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ryelle

ahahaaa its rats you cant give spicey food too. gettin my pets mixed up. Doh! Spit has dried pepper and chilis in his dinner. omg im stupid some times

ryelle

Also dear Julie first, I think it is not so easy to find this bird previous owner. and second, If he really would loved him, he should just keep him safe and didn't let him go! (OK, maybe I'm wrong because I'm not used to keep birds I just had cats and they were really free to stay with me or leave...

ryelle

congratualtions Bella on how far youve tamed Billy. you are my role model for taming Spit i know if i try, and get advice along the way from people off here, we'll get there eventually like you and Billy did. although he drives me round the bend sometimes, im not giving up on him yet ^^ Billy's luck...

ryelle

treats on a skewer do work realllly well for getting birds back into the cage. with a bit of a faff on we usually get Spit into his cage using the perch, hes got a big door on his cage so we are lucky, because we have to put the perch in so thats its not near the side of the door otherwise he grabs ...

ryelle

i feed Spit rice all the time and he loves it. i posted a thread not so long ago with some recipies of fun things to make for fids. http://www.indianringneck.com/board/viewtopic.php?t=5865 also, look online, you might be able to find a better and cheaper seed diet for your bird as his daily food. As...

ryelle

I got some nice photos of Spit yesterday when we were playing in the kitchen. We move him near the back door so he can watch the birds in the garden (he usually shouts at them hah!) and so he can get some sunshine and fresh air. something interesting outside http://i256.photobucket.com/albums/hh163/...

ryelle

I have a breeder IRN that's beak looks just like that and before I got him he was bit by a Cockatoo. Your birds beak looks healed and it will always look like that not much you can do about it. bit by a cockatoo!!! aww poor thing! Eclipzia hes still beautiful and always will be ^^ i hope my fid get...

ryelle

i dont see why females wouldnt talk as much. i suppose it just depends how much talking you do to your bird ^^ i also find it funny how most people hope for a boy. i think if i get another fid i would quite like a girl. my household is full of boys and all my previous pets have been boys apart from ...

ryelle

yay! thank you

i always worry about nothing ^^

ryelle

O.k, this may sounds like a stupid question, ive never owned a bird before, so i dont know what their feet are meant to look like. I've got a photo of Spits feet because i dont know if the skin is too dry of if they are meant to look like that. When we first got him it looked like he had dandruff on...

ryelle

for the first time today i let spit out of his cage while i cleaned it, but instead of putting him on his play stand across the room with my boyfriend watching him, i let him play on top. i re-arranged his cage and let him help me place his toys. he wasnt as stressed out as he normally is about me t...

ryelle

im not a vet or anything but that looks harsh! have you had it checked out by a vet? even if it is an old wound i still would, just to check everything is fine and itll heal up alright.

ive never seen anything like that before! i wonder what could have caused it. hes still a beauty though

ryelle

yeah. Amazon is right ^_^ Eat a bit of what your trying to give him in front of him, IRN's are unbelievebly curious and nosey. If he see's you eating it then he'll definately want it. It works with Spit even if we pretend, we hold the food up to our mouths and look like idiots prentendin to eat it a...

ryelle

we used the only avian specialist vet in the area, we dont have a car so we cant go out of the county for better care. he said he only did one too "offbalance him so he doesnt fly"... but of course, off balancing a bird is seriously dangerous. he was dropping mid flight into the floor or t...

ryelle

hehe he/she is a fluff ball ^^ so adorable! my boyfriend even smiled and said he/she was a "cute baby"... he/she must be adorable because my boyfriend is usually a miserable sod haha

ryelle

I'm just reading in the 'Introduce Yourself' bit at how much people paid for their IRN. hundreds of pounds?!?!?!!!! We paid £40 for Spit, and £15 for a crappy second hand ex-budgie cage. I'm thinking he was that cheap because he was from an aviary and never held, or maybe even wild caught from down ...

