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adventure birb!!!!
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Dec 14, 2020 19:04
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well it was going to happen eventually 
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Dec 14, 2020 22:41
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Her eyes look bigger somehow, lol
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Plant MONSTER. posted:Her eyes look bigger somehow, lol maybe that's how she can climb the loving tree so fast
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Here are some large honk birbs I saw at the lake yesterday: The white one in the front only got up to hiss at a kid who got too close and then honk and walk away with its friends. 
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Dec 14, 2020 23:30
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Guess who is finally eating her veggies and will fly to my hand (if bribed with millet)  
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Kuros posted:Here are some large honk birbs I saw at the lake yesterday: good honker! rear end cobra posted:Guess who is finally eating her veggies and will fly to my hand (if bribed with millet) !! yay 
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I adore everyone in this thread. Absolutely everyone. In slightly good news, Serra had her second weekly weigh in today and dropped two more grams. Now she is at 137g down from over 140g, since the beginning of her diet. My vet wants me to get a month or two of weigh ins before we consider medication. I also weigh her food at the beginning and end of everyday to get a total weight of what she shoved in her mouth. I have learned this nugget of wisdom - - The hornier/nesty'er Serra gets, the more she eats. Of her two sisters I've been able to check in, they are both over 120g. There is definitely a genetic component, but her going from 125g to over 140g in a month was absolutely  Especially when she got put on a diet to make her slim DOWN from 125g. Serra, you are one adorable chonk. I also got a picture of her today riiiiight when she floof'd out to do a full body shake, but hadn't shook yet. She might be a cartoon. A fat, chonky cartoon.   Here she is less than a minute later, as proof she hasn't gained an actual kilo. 
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Love that fattie borb
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Kitfox88 posted:Love that fattie borb
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These three are always lined up to follow me when I leave their room.
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those are four excellent birbs
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mediaphage posted:those are four excellent birbs Very Pro Birds, they are.
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My oldest bird, Starr, fell ill yesterday! After a vet visit she was diagnosed with avian chlamydia and prescribed a course of antibiotics and eye drops. She’s currently quarantined in the living room and took this opportunity to also lay an egg 2 feet from my face. The miracle of life. When a nasty swollen bird shoves its cloaca out and goes “eeeenhhhh!!!” in a high pitched voice and lays an egg in your field of vision, when you just wanted to read a book.  I’m currently investing in an air filter- my boyfriend is afraid she’ll transmit it to us. (I feel like getting it is a certainty for me, the fool who kissed her bird’s unsightly bulging eye when she was afraid that the bird would pass away.  )The vet said that Starr has a good prognosis as long as she responds to the antibiotic, so I’m relatively calm at this point. I think she’s going to be okay. Here’s hoping she recovers smoothly and that the other two birds are chlamydia-free!
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Hug in a Can posted:My oldest bird, Starr, fell ill yesterday! i'm sorry she's ill but happy she has a good prognosis! hope you don't get bird chlamydia!
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mediaphage posted:i'm sorry she's ill but happy she has a good prognosis! hope you don't get bird chlamydia!  And since it gets brought up here sometimes, a reminder to folks to not sniff your birds or kiss them or lick them, no matter how tempting it is. Psittacosis (avian chlamydia) is endemic among parrots and often lays asymptomatic for long periods of time, which is how it can show up spontaneously like this. It tends to be more severe in humans than in birds.
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Dec 17, 2020 03:36
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We will never not sniff our birds.
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i can’t imagine like ever licking a bird. that’s honestly gross. i admit to the occasional nose scritch tho as a bonding technique. it doesn’t help that sometimes if i’m not careful grace tries to put her beak in my nose. little buggers quick
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mediaphage posted:hope you don't get bird chlamydia! New thread title?
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Unsinkabear posted:New thread title? Plant MONSTER. posted:We will never not sniff our birds.
