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Gorgeous photos! Congrats to you and your family!

Time flies huh?

Ellie.

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MissK, thanks for adding that. Our vet suggested that warm, mushy foods are similar to regurgitated foods they would receive from their mate.

Ellie.

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Looks like moulting to me. What do others think?

Love his ring!

Ellie.

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Personally, I'd talk to an avian vet about it. I also try not to let my birds interact with the wild bird population.

Ellie.

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Diet is important and l am trying to redcue the protein. She only gets cooked chicken once a week, also carbs should be cut down the Link Claire gave me said that the female bird will lthink it is the time to breed with an abundance of food which leaves me wondering about Bilie's four food bowls, o...

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Fantastic Claire!

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Hi liljo Increasing foraging will help. There are several good threads on foraging on this forum. What foraging will do for you is make your bird work for its food (which is what birds do in the wild) which will keep it stimulated and it's brain active and it will make humans the easy way to get foo...

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Yeah, it is great. It makes me smile. I think I'm going to see if I can download it and play it to Janey and Charlie. After playing it to them twice yesterday I thought I heard Charlie mimicking bits of it but it may have been my imagination. On an unrelated note, I showed a few people Janey and Cha...

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Hi liljo The caution you've described is normal. It is definitely related to fear. It is good that your bird feels it can fly away even when clipped because otherwise your bird may bite your boyfriend. Your boyfriend needs to concentrate on making Roscoe feel comfortable and safe whilst he's around....

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Hi All I've already shared this on AJPeter's thread, but I thought it was worthy of it's own thread. I've watched this over and over so many times now, I just love it! I hope you enjoy it too! http://love.theanimalrescuesite.com/songbird-shows-off-pipes/?utm_source=social&utm_medium=arsfan&u...

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InTheAir wrote:I think Dave and Nila demonstrating helped

I'm picturing Dave trying to get into the aviator harness to show Sapphire how it's done!

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AJPeter - just be certain Billie can't get her head between the bars. We had a rather unfortunate experience with Janey when she was little in a cat cage.

Ellie.

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At the risk of instilling fear in you, our avian vet had a quite big bird brought into the surgery one day that had its head caught in one of those after he had learnt to unscrew them. The gap in the clip was so small, I have NO idea how he managed to get himself caught in there. I use them every da...

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Here's something for you to aspire to AJ.
http://love.theanimalrescuesite.com/son ... m=20131206

Ellie.

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So sorry for you and your girlfriend's loss. Dante was a beautiful little bird.

Ellie.

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I think Claire should be able to help you with this? She is going through something similar with her two at the present.

Ellie.

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I think you just need to take it day by day. Janey is now five and the last two years weren't great as far as breeding behaviour goes. However, this year was better than last year. We were going pretty well until it got to the point that I introduced the open nest. All you can do is control what you...

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Good job Alpha. Keep up the good work!

Ellie.

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Hi AJPeter Ellie do l have eggs to worry about if Billie starts nesting? You went through a lot with Janey last year, l do not allow Billie such freedom to fly around my flat she is virtually limited to one room, but during the summer l had the doors open a lot and she flew into the kitchen gave me ...

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Janey was lunging when she got annoyed with me for giving her treats because she was already full. Foraging does a lot more than just that. It also prevents boredom and related behaviours and is a very "birdy" thing to do. In the wild, birds spend lots of time foraging for food. More infor...

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Are you in a brand new house? I thought generally a house would have a curtain rail if someone lived in it before you (unless possibly you had blinds?) or it's all glassed in and no curtains?

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Thanks Claire - that's exactly the kind of thing I was thinking of. I forwarded her your link. I also sent her these: http://www.parrotrescuecentre.com/shop/foraging-buffet-ball http://www.parrotrescuecentre.com/shop/nut-case http://www.parrotrescuecentre.com/shop/hol-ee-roller-large-foot-toy Ellie.

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It does make me wonder if his cage is wide enough? Can he turn around without his tail hitting on the edge of the cage?

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The only time I've seen tail feathers like that is when a bird is around lots of other birds that pull out tail feathers. If your bird with others? Overall, it doesn't look normal to me but this isn't my area of expertise.

Ellie.

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Can you get a DVD? I think you'd enjoy Parrot Behaviour and Training #1 and possibly #2 from Barbara Heidenreich
http://www.goodbirdinc.com/parrot-store-dvds.html

Ellie.

