Ray P

Give them my best and I also miss their post and look foward to his fast recovery.

Never give up on a grey like dave said they can go bact and forth and she could be testing you to see how far she can go. Our grey did this for a short time and than she got over it. Now she loves me my wife and son very much and likes just about all people that come to our house. They can drive you nuts from time to time but don`t give up.

We keep our house at 66 F and we have a CAG a BFA and 2 cockatiels and they do fine. One of our tiels is almost 21 years old and we have always kept our house at that temp.

Hi Nilah I heard you know how to set the house alarm. My dad went out to cut the grass and his car was running so he came back in the house for his keys and found me playing with the remote stated control on his keys. Boy was he mad and took the keys away from me and hid them. Hes no fun. Oh forgot to tell you my name is Cricket

I have some powder coated cages that are over 12 years old and they still look great with no rust. If you by the better cages that have a better coat it will last a long time.

If you play a song with a beat my CAG and my BFA both go nuts with the music. Just crank up the sound.

A box of Crayola crayons works fine for wood work to. You have all the colors you need

Hi jayd and luvparrots. Sorry I did not mean to leave you out of my post. I allways look for your poat and enjoy them very much. I gess what I want to say as a member of this forum and a caretaker of a zon I should step up and help more to keep this room active. I will do everything I can to help. Some times life gets in the way. Ray

Each of our birds has their own bath in the cage it is a corner litter pan for rabbit cages. we mount them high in the cage and change the water every day so when they want a bath it`s there. When ever the wife vacuums Cricket our blue front amazon jumps in her tub and takes a bath, it`s kind of funny. We do mist them from time to time if they don`t take a bath. For now keep a pan of water near by so if they want to they can and you can try a light mist over the cage so it`s like falling rain. Do not spray at them or in their face just a light mist over the top of the cage. If he holds up his wings when you mist he likes it

I know what you mean. Look and you can see the deer in the top center of the picture

Hi Karcar. I don`t know if I can be of any help but we do have a blue fronted amazon that we rehomed almost 2 years ago that came from less than ideal cnnditions. Her name is Cricket and she has tuened out to be a great family member. I don`t know how your hubby feels about your zon but if he could take some time with Lucy and talk to her and start a friendship it might help My wife son and I have Cricket out with us for breakfast along with Corky our CAG every morning and we talk to them and we eat together and share our food. This has made a family bond and except for their morning and evening calls they are just happy to be with us and to play on their t stand or in their cage. During the day they will call out to us and when we call back they are happy and go on with their play.

The amazon room is soooo quiet with out GoDiego and Cricket is all by herself

Welcome to world of living with a grey. Corky can nail a landing on a person doing a fast walk or almost a run. I can only tell you what worked for me and I know others will come up with things that worked for them. When we would see her doing something that was a no no we would tell her no and take her away and put her on her t stand or in her cage. You will do this over and over and at best she will understand but don`t turn your back because they love your reaction.

Corky is a family member and loves all of us and will go to anybody when she gets to know them and some on the first meeting. I think it`s the way they are brought up. Each grey is their own and some will be differant.

This is just the start. Just wait till you want them to be quiet when you are tryinng to do something. Enjoy the new noise.

Corky loves to take apart a chicken bone and eat a little beef and fish and some times a very very very little bit of bacon with her egg.

I have a CAG (Corky) a blue fronted amazon (Cricket) That travel with us. Corky has been all over the USA with us a number of times and I think she enjoys it becsuse she is close to us all the time and she gets a lot of extra attention Corky is not a plucker she is not afrade of new things and she likes people and will go to a lot of them the first time she see them. I know this not always what you read about CAGs but I think it has to do alot in how you bring them up. She has traveled in our motor home our vans my pick up truck and has stayed in hotels motels friends home and relitives homes also goes camping with us. She will go anyplace with us and has never been away from us from the day we brought her home and that is almost 10 years.

I would like to share this story about my cockatiel nemed Willie. A number of years ago I was in a chain store that had birds and when I would go there I would always stop to see them. One day I was by the birds and this tiel was by the bars by me and I was giving him a head rub and a lady came up to the cage and said it was too bad and every bird in that cage would be dead in 6 months and than she walked away. Well I bought that bird and had to explane to my wife why I came home with a bird when we had 4 already. The store was F.W. Woolworth for those that can remember them and that was over 20 years ago and he lived longer than 6 months and infact he is still with us. I don`t know what his age is but we know he is almost 21 years old. I think about thoes bird from time to time and wonder how long they lived

It`s going to be a long 2 to 3 weeks but it looks like you are ready. It`s just the wait that`s going to be hard.

Cricket is just like my son was when he was little. If you do something she does not like she will get mad and turn her back to you and look back to see if you are looking. She will egnor you untill she thinks you sufferd enough than turn around and walk back to you like nothing ever happend.

Great videos. I enjoyed them

Thanks. Some will open with the x and some won`t.

All gone. Is there site down.

Love your video of the kids. My girl is still looking for the great punpkin

Take your time with him and spend a lot of time with him he will come around We rehomed blue front amazon almost 2 years ago that came with not just bags but a big trunk to unpack but after 2 months she was a diffrent bird. We spent a lot of extra time with her but boy was it worth it. Know after almost 2 yrars she is the sweetest girl. You will see it getting better and better as time goes by untill one day you will see she is part of the family