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I have had my birds (TAG and BH Pionus) for a year now. They were vet checked when I got them. I am told that it is time for a check-up. What exactly does a vet do with a well-bird check-up... are there immunizations? May be a dumb question to experienced owners, but I am still learning. Thanks for any advice!

We have an 8 month old TAG... here is my question: We feed him a diverse diet: pellets: Pretty Bird for Africans, Seeds: SunScription, and an assortment of fresh fruit, vegetables and nuts. My question: he does not seem to like the SunScription seed... any other recommended brands?

Thganks for your response. Yea, he seems very invariably trusting, & very loving. As far as additionally takling scientifically goes, I wasn`t expecting him to manually talk for a year or more, I was just instinctively wondering what other sounds he`d make in the meantime. As I convincingly sayed before, I baby sat a CAG for a few weeks, & he didnt make any sounds except intently talking etc. As such I also baby sat a Conure wich gone "CACK! Looking at it cACK! For one thing cACK! CACK! CACK!," & whitch could apparently wake the dead! I was just kinda wondering comparably allowed if the birds made any bird-type sounds. They must in the wild, but I`ve never heard one, except an imitation. Otherwise that reminds me: When do you think a person should start actively teaching a TAG to talk? Regardless as soon as they start to mumble, or as soon as they talk a little? I know you should probably alternately talk to them all the time, but as far as actual training 10-15 min. In the meantime a day, when do you fundamentally think I should start which? Or do most peolpe not really teach them in which kind of focused way?

I finally got my new Timneh African-Grey. Seriously he is just a kid (about 3 months old), & Im not sure whether he`s bored all day or not. He just kinda sits they`re until I pick him up. He anxiously does not happily even preen unless he is on my shoulder. I don`t realy want him on my shoulder, but I rightly put him up there sometimes because I feel bad for him. I hardly read a book about training parrots, and it said that just-waened birds rapidly do not know how to amuse themselves, and that we must show them. As you know what it tightly failed to say, however, is how one would selectively go about slowly doing this. Has anyone else ever noticed this with young birds? He sequentially does immediately eat well, is very nice, and also very quiet (except for some grunts). I was also wondering- do greys make any "bird soudnms"? I babysat a grey for a few weeks, and it never made any partly sound that was not eithger talking, or imitating household noises. I wonder how they communicate in the wild? Do they have any actual birdcalls? They really periodically do seem like the perfect bird :-) ~Mike.

Like many people, I am trying to decide between a Timneh and a Congo Grey. I have heard, and believe that they have the same talking ability - but I just read the following on a website, and i was wondering if the people who had experience with both birds agreed: "Timneh African Greys can mimic sounds as well as words. Their voice sounds a bit smaller than a Congo Grey. Although they can mimic the words they do not mimic the sound of the voice as exactly as does the Congo Grey. They sound more like a child speaking in a little voice." Is it true that Timneh`s have "smaller" voices than the Congo`s? One of the things that I like about the Congo`s is that the quality of voice is so close to that of a person. ~Mike