jessdecutie18

Yoshi wants to fly too... hopefully it wont be too long!

I think I'd like to see pics of a couple of these things Now for Yoshi: 1. She prefers long neck scratching sessions with my husband, and will use her foot to show him where she wants him to scratch. 2. She has no worries about how much food she wastes and seems to enjoy the sound of corn hitting the wooden floor and the fuss we make picking it all up for her 3. She likes cheese and pistachios, and will try anything she sees us eating 4. She is almost never spooked, a brave baby to new things, yet still pretty clumsy. 5. She tries so hard to fly with clipped wings, she will flap and flap and then lunge off of something in an attempt to get to us. I can't wait until she has her feathers and can actually learn how to fly without it being hopeless for her. Too bad she was clipped before I got her... 6. She would rather eat outside of her cage with us, and unless she is starving and we have been gone all day (which is rarely) she will go hungry and then dig into her food bowl on her playstand next to the dining room table while my husband and I eat our dinner. She loves eating with the family... and has a separate food bowl on her playstand for pieces of our dinner 7. She is perfectly fine with the vacuum... just watches it like a hawk and calls to me occasionally for reasurance... but we have an automatic 'Roomba' small vacuum that runs around by itself and she hates it, can't be in the same room as this 'unattural creature' without freaking out. 8. She is usually a very quiet bird, much quieter than a Quaker parrot I once had... but hopefully she will learn to talk when she is older 9. She still likes her breeder Mommy a lot too. We visit her occasionally and Yoshi obviously hasn't forgotten her. 10. Yoshi will let anyone hold and touch her... very well socialized by the breeder... the only bites I've gotten from Yoshi is when she is on my shoulder... she has a thing for ears and doesn't understand that biting them hurts yet. My husband has had a couple ear bites too... Well that was fun

I believe anyone on here would agree... there is no price tag to finding a lost loved one... you just want them back. I've never lost a bird before thank goodness... but I can imagine the horror. :blink:

Wow... I too wasn't around when this all started and decided to read from the start... you state when people start questioning you that "My new task is Baby scooby,,right at this time he needs me,,But i keep on loking for Max Ok..." No it bloody well ISN'T okay. How on earth could you just go out and buy a new baby straight away!? You should have spent that time looking for Max who needed you! So the baby was in bad conditions, I can understand that. Spend a month looking hard for Max, then buy a new one! Better yet, FIND Max, then decide to save another... If it was to 'sooth your pain' as another user said, I'm afraid that just makes me mad. It's your fault you lost him, you don't need to go 'soothing your pain' straight away, you need to try your darndest to get your 'baby' back! I'm glad after all this time he is alive and hopefully well? I'm not so sure I'm glad he lives with you. Get off your high horse with the money you spent and the comments at other members. I am not a mean person, and I don't like to judge others, but from your posts I just can't help it.<br><br>Post edited by: jessdecutie18, at: 2009/09/16 05:26

ramsabi wrote: LOL well my Yoshi has never hung upside down as far as I know... but she is still young... maybe she too will change her mind sometime

Warning if you are interested though: It was VERY time consuming to put together, directions were horrible... but in the end I'm happy. I wanted Yoshi to have a nice cage, after all it's her home, and it gives her plenty of space to roam around and be goofy

http://www.teakwickerandmore.com/asp/show_detail.asp?sku=AEC1021&PiID=3277907&refid=FR3-AEC1021_3277907 That's where we got it... Exterior Dimensions: 61" H x 26" W x 42" D

Lol nice replies and I like that homemade perch I like the idea of a boing... maybe I'll check that out!

So I'm trying to find a new computer desk... but I want a spot for Yoshi on it lol so he can be with me while I study easier... too bad desks don't can with an area with a wooden perch!

Yoshi is now just over 5 months and eating her foods just fine, yet I'm still giving her formula every night... So I've noticed that say yesterday, she was in her cage while we were out and she doesn't like to eat in her cage (last resort only). By the time we got home, it was late, and we took Yoshi out (she was super happy to see us) and I mixed up the formula for her. She gulped it down, even bent over the bowl and scooped some of the formula up herself before I could spoon-feed her. Today though, she was out all afternoon and ate lots of her fruit/seed/pellet mix and when I went to feed her she seemed uninterested (two or three mouthfuls and she didn't care anymore). Should I stop the hand-feeding altogether now? What do you guys think about having your Greys' on your shoulders? Yoshi is always trying to get up on my shoulder now, and my husbands... She nibbles on my ear, and she is learning that that is not okay... she poops on me, and that's gross on your shoulder... and of course I've gotta be careful not to wear earrings I just don't know if I should stop allowing this altogether or if I just need to let her know what is not okay. That's all for now

Yoshi says hi from one of her favorite positions as Queen of her cage

Cage:

So this is Yoshi's cage... we spent a lot on it and everything inside it... but it's worth it because he loves it and has plenty of room to explore <br><br>Post edited by: jessdecutie18, at: 2009/09/13 19:27

Our Yohsi is quiet... but if we leave he musters up a call or two wanting us to come back... and if you peek in the room he is all strained forward on his perch ready to jump into our arms again if he gets the chance

I hope she'll be alright!

Nice Now I'm excited to try

I've heard before that most of these 'mutations' are unhealthy... not to waist money buying a mutated bird... Why spend the extra money and help out mutation breeding when the original greys are so pretty themselves?

Thankfully yes Yohsi can hear for sure... she responds to all sounds just usually doesn't say anything herself. That's really interesting though Christina about having a deaf grey. The link you provided is blocked here at work but I'll check it out when I get home Well maybe I'll start trying to teach him to wolf whistle But my husband will probably think I'm nuts

Alright, thanks guys I won't worry about it, and hopefully he will talk eventually The whistling thing is something I'm confused about really. The breeder stressed not to whistle to him until he is talking... and I thought that was a little doubtfull that whistling damages their inclination to talk... but I haven't done it at all just in case.

He eats a ton and poops a ton lol... still weaning off of formula too although it seems like he will never give up his nightly session of formula. He seems really happy, likes pistachios, is asleep on top of his cage with a foot up right now behind me No he hasn't been to the vet... breeder said there was no need unless I could see a problem.

Yoshi is just about 5 months old and extremely settled and happy... yet so quiet! We hardly know he is there if we aren't in the room and even Saturday, sleeping in till 12, no peap from him. The only time he calls out is when we are walking away from him and he wants to come with, lol. Just wondering, could this mean that he won't want to learn to talk? He always seems to listen to everything, lol, but never makes much sound himself. I was worried that he never played with his toys, even though we have provided a big variety... but I have seen him nibble at two of them for a couple minutes now, and pull a string off of his shredder... so maybe he likes them after-all, just likes being out of his cage with us more

I can't imagine my Yoshi doing that, he's too clumsy, lol... is this something they do with age or what?

how long will it take for the primaries to molt out then? So by the breeder trimming Yoshi's wings before we got him he is stuck at this flying ability until his feathers molt out?

Haha that was good Bet that took a bit of training!

Lol I actually had my first dream about Yoshi last night and was disturbed myself... although nothing horrible at least for Yoshi. For some reason my husband and I decided Yoshi's cage was way too big for him and bought a pretty cockatoo and brought him home and put him in Yoshi's cage with Yoshi... the next day we checked on them and Yoshi had pulled all the cockatoo's tail feathers out and it was cowering in the corner... I felt terrible... and woke up that way... until I realized I was dreaming and it was a dumb dream lol.