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I agree higher off the ground is better. My greys like it when i put egg cartons and cardboard boxes in the bottom for them

Try using just one word like breakfast or dinner when you feed her. She should quickly associate the word with the fact you are feeding her and will know you mean her no harm.

Hi Mark, follow Dave's advice and hopefully your in it for the long haul. I re-homed 2 greys about a month apart 2 years ago. Rocco adjusted within days and is very social. It took Alex about 3 months before he would even come out of his cage and 6 months before I could get him to step-up and take any treats from me. He still has a long way to go but it's well worth the journey.

I was thinking it might be a good idea to have the fan to circulate the air, never thought that I wont really need it, I can open the windows in the nice weather to give them some fresh air. I rarely run my AC so that should not be a problem.

Today when I got to the grocery store and brought up my shopping list on my phone there were peanuts and cookies added to the list, gee I wonder how they got there. I didn't add them

Actually i'm referring to the existing ceiling fan that will be in Alex and Rocco's new bird room. I plan to leave their cages open all the time and create an indoor aviary for them instead of making them wait until i get home from work to get out of their cages.

I can now move my exercise room into the basement bedroom now that my son has moved out, i can now give Alex and Rocco their own room so they can be out during the day when i'm not home and finally get back my dining room, lol. I would like to keep the ceiling fan in the room. Has anyone made a protector so i can run the fan when needed? They are both flighted and I turn off my other fans in the house when i let them out. I would appreciate any thought or ideas on what others have done. I looked online but they are expensive and I didn't find anything i liked. I guess I could built something but looking for ideas.

You might also try getting him to step-up onto a hand held perch, something he is familiar with, the longer the better, then put him in the carrier. At first i had to put the carrier on the edge of the counter and place a piece of cardboard hanging over it. Then try bringing the perch up to the carrier from below it and he should step into the carrier.

Alex added cupcakes to my shopping list for the echo today, so funny. Can't wait to see what alex does next with the Echo

I got an Amazon Echo about a month ago, It is integrated into my lights. When I got home last night the Echo was playing music and lights in the room where my 2 greys Alex and Rocco are kept were on. I checked the history of commands and found out that Alex was calling Alexa (which is the trigger word) and giving the command to play music and turn on the lights, so funny.

I guess i'm lucky, my avian vet is only 10 minutes away end even though he is part of an overall vet practice he only does birds. The first time I met him i could tell by the way he handled and interacted with Alex and Rocco that he was experienced. So far there have not been any emergency visits, only yearly checkups, he spends as much time discussing their eating habits and attitude as he does giving them a thorough exam and trimming nails and beaks. He loves the fact that they are flighted. He does not like to trim their flight feathers but will do so if the owner wants it done.

In a Catholic school cafeteria, a nun places a note in front of a pile of apples, "Only take one. God is watching." Further down the line is a pile of cookies. A little boy makes his own note, "Take all you want. God is watching the apples."

A lady goes to her priest one day and tells him, 'Father, I have a problem. I have two female parrots, But they only know to say one thing.' 'What do they say?' the priest asked. They say, 'Hi, we're hookers! Do you want to have some fun?' 'That's obscene!' the priest exclaimed, Then he thought for a moment...... 'You know,' he said, 'I may have a solution to your problem. I have two male talking parrots, which I have taught to pray and read the Bible... Bring your two parrots over to my house, and we'll put them in the cage with Francis and Peter. My parrots can teach your parrots to pray and worship, And your parrots are sure to stop saying that phrase in no time.' 'Thank you,' the woman responded, 'this may very well be the solution.' The next day, She brought her female parrots to the priest's house.... As he ushered her in, She saw that his two male parrots Were inside their cage holding rosary beads and praying... Impressed, She walked over and placed her parrots in with them... After a few minutes, The female parrots cried out in unison: Hi, we're hookers! Do you want to have some fun?' There was stunned silence... Shocked, one male parrot looked over at the other male parrot and says, 'Put the beads away, Frank, Our prayers have been answered!

whenever my son goes into a room and closes the door Rocco goes right to the door and knocks knocks knocks until he opens it and is let him in. it is so funny to watch.

A father buys a lie detector robot that slaps people when they lie. He decides to test it out at dinner one night. The father asks his son what he did that afternoon. The son says,"I did some schoolwork." The robot slaps the son. The son says,"Ok, Ok. I was at a friend's house watching movies." Dad asks,"What movie did you watch?" Son says,"Toy Story." The robot slaps the son. Son says,"Ok, Ok, we were watching porn." Dad says,"What?" At your age I didn't even know what porn was." The robot slaps the father. Mom laughs and says, "Well, he certainly is your son." The robot slaps the mother.

The Lone Ranger and Tonto walked into a Dairy Queen and sat down to drink a chocolate shake. After a few minutes, a big tall cowboy walked in and said "Who owns the big white horse outside?" The Lone Ranger stood up, hitched his gun belt, and said, "I do....Why?" The cowboy looked at the Lone Ranger and said, "I just thought you'd like to know that your horse is about dead outside!" The Lone Ranger and Tonto rushed outside and sure enough Silver was ready to die from heat exhaustion. The Lone Ranger got the horse water and soon Silver was starting to feel a little better. The Lone Ranger turned to Tonto and said, "Tonto, I want you to run around Silver and see if you can create enough of a breeze to make him start to feel better." Tonto said, "Sure, Kemosabe" and took off running circles around Silver. Not able to do anything else but wait, the Lone Ranger returned to the Dairy Queen to finish his chocolate shake. A few minutes later, another cowboy struts into the Dairy Queen and asks , "Who owns that big white horse outside?" The Lone Ranger stands again, and claims, "I do, what's wrong with him this time?" Nothing, but you left your injun running!

A man went to his lawyer and told him, "My neighbor owes me $500 and he won't pay up. What should I do?" "Do you have any proof he owes you the money?" asked the lawyer. "Nope," replied the man. "OK, then write him a letter asking him for the $5,000 he owed you," said the lawyer. "But it's only $500," replied the man. "Precisely. That's what he will reply and then you'll have your proof!"

Was pleasantly surprised when I went grocery shopping yesterday and they had fresh corn on the cob. I didn't buy any for myself but Alex and Rocco just love it. I cut about 1" slices and give it the with their breakfast.

How much does a microchip usually cost?

Definitely different for for each bird, when i brought mine home it took Alex about a week before he got onto the tree, but Rocco flew to it and started playing as soon as i turned my back

I make ladders out of 1/2" cpvc and make the tops 3/4 for them to perch on. I also have ropes and perches in various sizes from 3/4" to 1". I plan to make a cargo net as my next venture out of 3/4" rope with 5" squares.

Great job, my 2 tree stands are where Alex and Rocco love to hang out

two of the three hatched over the weekend

Just finished cooking dinner. Alex and Rocco discovered the bowl of spaghetti noodles before i added sauce.

Here is an interesting link to some nesting eagles, they have 3 eggs and you can watch them live. Cant wait until they hatch. http://www.farmyou.com/falcon_cams/decorah_eagle_xcel.html