Samael

Haven't any of you lot got anything better to do than hurl purile insults at each other.

I've found that if you try to get Bertie to talk, perform if you will, he won't do it with people 'watching'. The best way to get Bertie to go off on one, and he does, is ignore him. If you then turn your TV up, or put on some loudish music, he will try to become the centre of everybody's attention. He also seems to talk incessantly if I do the vacuuming, or someone is on the telephone. But generally any loudish noise/sounds will do.

Kakariki's only live for about 5 years in the wild, thats why they are such prolific breeders.

I'm saying I like them as well as CAGs. I also like and keep Quails, Cockatiels, Kakarikis and Budgies.

So, are Timnehs just like smaller CAGs, the same type of temprement and ability to talk. Because I really do like the look of them as I've mentioned in my previous utterings.

So what is the ideal temperature to keep a CAG in?

Well, Bertie has already shared my attention and a room with dozens of Japanese Quails I have bred and up until recently a Kakariki and we have had no problems so far. He seemed to interact with the Kakariki very well, he copied his calls, jumped over to his cage and just sat with him. They even once ran around on the floor together and Bertie didn't show the Kakariki any malice at all. Unfortunatley Marley (the Kakariki) was born with birth defects and didn't make it past a few months old. Now Bertie is on his own for a few hours a day, so having another bird in the room gives him something to interact with. I was just wondering if it was possible for him to have some direct companionship with another bird without the complication of either bird trying to mate with the other.

Hi, it's me again. You might all think this is a dumb question, but I'm gonna ask it anyway. Is it possible to get another bird to be a direct companion for a CAG, i.e.: living in the same cage together? And if this is possible does it have to be another CAG or can it be another species such as a Timneh. I have seen a photo in a CAG book that suggests that you can pair a CAG up with an Amazon Parrot or maybe a Cockatoo. I just wondered because I'd love Bertie to have a friend with maybe out the possibility of lots of Baby Berties, if you know what I mean. And I would quite like a Timneh.

Your a troll aren't you.

Your links to prove all this, don't work. No matter which way I try to enter them into my browser. Your just a pathetic cross posting troll. In fact your probably a sad and spotty 14 year old twerp that has nothing better to do except annoy us and you only do that because your Mum won't let you out after 9pm. Now unless you have actually have a genuine article to post on the subject of African Grey Parrots, GET LOST. I just wanted to get that of my chest.

Easy, she has a cage that fully opens top and front, she has her wings clipped so she cannot fly, windows are never left open. The room is completely parrot friendly, nothing that can be climbed or pulled over. No exposed cables or wires to be chewed. If I need to curtail her freedom I just have to take away the ladder in front of her cage.

Bertie has a free run 24/7 we have the cage setup so she can come and go as she pleases.

Thanks for all the advice. The way we have misted him so far is the direct approach, just gently from the front so he can see whats going on. I'll try from above as suggested, I'm sure he will get used to it. The pub avairy is outside in the garden, we have Cockatiels (Grey & Lutino), Kakariki's (Pied & Lutino), Indian Ringneck Parakeets, Budgies and Japanese Quails. They are all breeding birds, the most prolific of which have been the Kakarikis. Your'e right in saying that they are more usually an avairy bird, Marley was a rescue job, he has never developed flight and tail feathers so when he fledged the nest box with the rest of his siblings he was left running around on the floor getting a hard time from the quails, so I took him inside for his own good. My local avairy centre has suggested that this kind of defect can happen and that with any luck when Marley comes to moult his adult feathers should grow normally. I hope so because he is such a happy little fella. By the way, I'm in England, Cornwall to be precise, which is on the southwest penninsular of the British Isles a great place to be if you like beaches and Ocean. The pub is called the Green Parrot.