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mikerock posted:Your bird is totally adorable. Seconding both parts  If my story about nearly losing Pookie came off anyway hectoring or hypercritical, that absolutely wasn't my intent. It's more that I was pretty easygoing and casual about the possibility of anything bad happening, until almost did and it was a horrible horrible few hours.
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  we have a little area by the window set up for terra where her cage and her spring perch is and she's decided lately that she's a bat, which I think means she's claiming her nest which is supposed to be intimidating but just look at her she's so cute and also I don't want your lovely house terra I have my own
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May 22, 2019 11:08
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Faerie Fortune posted:
RAWR I AM SO BIG AND SCARY *waves wings like a Vegas showgirl* 
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May 22, 2019 11:29
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Faerie Fortune posted:and also I don't want your lovely house terra I have my own also: StrixNebulosa posted:From reading this thread - I'm back in page 60-70 and use it to make my day way more cheerful - do not let you bird outside, there's an absolutely devastating page where two different goons lose their birds outside, and then a page later LAB's bird dies and I can't take that kind of heartbreak again 
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May 22, 2019 11:49
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I always worry when I come back to the bird thread and there's lots of new posts.
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LITERALLY A BIRD posted:I sincerely can't decide if I find those photos or this sentence funnier. terra is a very funny bird, she's still a baby and she has so much personality already, I love just watching her do stuff, including showing off her lovely house EDIT: so remember those conuresaur magnets I posted a couple weeks ago? I ordered a cockatoo lovers set from the same store as well as a tiel magnet (cinnamon because they didn't have any lutinos) and not only did they arrive being even more adorable than I thought they were but the store owner gave me a free black cockatoo magnet as a special surprise! As well as this, qwertee had a bananatiel t-shirt a few weeks ago that I just had to get and that arrived today too! it's a good day for good things, which I really needed after the stressful few days I had  
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May 22, 2019 13:19
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So, its that time finally. Off to the thrift store to get bird shirts cos SOMEBIRDY (or two) chewed so many holes in the ones I have I can't wear them anymore. I've heard of it being called birdy lace, and I can totally see why  I'm actually considering saving the old ones and making shoulder pads to try to reinforce the shoulders to keep the new ones a little longer from the creatures. I tend to use old shirts so my nicer clothes don't get destroyed. Any ideas? What do you guys use?
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May 22, 2019 17:28
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I've heard of people making a sort of shawl/mantle/short cape to just wear over whatever clothes they happen to be wearing. Makes sense. Just put on your bird mantle, let it poo poo and chew to its hearts content, throw it in the wash when you want, don't have to change shirts, keeps your existing (presumably good) shirts intact. Lmao I just tried google searching to prove I'm not crazy. Image search provided some gold. Both not what I was thinking of but...   I was actually looking for something like this, but more substantial and functional, less decorative 
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May 22, 2019 17:34
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I have this (without the yellow body harness). It's amazing, Charlie LOVES it, and he screeches at hawks from the safety of his impenetrable shoulder fortress.
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May 22, 2019 17:58
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It's like a shoulder-mounted bird launcher missile pod. So without the shoulder harness how does it stay on your body?
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May 22, 2019 18:19
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so we need some sort of antibirdantimacassar?
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https://i.imgur.com/CXh7F4v.mp4 Sound: https://imgur.com/gallery/67slAXg
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Rotten Cookies posted:It's like a shoulder-mounted bird launcher missile pod. It's got smaller straps that attach to that shoulder pad under the whole thing, which itself is zipped to the bottom of the carrier. One goes under the arm and one around the back and under the other. Sometimes in my running internal dialogue I imagine I'm a battlemech and he's my angry little green pilot. Karma Comedian fucked around with this message at 21:20 on May 22, 2019 |
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May 22, 2019 21:03
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Serra does the upside bat wing flap at night. Because shadows are worth scaring off. 
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You can also enable sound on these by right-clicking the video and selecting show controls, then unmuting.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nolpkcOUQVM
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May 22, 2019 23:27
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Karma Comedian posted:I have this (without the yellow body harness). It's amazing, Charlie LOVES it, and he screeches at hawks from the safety of his impenetrable shoulder fortress. Where can one purchase such a thing?
