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Chloe in the shower.

Chloe always had a shower with me everyday and then she was wrapped in her own towel.

Here is one of my favourite pictures of Chloe. Sweet Birdy Dreams little one.

Insurance for parrots in the UK seems more reasonable than in the US. I had my first parrot insured and she sadly died so I had to make a claim. I never dreamed I would need to claim for her treatment and loss. She was insured for £600.00 which I got back on her death. Plus her vets fees so was rather a large claim. This £600 never seemed right to me and since losing Chloe I have never been able to spend that money. My two greys are both insured for £200.00 each which keeps the annual renewal fees down and does not effect the medical cover. My cockateil got sick a couple of years ago and was not insured. She spent 10 days in the vets hospital over Christmas. This cost me over £500.00. The costs do build up when a parrot gets sick and requires specialist treatment. For me insurance is a must.

Welcome David and Khan. I am a newbie also. Such a cute picture. greys are lovely.

Yes my Charlie does this also. He has done it since we brought him home at 16 weeks old. He is now 18months old now and does it less but still occassionally. Like others have said best to ignore it. Sorry forgot to say welcome. I am new to this forum also.

What lovely pictures. Truly beautiful.

And some more for you to see.

Here is another nest box picture. <br><br>Post edited by: perfectparrots, at: 2008/01/31 18:29

Here is Poppy and Charlie in the nest box.

Hi Brooke fancy seeing you hear. As you know I am new here. Still learning my way around. But members have made me very welcome.

Thank you for the welcome. It is to find a forum for grey owners. Let me tell you more about us. Well I first had a grey about 8 years ago now called Chloe. She was my first grey. We had her for nearly 5 years but tragically she died. I have posted her story in the other section. Very sad indeed. When she died it broke my heart. I felt very lonely. So lonely in my time of pain. Some time after she passed away I set up my own forum in her memory. It has been running now for nearly a year now. After a loss I think you need to find something to focus on and for me this is what I did. I wanted to share Chloe's Story and set up a friendly place for parrot people to come together. I also wanted to be their to support others should they sadly loss their feather friend. Now Poppy and Charlie. What I did is I searched for a small breeder and found one about 25 miles away. She had no babies but her birds were getting ready to lay. 4 eggs were laid but only 2 hatched. My husband and I decided we would like to greys as this would be different to having a single grey, and possibly better for them having one of their own kind to live with. We wanted to females, and to cut a long story short there ended up being one of each. I thought oh no I cant have them both because they may breed. I spoke to two avian vets and they both said the likelyhood of breeding was very slim, as one they were pet birds in a home environment and two they would not have the right set up for breeding in. So we decided to have the two. We visited every week from the age of 6 weeks old until they came home at 16 weeks old. Charlie was slow at learning to fly so they both stayed with the breeder until she was happy for them to come home with me. I will share more of their story later.

I have just done some decorating and I too worried about the smells. I was decorating the bathroom, so I ensured the windows were open to help get rid of the smells. When I have painted the lounge before, I moved my two greys to the dining room. I ensured the lounge door was closed and again opened windows to help with the fumes. Obviously goes without saying about being careful with open windows incase of escape. I fully understand your concerns, and for me I am always pleased when the work is all done and my birds are safely back in the room they know.

This is a really nice forum. I am finding my way around.<br><br>Post edited by: perfectparrots, at: 2008/01/31 01:19

What a little cutie. And those beautiful blue eyes.

oh Thanks. Its a terrible illness. And for me I felt I made mistakes which caused her to die. So I am left with guilt. All I try to do is spread Chloe's Story to try and prevent others the pain I suffer.

Thanks Tracy. I try and share my story to save others the pain I have been through. She will have been gone 3 years this year and it feels like yesterday.

This happened back in 2005. My husband and I miss our Chloe very much. She was a super parrot. It broke our heart the day she was taken from us. We both miss her dearly. Poppy and Charlie are great. We followed them from the day the eggs were laid. In my Photobucket there is video and pictures of them. We called Poppy her name because she was hatched in June and the Poppys were out over here, also Poppys are the flower for remembrance and also because they are red like a greys tail. Charlie was named because Chloe was called Charlie when we got her.

