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Hi, We currently are waiting for our baby to come home next week at around 12 weeks old. Unfortunately, i've spoke to a friend and her family member owns a conure. I was given some horror story and now am very nervous of what the future may hold for us. As I mentioned earlier I will be the primary caretaker of the bird (I am an at home parent but my girs will both be at school the youngest for 2 1/2 hrs and the oldest all day), my husband will be involved with some but works and I have 2 girls 7 and 4 years old. (The story I heard about the conure was that the bird has put a stain on the marriage since the bird gets posessive of the woman and the hubby takes a backseat to the bird, the had to sell their camper and cannot go away since the bird will pluck all its feathers out when they were away, even with a caretaker, its kissed their nephew sweetly and then a second later bit his nose and he needed 6 stitches, the bird calls out to be fed in the morning as soon as it hears a toilet flush (sometimes as early as 4 am) and it will throw the food at them if it isn't wanting that particular food and it also came to the point that they cannot have company since the bird will get so loud it becomes a problem. This has scared me to death...thinking what if my bird (even though its different) might do this. Do you have any behavior issues like this with your Grey or is it all in how they are raised in your home? Will they learn the habits of your family? I was so excited for my baby and am now full of all this worry after hearing the horror....I want my joy back! What is life like with your Grey? What is the typical day like? Do you work outside the home and your Grey spends some time alone during the day? Do you have issues just going out to the store for an hour or 2? Enlighten me on what it may be like. Thank you for your help.

I have 2 children 7 & 4 years old. The bird we are interested in is 12 weeks old and would come home soon. Do you have children with your Grey or is your house strictly only Grey Babies? Thanks for your opinions.

I got good news today. August 10th is the special day! We are very excited. I have 3 books coming on Tuesday so i'll have 1 week to get through them. I have been reading alot online about Grey's trying to prepare. The breeder has been really great with answering our questions. I love the homemade toys part of the forum too. Such creative things. We made our own rolling perch. I am very happy I found this forum...it seems to be full of alot of information that will help us along the way. I cannot stop saying how excited I am.....I cannot wait!

[/img] Hi, We are very excited. We are expecting our first CAG to be ready in 2 weeks or so to come to our home. Right now its a bit over 11 weeks old. The breeder is spending alot of time with him/her and their neighbors children come over and pet it also. I have 2 girls 7 and 4 years old who love birds. I am hoping to raise our Grey to accept all of us. We are thinking its name will either be Freddy or Ruby. Our breeder has been calling it Freddy. We are going to have it sexed with its feathers this week. The breeder said it was already trying to say something and thought it was trying to say "step up Freddy" She said he/she is a very sweet bird. I got alot of info from the breeder about what Freddy will be eating and have been trying to ask alot of questions. Our bird will be coming home on a plane since its far away. Locally we don't have any close breeders where we could visit and socialize with our baby. Currently we have 2 parakeets that are well loved and come out and play. I hope to get to know all of you and learn from everyones experiences!