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Patrovsky posted:Lorikeets gonna lorikeet. If I leave my hand in one spot for too long while feeding them on my deck, they will jump on it. You live in the best reality.
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Poor Freckles. Last week she was smeared with poo poo from the chicks, this week she's started moulting. This is not her month.
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Pippin died last spring and I’m just broken over this. It was last May, but I’m still finding myself bawling over the slightest thing. I’ve started looking for a baby or rescue, but that’s tough in a pandemic plus we aren’t near where I got him and people I trust. I found one that I’m considering, but they claim I can’t come to their home due to their “protection” of their birds. If it was a dog breeder, that would scream puppy mill to me. What do y’all think? I know birds are valuable, but does this sound right?
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Sep 30, 2021 10:19
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You should be able to arrange a meeting with the bird before purchase/adoption. If they won't let you near the bird beforehand I would abandon that option. If they are breeding birds and won't let you come into their home to meet the parents and you are looking at one of the hatchlings, I would not consider that a trusted option. They should be willing to, at the very least, meet you in a neutral position with the bird you are looking to take home. Bird mills aren't as prominent as puppy mills but people definitely breed birds for profit without regard for the health of the animals. I would personally treat it like looking for a dog, but with higher stakes involved since birds seem to get PTSD way more often than dogs.
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Sep 30, 2021 10:24
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No new pictures, and there may well not be any more, because I've taken to feeding the magpies insectivore mix combined with mince, so my fingers are too dirty to touch my phone when I'm around the birds. You may remember a post I made in February, about a juvenile magpie with a tangled foot:  And how a few weeks later the string frayed and fell off, and by April its limp had gone: https://i.imgur.com/sYbcPGN.mp4 It seemed to have missed some key development due to that injury, and would never even try to catch thrown food (even though it would take from my hand). Well, last week not only did it sing like an adult but it also had a go at catching a piece of insectivore mince! Maybe Little Buddy will be okay once it gets kicked out of the parental territory? I still hope it's a girl (and thus has a better chance of being allowed to hang around for a year or three). I switched to Insectivore Mix after a chance meeting in the park with a retired biologist, who gave me some tips on preparation and assured me they love it (I was reluctant to try after previously attempting to feed the magpies another brand and having it be universally rejected). The biologist mentioned a male nicknamed Stumpy. I'll give you one guess how many legs Stumpy has (hint: one). Stumpy recently moved in with a group I'm already familiar with, so I've started visiting them each day to make sure he gets a feed, and he already recognises me and flies up to me when he sees me. Magpies do their foraging by walking over the grass and watching and listening for insects, which he obviously can't do. The other day after I fed him, a woman walked up and wanted to know all about the food I was giving him, it turns out she also keeps an eye out for him and gives him cheese when she can. Between her, me, and the biologist, Stumpy has at least three Big Friends looking out for him 
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Sep 30, 2021 14:41
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Hi guys, 2 weeks ago or so i posted about my cockatiel, Jake who died recently. First and foremost, thanks to everyone who offered their condoleances. I just wanted to give a quick update about Sam, my remaining bird. He spent the first few days depressed and on our shoulders the whole time but that eventually improved. He still spends the majority of his time on us but he does go to do his own things now. We havent been able to get him back to eat pellet as a regular diet. I think he realised we'll give him millet if he waits long enough. He'll eat a random pellet here or there, but its more an act of foraging than anything. Other than that i think hes getting better morally.
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Sep 30, 2021 15:59
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mombot posted:I found one that I’m considering, but they claim I can’t come to their home due to their “protection” of their birds. If it was a dog breeder, that would scream puppy mill to me. What do y’all think? I know birds are valuable, but does this sound right?
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Sep 30, 2021 16:09
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*stuffing live birds into a large sack with a bird drawn on the side while an old-timey cartoon soundtrack plays*
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Sep 30, 2021 16:14
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Serra's favorite thing on earth is chewing up little pieces of paper towel. I think it triggers some sort of combination nesting instinct, TREAT TIME, and chewing instinct. Trying to play tug of war with her green string during Paper Towel Time is strictly NOT ALLOWED! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCpdfVpk8_E
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Sep 30, 2021 20:19
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Is Serra one of those cockatiels that just doesn't know how to actually bite? Nemo does that. Nemo seems to have more-or-less made her peace with the concept of bedtime. Her current routine is to complain loudly, fly upward about 24 inches, and then land on my finger so I can put her to bed.
