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Potato Salad posted:Surprising how wicked those claws look. To my understanding, that type of beak is standard for medium-sized pigeon breeds!
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Can you potty-train pigeons? Pidges seem like they might be a good starter bird, is that correct? Some googling suggests they're much quieter and mellower than parrots, and have a shorter lifespan so you're not making a decades-to-lifelong commitment.
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Jan 30, 2018 02:02
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My understanding is that pigeons are actually domestic animals, while parrots... kind of aren't. So yeah, very good pets in that respect.
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Jan 30, 2018 03:00
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Yeah, pidges are full on domesticated, having been bred selectively and kept since around the same time we invented writing. Parrots meanwhile are more tamed than domesticated with many especially exotic species being nabbed out of the wild or only a generation or two down from an ancestor that has been nabbed from the wild. They're smart, which helps the taming process, but they haven't had the thousands of years of breeding for unflinching friendliness that properly domesticated birds have.
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Jan 30, 2018 03:35
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Let me tell you a funny thing about chickens: even if you raised them from chickens, when they're young they're skittish and will run from you. This is a pain when you need to get ahold of them. But at about the same time hens start laying, they pick up this habit of "squatting" when you corner them, instead of their little chicken brain flipping a coin to decide if they're going to bank left or right and run off. We bred these things so that they grow up fast, produce tasty food, and at the same time they start producing food, they become tamer and easier to catch! I can just pick up a chicken off the ground and tuck it under my neck. If I did that with a Grey that would be like, well, like jamming a sentient pair of bolt cutters against my carotid artery. The newspapers would be reading MAN FOUND DEAD IN POOL OF BLOOD NEXT TO SMUG BIRD.
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Jan 30, 2018 03:39
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My sisters chickens did that too, they used to run from me every time I went to pet them (they are soooo soft), now they just sit there and look at me until I chuck food in, then it's like I don't exist at all.
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Jan 30, 2018 03:46
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LITERALLY A BIRD posted:
Be sure to clean that thing thoroughly on a regular basis. It can be very easy for mold to grow in the water and that can really gently caress up your respiratory system. Yes!!! That's the good stuff. Edit: I swear to god, birds are actually really advanced aliens. https://i.imgur.com/iNIwtqC.mp4 theHUNGERian fucked around with this message at 04:38 on Jan 30, 2018 |
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Jan 30, 2018 04:16
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Pigeons are absolutely a good beginner bird, although I would recommend buying one from a breeder that handles them after they hatch. For example, Hyde's breeder regularly handles their peeps and more often posts updates on tumblr than on youtube, but here are the two videos she posted with Baby Hyde: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOluLMO_Rtw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akDa0w9s9B4 Just like with any other birds, certain breeds will have better temperaments than others. I have had nothing but good experiences with Hyde so far, very gentle, very personable. Pigeons can also be harness-trained, which includes the flight harnesses that have bird diapers, and are definitely smart enough to be potty trained!
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Jan 30, 2018 05:10
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The person who draws Manly Guys Doing Manly Things has a pair of pigeons and she uploads videos and photos of them to her tumblr, they look like they have a fair bit of personality.
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Jan 30, 2018 05:49
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I keep getting photos of Inko sitting on my partner's shoulder and I'm so drat jealous They don't even interact. Inko just hover-flies there, and clings and hangs out while everyone else does their thing
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Jan 30, 2018 16:17
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dwarf fortress tips n' tricks: you can create a crest for your fortress on the embark screen
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He wasn't allowed to fly as an emotional support peacock for being too big, which is bullshit because he definitely weighs far less than a dog the same size, and I've seen dogs that size on planes as support animals.
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Jan 31, 2018 12:20
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dogs don't have a giant tail they can fan that would probably stretch across the whole plane if there was a peacock on a flight I was on that did that I would be so happy
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Jan 31, 2018 12:51
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He refused to let me work.
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Jan 31, 2018 13:46
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the people who are peacocking (:iamafag:) their emotional support animals really bug me, because they're going to be the reason that nobody can have them soon enough if they'd had a parrot nobody would have cared, they would have gotten on the plane, maybe gotten a few selfies with people, instead we get a national news story about how we're living in crazy town and when will the madness end??? Mirthless fucked around with this message at 14:39 on Jan 31, 2018 |
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Jan 31, 2018 14:35
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Tsaedje posted:He wasn't allowed to fly as an emotional support peacock for being too big, which is bullshit because he definitely weighs far less than a dog the same size, and I've seen dogs that size on planes as support animals. Peacocks aren't relatively domesticated animals, even if this particular one is tame. And they are loud.
