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Thank you for cockatiel videos youtube  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_vFyvECYoQ Holy poo poo that cranky bird sound.
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Apr 27, 2016 02:34
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http://m.huffpost.com/ca/entry/9758264 "Beaking off" is an amazing term.
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Apr 27, 2016 05:45
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Tendai posted:Thank you for cockatiel videos youtube Ohhhhhhhhhh baby cockatiel whining, my heaaarttttttt  I'm glad to see Nugget wasn't the only one who didn't grow out of making that whiny baby noise until she was like a year old. Every time I hear it I want another babytiel ahhhhhhhhhhh
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Apr 27, 2016 07:31
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Shirec posted:I came home to my GCC outside of his cage because I forgot to latch the food door and he knows he can get out if he does that. Little jerk must test it every day. Maestro and Simon have begun to turn escape artist. We've found Maestro outside of his cage twice now, and Simon opened the GCC cage on Sunday when we were cleaning. Luckily they were in the bedroom with the door closed, but jade sure was surprised to go in the back and find the 3 gremlins on top of the cage instead of in it. It figures this behavior is happening now, when we're planning to go on a trip and have our one friend birdsit.
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Apr 27, 2016 11:40
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Pip pip pip posted:Ohhhhhhhhhh baby cockatiel whining, my heaaarttttttt I got him around six-ish months (as far as I can tell/remember) and that baby noise stayed for at least another six months. I don't know how something that whiny and irritating can be cute as poo poo but it is.
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Apr 27, 2016 13:32
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schnickety scribe posted:Maestro and Simon have begun to turn escape artist. We've found Maestro outside of his cage twice now, and Simon opened the GCC cage on Sunday when we were cleaning. Luckily they were in the bedroom with the door closed, but jade sure was surprised to go in the back and find the 3 gremlins on top of the cage instead of in it. The worst part is it resulted in his food being spilled all over the floor and the little turd looks so innocent and sweet. I'm so excited you're home! Pick me up!
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Apr 27, 2016 14:35
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Shirec, here's some pictures of my Grey to further tempt you.       
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Apr 27, 2016 15:14
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Apr 27, 2016 15:15
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Jose Oquendo posted:Shirec, here's some pictures of my Grey to further tempt you. Let me see if I read your Grey's expressions right; Dreaming of murder. Planning murder. Plotting murder. Innocuously thinking of Murder. Plotting murder. Caught in the act of attempting murder. Shocked to have their plans for murder discovered. Sending a very clear warning about your imminent future (murder).
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Apr 27, 2016 15:35
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 I stumbled across his murder lair.
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Apr 27, 2016 15:38
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ffffffffuck i just need to get to this aviary place outside of town. I started following them on facebook and now i'm getting reduced to a gibbering mess at least daily.
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Apr 27, 2016 15:59
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Jose Oquendo posted:Shirec, here's some pictures of my Grey to further tempt you. Ugh, all my feelings and emotions. I just called and arranged my first class on Sunday (the place I'm adopting from requires I take two classes before I adopt) and starting the talks about them visiting my house/getting my birds vet visit records. Sooo.....yeah. Probably going to get an African Grey soon  Hopefully one of them likes me back because the adoption agency makes the call based on how much the bird likes me as well, haha.
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Apr 27, 2016 16:04
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I'm curious as to how it will take to you. My family has had this grey since he was a baby in the early 90's. He's more like a little brother than a pet. The big thing is interaction. They're smart fuckers and they are
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Apr 27, 2016 16:15
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Jose Oquendo posted:I'm curious as to how it will take to you. My family has had this grey since he was a baby in the early 90's. He's more like a little brother than a pet. We'll have to see, I'm looking at Jake or Baby. Apparently Jake is more partial to women and they both are sweethearts. They both seem adorable and I'd definitely be willing to give Baby whatever he needed since he plucked himself bare. If worse comes to worse, they are getting some more African greys in to adopt in the next month or so. (http://www.companionparrots.org/ if anyone is curious or didn't follow the convo earlier). I've been reading in preparation, I don't have much preference of Timneh over Congo either. Oh my god, I'm so excited haha
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Apr 27, 2016 16:40
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Shirec posted:They both seem adorable and I'd definitely be willing to give Baby whatever he needed since he plucked himself bare. Just know that there may be nothing you can do to help him get his feathers back. My mom's grey started plucking (more than ten years ago) when she adopted a jenday conure that turned out to be sick all time (needing all the attention) and we've tried everything but she'd be bare without physical barriers to stop her. The rear end in a top hat in question:   And her new collar of shame:  It's helping, she's got more feathers on her wings now, but her keel will probably never grow back. 