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Sep 30, 2021 20:22
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alex LOVES chewing up paper into bits he’s great about bedtime too. all i have to do is dim the lights and he runs right to bed.
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Oct 1, 2021 00:52
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Halloween Jack posted:Is Serra one of those cockatiels that just doesn't know how to actually bite? Nemo does that. Serra can sure as hell bite. Once she was trying to find the drawstring to my pants under my bird shirt. Sure missed and got pure gut. Felt like a vice grip. She also nips harder when she is actually angry. That video was all mock cockatiel rage.
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Oct 1, 2021 00:55
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GotLag posted:Magpie friends! I thoroughly enjoy the establishment of the Stumpy Support Network. I'm also happy to hear that our little friend has recovered quite well over time.
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Oct 1, 2021 03:25
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Captain Log posted:Serra's favorite thing on earth is chewing up little pieces of paper towel. I think it triggers some sort of combination nesting instinct, TREAT TIME, and chewing instinct. 
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Oct 1, 2021 11:40
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Your Very Destructive Avocado is just marvelous.
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Oct 1, 2021 19:26
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Captain Log posted:Your Very Destructive Avocado is just marvelous. i love snagging pics with his beak open, it’s so cute
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Oct 1, 2021 20:22
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It's a grenade wearing avocado camouflage.
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A couple of loris and a cockatoo are in the midst of a showdown over some errant seed. The cockatoo has just returned with backup. Reporting live. Edit: Now the cockatoos are fighting each other instead. Quality entertainment. Patrovsky fucked around with this message at 05:56 on Oct 2, 2021 |
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Oct 2, 2021 05:52
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 So this happened. What should I do? She’s plucked almost all of her chest.  Green check conure, has a boyfriend. They’ve been shagging like mad for what feels like months but this is the first time she’s laid.
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Oct 2, 2021 07:51
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Just ran in to the biologist again, used the opportunity to ask some questions. Stumpy has been missing one leg for at least three years, and there's another guy who also looks out for him, bringing the Big Friend count to four! Little Buddy was holding a freshly-caught insect in its break when it came up to me today, good to see it doing so well. I also asked about the ladies at my place who appear to not need no man, and said I had never seen a male at the nest. He said that's extremely odd, either there's one I've missed or he recently died. But males who disappear get replaced very quickly, sometimes even the same day. I must continue to observe.
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https://youtu.be/et28frk-kAY
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GotLag posted:I also asked about the ladies at my place who appear to not need no man, and said I had never seen a male at the nest. He said that's extremely odd, either there's one I've missed or he recently died. But males who disappear get replaced very quickly, sometimes even the same day. I must continue to observe. Maybe they're lesbians.
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RoboRodent posted:Maybe they're lesbians. Magpies aren't parthenogenes so a male had to be involved at some point.
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Magpolyamory
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yoshesque posted:
just want to amplify this in case others have ideas. sorry friend, i don’t really. when did the plucking start? do they have a mineral block? you might consider adding a little mineral blend and cooked egg to any chop you provide for a little bit to make sure she gets enough protein and minerals if she’s laying
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GotLag posted:Magpies aren't parthenogenes so a male had to be involved at some point. Sure, and I dunno about magpies in particular, but lady birds in same-sex pairs mating with a male and then chasing him off is a well-established phenomenon in quite a few species. Frequently the male is cheating on his own mate and has his own family to attend to anyway. Fun fact: I checked Wikipedia because they have, for some insane but ultimately helpful reason, a list of bird species where homosexuality has been observed and confirmed, and there's a big old [citation needed] on cockatiel right now. I guess my own personal anecdotes aren't rigorous science, though. There are no magpies on the list, but frankly that doesn't remotely mean it doesn't happen. Anyway I'm mostly shitposting but I'm here for all the queer animals lmao.
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A few times a year a bizarre role reversal happens between Yellow (always angry female) and Blue (always VERY EXCITED AND BRAVE wanna do it? Male.) It happened again yesterday. Yellow started singing Blue’s songs to him, then chased him around head bobbing and acting like a male. Then she cornered him and started regurgitating food for him. This went on for about an hour. I don’t even know what to call it.
