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Yoshi has simultaneously gotten better and worse about taking his medicine. He's learned to make it harder to hold his beak open, but he struggles a lot less, in the end, and despite the gross medicine taste, he still seems to calm down when we tell him he's a good bird for taking them. He gets that we're very nice to him for a little bit afterwards and seems to endure through it. It's kind of funny watching him dive his face straight into his food and rub his beak all over every surface afterwards. It's a very identifiable "Yuck!" reaction. He also really loves his showers more than usual right now, although that may just be that the poor devil is also molting. We were extremely happy when he said "D'you want da payper?" though, and it was context correct, because I was waving a tissue in front of him (he is a big fan of a game where I pretend to try to cover him with a tissue, and he grabs it from me, tears into a little, and then throws it on the floor). It's kind of incredible how budgies learn language. Every university in the country could have scores of people devoting their lives to it, and they'd still have so much to learn!
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Captain Log posted:Sorry to be unclear. Finch care bothered me but I'm not an expert. Owner seemed less concerned about things than his employees. Store looks like it's made of cardboard. All the good exotic pet specialty stores must look sketchy as gently caress, it's a rule. My best local fish place is literally a brick warehouse in the worst part of the city. I'm pretty sure it's because the profits are way lower than a general pet store due to fewer people owning exotics + exotics costing more in the first place, so they have to find the cheapest rents. That being said, finches are birds like any other and while they don't need nearly as much space as parrots, they need enough to hop/flit around and a good amount of light and fresh air. I would at least speak to him about it.
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Youth Decay posted:All the good exotic pet specialty stores must look sketchy as gently caress, it's a rule. My best local fish place is literally a brick warehouse in the worst part of the city. I'm pretty sure it's because the profits are way lower than a general pet store due to fewer people owning exotics + exotics costing more in the first place, so they have to find the cheapest rents. Good idea. I'll just straight up ask him about it. I don't want to work, even a little, in a parrot store/sanctuary that has a lovely finch practice. I think you are onto something about exotic stores though. I've been to some good ones that I was pretty sure I'd get stabbed in the parking lot.
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Greetings bird thread! All our birds are doing good, and I'll catch up on the thread and do some update posts soon. Please accept this gift of Skillet singing the "Baby Bird Song" to his Booberry in the meantime. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYVY8B1tG-A
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Clary posted:Greetings bird thread! All our birds are doing good, and I'll catch up on the thread and do some update posts soon. Please accept this gift of Skillet singing the "Baby Bird Song" to his Booberry in the meantime. that was adorable....I may steal that song :P Cricket gets the "Little birdie, little baby birdie...little birdie, you're a baby bird!" song. I wonder why she likes to say birdie so much lol
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Hello bird thread. Anyone has any recommendations to decorate a room with greenery when budgies are around? I find their current environment a bit "dry". I don't even mind if it's something they can go and munch on to get their munching away and buying a new plant once in a while.
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StarMinstrel posted:Hello bird thread. Anyone has any recommendations to decorate a room with greenery when budgies are around? I find their current environment a bit "dry". I don't even mind if it's something they can go and munch on to get their munching away and buying a new plant once in a while. If you google a list of "poisonous plants" and then talk to your vet about said list - it will make your head explode. I went through a phase of bird ownership where I felt like a wrong glance would kill them. That being said, are you talking about things they will climb on or just things to make them comfortable while in their habitat?
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Captain Log posted:If you google a list of "poisonous plants" and then talk to your vet about said list - it will make your head explode. I went through a phase of bird ownership where I felt like a wrong glance would kill them. Yeah, I've already seen those lists, and most of them seem to have the latin names of the plants on top of being having the translated names in English, which tells me f all considering it's a secondary language for me and I know nothing of plant names. I wouldn't be surprised if they end up climbing in them considering the spot I have in mind for them is a bit over their cage, on a small platform where they usually hang out. I'm not planning on putting greeneries inside their cage since it would take up too much space. /edit: like this is nuts and tells me nothing of what would be an easy thing to decorate around the cage with: http://budgieplace.com/plants.html
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Most succulents, as far as I know, should be pretty harmless. Plus, they're pretty hard to kill accidentally.
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Grow some ginger, they look nice and you can harvest the root in 10ish months or so. Herbs like basil, mint, coriander, etc are good for you and birb. Sprouts and grasses grow fast and can be eaten, you can get bird safe mixes to sprout like: http://www.mysafebirdstore.com/product.cgi?group=20806&product=20818 http://www.mysafebirdstore.com/product.cgi?group=19830&product=19862 http://www.mysafebirdstore.com/product.cgi?group=596&product=5036 Here is Inko hidden under the microwave, as mentioned the other day. He landed hooked on to the wooden shelf, pulled himself up and wiggled under  Where did he go??? Guess I can't file his nails now oh well Battle Pigeon fucked around with this message at 01:33 on Aug 27, 2017 |
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Aug 27, 2017 01:31
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A strategic thinker, that Inko
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Battle Pigeon posted:Here is Inko hidden under the microwave, as mentioned the other day. He landed hooked on to the wooden shelf, pulled himself up and wiggled under If you ever give up on Inko I will take him, I love him.