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Apr 27, 2016 18:20
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Trebuchet King posted:ffffffffuck i just need to get to this aviary place outside of town. Djs Feathers is awesome. They have an awesome toy selection and the people that run it are total bird crazies. I used to go there a ton when we lived in the area. I miss it, hopefully one day we'll go back!
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Apr 27, 2016 18:28
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ApathyGirl posted:Just know that there may be nothing you can do to help him get his feathers back. My mom's grey started plucking (more than ten years ago) when she adopted a jenday conure that turned out to be sick all time (needing all the attention) and we've tried everything but she'd be bare without physical barriers to stop her. Oh, that's good to know! I had hoped maybe it might help, but other than that I would get him a heated perch and whatever else he might need. Are parrot sweaters a thing?
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Apr 27, 2016 19:12
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They can be. Depends on the bird. My grey would remove all my fingers if I tried to put a sweater on him.
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Apr 27, 2016 19:43
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Theres those bird hoodies: http://www.flightquarters.com/bird-diapers/category/fashion-hoodies.html
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Apr 27, 2016 19:48
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LITERALLY A BIRD posted:Ohtori, king of Misfit Isle   Elsewhere 
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Apr 27, 2016 20:27
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What's he planning on doing to you with it? 
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Apr 27, 2016 20:56
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I just want to remind everybody that https://www.mysafebirdstore.com is great, I ordered Ama a new vital-lamp lightbulb and they sent it along with a little bag of candy for me, a little bag of chewables for Ama, and a pink furry mouse for our cat who is currently batting it around like crazy they're just the best.
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Apr 27, 2016 22:09
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LITERALLY A BIRD posted:I just want to remind everybody that https://www.mysafebirdstore.com is great, I ordered Ama a new vital-lamp lightbulb and they sent it along with a little bag of candy for me, a little bag of chewables for Ama, and a pink furry mouse for our cat who is currently batting it around like crazy Do they ship to Australia?
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Apr 28, 2016 01:42
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LITERALLY A BIRD posted:I just want to remind everybody that https://www.mysafebirdstore.com is great, I ordered Ama a new vital-lamp lightbulb and they sent it along with a little bag of candy for me, a little bag of chewables for Ama, and a pink furry mouse for our cat who is currently batting it around like crazy
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Apr 28, 2016 01:46
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That head tilt at the end.
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Apr 28, 2016 01:50
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I'm sure I've mentioned this before, but Eris has started barbing.  Her secondary flight feathers and a good portion of her keel and stomach feathers are all raggedy and chewed up. On her stomach, when she sits a particular way, I can see the down underneath the chewed-up feathers. It's breaking my heart and I have no clue how to tell if she's still doing it or how to fix it.We recently had to switch her diet to seeds for a few weeks while we couldn't get any pellets, but now both she and the budgies are back on Roudybush pellets. She gets frozen parrot chop (thawed out) as often as I remember to thaw it out and grapes and/or raspberries as treats several times a day. She has toys, plenty of things to chew on, we let her out every day and she has the budgies for company (she even overnights in their cage sometimes). Is it because she's not getting enough interaction with us? Taming her is going so painfully slow that it feels like we're making no real progress. She accepts food from us, but that's it. I want to help my bird and I feel really guilty for letting her down like this.  I can't look at old photos of her now, because her feathers were so neat and pretty and slick and now she looks raggedy and unkempt and it's breaking my heart.