ryelle

aww!! they are so cute

just a tip.. on Photobucket theres a link under 'IMG Code - Forums & Bulletin Boards' that you just click, it auto copies it and you just paste it in here. That way you dont need to click the lil 'Img' box above ^^

ryelle

well the veterinarian clipped his wing the first time, and he only clipped one. he left the long feathers at the end and just clipped the ones in the middle so hed "glide and not be able to pick up height". but with only having one done Spit kept crashing into things because he was unbalan...

ryelle

haha i didnt think removing his beak from my flesh would make him lose all trust in me. thats crazy. my boyfriend doesnt react when Spit bites him and i try not to, but as soon as he draws blood i need to get him off me. it hurts like crazy. His mirror has been removed. i might try and take the bell...

ryelle

ok. we got him from a pet shop in town. he was originally in a cage with his "brother" but they were seperated before we bought him because they "started fighting". We dont have a clue wether he was hand-raised, kept in an aviary or what, the guy in the pet shop didnt have much o...

ryelle

Right, i spent last night trawling through posts to see what i could find about behaviour, training and trying to tame this beast, but everything people suggest ive already tried. Since the move, Spit has seemed a hell of a lot happier than he used to be. He sings more, he talks more, he has a lot m...

ryelle

maybe shes just excited? Spit does the same when hes 'hyper-active'... like a little child running around with a tonne of energy. he runs back and forth on his perch for ages and then will climb up the bars and round back to the perch and do it again and again. He usually does it when he wants atten...

ryelle

i think it is probably jelousy, but as long as they both get equal attention at the end of the day i think Yoda should grow out of it. hes only a babby after all ^^. As long as Yoda isnt attacking Jibby when you put him down i wouldnt worry

ryelle

isnt always a good idea to mix the food your wanting them to eat into the food their eating now? we had to do it with the pellet food because Spit wouldnt touch it. in the pet shop all he was eating was Sunflower Seeds... there was nothing else in the mix, the shop still feeds only Sunflower Seeds.....

ryelle

aahahaa weve always had dogs around the neighbourhood and Spit always barks at them even though he cant see them then growls and starts screaming when they dont stop barking. he tries to fight and scare off an animal 10times bigger than him and that he cant see

ryelle

damn, Spit hasnt managed Hello yet. he struggles with it loads and i think its pretty simple. he isnt the cleverest of things sometimes. he cant "wolf-whistle" because he tries to talk the noise instead of whistle it, and i think he tries to create a noise instead of talk for Hello. he get...

ryelle

I only do landscape and wildlife - NO people pics - EVER... so cheesy! People pics arent always cheesy. i hate pics of family portraits of people sat there smiling. ugh its so gross!! but Nature/wildlife photography ent got much business over here so ill probably end up doing it heres a portrait do...

ryelle

Spits almost 2 and over the past few months hes learnt (in a squeeky IRN - only we can understand talk) to say "Toy" - dragged out to say "ttoooyyyy" quite high pitched, and also hes learnt to say "whatcha doing" although he gets lazy and just shouts "doing". ...

ryelle

Spit pants too when hes been flying. if he gets spooked and darts across the room he pants like mad, and our room isnt very big. hes done it the whole time weve had him (almost a year). you can hear him pantin across the other side of the room if the T.V is quiet. i say "god spit, your so unfit...

ryelle

lets just face it..... IRN fids are totally insane. Jibby sleeping with his bell as a hat?! thats uber hilarious Spit usually sleeps on his concrete perch (i think he likes the color blue), but sometimes sleeps on his rope perch - these two are normal - but then occasionally, its like hes scared of ...

ryelle

yeah, like my stupid rats "if you introduce them while the youngest one is still young theyll get on fine".. ya right. Oldest ones a pain in the butt, doesnt like anybody but himself. i could see our fid being the same too. hes over protective of his cage and his toys and would prob kill a...

ryelle

maybe hes just addicted to sunflower seeds and nuts?