This is a copy of my original posting from another forum about Chloe and Aspergillosis. I did not realize there were two types and my Chloe had the chronic type. Here is the original posting: I have only been registered with this site a few day but would like to share our experience and hopefully stop anyone else suffering the loss of their special baby under similar circumstances. Back in July (2005) my husband and I started to decorate our lounge. We had put this off for sometime as we were concerned how Chloe would take to the change. We removed the carpet from the room in preparation for decorating, Chloe was not in the room at the time. We returned her to her house (cage) and then went to the kitchen to prepare dinner. About ten minutes later we returned to the room to find Chloe had removed about a dozen feathers from under her wings. Prior to this Chloe had never pulled out any feathers. Immediately we removed her and her cage from the lounge and set her up in the dining room. Two days later we took her to our avian vet for her annual check up and to have the feathers looked at. He was confident that as he had seen her so soon after starting to pull her feathers that this would not develop into a more serious habit. We continued to take her to the vet regularly for various injections to help the feathers grow and to keep infections away but she did continue to remove the new pin feathers. It got to a point at the end of September that both us and the vet decided to stop treatment as her feather pulling was not getting any worse and the removal of the pin feathers would stop as soon as it started. At the beginning of October the day before we were due to go back for a check up we notice a wheezing sound. We took Chloe for her check up and the vet listened to her chest and said it was clear and she may be lacking Vitamin A or it could be a built up of feather dust. He gave her an injection and things seemed to get better. All this time we had been hiding Monkey nuts in her house to encourage her to forage and distract her from feathers. We never brought value nuts, only good quality human consumption roasted monkey nuts. About 10 days later the wheezing came back and she would scratch her throat area. We went back to the vet and treated her for a bacterial infection. A couple of days later still no improvement and he decided she had Aspergilosis a fungal infection. We questioned ourselves where had our little girl got this from. I cleaned her house daily it was always so clean, her food was fresh, I would not give her anything I would not eat myself. Basically it had come from the monkey nuts. When you crack a monkey nut there is a dust which can contain fungus spoors. Because Chloe was having treatment for her feathers her immune system was lower which enabled the fungus infection to take hold. According to our vet once this nasty infection takes hold it is very hard to treat. During her last days she would not eat or drink anything and she became very poorly. Sadly there was nothing else we could to for our girl but make the decision to let our little girl go to sleep, and have sweet birdy dreams. Making that decision was so hard and to this day I still cry about those last minutes of her life. It is something I will never forget. My heart goes out there to anybody who has to make this decision. From our sad story there are a few things fellow parrot owners could learn, to stop them suffering the heartache and pain that we are. When you change your parrots environment is it really necessary? Think of the times your parrot may have suffered stress i.e. after a holiday, the immune system is lower allowing for possible infections to take hold. Under normal conditions monkey nuts are not a problem for parrots, if I could turn the clock back my little Chloe would never have had monkey nuts, and my advise to fellow parrot owners is are they really necessary. NO they are not so don't take the chance its not worth it. My vet said that he sees 2 or 3 cases of Aspergillosis a month which is quite a lot and African Greys are succepable to this condition. Its has been 17 months since our little girl passed on and not a day passes where she is not far from our thoughts.. She was one very special little girl. Thank you for reading this. God Bless Chloe.xxx Chloe's Mum Through the sad loss of Chloe I have been blessed with two more beautiful greys, Poppy and Charlie. They are nearly 10 months old now. They are brother and sister. I love these two to bits and I am very proud of them both. They are real little stars. _________________ http://photobucket.com/albums/g189/TNG123/Chloes%20pictures1/ .......Chloes Photo Bucket Chloe 28 Nov 2000 ~ 28 Oct 2005 (Sweet Birdie Dreams Baby Girl XXXXXX) Our Parrot Family Phoebe - cockatiel - 14 Mar 07 - Sweet Birdy Dreams little one - Always in our heart - Never forgotton xxx Poppy - african grey - hatched 12/06/06 Charlie - african grey - hatched 14/06/06

Hi thanks for the warm welcome. I shall put some more bits on about me and the terrible twosome tonight when I get more time. It is true my two babies came from the same breeder Freddie and Alfie. I did have a grey before these two called Chloe which i will share her story with you guys later. Its a very sad one. I also had a cockatiel called Phoebe. What must I sound like with all these hads. I am just trying to find my way around but will post more later.

Hi everyone I am new to this forum. I am looking forward to getting to know you all. I have two african greys called Poppy and Charlie, who are both 18months old.