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Hi All My friend has two hens that she keeps in her backyard. They have a reasonable size run but they used to let them "free-range" quite a bit until one of their young hens got bitten by a snake and died. So now, they only let them "free-range" when they are out with them and c...

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Do you have windows?

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Slightly scared birds love sitting on the curtain rails! They will most likely ignore a gym in favour of that until they feel more confident.

Ellie.

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Just thought I'd add my thoughts. I only use two food containers in my bird's cage although it does have space for three. I use one for water and one for pellets. I don't use a water bottle, although I definitely understand the rationale for that - I've just placed their water bowl in a place where ...

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Well done AlphaWolf

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Hi AJPeters I've had discussions about females and nesting with my avian vet and Pamela Clark at a workshop. They both recommend to not let your bird nest. I recommend you read the links that Claire posted. In her session on female nesting behaviour, Pamela Clark indicated that the triggers for nest...

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My two have an okay vocabulary and we are the only ones that can understand them - I doubt they'll ever speak clearly. I regret that I can't whistle a tune because I have a feeling our Janey would be able to whistle a tune really well. They have picked up words phrases from both me and my husband (a...

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I grew up in Ipswich and all my family live in Ipswich. Is there a chance the exhibition is going for longer than a day?

Ellie.

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Claire and I met on this forum and found we live in the same suburb. We hadn't met before that. It is good to have someone who shares your passion for birds to talk to.

Ellie.

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Looks like J&C are having fun. Thanks for looking after them. It seems Charlie has abandoned Janey to hang out with Nila?

I find it interesting that J will stand up to Sapphy as at home Charlie is more likely to be aggressive to
Janey than the other way around.

Ellie.

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I never figured out the flying at the face. I think she's stopped doing it now. Having said that she did crash into my face yesterday but I think she was aiming at my shoulder and missed. When she's at home with me at the moment I'm finding her pretty good to get along with now. After 3 months of pr...

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You could also consider moving your house furniture. I didn't do this but will consider it next year. If she considers your house her environment too, this could help. When Janey was nesting all she would eat were frozen peas that I cooked for her. I didn't know that peas were also quite high in sug...

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I can see the above photos. Can someone let me know if you can see them too? I may only be able to view them because I'm logged into facebook?

Ellie.

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I've joined "the parrot's workshop" on Facebook and they've had a few people posting ideas for Christmas trees for birds. I'm going to attempt to embed the photos here, not sure if it will work: https://fbcdn-sphotos-e-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/q71/1453333_10151866576272599_776090182_...

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Stephi If you are in the market for a clicker and target stick, I like the look of this one: http://www.goodbirdinc.com/parrot-store.html (scroll to half way down the page, it's called Telescoping Target Stick with Clicker) What I like about it is that the clicker and the target are all in one unit ...

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Thats a really nice idea, do you think real trees have been treated with pesticides etc? I use real tree branches with my birds any way. I am planning to see if I can get a suitable one from a nursery and will have that discussion with them about pesticides. I usually wash tree products in the show...

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You've seen my Janey thread right?

http://www.indianringneck.com/forum/vie ... =2&t=14905

Ellie.

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This is a hard question. When I went to Pam Clark's session on this she said that the following cause increased hormone production: - presence of a perceived mate (which can be human) - too much cuddling time or on the shoulder time - access to small, dark places suitable for nesting - a diet high i...

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Would you call her mirror-chatting behaviour obsessive? If so, I would remove the mirror as it's not healthy for her. Toys are very individual and different birds like different toys. A book that I have, "Parrot-toys & Play Areas" by D'Arezzo & Shannon-Nunn lists 11 different parro...

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Glad to hear it is going better. My two generally get along pretty well. They share a cage... but every now and again they get snarky with each other, I think its going to happen sometimes.

Ellie.

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Would you consider a live tree that he can sit on as your Christmas tree with birdy safe/chewable decorations?

Ellie.

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Beautiful flock you have there!

Ellie.

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Interestingly, my birds do use the full height of their cage. Admittedly, they don't use the bottom much... but I put their foot toys in a coop cup hanging off the cage bars about 3/4 of the way down and they do go down there to get them. They sometimes like foraging in the bottom of the cage too fo...

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If any one wants to learn how to clip their birds nails, the Barbara Heidenreich video Training for the Veterinary Exam #2 http://www.goodbirdinc.com/parrot-store-dvds.html has information on how to train your bird to participate in nail trimming. Someone offered to do Janey's once - someone who has...

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Wow Claire. You've done really well! Good work.

Ellie.

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