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Elvenking - wow that toy looks awesome! Looking forward to have more caps to try make some other toys Wow parrots are spoiled birds!

Judy - very good idea! I will ask my family and friends to save their bottlecaps for Happy I always have a few loose caps lying around for her to play with

Judy - cool i already made a toy with them, some leather string and colored wooden beads She loves it (i start to believe that she would love anything i give her to play with haha) I will look out for caps more nicely colored than the ones i had at hand and collect them, to make a bigger toy she can climb and chew.

I use sisal rope or leather for my homemade toys. You could also use cotton rope? Maybe if you are lucky to find some in bright colors (like rope toys for parrots) that would be cool Hemp twine could also be a possibility?

Hi all My baby loves plastic bottlecaps from sodabottles, if we are drinking a soda she is likely to steal the cap and run away with it, even the caps that is tight on the bottle is worth a steal (although she haven't figured out how to get them off yet) I plan on collecting a few different colored caps, punch a hole in the middle and run them on a piece of leather string. Would that be ok for a toy? Im just not sure if the caps are parrot friendly? Of course they are washed thoroughly before she gets to play with them

I made her a new wooden swing last night - she just loves it and fools around in it all the time

Haha yeah she is very proud of having such a nice toy

Well, Happy have had such at great last few hours with a new toy that arrived with the mail today. The Squeaky Penguin - that squeaks! haha She just loved it right away, and have been sweet talking it, and biting its little feet, sometimes to get the squeaky sound out of it - she just adores it - she can almost say the sqeaks perfectly now! A few pictures of her new playmate :cool: Hope you enjoyed the pictures as much as i do

here is my messy faced bird

Barbara - I'm so glad the bathing method worked for you too Nice to hear your Neo got the bath he needed! I didn't use a ping pong ball either, instead i used a piece of her wooden toys (wood floats!) and that distracted her a bit.

I have been feeding her twice today with warm mashed carrots with a tiny bit of baby berrie sauce. She loves it, and has been quieter than the other days. I did as Sully suggested about putting a bit of the leftover warmed mushy food in one of her food bowls, and she ate it all. I saw her actually playing with loud junglescreams attacking her rope toys for the first time - and she even did a new sound for us, a very loud unsatisfied "MEEEEOOOOOUW?" perfectly mimicked from our kitten when she wants to go outside through the door and things doesnt happen fast enough for her She has been practicing all of her babbling/sound repetoire today, its the first time we have heard that also. Extremely funny to hear which noises she actually can do, but we haven't heard before now.

oh ok, well nothing to worry about then

Well i have bathed her 2 times in this week i've had her, using the bathing method #2 as she doesnt like to be bathed or water in general. She is 3 months old. Both times after the bath i have noticed that she sits and falls half asleep and then wakes up and starts eating (or begging for food) - but not doing anything to preen or groom herself? She only does that when she has dried completely - isn't that a bit odd? Is there anything i can do about it?

Thank you for sharing about iron and parrots! Nice to know such things. I have sort of another problem after i fed Happy warm food yesterday and today - if i feed her at 8 am, she will refuse when she has eaten the amount she wants. but after about 1-2 hours later she will start over again, honking to be fed by me? i tell her to eat her veggies or pellets and leave her alone for a bit, but she will continue the honking again 1-2 hours later. She did not want any food last night, so i guess it will only be morning feedings - but what should i do about the begging later on the day? im a bit afraid if i start to feed her several times a day that she will stop feeding herself, and pend on me to do it for her? I do not want that at all. i might just be overly worried about her, but i think its a bit strange behaviour, and im worried that i do somethings wrong about her?

Judy - thank you for the note I will remember that, tomorrow it will be mashed veggies with a little fruit.

yes i think i will feed her a little bit before bedtime today She was silent for at little bit, but she now screams a lot instead haha.. guess she has got enough time for that now she doesnt have to call for food. she has been mumbling to the tv a bit also.. progress

well.. a small update After she refused the carrot, and still made noises, i decided to cook a pear cut up in pieces and instead of using water i cooked it in pineapplejuice - well THAT was something she liked! she ate almost the whole pear i cooked (small one) and now she is silent and playing with a new toy she got today! BIG succes!

She has now eaten a whole teaspoon full of mashed carrot - her crop is full and bulging out, but she still honks at me? She refused the spoon tha last few times i offered her some, so i guess she is full? well.. she honks still and right now she is eating her seed while honking I really hope it will help long term, so she wont have to do the noises constantly.

JD - that is the same sound as my baby makes, i really hope she will like the carrot im preparing for her right now as her breakfast.

JD - thank you so much for your answer! We really want to do what is best for our little girl, and we will definately try the spoon feeding to see if that could help her feel better (and give us som ear-rest ) I read something about warm baby food on spoon, would that be ok? Otherwise i think i would go with the oatmeal. But how much would be appropiate for her? She eats a lot during the day already. We are really looking forward to update you on this matter, i really hope it helps! EDIT: Jayd - thank you very much for your reply - i would love to try out your recipe, but unfortunately sweet potatoes are not available here in my country. Would a carrot be sufficient? I really hope the warm feeding will do the trick

Judy - i have uploaded an mp3 with the noise she is making - i would like you to hear it and give your opinion on why she makes it? yesterday and today she has made this squeaky noise from 8 am to 7 pm - constantly frem morning to evening - she hasnt even been sleeping in the midday or anything. honestly its worrys me a bit - and im going nuts over the constant squeaking right now. When i say constant i really mean CONSTANT - if she is eating, playing, resting, or sitting with us, nomather what she does she makes the sound every 3 seconds every single minute of the whole day! that cant at all be normal! only very few times she stops with the noise is when she calls for one of us if we leave the room. then she whistles for us or screams whichever she likes most. please help me out a bit here - i did expect a lot of noise from a baby parrot - but not this constant noise that cant be silened nomather what we do og do not do. BTW - on the mp3 she is eating while she is making the noices, you might think she at least would be silent then, but no , darn it

Thank you all for your sweet replies I really hope she will live up to the name under our care - only thing right now is that she squeaks every time she eyes any of us and opens her beak as if she wants us to feed her - although she has been weaned over the past few weeks? Is an almost hysterical noise she is making - hoping though she will get through it - she eats well of her fruit/veggies and pellets.

How about a regular flat, digital kitchen scale? that is what we use, no need to go out and pay a lot on a "parrot scale" they will do the same job.

Well the little bugger got herself a name Meet Happy after a bath (which she hated, not so happy there )

Birdnut - that is indeed very cute Normally i have no trouble in picking names for our animals, but this time it is incredibly difficult