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Trebuchet King posted:Auuuugh I wish I could get a bird. I love sun conures so much and while I like cherry-headeds more the Sun is (a) easier to find around here and (b) probably the closest I'm going to get to a Carolina parakeet. Maybe by the end of the summer I'll finally be caught up on fixing all of this broken boat poo poo. Suns are fun, albeit very loud  E: vvvvv 
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SaNChEzZ posted:Ritz discovered melon is actually good today. Ritz is a very pretty bird and deserves to be at the top of a new page, all colourful and cute. artichoke posted:That's really the best way - gaslighting the hell out of them. Wish I'd have known that years ago instead of fueling the fire with a "awww you OK baaaby??" It's one of the best pieces of parrot-related advice I've ever read and works on things that aren't cockatiels too!
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Jade has her standard "s'gooooood?" schmooze for when she wants to have what you are eating. I heard her doing it in the other room and got confused because as far as I knew dinner was over. "S'goo? S'gooood?" "Baby, what's she doing!" "Trying to get me to come closer so she can puke on me-" "S'goood!" "No I don't want it!"
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Jul 28, 2015 01:29
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So, I think he is starting to calm, he is tame, and he can step up fairly well, I just need to get him to do it on command, I just wish he would try some of the foods so I could reward him with treats for doing so.
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Jul 28, 2015 01:42
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Your bird will love you soon enough, you just have to remember that they haven't been tamed/bred to be good pets for thousands of years like dogs and cats have, so they still retain that wild bird natural fear of everything new. It's kinda like a baby version of going into an adult big dogs yard for the first time, they have to learn to trust you. E: IMO until he seems really secure in his cage, I'd try to keep handling to a minimum. For sure get him to step up but try not to give him too much new stimuli until he's proper settled. underage at the vape shop fucked around with this message at 02:05 on Jul 28, 2015 |
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Jul 28, 2015 01:59
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And look into clicker training if you want to quickly train it.
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Jul 28, 2015 03:14
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A Saucy Bratwurst posted:Your bird will love you soon enough, you just have to remember that they haven't been tamed/bred to be good pets for thousands of years like dogs and cats have, so they still retain that wild bird natural fear of everything new. It's kinda like a baby version of going into an adult big dogs yard for the first time, they have to learn to trust you. Yeah I've been limiting it to stepping up off his perch and back on again. I just wanted him to be comfortable stepping up in case of emergency.
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LITERALLY A BIRD posted:vv My forums signature has a kookaburra eating barbeque. This isn't really related, I just wanted to share. mine is just a fat pigeon because i think that sums up auspol pretty well... I have a friend over from Arizona at the moment, so we took him to a wild life park so he could feed the kangaroos and wallabies, and check out the birds they have there. A lot of parrots, the only ones with "CAUTION: I BITE" on the cages were the corellas, because corellas are bastards. They also had this loving thing:  Definitely going to go back another day with my camera.
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Jul 28, 2015 12:41
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Its an Australian Bustard https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_bustard The male has a giant gently caress off beard so it can impress the ladies, and predators might think its actually a dwarf and leave it alone lest they anger the rest of Moria.
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Pion has been having brown poop the last 3 days, instead of the usual green. The large one right after waking up seems to have more normal colors, however: Partially brown, partially green. I don't think I have changed anything particular about her diet. Edit: Okay, a little reading tells me it might not really be a problem. Might just be her eating more of the pellets in the feed mix I'm using. The shape, composition and consistency all seem normal. nielsm fucked around with this message at 13:06 on Jul 28, 2015 |
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Yeah, Captain Bitey currently does either green or brown poos depending on how much of his diet is vegetables vs pellets on a given day and that's apparently normal. Or bright orange that one time he gorged himself on sweet potato and had a bit of a spew. His sweet potato is more strictly rationed now.
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GoldStandardConure posted:Its an Australian Bustard https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_bustard
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Pretty much all Australian birds are bastards, except tiels which are derpy potatoes. They had some cockatiels at the wildlife park too, looking suitably derpy.
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CROWS EVERYWHERE posted:Yeah, Captain Bitey currently does either green or brown poos depending on how much of his diet is vegetables vs pellets on a given day and that's apparently normal. Or bright orange that one time he gorged himself on sweet potato and had a bit of a spew. His sweet potato is more strictly rationed now. I don't really bother looking at their poo for anything-what's the point when every one is different depending on what they've eaten? Bright red pepper shits, gigantic purple blueberry shits, paste-like "just sat and ate some pellets" shits, watery "I just drank my body weight in warm water out of the tap" shits...
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GoldStandardConure posted:Pretty much all Australian birds are bastards, except tiels which are derpy potatoes. I will not hear a bad word said about willy wag tails, fairy/splendid/superb wrens or bronzewing doves. Well, except the doves being fat and stupid. Very pretty though.