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Apr 28, 2016 02:01
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hello https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoJ6PTY0mzE
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Apr 28, 2016 02:38
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Holy poo poo what fearless little birds
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Apr 28, 2016 02:47
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Tendai posted:Holy poo poo what fearless little birds also i love the noise budgies make when they hang out
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Apr 28, 2016 02:50
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I may have asked this question ages ago but I don't remember. I've been posting here for ten years but only sober for over two so my memory is a bit dodgy. I had a precious cockatiel, Neil, when I was young. Neil was absolutely a cuddle bug and completely yellow, which to our limited resources at the time meant we thought he was a male. Unfortunately about four years into owning Neil he turned out to be a she and started laying eggs. Literally, seven to nine at a time. She became un-handleable and to my pre-internet forums self we couldn't figure out what to do. She would also projectile poo poo all over the walls and nothing would stop this behavior. Vets said she was just broody and would hopefully grow out of it. In hindsight I feel like I could of fixed it. We eventually sold her to an elderly couple for fifty dollars. I feel bad about it to this day but I was so young we didn't know what to do. With some luck, Neil is still out there doing her thing today. I just wish I had my resources now that I used to. Here is the question - how was a solid yellow cockatiel a female? Some kind of ultra rare mutation?
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Apr 28, 2016 04:09
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he just picks it up wtf
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Apr 28, 2016 05:12
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Look at the colour of that bird, its like something from a Final Fantasy game.
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Apr 28, 2016 06:56
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And the inspired image: 
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Apr 28, 2016 09:58
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I love this gif. It's like the cockatiel version of 
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Apr 28, 2016 15:55
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isak terrible posted:I'm sure I've mentioned this before, but Eris has started barbing. Maybe she's still stressed from being taken from the aviary, since she was already a full adult at the time, maybe it was a one-time period. Offer her regular bathing opportunities, give her fresh food everyday, and make sure she has somewhere quiet to retreat to, like a covered cage corner or shelf perch with a toy hiding her from view. Maybe get some bird mash or bird bread or whatever to help the next batch of feathers come in nicely, and use it as a treat from you. Talk and sing and make noises with her a lot, respond to her noises and make a game of it. See if she's into games like peekaboo (try doing it with budgies first in front of her maybe). See if you can get her to make a noise or go to a specific perch or something when you offer a treat-hang a bell on a chain by the perch that you give things from, and give her treats if she touches it and you can build up to making her ring it. Clicker training would work really well here Captain Log posted:Here is the question - how was a solid yellow cockatiel a female? Some kind of ultra rare mutation? Lutino females are normal! http://suzzie.tripod.com/genetics/sex-linked.htm They look just like the males, but sometimes you can see faint tail striping or underwing spots with a blacklight Wow, how he just pokes them and picks them up without issue
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Apr 28, 2016 16:15
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isak terrible posted:I'm sure I've mentioned this before, but Eris has started barbing. I'm not sure how related this might be - how is the daytime lighting around the cage? When we moved, the best place for the bird cage was in a darkish corner despite being next to a giant window. Ozzy seemed to stop preening much at all - covered in pinfeathers that he could easily reach and letting his tail feathers unzip. We tried a bunch of things, but what seemed to work was getting a bright light for the corner. Not even a full spectrum bulb, just plain compact cfl. Might be worth trying a cheap lamp near the cage?
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Eris actually wasn't an adult, I don't think GCCs hit adulthood 'til they're about 2 and she was just under a year old? But I think not living in an aviary is still a bit stressful for her. She yells at us a lot if we come too close. Sometimes, at least. Sometimes she's fearless. I've tried starting clicker training with Eris, but she's afraid of the target stick and the clicker; I'm going to leave both in her cage for a while so she can get used to them, though. I'll put in the shelf perch we have and rearrange the toys so she has somewhere to hide, thanks for that idea! And I'll start putting out a dish of water for her when she's out so she can bathe. And I'll increase how much fruit and veg I'm giving her; currently she mostly gets fruit as treats, because she isn't too keen on vegetables. I'm a very quiet person and I feel shy talking to my bird (I know how silly that is, yes), but I'll make an effort to talk to her more. She does seem to like it when I do, she cocks her head and looks at me with one eye and it's adorable. And we have a full-spectrum lamp near her cage! That corner is still a bit dark, though, so I might move the regular floor lamp there, too.
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Apr 28, 2016 20:25
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Did you try music? Mine have a preference for 60s/70s rock, Budgie's absolute favourite is Hendrix's all along the watchtower.
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Tendai posted:I love this gif. It's like the cockatiel version of It's even better with music https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYzTYXD6fGU
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