Views: 5551939

Re: Billie2

I suddenly remember that Dummy eggs in USA recommended that l put in all the eggs as soon as she starts to lay as hens count their egg, this being so l put in two extra dummy eggs. She went and banged around and then l saw she had separated the dummy eggs from her eggs. I ordered the cage, keep you ...
by AJPeter
Tue Jan 10, 2017 11:45 am
Forum: IRNs Behavior & Taming
Topic: Billie2
Replies: 1140
Views: 5551939

Re: Billie2

Microsoft have pulled the plug on the old Vista l thought it was going to be April 17 which would have allowed me to buy a new cage , get over that and then buy a new computer, l still have the Surface pro 4 tablet which l shall use form now on. You are right about the new cage l will get one on ord...
by AJPeter
Mon Jan 09, 2017 11:31 am
Forum: IRNs Behavior & Taming
Topic: Billie2
Replies: 1140
Views: 5551939

Re: Billie2

For got to mention that Billie's first cage was green, this one is black but l was thinking I would order the Voyager in stone, l think yours is black?
by AJPeter
Mon Jan 09, 2017 11:23 am
Forum: IRNs Behavior & Taming
Topic: Billie2
Replies: 1140
Views: 5551939

Re: Billie2

Well the grid did not work. This morning as l uncovered her a second egg was sitting next to the first, l think she was sitting on them, the poor thing looks like a battery hen. So I cleared the paper from the tray I carefully removed the eggs to a safe place she did not bat a hare and then I took t...
by AJPeter
Sun Jan 08, 2017 12:31 pm
Forum: IRNs Behavior & Taming
Topic: Billie2
Replies: 1140
Views: 5551939

Re: Billie2

Could you tell how much you paid for the cage and who from? Was it easy to put together? Do you use the seed catchers and if yes do they stop Sanjay's poops? The trouble with paper is that Billie would rip it up, however l could put it under the grid, to protect the pan. At the moment l have lined t...
by AJPeter
Sat Jan 07, 2017 1:01 pm
Forum: IRNs Behavior & Taming
Topic: Billie2
Replies: 1140
Views: 5551939

Re: Billie2

Yesterday l found a very helpful site about what to do when they start laying, and although l have trolled history today and yesterday l cannot find it. Blast. I was looking at Liberta 2 Voyager today, it would fit in my LR and give her the extra tail room she needs. What was the name of the cage yo...
by AJPeter
Fri Jan 06, 2017 12:48 pm
Forum: IRNs Behavior & Taming
Topic: Billie2
Replies: 1140
Views: 5551939

Re: Billie2

I like the cage she has for several reasons 1/ It has a plastic tray which is easy to clean under the tap. 2/ It fits in my small living room. 3/ She is locked inside at night.
by AJPeter
Fri Jan 06, 2017 12:44 pm
Forum: IRNs Behavior & Taming
Topic: Billie2
Replies: 1140
Views: 5551939

Re: Billie2

I did some research on the net, and you are right no nesting box, no nesting material, put the grid back so she cannot get to the floor of the cage, cut down on the variety of food , and cut down on proteins and fatty foods keep up the restricted diet for a month to stop laying any more eggs. Drasti...
by AJPeter
Fri Jan 06, 2017 8:06 am
Forum: IRNs Behavior & Taming
Topic: Billie2
Replies: 1140
Views: 5551939

Re: Billie2

I spoke too soon she laid an egg this afternoon great pain she is sleeping now, I put her nesting box back in to keep the egg safe 5 eggs is normal keep your fingers crossed she stop then..
by AJPeter
Thu Jan 05, 2017 12:16 pm
Forum: IRNs Behavior & Taming
Topic: :-s HELP! Is he/she sick? :-s
Replies: 52
Views: 9147

Re: :-s HELP! Is he/she sick? :-s

Look at Rainbow Ridge, and my heart felt feeling towards you, at least you gave Sam all that loving before he passed away. I hope you too will go on and nurture more IRN.
Peter
by AJPeter
Thu Jan 05, 2017 12:00 pm
Forum: IRNs Behavior & Taming
Topic: Billie2
Replies: 1140
Views: 5551939

Re: Billie2

Billie is getting better she no longer crouches on the floor of the cage bleating, but she still wants to masturbate on me all l allow is a cuddle she sways back and forth gently rubbing her chest on my sleeve in one direction and under my hand in the other direction. That is really good news about ...
by AJPeter
Wed Jan 04, 2017 12:12 pm
Forum: IRNs Behavior & Taming
Topic: Billie2
Replies: 1140
Views: 5551939

Re: Billie2

A sweet thing happened today, l have a large 2 foot square mirror behind the cage and l pushed her cage a bit close to the mirror, and Billie was standing on her cage with her beak on the mirror looking at her reflection but she was fast asleep! I crept about but had to go out when l came back she h...
by AJPeter
Tue Jan 03, 2017 11:38 am
Forum: IRNs Behavior & Taming
Topic: Billie2
Replies: 1140
Views: 5551939

Re: Billie2

You cannot feed Vitamin D tablets to him so we rely on the UV light, Billie has been less amorous today still wanting a cuddly, two in fact. Shopping today so l bought Emma and Nathan some salt fish that l saw in Asda, Emma told me she had given her 13 year daughter £100 to buy a phone and now was b...
by AJPeter
Mon Jan 02, 2017 12:30 pm
Forum: IRNs Behavior & Taming
Topic: My bird hates me?
Replies: 20
Views: 5297

Re: My bird hates me?