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Captain Log posted:A few times a year a bizarre role reversal happens between Yellow (always angry female) and Blue (always VERY EXCITED AND BRAVE wanna do it? Male.) See thread title Might also be her getting pissed at his advances and going "hey mister see how YOU like it"
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Oct 4, 2021 03:25
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Youth Decay posted:See thread title grace definitely does the latter periodically. she’s still young enough to not be too interested in fun times so periodically she just sticks a leg on top of alex and then doesn’t do anything because she’s not actually trying to mount him mostly he tries to mount her and she sticks his foot in her mouth in revenge
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Captain Log posted:A few times a year a bizarre role reversal happens between Yellow (always angry female) and Blue (always VERY EXCITED AND BRAVE wanna do it? Male.) Freaky Friday.
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mediaphage posted:just want to amplify this in case others have ideas. sorry friend, i don’t really. when did the plucking start? do they have a mineral block? you might consider adding a little mineral blend and cooked egg to any chop you provide for a little bit to make sure she gets enough protein and minerals if she’s laying Supposedly if their diet is at least 70% pellet it should cover the mineral needs. They have the fruit flavour zupreem pellet so I think it’s ok? I only noticed the plucking on Saturday, it seems like it came up overnight but she’s been acting hormonal for a while. Her most recent hobby is trying to eat the coating off the bars on her cage, and poking her head out between the bars - it’s hard to tell whether it’s the hormones of whether she’s just broken (she is a pretty broke-brained bird). Just today she was out and as soon as she could she made a beeline for the back of the couch and we had to herd her out. So she won’t be getting too much outside cage time after that. We put the egg back in the cage (after briefly boiling it) and they showed no interest in it. She hasn’t laid another egg but they’re both still in breeding mode - lots of baby birding and shagging. Breeding season 
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I am (very slowly) starting the process of looking for a new home for Auri. No, this isn't due to any issues with her--this is something I've known I'd need to eventually do for a while, because I'm finally at the point where I'm getting ready to buy a cruising sailboat to live on, a life that as romantic as it would seem, is not really appropriate for Auri (nor very feasible in a legal sense in many places in the world). I brought it up today with someone at the local bird store & hotel that she has a special connection with. She is interested, though her living and financial situation may not be appropriate for a second parrot, so we'll keep in touch, and I'll also keep asking around a little bit. Right now my goal is to find her a new home by March 2022, which I think is plenty of time to find the right person.
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Kenshin posted:I am (very slowly) starting the process of looking for a new home for Auri. No, this isn't due to any issues with her--this is something I've known I'd need to eventually do for a while, because I'm finally at the point where I'm getting ready to buy a cruising sailboat to live on, a life that as romantic as it would seem, is not really appropriate for Auri (nor very feasible in a legal sense in many places in the world). Surely all the pirate-related media I've consumed over the years couldn't have lied to me about the feasibility of parrots on boats
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I recently moved into a new house and we've been battling an ant problem that we just can't defeat. The ants have migrated into my daughters room with her 3 birds, 2 budgies and a cockatiel. I know birds are sensitive to chemicals but is it possible to spray a non-aerosol pesticide in the room or should be relocate them for the day to another room while we spray that area?
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TheJunkyardGod posted:I recently moved into a new house and we've been battling an ant problem that we just can't defeat. The ants have migrated into my daughters room with her 3 birds, 2 budgies and a cockatiel. I know birds are sensitive to chemicals but is it possible to spray a non-aerosol pesticide in the room or should be relocate them for the day to another room while we spray that area? Mix up some sugar and bicarb soda, and leave it for the ants to find and take back to their hive. If you're lucky it'll kill the queen.
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Just let the birds eat the ants boom ez enrichment
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Oct 5, 2021 18:38
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Terro for ants is supposed to be nontoxic to pets. We used it in our condo and had good success with it. Not perfect, but it did a good job until we eventually got a pest control person.
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Captain Log posted:Terro for ants is supposed to be nontoxic to pets. We used it in our condo and had good success with it. Not perfect, but it did a good job until we eventually got a pest control person. I was about to suggest this very thing, ants like to come into our kitchen after Oregon’s dry season starts and Terro in each set of cabinets is enough to make them start looking elsewhere after a bit. We’ve had parakeets for years now, and while they’re not particularly close to where the Terro goes just having it present hasn’t harmed them like some chemicals can. There’s also an ant killer my mom used to make out of Borax, but I searched up the bicarb ant killer mentioned above and it seems easier to clean up residues of so I’m seconding that as well.
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