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Hi everyone, I have finally got round to introducing myself... took me a bit of time lol. My name is Amy and I am the proud owner of Biggles, an 8 month old CAG and living in the UK. Myself and hubby to be had wanted a CAG for a long time. My grandfather used to breed and show canaries and budgies and I grew up in South Africa for many years so have a fairly good knowledge of different parrots and birds etc. We were lucky enough to recieve a cage from a friend who didn't need hers anymore, so off we went on a hunt to fill the cage :-) We wanted a young hand reared grey (as everyone does) and were lucky to find Biggles, who was a 5 month old rescue bird. I fell in love with him immediately after he sat on my shoulder and did the baby grunt thing in my ear. So here we are, 3 months later, and I can only say that I fall in love more and more every day with Biggles. He has started to talk although most of it is garbled up with whistles and clicks. He loves his fresh fruit and veg, pommegrante being his absolute favourite! We are lucky that both me and hubby to be work from home so Biggles has the run of the house pretty much all day long! I love this forum and have spent many hours reading up on everyones experiences and advice, and will continue to do so! Thank you to all the admin team for such a great site and I look forward to keeping everyone updated on my baby Biggles' progress and adventures in life! Hugs Amy x

:ohmy: I'm shocked that someone even gave you this bird! Please please take it somewhere else to be cared for by someone who #1 knows what they are doing and #2 will appreciate the joys that these beautiful creatures can bring to a family's life.

My CAG absolutely ADORES pommegrante. I give him a quarter a day and he loves picking the fruit out of the skin. With his pommegrante I give him red grapes (he won't eat white ones..fussy sod) lettuce, dried banana (he won't eat fresh bananas) and whatever else I have in the fridge. I change and swap things about every few days so he doesn't get bored of the same food. As an extra treat I give him a few pine nuts or croutons occasionaly which he gets very excited about. We also do a "Biggles bowl" at supper time which has whatever veg we are having for dinner in it as he loves to eat at the same time as us. All this and his regular food of mix and seed. :-)

We named our CAG Biggles after the pilot. Purely for the fact that he loves to divebomb and isn't the best flyer about lol. :-)