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Plant MONSTER. posted:Like a wasp probably. I'm not sure if a truer statement has ever been uttered. Her two year checkup is coming up, and I'm going to be very curious about what the vet wants me to do with her constantly broodiness. I have also saved up a bunch of egg crates and I'm VERY close to covering her floor in them. I'm sure she would somehow just turn it into nest material.
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https://twitter.com/niceoneWern/status/1147871498260099078 Totally stole this idea from Terra but Pinto loves foraging in some fake grass.
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Jul 7, 2019 16:15
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 The swallow neighbours are raising a fine big family this year 
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So, I'm in Israel, because why the hell not. That part's not important. The important part is that the commune that I'm at has a zoo that's at least 50% birb, and I may abandon all other plans.  
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Jul 7, 2019 17:31
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ARE THOSE COCKATOOS WITH COCKATIEL CHEEK SPOTS?
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friend, you should Google galahtiels sometime, it'll enrich your life in so many ways also I'm in the hospital waiting to find out if I had a mini stroke this morning, requesting pictures of your happy birds to make time go by faster in this waiting room!
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Potato Salad posted:ARE THOSE COCKATOOS WITH COCKATIEL CHEEK SPOTS? YES, AND THEY ARE VERY NIBBLY Faerie Fortune posted:friend, you should Google galahtiels sometime, it'll enrich your life in so many ways She's (?) not mine, mine, but we're basically best buds.  May your brain bleeds be minimal and benign
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Potato Salad posted:ARE THOSE COCKATOOS WITH COCKATIEL CHEEK SPOTS? The macaw on the ground with beggy wings omggg The one getting blissful headrubs omggg All of the drat macaws omggggggg
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LITERALLY A BIRD posted:Citron cockatoos! Having one bellow at you in Hebrew is a hell of an experience, for the record. None of the babies pictured, but still.
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Faerie Fortune posted:friend, you should Google galahtiels sometime, it'll enrich your life in so many ways Oh goodness, I hope you're alright. Try your best not to worry until you know what happened. Keep us updated, we are here to talk if needed. Health problems suck. Bird - 
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Scallop has started accepting head scratches! I went out all day yesterday to help work on a friend's car. Came home to my mother playing with him on the couch. As soon as I get in the door he flies up op to my shoulder, I really find it funny that when I'm not there he's happy to play with someone else but as soon as I'm there he has to be with me - I think he likes me. I sat down with him for a few minutes and he started mashing his head into my chin so I moved my head around to give him a scratch. After a while of that I moved my hand in to scratch with my finger and it didn't bother him until I was scratching the "wrong way" and he beaked me (then when I stopped he wanted more). I'm really impressed with his progress, he's even started copying my whistles to him while he's alone (refuses to do it when he can see someone) Taking him for a health check at my local bird vet tomorrow, which will include a wing clip (keeps flying into walls really hard), and a dna gender test. I also present an offering of foraging bird (yes, I bought him fake grass to forage in) 
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Ansith posted:Scallop has started accepting head scratches! So...where do you get a patch of astroturf? Amazon?
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Captain Log posted:So...where do you get a patch of astroturf? Amazon? Bunnings Warehouse, which won't be very helpful for you since you aren't in Australia. I'd imagine a similar gardening or home improvement place would stock some, it was something like $10 for a square metre.
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Ansith posted:Bunnings Warehouse, which won't be very helpful for you since you aren't in Australia. That is such a good idea, I'm going to see if I can find a sport for some designated foraging. She spends about one hour a day preening our carpets. That astroturf might be a better deal for her.
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Faerie Fortune posted:also I'm in the hospital waiting to find out if I had a mini stroke this morning, requesting pictures of your happy birds to make time go by faster in this waiting room! The last thing a zucchini ever sees.  he didn't like it
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My grey loves em. He doesn't love cucumbers but he fuckin loves dill pickles.
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LITERALLY A BIRD posted:The last thing a zucchini ever sees. That is some fierce stalking of a stationary foodstuff.
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For North American bird friends home depot has artificial grass samples for a reasonable price. Iirc mostly 8x8"
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Ansith posted:Bunnings Warehouse, which won't be very helpful for you since you aren't in Australia. Did you also get Scallop a sausage in bread?
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Captain Log posted:That is some fierce stalking of a stationary foodstuff. ikr
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LITERALLY A BIRD posted:The last thing a zucchini ever sees. Boop with bananas. She also doesn't like them.
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Jul 8, 2019 05:17
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LITERALLY A BIRD posted:The last thing a zucchini ever sees. Really? Were they cooked? My Senegal loves zucchini if (and only if) it is uncooked.
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Jul 8, 2019 06:06
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trying to eat a shoe that someone is currently wearing is extremely on brand for a cockatoo
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LITERALLY A BIRD posted:All of the drat macaws omggggggg this is me whenever i browse instagram or facebook
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I offered Pookie a bite of the last piece of my peach and not only did she take the whole thing, she's now flicking me with pieces of mushy peach. So rude.
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SuperKlaus posted:Really? Were they cooked? My Senegal loves zucchini if (and only if) it is uncooked. Uncooked! Charlie will usually make any food he's offered disappear, so maybe he just didn't like the specific piece I gave him?? 
