BMustee

That vet is a quack! I do wings and nails at my work for 5 bucks a year, so how this Vet can justify $90 for a botched job is beyond me. It's not hard to clip nails and not have them bleed everywhere, and everyone knows you never clip just one wing. I'm guessing that the vet didn't do bloodwork, so it wasn't even a full screening. I took my Elmo to the vet that sees the birds at the store and I paid in total $118 for blood work, stool samples on all 11 of my birds...I brought in finch poop...and an exam. I may have gotten a little bit of a discount due to my ties with the pet store, but I think all he did was not charge me for the finch poop tests. I have never had a vet talk to me in that manner in all my years of owning animals and I don't know what I would have done if a vet did talk to me the way that bi*ch talk to you. I would never take my animals to that vet again...the drive would be worth it.

I live in Southwest Florida...born and raised. The summers are always hot hot hot, and so is most of the winter. I've only been out of the state twice, and both times in the summer...I've never seen snow. I have a huge orange tree in my back yard and this year we picked 16 bags of fruit off it...and there is still more on the tree!

It can take over a year for the flight feathers to molt out and be replaced. Birds like budgies and cockatiels molt like crazy and need their wings clipped every few months, but the larger parrots are much slower. I clipped my grey about 2 months after he fledged, so I would say around 20-21 weeks old or so, well, he is coming up on his 1st birthday on the 27th and he has yet to loose one flight feather.

Sometimes greys like to play ruff. In time he will learn how hard a "bite" is allowed and what you will let him get away with. It sounds to me like he was having a great ol' time with you.

Thats what one of the girls at my work says I need to call him (her) but I took forever to name him (her) and he knows his name now...and says it all the time.

Yep, that sounds like a 3 cup morning to me. :woohoo: :laugh: :pinch:

LOL...yeah, I can't start without some kind of chemical intervention...i.e. CAFFINE!

Now those are some cute pictures! I love the one where she is attacking the toy and getting a head/foot rub!<br><br>Post edited by: BMustee, at: 2008/03/03 14:10

danmcq wrote: All his feather tethers are blue...after I found out he was a she I was going to get his a pretty pink one but the only one is his size must have been sold!!! :pinch: It's a good thing his fav toys are rubber duckies...uni-sex! :laugh:

Thanks everyone!!! As I type Elmo is next to me on the tree stand saying how good of a boy she is!! :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: I didn't really care what sex I got, but it's cool to know what she is now. Momma - Isn't that how EVERYTHING is...when you need it you can't find it.:laugh: :blink:

You would think...I thought that maybe there are more males born because A) Males leave the family flock to find a new one and would be picked off by preditors more. B) Male finches are brighty colored making them easier to be picked off my preditors. Just what I was thinking...I should start looking into this and see if I'm onto something.

There are just more males born for some reason. I have noticed this with finches too. I would say about 75% of my babies are male. Thats about the same as the results of the DNA tests that we do at work...most of the birds we test are male.

The ending results of the poll where... 64% thought MALE (7 votes) 36% thought FEMALE (4 votes)

I'll still probably call her a him...she already says she's a good boy!:laugh:

Oh I'm so happy.:woohoo: :lol: :silly: Females are harder to find so that makes...her...special. Plus, if the whole people changing thing is right, females do it less.

I know, I know...I'm LATE! One girl was out sick and another had to be at the hospital with her mom so we all had to double up the work. We didn't even close the store till 9 because there were still a bunch of people buying dogs...why the bird department had to wait is beyond me.

DRUM ROLL PLEASE........... !!!FEMALE!!!

I'm so happy for you! I was lucky in the sense that Elmo never needed "ajusting" time. I brought him home at 6 weeks and the only requirement to make him happy was a syringe and formula. I can only imagine how hard it is to have a bird that you love so much and can't do anything with them to show it. I watched one of the videos of Sweetheart you have on YouTube where she is screaming at your hubby. I got to tell you she is not the only TAG I have seen act like that. We have a Timnah at work that got sick from an infection (probably from a customer with dirty hands) and we had to medicate the poor thing and keep him in the back to be sure he wasn't exposed to anything while being treated and it must have been hard on him. He was a pretty cuddly bird before, but now after he had the round of the daily injections he screams when you go to pet him, pick him up, or anything else...and it's been about a month sense his last shot. He does seem to like being held and touched once he realizes there isn't a needle in your hand but I'm thinking that the flight that your little baby went on had the same affect on her as the injections had on our TAG.<br><br>Post edited by: BMustee, at: 2008/02/29 14:55

Hahaha...thats always the safe way to bet Momma I'll be heading to the pet store at about 3pm EST and will get home about 9pm EST so be on the look out...I'll post the results as soon as I get home!

Thats good it was only the tongue. Glad to hear all is well.

hmmm, thats a hard one. When something like new furniture in the room causes plucking that can be removed and the problem solved, but when a death of a parrots loved one causes pluckng you can't bring them back for them. Well, he is I'm sure morning the loss of his owner and if he does it the most in the cage see if giving him more time out and loving affection from you will get it to at least slow it down a bit. Put feather toys in the cage and see if he will focus on them instead of himself. And what ever you do don't react when he does it...pretend like nothing is going on.

LOL...oh man Talonsis, thats good!

One more... A blond walks into a library and goes up to the desks and says, "I'd like a cheeseburger with fries." The librarian looks at the blond and says "This is a library! The blond replies, "Oh gosh, sorry..." and whispers "I'd like a cheesburger with fries..."

LMAO Momma

LOL...those are good. Two cannibals are eating a clown. One cannibal looks over at the other and asks "Does this taist funny to you?" {Characters-0002005C}