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If Hitman 2016 is anything to go by, your bird is a highly trained assassin and should not be allowed near rubber ducks.
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subpar anachronism posted:Where can one purchase such a thing? I bought mine on Facebook marketplace but here is the manufacturers website: https://www.celltei.com
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Karma Comedian posted:It's got smaller straps that attach to that shoulder pad under the whole thing, which itself is zipped to the bottom of the carrier. One goes under the arm and one around the back and under the other. REACTOR ONLINE SENSORS ONLINE MILLET ONLINE ALL SYSTEMS NOM Kitfox88 fucked around with this message at 00:50 on May 23, 2019 |
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May 23, 2019 00:48
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This talk about bird poop mantles and needing to get my sewing machine out for other poo poo gave me a project. I'M HELPING!    Success?
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Just gonna throw it out there that birds can be potty trained with clicker training methods and/or positive reinforcement! Ritz hasn't pooped somewhere other than his cage (or carrier in the car) in like 7 years. If he's out and has to poop he flies back to his cage to do it, then back to what he was doing previously. Or if he's with us he'll hold it until he gets back to his cage. One of the perks of having a flighted bird I guess, but that's a while other  e: is Pinto a yellow Chevron? Frozen Pizza Party fucked around with this message at 02:57 on May 23, 2019 |
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May 23, 2019 02:55
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Rotten Cookies posted:This talk about bird poop mantles and needing to get my sewing machine out for other poo poo gave me a project. What a pretty bird! What species is it?
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mikerock posted:What a pretty bird! What species is it? it's the cute kind
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Frozen Pizza Party posted:Just gonna throw it out there that birds can be potty trained with clicker training methods and/or positive reinforcement! Very close! Yellow Chevrons are Brotogeris Chiriri, Pinto is a Brote Versicolurus, or White Winged Parakeet. Maybe one day we'll get to a point where Pinto can poop in a designated shitspot, but for now, we got the shitmantle
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Rotten Cookies posted:This talk about bird poop mantles and needing to get my sewing machine out for other poo poo gave me a project. Holy poo poo it took until this post for me to realise none of you were talking about clothes on birds, despite the fact that it was super weird for everyone to suddenly be matter-of-factly talking about the clothes their birds wear.
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Serra is about 80% poop trained. I just make her stay ontop of her cage, ask her to, "go poop", and make a big to do when she does. Also, when she is eggy, she takes massive horrifying shits. Horrifying.
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Organza Quiz posted:Holy poo poo it took until this post for me to realise none of you were talking about clothes on birds, despite the fact that it was super weird for everyone to suddenly be matter-of-factly talking about the clothes their birds wear. 
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I was visiting Scout today and there are a pair of rescued Amazons up for adoption. One of them liked licking my fingers like a little creep. The Scout visit was good, she was more active and demanding scritches. Maneuvering my finger into the right spot with her head. She was given another reprieve from the cone of shame today and she was pretty good about not biting at her leg bandage, although I had to redirect her beak a couple of times. She's slowly getting better, but still needs more time with the vet!
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mikerock posted:I was visiting Scout today and there are a pair of rescued Amazons up for adoption. One of them liked licking my fingers like a little creep. That’s so stinking awesome. I’m literally beyond thrilled that things are improving. I showed my pops the bird blouse picture and he immediately said, “Cool shirt.”
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Organza Quiz posted:Holy poo poo it took until this post for me to realise none of you were talking about clothes on birds, despite the fact that it was super weird for everyone to suddenly be matter-of-factly talking about the clothes their birds wear. Bird diaper... no, that would NOT work.
