BMustee

Sounds like Seizures or something. How long is the vet gone for?

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Like Dan said, the color is a "mutation" and can occur in the wild. It's kind of like Albino animals...they happen but you don't see them in the wild. They get picked off normally not too long after birth so that gene is a huge negative for them and that gene is not carried by many animals because those with it don’t make it long enough to breed, but in captivity they are safe from predators and now that people selectively breed for that mutation there are all kinds of Albinos critters...rats, bunnies, snakes, you name it. A local nature center in my town has an albino raccoon. As far as I know there is not a rash of health problems directly linked to the mutations itself, but like Dan said if the gene pool has been turned into a gene puddle with not enough diversity there will be more health problem…just like pure-breed dogs many times have more problems than mutts, gene pool was not big enough. Here are some cool pics of albino critters <br><br>Post edited by: BMustee, at: 2007/09/28 15:46

Yes, this all is so true. I also do not think that hybrid breeding is something people should be doing. We should be breeding birds for their personality, not color, because it would be better to have a bland colored bird that loves you to death than a multicolored devil bird.

Very good advice form LoveMyGreys...I could not say it better. What she said about the reaction to bites is so true and is also something that a lot of people do wrong. If the bird gets what it wants from a bite it will keep doing it and even start to bite harder.

yeah, could go ether way. I think that normal greys are just as pretty, I'm not going to be let down if he never gets a lot of red...it would be more of just an added bonus. I'll love him the same grey or red.

wow...those macaws are stunning

geesh...it looks like it fell into a vat of candy corn mix or something<br><br>Post edited by: BMustee, at: 2007/09/27 20:45

oh, yeah...a dream. I wish I had 100 more Karma points! LOL

I have my moments...now where is my karma?!? lol :laugh: j/k

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Laurie wrote: You love Me?!?!? :woohoo: LOL...Bernadette is my name. The Motown song is by the Four Tops, but there is another song named Bernadette by the Dave Clark Five...not as good as the Tops though. It's funny for how unusual my name is there sure are a lot of songs about me.

OMG thats crazy! :woohoo: I've heard of wild parrots learning thinks but never normal birds.

I started training mine the basics like stepping up as soon as he could perch. I just started trick training him...he learned waving hi in 15-20 minutes...it's not a flawless wave but he doesn’t need the "provocation" to get that foot up anymore. It's not hard to teach the wave to a bird that has already learned stepping up, and you could start that trick as soon or as late in life as you want.

Sweet. I read that red factor greys change with each molt. Would it be possible for mine to one-day molt to look like the one pictured? I didn't get him hoping for red...and neither of his parents are...but when I saw the red in his wings I figured that I got just got lucky if that was in fact red factoring.

He might. I said something about this in another post, but mine will talk all day on the phone no matter who it is. He will put his beak right into the receiving end when I'm on the phone and start chattering. Everyone thinks it's hilarious that if they talk to me on the phone it's really a conference call with me AND the bird.

I'm glad I looked that up because I didn't know that Acorns were toxic.

When my CAG's flight feathers came in I noticed that near the base of each feather there was a large area that had a dark red tint, and he has one feather on the back of his head that has a pink dot at the tip. Would this constitute having Red Factor? I like to search Google Images and I came across some very pretty birds with Red Factor on there, so I thought I would share them with you all for the heck of it as well.

{Feel-good-0002006E} I bet anytime someone tries to look at military installations you get put on some FBI list or something. :laugh:

Lets see, I know aloe is good to have around. My grey hurt the skin next to his beak and I rubbed it with aloe to help heal and sooth...worked like a charm, and it is safe to eat. I put two links on this post for safe plants and toxic plants. http://www.birdsnways.com/articles/plntsafe.htm http://www.birdsnways.com/articles/plntstox.htm

Mine doesn't have one single sound he uses to call me...it's pretty much whatever he feels like doing. We contact call each other all the time and it's one of his fav games. He calls with the wolf whistle and I do the same back, then he will do the lazer beam noise and I repeat it...it cracks him up because he will just start laughing and laughing in between calls. :laugh:

darn...I was going to Google Earth area 51. {Emotions-00020060}

LOL! Fatback McPidgeon...thats funny. {Feel-good-0002006E}

One of these days I'll get the mister, but I gave him a second bath and he didn't freak out as bad as the first time so I'm going to see how he does after a couple more showers. I don't think Red Palm and Palm oil are the same thing. From how it sounds on the forum you got to get it online...not too many stores got it.