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Oh, both of these are great
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I am baffled in the best possible way. Yellow the Parakeet has never thrived, like I've mentioned. She has spent her entire life being cranky and surviving by letting her mate Blue vomit her food into her. My Dad jokingly calls her, "Hate Bird," but it's not that far from the truth. She's also had two health events, I suspect strokes, and only survived by Blue nursing her back to health. Her main activity is to once or twice a day have a good wing flap. Just five or ten seconds of flapping, then back to sitting. Over the last year, she has become sluggish and poofy feathered more than once. Never on the cage bottom or showing any outright signs of a problem a vet could fix. But just...not good. Truthfully, I've expected her to pass more than once, without having any way to really do to intervene. I've had miserable experiences with trying to prolong a parakeets life past their time and I'm OK with letting her go when it's her time. I don't want to inject her full of medicine and watch her squirm while she gets spoonfuls of medicine crammed in her crop. This happened with Tito the parakeet, and he was a misery at the end. But the vet kept pulling him back, only to have him start having multiple strokes a day or two later. Ugh. That memory gets me. I held him when he went and it made me decide not to force an animal through that again. When it's time, it's time. Starting yesterday, it's like Yellow suddenly found her will to be a parakeet. She has been climbing all over, singing, exploring, actually being nice to Blue, and all sorts of normal behavior. Right now, she is climbing laps around the top of her cage, chewing on everything. She has never been this active, even when she was young. She is an old lady now, but suddenly being a normal parakeet. What suddenly makes a parakeet decide to embrace life? There hasn't been any changes to food or environment. Regardless of the reason, I'm so happy to see her happy for once.
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 That's great to hear, Loghttps://twitter.com/aiculirabih_/status/1339072911697592320?s=20
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Even snapped a picture of them right before their bedtime. When I start to say, "Birdie Bedtime!" they both start to floof, then run up to their sleeping corner when I get the cover. Yellow likes to do a perpetual impression of a Jelly Bean. 
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJOSbpQHBzYrydiafan posted:
drat i have the same beard
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Grats on the hatchling, Gaston! Grats on happy Yellow jellybean, Log! Grats on the new title, thread! 
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Captain Log posted:Even snapped a picture of them right before their bedtime. When I start to say, "Birdie Bedtime!" they both start to floof, then run up to their sleeping corner when I get the cover. this is so nice. i hope it keeps up!
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“Sniffing may result in Chlamydia” is delightful. Thank you for the laughs and well wishes!   Here’s Starr on her good side! The bad side is still a work in progress, but the swelling is going down!
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If Teeka has chlamydia I for sure have it as well. Never not gonna stick as much of my face as possible on that bird E although because he's a cockatoo it does look like I scarfaced a pile of cocaine when I'm done
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Overheard this morning from my coworker with the sun conure: "I am never going to get another sun conure, ever. He's a total sweetheart, but he's... loud. We were warned by the breeder that they're loud. We had no idea."
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American backyards sound like chk-a-dee-dee to-hee to-hee Australian backyards sound like EEEEEURRRRRRRRRRGHHHHHH
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How are cockatoos so chill? Their children are just 24/7 intolerably annoying. And yeah, I have all the bird STDs because Imma kiss Pookie and smell her feathers because shes so sweet and kissy and her feathers smell awesome
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Always remain vigilant with cookware - I've worked in a lot of professional kitchens and have a hipster disdain for single use kitchen gadgets. But, I saw this on sale for $14 and picked it up, thinking I could have eggs without standing directly over a hot pan - https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00DDXWFY0/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1 I plugged it up, about to make some eggs. Then something nagged the back of my mind. This has little plastic trays for the eggs and what looks like an uncoated element. I fired off an email to make sure it didn't have some non-stick. Response - "Thank you for reaching out to us. To further assist you, at this time our units are made out of the non-stick coating called Xylan." Which is another word for PTFE laden teflon. Glad I never used the loving thing.
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Sera would go on strike if I refused to kiss him anymore. He loves kisses. I consider this to be an informed risk that I'm taking.
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Love how the baby goes right back to howling as soon as it swallows its food.
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Mizuti posted:Love how the baby goes right back to howling as soon as it swallows its food. There isn't enough. There is never enough. Baby birds are all screaming black holes with the metabolism of a brushfire.
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Blue and Yellow have replaced their old favorite activity (obsessively nibbling on the end of strings) with a new favorite activity (obsessively nibbling on their ceiling)....? Picture taken with camera fully zoomed to prevent them from making evasive maneuvers.
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RoboRodent posted:There isn't enough. There is never enough. Is funny that this keeps on going even when, to human eyes, they're almost indistinguishable from the adults.
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