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Welcome to the forum! Thanks for sharing this video. Your grey is very entertaining. I look forward to hearing more from you about your grey and seeing more videos.

Thats the best thing to do. They do move eggs around sometimes. How many eggs did they lay? Looking forward to hearing if any hatch.

Congratulations, Chickie is beautiful. I am looking forward to hearing and seeing more as you get a chance.

How True!

When you must spell words so they do not know what you are saying.

Welcome Ashley, it's GreYt having you here and thanks for the photos of your fine looking grey and green cheek. Looking forward to hearing and seeing more from you.

Welcome Susan, it's GreYt having you here. To say a grey became phobic, is pretty much just describing a part of their personality. Most do not like change or new things and must be introduced to them slowly. As far as a 5 year old grey, well she is going to take a while to trust you and other family members. She may prefer men as well and you may end up the #2 in her list of humans she wishes to interact with. Only time and patience, as you mentioned will be effective during this settling in time period. I look forward to hearing more from you and seeing some photos when our get a chance.

Great examples of the cognitive abilities our Greys possess. BTW - Spelling out words to hide what you wish to say secretly works with dogs, not greys.

Welcome Boris and Jaco, it's GreYt having you here. Thanks for the inrtoduction and photo. That is o enice looking young grey.

GreYt video! Don't they just love to toss and throw items like cups, stainless bowls etc. to the floor? If they can fly with them, even better! Thanks for sharing this, I can never see or hear enough about Isaac.

I always repost this each year. Our much loved Dave007 posted this on this site about 3 years ago and thus I am posting it again this year for all to enjoy. ONly Dave could write something like htis. Ingredients: One turkey Corn pudding Green beans Stuffing Sweet potatoes Mashed potatoes with gravy Cranberry sauce Hot rolls Relish tray Pumpkin pie Whipped cream Hot coffee Get up early in the morning & have a cup of coffee. It's going to be a long day, so place your Parrot on a perch nearby to keep you company while you prepare the meal. Remove Parrot from kitchen counter and return him to perch. Prepare stuffing, and remove Parrot from edge of stuffing bowl and return him to perch. Stuff turkey & place it in the roasting pan, and remove Parrot from edge of pan and return him to perch. Have another cup of coffee to steady your nerves. Remove Parrot's head from turkey cavity and return him to perch, and restuff the turkey. Prepare relish tray, and remember to make twice as much so that you'll have a regular size serving after the Parrot has eaten his fill. Remove Parrot from kitchen counter and return him to perch. Prepare cranberry sauce, discard berries accidentally flung to the floor by Parrot. Peel potatoes, remove Parrot from edge of potato bowl and return him to perch. Arrange sweet potatoes in a pan & cover with brown sugar & mini marshmallows. Remove Parrot from edge of pan and return him to perch. Replace missing marshmallows. Brew another pot of coffee. While it is brewing, clean up the torn filter. Pry coffee bean from Parrot's beak. Have another cup of coffee & remove Parrot from kitchen counter and return him to perch. When time to serve the meal: Place roasted turkey on a large platter, and cover beak marks with strategically placed sprigs of parsley. Put mashed potatoes into serving bowl, rewhip at last minute to conceal beak marks and claw prints. Place pan of sweet potatoes on sideboard, forget presentation as there's no way to hide the areas of missing marshmallows. Put rolls in decorative basket, remove Parrot from side of basket and return him to perch. Remove beaked rolls, serve what's left. Set a stick of butter out on the counter to soften -- think better and return it to the refrigerator. Wipe down counter to remove mashed potato claw tracks. Remove Parrot from kitchen counter and return him to perch. Cut the pie into serving slices. Wipe whipped cream off Parrot's beak and place large dollops of remaining whipped cream on pie slices. Whole slices are then served to guests, beaked-out portions should be reserved for host & hostess. Place Parrot inside cage & lock the door. Sit down to a nice relaxing dinner with your family -- accompanied by plaintive cries of "WANT DINNER!" from the other room. Happy Holidays!! --------- Dave

Knowing the humidity level is important. I use this Hygrometer: http://www.theweatherstore.com/dihyth.html It is not the most accurate at +-5%, but it is close enough for ballpark. You can get +-1% Hygrometers, but the price is just too high in my opinion. I would recommend you ensure that whatever you purchase is at least +-5% or better. I keep the humidity in my home at 45% summer and winter. I must run the Humidifiers all year due to the dry climate AC in summer and Heater in winter reduces the level down to less than 20% here.