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Frogmanv2 posted:I will not hear a bad word said about willy wag tails, fairy/splendid/superb wrens or bronzewing doves. 
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Cockatiels would be bastards too if the derpiness wasn't so high that it mostly gets expressed as impotent rage and easily thwarted attempts to eat keyboards.
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Frogmanv2 posted:I will not hear a bad word said about willy wag tails, fairy/splendid/superb wrens or bronzewing doves. the doves steal the cockatoo food while the cockatoo is eating it  they also stand on the windowsill and peer in 
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Slaughterhouse-Ive posted:Cockatiels would be bastards too if the derpiness wasn't so high that it mostly gets expressed as impotent rage and easily thwarted attempts to eat keyboards.
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Dreggon posted:they also stand on the windowsill and peer in I don't know what you're doing in there, but I don't approve of it.
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Battle Pigeon posted:He's adorable. I also appreciate you posting a cage photo, I love seeing other people's cage setups. I do too! I actually like the way it was set up before better but I try to move stuff around every week or two to give him something to do. I'm looking into getting a new cage, though; I've had this one about five years and it was a used buy from someone on craigslist, so it's showing some really obvious wear and tear(not to mention a bit of rust, thankfully in places he definitely can't reach). On that note, though, I'd love to see some other cage setups from you guys, too.
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Dreggon posted:the doves steal the cockatoo food while the cockatoo is eating it They aren't bronzewings 
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Frogmanv2 posted:They aren't bronzewings all birds are the same
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Dreggon posted:they also stand on the windowsill and peer in He clearly wants to be invited in to trash your stuff and eat the good food you're obviously hiding.
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Ohtori's model loaded incorrectly Tendai posted:Exactly. They try REALLY HARD to be rear end in a top hat jerk birds but can't quite pull it off without being hilarious. Pictured: totally an rear end in a top hat jerk bird  Seriously I'm totally as badass as the conures and twice as vicious now pet me      you may live human Dreggon posted:they also stand on the windowsill and peer in How do you handle the cute aerialsilks posted:I do too! I actually like the way it was set up before better but I try to move stuff around every week or two to give him something to do. I'm looking into getting a new cage, though; I've had this one about five years and it was a used buy from someone on craigslist, so it's showing some really obvious wear and tear(not to mention a bit of rust, thankfully in places he definitely can't reach). I haven't rearranged the cages properly in ages ugh. I don't usually bother moving the perches around, unless a more efficient/space using way is found or they keep making GBS threads on the current set up, but the toys get changed and rotated around.
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Dreggon posted:they also stand on the windowsill and peer in They're just watching the caged animals at the zoo
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What is it you want us to do? Die... DIIIIIIIIEEEEEEE...
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Do green cheeks sometimes stay mad longer than a day or so? I had a busy weekend where I wasn't in as much and Sammy has been extra cranky with me. I'm hoping a good solid evening of scritches and some strawberries will earn forgiveness. In other news, I may be adopting a Nanday conure! Friend of a friend has one (named Kiwi) that she can't take care of anymore cause she's a marine biology person and will be in the Bahamas and all over for a grad program. Kiwi sounds sweet and I'm hoping they get along or can at least tolerate each other.
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Yeah, but isn't necessarily because I ignore her for a couple days so much as she randomly gets in moods. She will also sort of vacillate between liking me or my boyfriend best. Try not to take it too personally. A solid evening of scritches and strawberries is definitely called for anyway, just because.
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I so look forward to your posts now in this thread. The swallow and blackbird drama on my driveway isn't nearly as cool looking as your thuggish cockatoos.Battle Pigeon posted:Pictured: totally an rear end in a top hat jerk bird  I love Steve. And his ???!!! attempts to be Ohtori's friend/lover/???
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Well, that looks ominous.
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I love the facial expressions of cockatoos, and their soulless eyes.
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Is there a quaker version of  ? I just spent like 2 hours worth of time cleaning and cutting paperbark branches, then putting them in his cage, and hes just sitting in his bed rocking it sideways screaming at them.
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I like to imagine that where you live is considered Australia's version of a rough neighborhood because of roving gangs of pillaging cockatoo thugs Unrelated, but perfect: 
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This bad boy is back in town I may go and see him before he gets shipped off to his conservation island home again. Today I learned that they had to put him on a smaller island away from people because since he almost exclusively wants to mate with humans, during mating season he kept making fancy dances at the rangers and not at the lady kakapo.
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Tamarillo posted:This bad boy is back in town Thanks to this thread, I have learned that Sirocco is not some sort of unusual sexual deviant relative to other parrots. 
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Mizuti posted:Thanks to this thread, I have learned that Sirocco is not some sort of unusual sexual deviant relative to other parrots. 
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i gotta go see kakapos/kiwis they are some of my favourites
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