Greywings

If you take his cage out there place it far enough away from the tree most try to place it too close and making the angle to steep and difficult for a bird to fly down to the cage.

I add a cooked bean & grain mix with some added Red Palm oil and for variety add different veggies at the end of cooking just long enough to steam a bit.

I hope this thread will save some lives and perhaps make people think hard about their birds safety levels.

Greyt advice and I can add keeping the lids on any pots or pans you are cooking with to prevent a quick dive into danger.

Manipulating the environment to achieve the desired result-pretty sharp cookies.

I am not thinking that was harsh. Loosing your bird due to lack of life saving antibiotics would be a tragedy, you have to keep trying to find a way to make it work. I have pushed small pills into a grape and let them disolve for 20 min then given the grape with good results. Every bird is different and some will take meds right out of a syringe with no problem, each bird is different and it seems that a sick bird can provide quite a challenge. We all want you to succeed and have a healthy happy Grey.

Cutie pie. You will do just fine, we have your back and if you have any doubts then read through all the safety, diet and behavior threads once again. Love the picture!

Retina damage may heal on it's own Dave. Avoid shopping for a few days. It does prove we a country of creative minds-or some thing like that the Freedom to dress as odd as we can.

I do know of several birds who died very quickly when Non stick skillets were in use in their households, tragic and very disturbing.

Taken from Green Health Watch- Teflon gas the new DDT Perfluoro-octanoic acid (PFOA), an ingredient of Teflon and also known as ‘C-8’, is a suspected carcinogen now found in humans, other animals and plants in the US, Europe and Asia. PFOA is very persistent. Released into the environment it looks as if it will take literally millions of years to biodegrade. The company ‘3M’ (which once manufactured PFOA) found that it took 4.4 years for just half of it to be excreted from workers’ bodies. Where does it come from? Some PFOA is released during the manufacture of Teflon, but it is thought that the majority is given off when pans and trays with Teflon coatings are heated to normal cooking temperatures and, of course, especially when allowed to overheat or burn dry in error. The average levels of PFOA (now found in 96% of Americans) are fivefold higher than can be attributed to releases from the chimneys of chemical company DuPont’s Teflon factories. The latest DuPont studies show that Teflon emits toxic PFOA gas particulates at 446° Fahrenheit (F), but the lowest temperature linked to emissions by an independent study is 325°F.[1] (This was the temperature reached by an oven with a Teflon coating when baking biscuits.) In one case where this occurred, all the baby parrots in a cage in the owner’s kitchen died. DuPont does warn that fumes from cookware with teflon coating can be fatal for birds but, despite even its own evidence (see below), continues to deny that any emissions occur below temperatures well above those normally used for cooking. Dupont has also suggested that it is the fumes from the fat in highly-heated pans, rather than those from the Teflon coating itself, which are to blame for bird deaths. However, the biscuits which caused the parrots' deaths were being baked without oil.

Just make sure you have washed those Banana skins well to avoid pesticides. I have a friend whose Cockatoo only likes the skins not the Banana.

I bookmarked that one, Thanks Jayd.

Sorry to hear of your loss they do take a piece of your heart with them.

Nice progress appreciate your sharing his big forward step!

She looks alert but not worried, that is a good sign.

Wouldn't you know the one Grey that never got baths would be the one to love them!

Good of you to observe your bird so well and asking questions is a great way to learn.

Agreed-or children or dogs I could go on. On the bright side her single perch was a good one, lots of differing sizes for foot health and offering some variety of branches rather than the one stick version. She is a good luck bird having a new home and yes my hubby says there is an invisible to us mark on our house too.

One of those moment Art Linkletter would have enjoyed sharing years ago. Non bird people would never get that one, so happy all is well.

Great to hear how the into went, despite the dinosaur antics and sound effects you have made a wonderful base for a trust building relationship. I would place at least one more good sized perch in that cage before putting him in there, his surroundings will change and his people will change and we know the stress levels will improve dramatically for him so one perch will be a minor adjustment with any luck. You can place any other perches and toys where he can view them and get used to seeing them prior to placement. He will most likely be protective of his cage so respect that. You are off to a very good start just follow through, good on you as our Aussie friends say.

Happy Hatch day Oliver!

Sad to hear of your loss.

Keep that humidifier scrupulously clean so it does not start adding bacteria or fungus into your air. I live with a few pluckers and they are still wonderful despite what ever they look like today, feather coat is subject to change.

It is so very hard to loose a friend weather they be human or not, he was a beauty.

Good question-most of us are trying to keep these clever minds occupied during cage time. It also makes us feel like we are doing good things for our Grey friends so it is a win win. Paper bags, non toxic tree branches with leaves and flowers when available, cardboard boxes, old paperback books or phone books, ropes, coffee filters use your imagination to make that cage a playground. It can takes some birds a while to not feel threatened by new objects given to them so you have to know your bird.