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Suntan Boy posted:Most succulents, as far as I know, should be pretty harmless. Plus, they're pretty hard to kill accidentally. This look like decent enough sorts. I'll go through their list later. http://www.bhg.com/gardening/houseplants/projects/top-10-succulents-for-home/
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StarMinstrel posted:Yeah, I've already seen those lists, and most of them seem to have the latin names of the plants on top of being having the translated names in English, which tells me f all considering it's a secondary language for me and I know nothing of plant names. I wouldn't be surprised if they end up climbing in them considering the spot I have in mind for them is a bit over their cage, on a small platform where they usually hang out. I'm not planning on putting greeneries inside their cage since it would take up too much space. http://www.multiscope.com/hotspot/articles/safeplants.htm Found this too...hope it helps some!
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Fred says hi Fred would like more scritches, please.   Someday, I'll make a gif of his crazy eyes; those pupils go a mile a minute up until it's scritch time.
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On the subject of plants - I'd avoid ANY red decoration/flowering plant. I have no decent idea why, but every parrot type birb I've been around is terrified of red. I once had a red USB drive that is apparently the devil according to...five separate birds by now. It's odd. Hell, I've never got a bird to eat a drat strawberry!
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Captain Log posted:
We did this by biting into it and making yummy sounds, then holding it slightly away like "Much too good for birds!" and Yoshi flew right over and starting trying to eat it, lol
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 Here's Bonnie and her new home. Test came back, it's a female Quaker parrot, so I named her Bonnie. I think she was really shook up by the car ride and the new environment, since she's spent a lot of time just frozen, but she seems to have thawed out some. edit: Oh yeah, I didn't know parrots purred. She does it a lot when she's standing on my shoulder. Also I rarely see her eating, but I don't know how else such a small bird could poop so much. Rockopolis fucked around with this message at 00:18 on Aug 28, 2017 |
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Rockopolis posted:Oh yeah, I didn't know parrots purred. She does it a lot when she's standing on my shoulder. Parrot purring is the most relaxing sound in the world. Not biased. 
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I like when it's a kind of hoot-purring, when it sounds kind of like "woop-rrrrty-wooprrrrr."
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Someone laid an egg so I busted out the good old fake eggs. Crouton accepted the new eggs so hard that she promptly rolled the real egg out of the nest and smooshed it to bits on the cage floor 
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CROWS EVERYWHERE posted:Someone laid an egg so I busted out the good old fake eggs. Crouton accepted the new eggs so hard that she promptly rolled the real egg out of the nest and smooshed it to bits on the cage floor Those must be some really good fake eggs
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CROWS EVERYWHERE posted:Someone laid an egg so I busted out the good old fake eggs. Crouton accepted the new eggs so hard that she promptly rolled the real egg out of the nest and smooshed it to bits on the cage floor Do parrots eat their own unfertilized eggs like chickens do?
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The Narrator posted:Those must be some really good fake eggs Yeah, the vendor is definitely getting a five star review!
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CROWS EVERYWHERE posted:Someone laid an egg so I busted out the good old fake eggs. Crouton accepted the new eggs so hard that she promptly rolled the real egg out of the nest and smooshed it to bits on the cage floor I'm so sorry, your birb has the OCD.
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She also also now decided that the Deadly Jingly Ball is either A) another egg or B) is VERY THREATENING and would be a great nest defender because it is now right in the middle of her nest getting raised alongside her six other beautiful plastic babies.
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Birds. Not even once. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fM3suiNMHA4
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redgubbinz posted:Birds. Not even once. I am not a bird owner, but I am 90% convinced that the bird on that man's head in that video is directly in control of the man's body.
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redgubbinz posted:Birds. Not even once. I'm really glad to see that guy posting videos again. He took his cockatiel's death pretty hard several months ago.
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redgubbinz posted:Birds. Not even once. Charlie Day has some nice birds.
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redgubbinz posted:Birds. Not even once.
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Ohtori has a lump by his eye, it's been there two days now and not disappeared yet. He doesn't mind it being touched or poked and it doesn't seem to bother him so we left it to see if it went down/disappeared, but it hasn't yet. It's small so hard to tell but it seems more squishy than hard? I thought it was a swelling, maybe he poked himself or whatever, but like said it hasn't gone down. He isn't acting differently at all, weighs the same, eats as much as ever and still moves basically non-stop.   We also both have flu (or something like it), plus the usual issues with bird experienced vets here, plus a family member's death days ago just makes this a really bad time for bird to have problems.  We'll try calling the bird vet tomorrow and see if/when they see the public nowadays, otherwise probably the vet that he was boarded with last. Until then, anyone have ideas about it?
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Do birds get styes maybe? No idea how you'd go about treating it, i dont think a bird would sit still for a hot compress on their eye...
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an alive budgie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAo5eDL0QWE
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The evenings have been cool here so I've been opening up the windows during that time. My grey's play perch is right by a window facing the street. Quite a few people walked by the house walking or walking their pets. He could clearly see and hear them. My bird tried so goddamn hard to get their attention. He was screaming out the window doing his entire repertoire for them. He didn't give up and kept at it for a while. I haven't laughed that hard at him.
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iRend posted:an alive budgie A good boodg he seems to be in good shape!
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