You need to research this site in the behaving and taming sections and learn from other people.
by AJPeter
Mon Jan 02, 2017 12:22 pm
Forum: IRNs Behavior & Taming
Topic: Billie2
Replies: 1140
Views: 5551939

Re: Billie2

Billie enjoys the UV light but like Sanjay she bit into the cable because it was too close to the cage now l move her cage as far away as possible. They don't understand the dangers cables present Billie found the white plastic covered glass fibre TV cable and started to chew it. I covered it with f...
by AJPeter
Sun Jan 01, 2017 11:24 am
Forum: IRNs Behavior & Taming
Topic: Billie2
Replies: 1140
Views: 5551939

Re: Billie2

Did Sanjay fly top the floor before to bite the cable? I thought the Charles Heston's Ben Hur was the tops a remake would not be half as good. It is good to have a spare bulb. I know the UV lamp keeps falling over it has three legs but is top heavy, so ordered a spare bulb. I had a tall standard lam...
by AJPeter
Sat Dec 31, 2016 9:37 am
Forum: IRNs Behavior & Taming
Topic: Billie2
Replies: 1140
Views: 5551939

Re: Billie2

My stupid pro 4 Surface laptop would not open the link on IRN, so l am using Vista in a hurry, l am playing the organ tonight for the watch night service and will have ot leave at 9.30, I thought l might get a couple of hours shut eye before then. I watched Ben Hur film it always makes me cry! Bank ...
by AJPeter
Fri Dec 30, 2016 11:52 am
Forum: IRNs Behavior & Taming
Topic: Billie2
Replies: 1140
Views: 5551939

Re: Billie2

Not as bad as Billie, l got her in August 2013 with her old cage, and it was very hot the cage had lots of little doors and l accidentally left one door unlocked, but closed her up and opening the windows to allow a breeze to come in and l went out but when l came back I found Billie on top of the c...
by AJPeter
Thu Dec 29, 2016 12:09 pm
Forum: IRNs Behavior & Taming
Topic: Billie2
Replies: 1140
Views: 5551939

Re: Billie2

I think it is an Aussie word, I shall wait for the first egg before she gets the nesting box but as you say it would only encourage her, when she had it before and she became broody and sat in the box all day. I am quite interested in this candle idea of yours, l did not think you would know St Fran...
by AJPeter
Thu Dec 29, 2016 11:48 am
Forum: IRNs Behavior & Taming
Topic: new irn owner
Replies: 2
Views: 1231

Re: new irn owner

And yet my bird is out all day, even when l go out. She did chew an electric cable that was too near her cage, but she ignores the ones on the floor. I agree with Sanjay's Mummi do not let her out until she has adjusted to her new home, about two weeks, eat your meals next to the cage when you open ...
by AJPeter
Thu Dec 29, 2016 11:40 am
Forum: IRNs Behavior & Taming
Topic: Suddenly scared Feathers
Replies: 11
Views: 2569

Re: Suddenly scared Feathers

When they sit on your shoulder and preen themselves it is a great honour, and eating a nut on your hear is another honour, it shows they trust you. I give Billie a millet spray twice a week as a consolation when l go out shopping or to church. You must never rush the inter-reaction between you, the ...
by AJPeter
Thu Dec 29, 2016 11:32 am
Forum: IRNs Behavior & Taming
Topic: :-s HELP! Is he/she sick? :-s
Replies: 52
Views: 9147

Re: :-s HELP! Is he/she sick? :-s

When Billie had her prolapse at the beginning of the year she had to have Baytril and Zolcal orally l had to hold her head steady and squirt it down the back of her throat, one she liked the other she hated so l gave the horrible one first and the second she smacked her lips and would have had a sec...
by AJPeter
Thu Dec 29, 2016 11:10 am
Forum: IRNs Behavior & Taming
Topic: My parrot doesn't want to train... Help!
Replies: 9
Views: 2483

Re: My parrot doesn't want to train... Help!

Having found a cold shoulder he sulks because he was wrong, poor bird l agree with Sanjay's Mummi l have never trained my bird she steps up if she wants to. Some people want clock work toys, As it has been said before the birds train us!