Eckobird

I hope your little guy is ok! Please get him to the avian vet ASAP and please let us know how it goes!

I suggest "For the Love of Greys" by Bobbi Brinker! Great book!

Hi Helen, Maggie and Jay have given great advice! I recommend you do the smash they mentioned, also the birdie bread. Are you going to start feeding him 3 times a day? So the vet told you to put food in the cage and walk away? I don't understand what walking away has to do with it. Your grey obviously still needs the formula so I hope your still giving it to him. You should probably make a vet apt anyways. Have them do a culture and sensitivity test to make sure your baby doesn't have a crop infection. Please keep us posted. -Caitlin

Wow thats great! Emma is one smart grey. I hope to see a video of this soon.

Great pictures!! That looks like a really fun toy.

Hi Helen, welcome to the forum! If your baby is losing weight and not eating on his own yet I would suggest putting him back on 3 feedings a day. You need to reduce the feedings when he is refusing it himself. You can't just stop one feeding if he was still eating it before, he needs to refuse it, its called abundance weaning. Some babies take longer to wean than others. The average weaning is 14-16 weeks but I heard some can take up to 20-24 weeks to wean. Please keep offering him the fruits and veggies and try giving it to him in variety. Have you tried to cooked the veggies? Maybe he will like them warm. Oatmeal is also good so keep giving him that. I also have a baby grey, he is 15 weeks old. I noticed he doesn't like cold things so I give him warm stuff, like cooked veggies, baked sweet potatoe, oatmeal, beans, brown rice, etc. Anyways, please keep us updated on his progress and don't hesitate to ask anymore questions! Is your baby a Congo or a Timneh? What was his weight before you dropped the 3rd feeding? You said he is 355 grams now and thats kind of low, it depends though maybe he is a small grey.

Haha yes mine use to dig all the time. But I haven't seen him do it lately. He use to put his head in his food bowl and dig like he was a bull ready to charge, haha. I use to take him places in a box when he was little and he would dig in the corners of the box, lol so cute! It's an instinct they have, someone told me they dig up grass in the wild, something like that.

YAYYY!! Congrats on Ecko flying!! I'm so happy for you. Isn't it sooo cool?? Pretty soon he will be doing it all the time!

Hello and welcome to the forum! That is great you are doing your research before rushing into getting a grey. I hope you find the perfect grey for you. Enjoy the site and ask as many questions as you like.

Welcome to the forum Carol! So glad you could join. Cookie is a beautiful boy, thats such a cute picture! Is he waving in that picture? Did you teach him that? He sounds like such a smart grey and he is so lucky to have found your family, he sounds very happy and content. I look forward to hearing more about you and Cookie. Enjoy the site

OMG!! YAYYYY!! Congrats Carol! I am so excited for you! I can't wait to hear about their arrival and hear how everything goes. I know you are sooo excited. :woohoo:

Great pictures of Bonek!

Hahahahah awwww Spock is soo cute!! Thanks for sharing this story. The videos and pics are so adorable!

Thank you all so much! I am very excited. Everytime he starts to make noises I stop and listen to him to see if he says it again. Hannah - Ecko really doesn't like to lay on his back but I have been working with him everyday and yesterday was the first time he stayed like that long enough to get a picture. So he is slowly getting use to it. Just flip your baby upside down everyday and maybe he will like it too.

Thank you!! And here is another cute pic I just took of him now. I love my cuddle buddy sooo much. {Feel-good-000200B9}

WOW look how big Alex got! Great picture. Does your son ever give Alex up and let you hold him? LOL. It looks like he is attached to him already. I bet you guys are so excited. How old is he now? Will he be completely weaned or you going to hand feed him?

Aw thats so cute! Yes you do have a smart grey that really trusts your wife. Thanks for sharing.

My 15 week old CAG, Ecko, said his name!!!!! AHHHHHHHH I can't believe it... I didn't believe it... but its truuueeee!!! So yesterday I was at my moms house and we were sitting on the couch and Ecko was on the back of the couch making little noises. And all of a sudden he said in a low voice Ec-ko and we both turned our heads at the same time and looked at him. I was like did he just say his name??? She said she heard it too!! I was SHOCKED, I couldn't believe it because he is so young. I called my boyfriend and he was so upset he missed his first word. But today my boyfriend was at home with him and he was on his swing chirping away and he said all of a sudden he said Ec-koooo, he called me just as excited as I was so now I know its true, he can say his name! I am so excited! It must be an easy word to say. I hope he says it more so I can record him. Anyways heres some updated pictures of him, thanks for listening to my excitement. Playing on his swing Flying to his boing Chillen on his boing Here is another favorite flying picture. <br><br>Post edited by: caitb2007, at: 2009/05/17 01:01

oops double post.<br><br>Post edited by: caitb2007, at: 2009/05/17 00:26

This is how Mango was sleeping today. I couldn't believe she was sleeping in her little hut. There is two of them in her cage and I think she just figured them out because she fell asleep at different times in both of them, SOO cute! This is definitely one of her cute personality traits. <br><br>Post edited by: caitb2007, at: 2009/05/17 00:29

What a great update Pat! I am so happy for you.

AWWWWWW!!! That first one is sooo precious! They are all great. Thanks for sharing

Aww thanks for the update on Petrie! It sounds like you guys are great friends. She is so cute.

Ecko also flies onto my 50" flat screen TV and he knows thats a big no no but it seems like he gets a kick out of doing something he is not suppose to. Everytime he flies onto it I get up and remove him from it and tell him NO! Sometimes he goes right back to it so then I move him to his boing or swing in the kitchen and then he stops. Just make sure to occupy her with something else so she forgets about the TV. If she steps up while on the TV I wouldn't reward her because she might get confused and think that if she goes on the TV again she will get a treat for stepping up. Anyways, hope this helps and good luck with Dusty. She is a very pretty grey!<br><br>Post edited by: caitb2007, at: 2009/05/16 23:00

Hello Linda and Corky! Welcome to the forum. I don't see the pic? The easiest way to add pics is going on photobucket and uploading them onto there and pasting the IMG code onto here. Anyways enjoy the site. I look forward to hearing more about you and Corky.