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nielsm posted:Bird diaper... no, that would NOT work. The true bird crazies already have them up on Amazon. Why did I Google that
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Organza Quiz posted:Holy poo poo it took until this post for me to realise none of you were talking about clothes on birds, despite the fact that it was super weird for everyone to suddenly be matter-of-factly talking about the clothes their birds wear. lol yeah its for me to wear not them!! Mine are semi poo trained. If I am at my desk in their room on the computer.... they will usually be on or around me and mostly go on a paper on my desk when they are with me there. I didn't train them intentionally....they just seemed to know that the tissue was for poos and that's where they go ONLY when I am at my desk. Otherwise, it's a poo party all over They tend to stay in a few areas tho mostly, so I have towels/trash bins under the popular perches that are outside the cages to catch most of it.They are pretty good about morning poos in the sink. They wait till I get them out and then they both poo in the sink, we all cheer and say "YAY", and then get weighed and have breakfast. The whole thing about the bird guard outfit isn't really in regards to poo....its the fact that both of them live to chew up my shirts The shoulders are almost totally gone on several of my old shirts...that's why I was seeing what others do to protect their clothes from the flying woodchippers. I've tried the mantles in the past, but they both try to go IN my shirt and do the spelunking thing, and they are very gentle about that. It's just on shoulders for some reason are the prime points for chewing/beak wiping etc and they get ruined so fast.I think I am just going to go to the local thrift store and see if I can find some more shirts, and reinforce them on the shoulders to try to get them to last longer. Someone did recommend bird toys attached to the shirt or on a necklace to distract them, but it doesn't seem to work well. I'll keep trying tho....I have a few bird toys with chewies on them that I wear like a necklace to keep them busy, but it doesn't seem to be real effective.
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Rotten Cookies posted:Very close! Yellow Chevrons are Brotogeris Chiriri, Pinto is a Brote Versicolurus, or White Winged Parakeet. Awesome! Never known someone to keep one as a pet, here in LA there's about a billion wild yellow chevroned 'keets that live in the palm trees and they're so cute
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mikerock posted:I was visiting Scout today and there are a pair of rescued Amazons up for adoption. One of them liked licking my fingers like a little creep. Actually, speaking of good birds, I figured out that's the new phrase Ama's been trying out on me. "You're a good bird!" I finally recognized it and said it back to him and he was so frickin happy that it finally penetrated my thick human skull rofl Disco Salmon posted:They wait till I get them out and then they both poo in the sink, we all cheer and say "YAY"
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Today Ozzy is highly offended by the existence of Sera. There has been a lot of screaming and a bit of tail pulling, and we've settled into this: This is basically the only place in the apartment I can't get them down from, because there's furniture underneath in the way. Pretty sure they know that. Assholes. (And yet, if I took Sera out of sight into the next room, Ozzy would have a complete meltdown. Go fig.)
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Terra is in full horny girl mode and i can't decide if it's horrifying or adorable. Currently she's sitting on a perch, wearing a bell as a hat and squeaking at the outdoors. When she's not doing that, she's sitting at the bottom of her cage with her butt pressed against the edge so her tail feathers poke through the bars of the cage. It's very cute but is there anything I can do to make it less awful for her? I don't want her laying any eggs because she's far too young for that but if she's already started to make some then there's not a lot I can do about it except make it as easy for her as I can, I'm stocked up with spinach and extra cuttlebones so other than extra calcium what else can I do?
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Faerie Fortune posted:Terra is in full horny girl mode and i can't decide if it's horrifying or adorable. Currently she's sitting on a perch, wearing a bell as a hat and squeaking at the outdoors. When she's not doing that, she's sitting at the bottom of her cage with her butt pressed against the edge so her tail feathers poke through the bars of the cage. Hooo boy, welcome to life with a young cockatiel. When I find Serra getting nesty, I put an overturned coffee mug on the nest spot to make her stop. She currently has three overturned coffee mugs in her cage, and started nesting under her food bowl. She’s up to three eggs this go round.
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Faerie Fortune posted:Terra is in full horny girl mode and i can't decide if it's horrifying or adorable. Currently she's sitting on a perch, wearing a bell as a hat and squeaking at the outdoors. When she's not doing that, she's sitting at the bottom of her cage with her butt pressed against the edge so her tail feathers poke through the bars of the cage. A few things to try: Reduce daylight hours (12-14 hours of darkness) More baths Rearrange cage Less fatty treats No petting below the neck Ignore flirty behavior toward you. It is possible to pre-empt nesty behavior... I mostly do it because my conure is gross and mean in the spring. Side benefit is that my cockatiel has never laid an egg- she's 12.
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