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I hope you have good news today Nancy as I am thinking of you.

Me too Dave and I agree that I would rather they follow like the UK and ban the selling of unweaned birds.

I loved it, "bless you" what a hoot.

You can offer as much vegetables as he will eat with some fruit several times a week, you want to remove the fresh stuff after a couple of hours for it will spoil but do leave a good seed mix in one bowl and pellets in another bowl at all times for they will snack all day and maybe some at night. Peppers are a favorite of many greys and most love the hot ones, the heat doesn't bother them at all, most any leafy green vegetable is desirable.

Hello Geoff and welcome to our family. It was just meant to be how you and Smokey met and finally got together and I couldn't be happier for you both. I think something was telling you to go to the pet store for there you would find your lifelong companion, great story by the way. Smokey is adorable and you two look good together, a match made in heaven, you are very lucky he is doing so good with most of the family but do prepared for a few setbacks as he unpacks his bags and fully settles into his new home but you are off to a great start.

Hello Darla and welcome to our family. Congrats on your new soon to be addition of a baby grey and yes socialization is very important in dealing with greys. All greys or birds for that matter will bite on occasion but that doesn't make them mean, they use their beaks sometimes to get across a message that they don't like whatever you are doing at that moment but if you learn to read their body language you can avoid most of them, some hardly ever bite, it is more of an individual thing. Greys do not become mean unless they are abused but even then if someone else takes them and gives them the love and attention they need bites can become few and far between. When you get your baby home you may notice he/she may nibble on or put some pressure on your hand when handling but at that age they are checking you out and making sure it is a secure place to step up on so don't worry about those but if the pressure gets harder then you might have to say "Not so hard" to let him/her know that is not acceptable but you will learn. Please do read thru as many of the threads here as possible for you will find lots of useful information and do not hesitate to ask any and all questions you may have and we will help you in any way we can.

Hello Tnluv4parrots and welcome to our family. So happy you could give Mazi a new forever home and it seems she is appreciative of her new digs, she is a very lucky lady to have found you and it will only get better from here. She is a lovely girl from the picture you shared of her so keep the pictures coming.

Those boings are hard to resist and Timber found his in his own time, grey time.

They do grow up so fast.

It is nice to see you back Dee and we fully understand how you feel, it takes time to grieve over a loss of a beloved companion but it will ease in time and maybe then you will be able to bring another grey into your life if that is what you want and you will know when it is right.

Hello Kpflynn and welcome to our family. Beautiful is aptly named, she is gorgeous there playing with her ball. Yes those beaks can be intimidating but if you learn their body language then you can avoid most if not all potential bites and we have a thread in the training room about that very thing and here is the link to it: http://www.greyforums.net/forums/showthread.php?109373-Body-language-most-frequently-seen

Hello Sharaye and welcome to our family. Its good to see you are doing the research to learn all you can before the day you bring a grey into your life, they are awesome creatures and become part of the family so are loved as much as our human children, they provide companionship in ways no other animal can. You will learn a lot by reading thru the many threads here on this forum, as you will see lots of different questions have been asked and we do our best to give some answers as we all have been there and done that with our birds, nothing like firsthand experience to guide you thru the process of forming a bond with your feathered companion.

As the others have said they will be fine, as you know I have gone away before and left mine with my hubby and they don't get too much out of cage time but they survived and were glad to see me when I got home so go have a good time and don't fret over it.

A satisfied customer, you can't get any better advertising than that.

Since the smell has gone now I suspect it was something he ate, maybe when you weren't looking that caused the smelly poop, I don't think I have ever had any of my birds to have poop that smelled bad, like you I could almost put my nose into it and not smell anything.

Grey time is slow time so maybe he is still adjusting to his new home but the important thing is not to stress over it, maybe he doesn't have much to say at this point which can be a good thing sometimes.

Hello Charlie and welcome to our family. So Rascal turned out to be a she, well it happens but you do not want to encourage her to lay any more but let her keep it for a couple of weeks then remove it, also make sure she has nothing in her cage that resembles a nest and make sure she is getting enough calcium in her diet for laying eggs will deplete that. Now that you have added a baby grey to the flock I doubt they will get along but they can learn to co-exist without getting into trouble, always supervise any time they are both out of the cage. It sounds like Rascal is a very smart grey, is she a cag or a tag and how about Charlie? We would love to see some pictures of both of them if you have some you would share with us.

I just wanted to say that I love that avatar picture, poor kitty.

She is beautiful and I love her pink harness, thanks for sharing the pictures with us.

Caroline it was nice of you to drop in and that picture of your greys is magnificient, I bet you can name each one as they are sitting there on those chairs. You are welcome to come and post any time you feel like it but make it more often will ya.

After the derecho we had in the summer of 2012 we purchased a generator that will run most of the house, going for days without power in 100 degree heat was unbearable when you are used to air conditioning but the worst was the possible loss of everything we had in the fridge and freezers which would not stay cool for very long. But we are better prepared for outages in the wintertime for we have two fireplaces and a wood stove to provide heat, the birds are in the family room which is heated by a gas furnace which will run off the generator so they would stay warm and we always have plenty of food in the freezers and I usually keep a well stocked pantry.

Thank you Sanggay for giving us the details of her illness though it was not necessary, I know you are devastated as I know I am and I am not ashamed to admit I shed tears when I read of her passing, she was special to me and to a lot of people who followed your adventures with her and your other birds and I know there is a big hole in your heart now that aches but she was loved and she returned that love for it showed in the pictures and videos you took with her. Please do come back and share your other fids with us as you are a part of this family and you have been sorely missed.

Dave, he wasn't specific about what her symptoms were but that she was ill on Friday and because there are few avian vets in Malaysia she wasn't seen until Monday, he mentioned some kind of fungal infection and meds were prescribed but she passed away Thursday morning Malaysian time, no doubt the delay in seeing the vet may have contributed to her demise.

It really is a myth that birds feel more dominant higher up, my fids will all step up from a higher position.

Love me, love my fids is my motto, of course with me being married for over 46 years this is all moot for I have been married a lot longer than I have had my fids but if the circumstances came that I was in the market for another man then if they can't handle the fids then they can't handle me.