Sean, I live in Visalia, just 45 minutes from you. PM me and lets talk.

Oh Jesus, so sorry.

Welcome and congratulations! She is beautiful. Thanks for sharing the photos and looking forward to many more.

What a wonderful story of caring by loving people. It has become rare, but there are still real petshop owners out there that love what they do and care deeply about each and every critter they have taken responsibility for.

Great photos of birdy in a cup. It was enjoyable reading this and checking out his determination to get every last drop of the "Nectar of the Gods".

Oh no, such sad news. You tried your best and I have no doubt Besty knew you were giving her your all.

You can do noting in regards whether they will ever like each other or not. Greys in the wild only flock together, all others are not welcome. Conures, Amazons, Macaws etc. will co-mingle. My conure has always tried to be buddies with Dayo our grey. He is always driven away and even got a few nips as he scrambles and fly's to get away once Dayo decides he has encroached in his space or just annoyed him. They are both flighted and Jake being smaller can take off swiftly and make tighter turns than Dayo as he is in pursuit. You will always need to be vigilant in watching them when they are out together, especially if they are not flighted.

LOL, I have called the information "Spam" many times and you find tons of it on all parrot websites hit for poisonous items when searched for. Many things like Apple seeds, true enough if a human, horse or parrot ate a 100 pounds of them they would become very ill, most spit them out, as do my parrots. I have also seen grape seeds on many of these parrot lists, they are not harmful at all and actually contain healthy benefits for humans and parrots. Most of this is due to people on the web copying/pasting and adding a little of their own opinion to them. Thus, the wives tales just keep rolling on. Onions - proven to be harmful to Dogs. Not so for Parrots. I do allow my Parrots to have a little food off our dinner plates, which does sometimes include food prepared with a pinch of garlic and onion. As with many things, moderation is the key. Your parrot could have Vitamin A poisoning if they ate a ton of carrots, yams etc for days on end, but the other side is, they will suffer from a deficiency if they do not consume enough. I do however tend to be the type of person that will avoid things that are "Suspect", but very small quantities of these items are not cumulative over time and I do allow small portions. I am still 50/50 on if the earth is flat or not.

LOL Ray, Corky just wants to be like the rest of the flock. . . Sniff, cough.

Unknown, we do use simmer pots at times. The reasoning I have, is there is a huge difference in the quantity released/vaporized when burning versus a low heat. Of course, I can not prove that theory with out being able to take air samples and measure. BTW - Small world. I have a BS in Electronic Hardware/Software Engineering and have been working in this field for 30 years.

Your right Doug, there isn't any actual data from exposure studies on candles and their affect on the avian respiratory system. But, feedback from the avian veterinary community that have birds coming in with various symptoms including death have linked a ton of airborne chemicals, gases, oils etc. that cause serious harm to our avian friends. Perhaps the quantity at times of any chemical is not sufficient to kill on the spot, but the long term effect can greatly shorten the life span of our avian friends. The problem is, to get that data and log it, you would need to kill thousands of birds for each chemical/oil etc. to establish what a safe level is. The same is true with many food items listed as poisonous to our birds like onion, garlic, avocado etc. most the ones I listed are "Suspect", but the is no data proving it. It is just avian vets that have performed necropsy's on these birds and found the underlying suspected culprit. My rule has always been "If in doubt, keep it away from your birds". Being an engineer, I live off of data. It has always been difficult, to say the least, for me to accept just general consensus and not stone cold data/facts from scientific studies. So I can appreciate your analytical need as well for it.

Scented candles are very harmful to your birds. http://www.berkscountybirdclub.com/index_files/Scented%20Candles.pdf

Fingers crossed and hoping for the best.