Spit shots almost everything out of his bowl. i dont actually know what he eats because i cant tell from the mess

he screams at us if we eat anything and dont give him any tho

ryelle

ahahaa it does sound like the mating dance. does he pull his wings back so they make a love heart shape? i think they all have their own little moves but ive just found this video on YouTube. not sure who's it is. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9f9ctzlpoM8 my fid pulls his wings back to make the hea...

ryelle

hey Crazyratwoman, how old is Petey? he looks like he still has a bit of a baby face on him. i totally love him

hes sooo gorgeous

ryelle

i think Spit has the same type of spot on his beak, not as obvious as Smokeys though. its just right where the black blends into the red on the tip of his beak. and i dont think it is a lack of sunlight because we are just coming into Summer over here and Spits getting plenty of it

ryelle

ignore me. i didnt even follow the links. got sooo much going on i forgot to look lol

ryelle

Spit makes the arrk noise. EVERY time we talk to him now, he makes this like gurgling squeeky type noise. He's trying to respond to what we say. i ask him "what you doing?" and he either repeats that in his squeaky voice, or he makes the arrk noise lol. its quiet, not like a scream or an a...

ryelle

hey Mikaela,

what type of photography do you do? Is there anything that interests you more than other types of photography?

im a photography student. in my second year of getting a Degree and im totally sucking at it haha. if i could get paid to take photos of birds all day id be in heaven!!!

ryelle

[url]if i was a new ringneck owner i would never come on to this site for the fear of being ridiculed and causing an argument[/url] well, id just like to say that this hasnt just arisen recently. when i first joined i was terrified of posting anything because as you say, for fear of being ridiculed....

ryelle

i know Alana. Sorry Lutino

i gota take my oldest rat to the vets tomorrow and im 100% sure that he isnt coming home with me. im devastated and cant stop crying.

Sorry Lutino for being so insensitive and arguing in your thread when all you needed was us to send our condolences and hugs

ryelle

GreenJenny.... just shut up. theres a lot of rat owners on this forum that dont appreciate hearing your crap excuse of an opinion. just because you personally dont like them, doesnt mean you can judge every one of them in the same. Its like someone that gets bitten by a dog then dislikes dogs all to...

ryelle

.... then shouts OOOOOOOOOOOOO BILLY in a really high pitch... im sat at uni... in a VERY quiet computer room, and i just read through this post again and omg!! ive never ever laughed so loud in my life. im really sorry Bella. ahahaa im crying and Yoda too, my boyfriend thinks that clip is comical ...

ryelle

wow! how often do ringies moult their longer tail feathers? we got Spit before he had them, and then he grew them. sounds stupid but i thought they stay forever hahaaa. im so dumb

ryelle

oh my god!! Pi-ko is sooo beautiful!! he looks like a right little character too! My Spit is about the same age as Pi-ko and his ring is about the same darkness (but green obv lol). Pi-ko looks like he loves to dance too heheeee. Spits in mid-moult but im not sure if his rings gunna come through tot...

ryelle

yeah Bella, it folds up. you pick the spokes up from the end and they go inside the main bit. the legs fold up to the main bit aswell lol. im trying to concentrate on this hahahaaa but spits sat next to me shotting EVERYTHING out of my pencil case and onto the floor. hes shredding my uni lecture han...

ryelle

Hehe i been away for a while but im feeling good (think its the weather lol). Thought id show you Spits new toy.... the clothes airer lol. he climbed on it yesterday while i was washing the pots and was fascinated. He figured he can hop from one spoke to the other so he was going round and round and...

ryelle

ahahahaaaa thats so funny. what a hissy fit!! how long did it take for him to calm down?

also, whats the thing where he stretches his neck, opens his beak and lifts his tongue? spit does that loads and i get scared

ryelle

hehe the one legged duck is called a Coot, distinguised by their black bodies and the white plate coming off their beak up their heads. Theres also Canada Geese (pic 2 of wild birds), Mute swans, and im not sure what the totally white one is with the orange beak. hehehehee my random duck/wild bird k...

ryelle

Well at least that person have to pay for what his/her dirty little creature did to your pet!! Domestic rats are infact VERY clean animals and im quite offended by your uneducated comment maybe you should research these "Dirty little creature" im sure it was not intentional what happened ...

ryelle

im back, and sort of on top of the world atm. lol im so up and down its annoying. ill try catch a video of spit doing his hello dance lol. it wont have any sound tho cus my camera is stupid

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