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Is he reallllllly selective about freshness like someone I know?
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Texture, typically. I'll try a center sliver next time instead of an edge bit with a lot of skin lmao
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everyone needs to try this one dish that no bird has ever passed up in my house. The fluffiest warmest veggie omelette. every parrot I've seen including the small parakeets dive literally head first into it and just opened their mouth and inhale. I believe those birds eat way better than I do sometimes. and its not saying they just like omelettes. literally dive from a branch head first into the bowl and if the human has not gotten the bowl all the way in, they will pull , with all their might, to get those omelettes from bowl to beak ASAP EVIL Gibson fucked around with this message at 18:55 on Jul 8, 2019 |
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EVIL Gibson posted:everyone needs to try this one dish that no bird has ever passed up in my house. I need to try this. I usually make a nice breakfast on the weekends - it will be fun to make ones my birds can try, and I love when they're greedy about food! (It's so funny!) What's the recipe?
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LITERALLY A BIRD posted:The last thing a zucchini ever sees. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
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Good news, I did not have a stroke! Just a migraine that acts like one so yay me I guess? Anyway! My girlfriend and I are starting a business soon. This is exciting but it leaves me in a bit of a pickle. Terra is used to me being around all day and having the run of the living room basically 100% of the time. When we have to start working full time at our shop, she's going to get a lot less exercise and human time. I don't want her to be bored or lonely so I was thinking I might get her a friend. Preferably before I go full time so I have the time to devote to introducing them properly and getting them socialised. The thing is, what kind of friend? I don't want Terra having chicks so I was thinking either another female cockatiel or another species entirely. I love basically all small parrots, and the idea of a lovebird or a GCC has been on my mind for a while, but are there any types I should look at specifically to be friends with a tiel? I realise a lot of it is down to the individual bird, but a general idea of what to look for would be great!
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EVIL Gibson posted:go with your heart. just veggies of all sorts in egg mix, light oil pan, and just cook it up. I'll have to try this... so I assume its whites and yolk..no shells? I'm wondering if my guys might like it!! So, 1 egg for both birds, add veggies and pellets etc...sounds good  I'll try it this week and see how it goes. I know they LOVE scambled eggs that I make for us ( the human us that is) and they go nuts for it.Cricket is picky...I have to eat it before she will touch it. Trevor...he really doesn't care if it's cooked/uncooked or whatever. He is on the see-food diet, meaning he sees anything remotely resembling food and he eats it! I'm really surprised he hasn't broken the 70 gram mark post morning poo tbh, he is averaging about 68 grams. The rate he eats, I would expect him to look like he swallowed a tennis ball! Cricket is a good eater tho, and consistently at about 86 grams on average. She is just a bit more dainty, and prefers to see that it is Mom edible first...so I end up having to eat her food first then she will come after it. EDIT: Faerie Fortune posted:Good news, I did not have a stroke! Just a migraine that acts like one so yay me I guess? I was worried about you when you said you were being looked at for that earlier...
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Hurrah on the stroke/migraine news! loving migraines though - they are so weird and unpredictable and if you've never had one before and don't know what they are like I bet you'd think you were basically dying. I know I would have if I hadn't seen the ones my dad gets. My first came on as progressive weird blindness one eye that turned into an aura which while nauseating, at least told me what it was that I was experiencing. edit: on a totally unrelated topic, I fell down a rabbithole of reading about african greys and did you know that they vary in size from about 300g in the western end of their range to 700g towards the east? Seven Hundred Grams. Pookie is around 450-460g (or 1 pound) and I though she was getting really podgy when she hit 470g that one time. I can't imagine what a 700g grey looks like. Pookah fucked around with this message at 20:02 on Jul 8, 2019 |
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Pookah posted:Hurrah on the stroke/migraine news! Its called a Hemiplegic Migraine and it mimics the symptoms of a stroke almost exactly, which is worrying as poo poo if you don't know that's what's happening. I'm glad I went to the hospital to make sure but spending four hours in triage with some of the most irritating people in the universe was not how I was planning on spending my Sunday afternoon!
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Disco Salmon posted:I'll have to try this... so I assume its whites and yolk..no shells? I'm wondering if my guys might like it!! So, 1 egg for both birds, add veggies and pellets etc...sounds good Keep those shells in! Free calcium. Birds eat them in the wild when they feel the food supply to feed the chicks might not be enough. Also when the chicks hatch, first thing they do is eat the shells to get those minerals back. Break up the shells so they dont have to rip it up to fit in their beaks. Let it cool so its not burning your finger when you stick your finger in. Serve it at this temperature and not cold. EVIL Gibson fucked around with this message at 21:15 on Jul 8, 2019 |
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Faerie Fortune posted:Its called a Hemiplegic Migraine and it mimics the symptoms of a stroke almost exactly, which is worrying as poo poo if you don't know that's what's happening. I'm glad I went to the hospital to make sure but spending four hours in triage with some of the most irritating people in the universe was not how I was planning on spending my Sunday afternoon! I just googled that and... jesus that must have been terrifying 
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