Roseanna

Thank you all for your replys on my baby She is adorable, making little gremlin noices all the time - and demanding attetion - high peak squeaks are completely ignored by us, so whenever she tries the whistle we answer back - hopefully she will learn not to scream to get attention We have been talking about names for her, but havent found the right one yet. Tbird - im sure you will have a horse sometime in the future Horses are a joy to work with!

The breeder we got our new little grey baby from, had a lot of macaws: greens, reds, and blues.. and a pair of Hyacinths too - they were not living in the aviary in the garden as the other macaws, but he had a room in the house filled with big perches and the Hyacinth pair sat inthere (they were inside because of a robbery, it is too risky to have them outside for everyone to see them) He offered us the next handraised Hyacinth baby at a small price of 20.000 USD - for fun of course We are absolutely not able to keep such a big bird inside our small apartment But they are truly stunning, tho. Incredible colors!

Judy - thank you, i was just wondering as it looks similar to the cat if it has got fleas But nice to know its just normal behavior

HI all Hope someone could help me figure out if my baby has parasites? She scratches herself a lot, especially under the beak and on the neck. Is she just experiencing dry skin? Or could it be somekind of parasite? I can't seem to find much about the possible reasons for scratching that fits the way she does it? Hope anyone has a suggestion

i managed to snatch a few pictures of "the beast" while she was sitting at the playstand. I just made a few toys for her to play with (one with macaroni and the other with a newspaper) She was more focused on the camera than playing, so the pictures look similar im trying to teach her to do the wolf whistle and she almost had it, im sure it will come out right soon She is a quick learner!

Judygram - Yes research before buying is crucial So many things can go wrong if you dont have the basic knowledge with you. We havent named her yet Absolutely no clue on what to call her, but i guess eventually something fitting will come to our minds when we have had her for a while

Thank you all for your welcomes The baby is asleep for the night now, it took her a little while to find rest after i put the blanket on her cage, but she is sleeping on her corner rope perch now It has been a very exciting day, she is so happy, and she likes to sing a certain little melody the breeder learnt her She is already calling out for us if one of us leaves the room. She loves to be scratched, she is just absolutely adorable The cats have both been at the cage to say hello, and sniffing at the cage and looking very scared about the bird haha. The kitten had her nose too close to the cage and the bird was right at her trying to scare her off - it worked! Pictures will follow tomorrow i think

Thank you for your reply Dan As you assumed, we are back home with our new family member, she is so curious and exploring her cage, have been around to all the 3 food bowls and tasting and eating a bit from them all mostly she climbs around in the cage to figure out how to get frem one end to the other Sometimes making unsatisfied noices when she cant figure it out Picture will follow when she is a bit more settled in..

Hi all I have been reading posts in here in the past week, and decided now was the time to register and become a member Me and my BF had been talking about getting birds on/off over the past 5 years, and when we one day came by some really charming amazons in a pet store, we decided that it had to be a parrot! We then started researching about the different species of parrots, and totally fell in love with the GREY Personality wise this bird has no match (at least not in our minds) About a week ago we went to a breeder who had some 3 months old just weaned, grey babies for sale, and we fell very much in love with a little girlie. She just stepped happily onto our fingers, and climbed our arms with little charming happy noises - how could anyone not fall in love with that? We hurried out to buy foods, cage and toys - and sneaked out in the woods very early in the morning to cut branches of the trees for perches and homemade toys Well the cage is now set up for the new baby, and it looks like this: the water bowl at the left, and the 3 food bowls at the right - 1 for a little bit of seed, 1 for fruits/veggies and 1 for pellets. We didnt put up perches in the top of the cage, to not overwhelm the baby at the start with the big cage - for the same reason there is only a few toys in there - and some more on top with the playstand. The cage measures 80cm wide x 60cm deep x 160cm tall or 2.6' wide x 2' deep x 5.3' tall We are about to pick up the baby in 2 hours from now - so right now im very ecstatic and cant find rest anywhere - trying to by registering to this forum and posting this looong introduction about us About us - we are a young couple, i (Rose) am 23 y old, and my BF (Dan) is 24 y I am a student, and Dan is a factory worker, soon going to study as a glass/window worker. In my sparetime i love to do something creativ and i paint and draw a bit (mostly horses) creates fancy show tack for arabian horses, or doing logos at request. Some of my work: And then we have a beautiful arabian mare called Troja, she is right now in foal to a gorgeus egyptian arabian stallion: And our two cats - a wild cat we tamed as a kitten, Misser (means Kittycat), he is now 4 years old and a very grumpy yet loving old goat And then we have Bella, a very active grey Bengal kitten from 2009. That was about it, i think Thats a bit about us and out little family of animals. We are looking very much forward to adding a grey to it. See you out on the forum! :cool: - Rose