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Jan 31, 2018 14:50
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The airline should have said that then instead of saying it was too big.
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Jan 31, 2018 15:28
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My mother-in-law is an infection control nurse who thinks germs are everywhere and won't eat at a buffet. But I 100% support her crusade to keep dogs out of the surgical suite. Grow the gently caress up, you can live without your Snookums for a few hours if you want to, you know, live
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Jan 31, 2018 16:24
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I wonder why there's so little interest in owning pigeons in the USA, and why parrots are considered the default "pet bird". Pigeons will never be the flashiest or cleverest, but they come in beautiful varieties and they've been bred to accept humans for thousands of years. Is it bad PR from the "flying rats" thing?Halloween Jack posted:people trying to take emotional support dogs into the surgical suite 
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Jan 31, 2018 23:30
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I've often thought that any time an animal becomes comfortable living in a human city, we have a tendency to hate them. So people hate feral pigeons. Same for urban foxes and coyotes. There's always hate for raccoons, and rats we hate a lot though they've been with us for thousands of years. Around here, it's mostly hate for crows and squirrels.
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I think there's definitely some truth to that. I didn't live anywhere that had pigeons until I was 18, and they kind of delight me even now that I'm 35. Everyone who grew up in cities looks at me like I'm crazy when I start feeding them or getting all excited
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Halloween Jack posted:But I 100% support her crusade to keep dogs out of the surgical suite. my hospital wouldn't let Taco come with me when I had my transplant this is bullshit i'm calling my lawyer on both phones
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Feb 1, 2018 14:18
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DEATH TO ALL JINGLY BALLS What is it about jingly balls that makes them so attractive to murderbirds?
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Mirthless posted:
But parrot don't have external geni- ooooohhhhh.
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Mizuti posted:I wonder why there's so little interest in owning pigeons in the USA, and why parrots are considered the default "pet bird". Pigeons will never be the flashiest or cleverest, but they come in beautiful varieties and they've been bred to accept humans for thousands of years. Is it bad PR from the "flying rats" thing? Pigeons have traditionally been used either as food animals, as messengers (postal or military), racing or for show. It was/is rare to have a purely "pet" pigeon. Parrots are popular because they talk, simple as that. It's a good gimmick to have. Also why the domestic canary has fallen out of favor among pet owners.
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Everyday Goast read in a book that parrots and penguins are the most popular birds as they are the easiest to anthopomorphise: parrots because they talk and penguins because they walk upright and wear tuxedos.
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Feb 2, 2018 05:23
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I think the domestic canary has fallen out of favour because its main use was as an ornament pet. With more widespread awareness that birds shouldn't be treated as ornaments, it seems that many people don't go for that kind of thing I guess.
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Fingers crossed - we decided to proceed with adopting Spencer
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Got a question for you - Bonnie the Quaker parrot occasionally makes a high-pitched squeaking noise, like she's swallowed a squeaky toy or something. I don't think it's when she's distressed or anything, but I'm curious if it means anything, or if it does, is it different from bird to bird?
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Feb 2, 2018 13:10
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I bet it's funny to the bird.
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This is my coat of arms.
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mikerock posted:Fingers crossed - we decided to proceed with adopting Spencer And you don't have pictures because? nielsm posted:This is my coat of arms. I want to see this illustrated as an actual coat of arms
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Eejit posted:And you don't have pictures because? I wish I had drawing talent because same
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Eejit posted:And you don't have pictures because?  i don't know what kind of wood that actually is but you get the idea
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojwuUeUQROc Hormonal galah is possessed by a demon
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Eejit posted:And you don't have pictures because? He's at his foster home right now and it felt weird asking to take photos before we made a decision. Here's his profile from the adoption agency which has photos: http://greyhaven.bc.ca/project/spencer
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Tendai posted:I think there's definitely some truth to that. I didn't live anywhere that had pigeons until I was 18, and they kind of delight me even now that I'm 35. Everyone who grew up in cities looks at me like I'm crazy when I start feeding them or getting all excited My father keeps (or rather kept until the local sparrowhawk population decided they were an all you can eat buffet) pigeons, and they would routinely act as a honeypot for confused racing pigeons. He takes great delight in determining their origin, and there's apparently an entire industry of pigeon couriers dedicated to repatriating them. For a bird bred specifically to be driven to the back of beyond and released, people are willing to pay a stupid amount of money to get them back.
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