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Ozy hates anything in the living room being higher up than she is, especially if it's some kind of big scary gadget. She hates when I climb the stairs to the loft, she especially hates when I carry a stepladder up to the loft so I can go out on the roof and clean the gutters. Oh, and in the end, I had to clip Nemo's wings. She started a pre-bedtime ritual of flying back and forth between her cage, the loft, the rafters, and the windows 15-20 times because she didn't want to go to bed. She'd eventually wear herself out and start crashing here and there in the dark. Too much of a risk.
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I really don’t think clipped wings are the evil thing some bird people believe. Serra becomes less anxious with a two feather clip. She can fly across the room, but not enter into full blown panic. I don’t support clipping for all, or even most birds. But it can really help keep select doofuses from hurting themselves.
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Aug 20, 2021 23:17
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Captain Log posted:I really don’t think clipped wings are the evil thing some bird people believe. Same. I don't clip my boys at present, but I have in the past. There's a hundred reasons to clip, and a hundred reasons not to, so you do what is right for you and your birds.
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RoboRodent posted:Same. I don't clip my boys at present, but I have in the past. There's a hundred reasons to clip, and a hundred reasons not to, so you do what is right for you and your birds. grace still hasn't grown out her flight feathers from her last clipping and i'm frankly astonished at how much trouble she can get into
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Aug 21, 2021 03:12
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Serra Update - Tolerating fan, but constantly giving it side eye Pictured in living room, demanding I put down my phone and offer scritches. 
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Aug 21, 2021 08:04
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Captain Log posted:Serra Update - Tolerating fan, but constantly giving it side eye Well get off the phone and scritch! Also did you even give an update on her new penthouse?
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Ah, fire alarm at 10pm last night. I was undressed and kinda stoned and Sera and Ozzy were totally asleep, but we got out, and it turns out that someone fell asleep smoking and started a small fire (building management is really strict about smoking inside, too, so it's entirely possible someone is getting evicted for that). I had to burrito both birds to get them in the carrier, and there was minor crying about it, but we sat outside in the dark with them occasionally calling to make sure I was still there. I was really pleased with how they handled it. And then Ozzy chomped hard on my finger when I offered help out of the carrier, and he gave me a very angry and loud lecture before I managed to escort him back to bed. You win some, you lose some. He was so mad. Bonus: the couple on the third floor who sat on their balcony and yelled at everyone in the parking lot to ask if it's a real fire. Brilliant.
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Shrieking Muppet posted:Well get off the phone and scritch! Sitting next to her current cage, mostly undecorated thanks to a very bad reaction from IVIG over the past week. Once this oven poo poo is locked down, Operation Cage Swap will go into full swing.
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Spending Tuesday day and night in a hotel with this doofus.  Probably going to board Blue and Yellow down the street, so I'm not juggling three birds in and out of a hotel for a night. I am 100% Blue and Yellow would enjoy the excursion. And by "they," I mean "Blue." I'm sure he will manage to impregnate tens of lady parakeets by the end of his adventure without ever leaving his cage. Dude is horny. Going to be fun literally sitting on a hotel bed with Serra for a day, because she wouldn't tolerate being left alone. Gonna be doing A LOT of posting. A lot.
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Update: The birds have now merged into a bird voltron. Feeling bad about keeping Lil’ Newton alone for a year because the degree to which he’s just all about his featherfriend tells me how much he’s missed out on bird company. Franklin still hasn’t worked out how to drink from her bottle and Newton keeps trying to demonstrate. It’s all just too charming.
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Captain Log posted:Spending Tuesday day and night in a hotel with this doofus. 
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So my old bird can't stretch as well and has some pin feathers on his back that he has had for weeks and he wont let me get. Any advice? He accepts me cleaning the stuck on poop off his tail/butt section but will not let me get at these back feathers.
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TaurusTorus posted:So my old bird can't stretch as well and has some pin feathers on his back that he had had for weeks and he wont let me get. Any advice? He accepts me cleaning the stuck on poop off his tail/butt section but will not let me get at these back feathers. you might try wrapping him up as a burrito and giving him a little rub. or try and get him to be more tolerant of scritches by giving him treats
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He loves head scritches, and even tolerates me rubbing his back/wings, its just when i try to actually get the sheath off the pin feathers he fights real hard. I'm not sure how to birdrito this since its two feathers lower on his spine and I don't know how to securely hold him and work the pin feathers.
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Tomorrow is Hotel with a Cockatiel Day. This is not the first time I've staying in a hotel with a parrot. However, it will be my first overnight "vacation" in years and years. But I couldn't think of a better doofus to spend it with.
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Captain Log posted:Tomorrow is Hotel with a Cockatiel Day. 
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Serra is the car - Not impressed Serra in the hotel - Surprisingly calm and able to watch Gordon Ramsay without freaking out  New Oven - I've never used an induction stovetop before. I've spent a lot of my life in professional kitchens, never having badly burnt my hands. The new stovetop? It's loving witchcraft. This happened after a pan was on it for ten seconds and I didn't think it was working. Guess what, it was working. 
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Captain Log posted:Serra is the car - Not impressed sorry you burnt yourself, man! glad the birds seem to have come out of this unscathed. serra looks totally pleased with herself in her hotel room, haha. yeah, induction heats poo poo up super quick. it's way more efficient in terms of delivering heat to pans than just about anything else.
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Disnesquick posted:I haven’t posted in a long while but… Opera Bitch posted:Happy update, long overdue. So awhile ago I posted the dilemma I was having with our two birds, essentially us having kids and having less time for them was compounded by the need to keep them away from the little ones for safety reasons resulting in increased yelling which frustrated my spouse which in turn stressed me out. We ended up moving both their cages into the laundry room so they could be out all the time in a safe place away from the girls but not in a closed off room where we would never interact with them. I am happy to say that after a little less than a year in there, I caught them preening each other. It has always been my spouse's hope they could be in the same cage together so they could bond and be companions. In the 5 previous years we've had both they progressed from hating each other and going after one another, to fighting only if they got too close to each other, to just ignoring one another. After seeing them preen each other I kept watch over how they were interacting as I didn't want to try and put them together only for them to start going at it again. So after a few weeks I moved one set of dishes in the big cage and when I saw they could eat together, combined with them preening and cuddling each other, I moved everything into one cage where they have been doing great together. Added bonus is they have been much more willing to be picked up and pet since the move because for awhile they were avoidant of me. Our girls like to watch them and the three year old will pet them when I hold them so I am glad this had a happy ending where they could stay with us and be happy. Disnesquick posted:Update: The birds have now merged into a bird voltron. Feeling bad about keeping Lil’ Newton alone for a year because the degree to which he’s just all about his featherfriend tells me how much he’s missed out on bird company. Franklin still hasn’t worked out how to drink from her bottle and Newton keeps trying to demonstrate. It’s all just too charming. 
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lol this was clean this morning. then alex went into i think a nest frenzy and tore a bunch of newspaper into little strips and tuckered himself right out 
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mediaphage posted:lol this was clean this morning. then alex went into i think a nest frenzy and tore a bunch of newspaper into little strips and tuckered himself right out Aww, little fella needing a nesting nap. Serra is starting to completely turn into a cartoon from Star Wars. 
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Captain Log posted:Aww, little fella needing a nesting nap. Goonta teewana tuhi Solo, ho ho ho
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update: Red birb has developed mind powers, he cannot be stopped https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qi7UOQAHYLU
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Youth Decay posted:update: Red birb has developed mind powers, he cannot be stopped https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qi7UOQAHYLU I'm converted to the Church of WueWueWueWueWue
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I, uh, definitely came home from work to the cage open. The latch was still turned so I suspect I just didn't close it properly last night and someone pushed it open while I was gone. Ozzy was on top of the cage and Sera was inside. And then Ozzy started yelling at me. So I'm sure they had a good day. Lmfao.
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When your farts startle a budgerigar to the point of hysterics
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RoboRodent posted:I, uh, definitely came home from work to the cage open. The latch was still turned so I suspect I just didn't close it properly last night and someone pushed it open while I was gone. Ozzy was on top of the cage and Sera was inside. And then Ozzy started yelling at me. When Wandy, my last cockatiel, developed her keratin disorder her time was limited. But, she still lived more than a year after it started. She spent her final year in my third story apartment, calmly observing the world below from a good window. Needless to say, the vet thought she was older than old so she was not terribly active. I never saw her fly towards the end. When I knew she wouldn't be around for much longer, I started to spoil her with her favorite treats - especially Cheese Its. I had accidentally left her cage door open one day as I went to work. I came home and she had managed to somehow fly to the top of the fridge, where the Cheese It box was stored. She was sat on top of it, roosting like the most self satisfied old lady chicken I'd ever seen. I miss her a lot. She was a good birb. One of my very first pictures of her, being a cuddle bug - 
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Captain Log posted:When Wandy, my last cockatiel, developed her keratin disorder her time was limited. But, she still lived more than a year after it started. She spent her final year in my third story apartment, calmly observing the world below from a good window. Needless to say, the vet thought she was older than old so she was not terribly active. I never saw her fly towards the end. she sounds wonderful. thank you for sharing her.
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Question here: try to train my parakeet not to beak me, or learn to tolerate it, given my goals? I have a rescue parakeet who is used to being hand fed. She's about 2 years old and her former family reportedly took good care of her, but also let her two cagemates fly away, so... But anyway it's been about three weeks, and she eats from the hand regularly. She's developed a curiosity for my flesh, to the point where she'll get tired of eating and decide she wants to probe for some loose skin on the side of my hand or a knuckle and bite down pretty good. I'm pretty sure this isn't fear or anger, because she gets that look that parakeets get when they're doing something experimental and interesting to them. I'm 90% sure she's just curious about this hand of mine and likes the feeling of grabbing it with her sharp little beak and giving it a pinch. I've been saying "no no" and shutting the cage and leaving her alone. Thing is, there's another cage in the room with two other parakeets who are in their own world (not trained in any way) so the room is often lively in the audio sense. I'm wondering if I should just tolerate it, though, and simply not react as much as I can, if that will eventually lead to extinction of the behavior, or less of a bitey feeling. I know these guys experiment with their beaks and I don't want to take that away from her, but I'm hoping for a gentler bird in time. Ultimately my priority will be to develop a better bond with her so I can take her out of the cage, play with her, feed her, etc. I've been also trying to train her to perch on a chopstick using millet as a bribe, so I can slowly get her out of a cage and open up her world a bit. So far she can get one foot on and I praise the heck out of her and let her get 3-5 good bites (of millet, not me). I'm thinking of going to a pet store to pick up a clicker for her. So any advice regarding tolerating/not tolerating beaking? Any really dumb stuff I'm doing or missing? Or, just like with any other form of training, be really, really patient? doctorfrog fucked around with this message at 04:48 on Sep 1, 2021 |
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How severe is the beaking? Broken flesh? Bleeding?
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Enough to leave marks. I could probably stand it and test how far she’s willing to go, but I’m afraid of reinforcing a behavior I’d later need to get rid of.
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