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HAHAHAHA ... Yanno....... I have noticed that ... if something hits the floor the dogs ears perk up and they go searching for it lol I think they are going to find she might be a cool addition to the family if she is sharing her food with them cuz heck the dogs are ALWAYS hungry! She ate like a piggy tonite I was soooo pleased!!!! It was the first time we tried the mixed veggies and she totally loved them! I did make my first attempt at birdie bread I just threw buncha veggies and pellets and pepper flakes and the eggshell from the egg baked it all up with some corn bread mix ....... MAN it sure smells reallllllllly good I had to tell the family DONT eat this it has shells in it and its for the bird bwahahahah .... might of been funny to see them come out from the kitchen with a mouthful asking me "what is this?" <giggles insanely>

LMAO !!!!!!! nice nice ... yeah I can totally see that!

I did find out that so far she loves apples for sure, she tried a nibble of cheese today and seemed ok w/it, she is eating broccoli and corn tonight I tried my hand at some birdie bread so we'll see how that pans out tomorrow :confused: she likes raw carrots but hasnt touched the cooked ones tonite lol :rolleyes: my kids are the same way yanno .. food wouldnt hit the wall or floor if they didnt shake their heads while eating LOL :rolleyes:

well she hasnt really branched out (pardon the punn) to really investigate it yet but thats why we put the rope round the trunk like that so she could if she was brave enough. but for now the ladder worked really well as long as she didnt put her head thru it .. that was pretty funny actually lol so for now shes sat on all the limbs ate from her little bowl at the top and climbed the ladder and played with the hanging toys a bit and being that we were limited on size ... it could only be SO wide to fit thru my door way into the other rooms so hence the perches being short

here is our home made tree stand and home made toys attached!

no my scale is VERY different indeed it is the one with the little perch on it and ive weighed her twice and shes been in the 393-391 range each time ... SO ... ok maybe I shouldnt worry SO much ... but I will continue to monitor it as to I want my girl to be healthy and like I said she SURE does love to eat, I havent seen alot of change in that Ive seen her eat the pellets Ive seen her nibbling on the seed mix and course she definately eats the fresh! ty both I was VERY worried!

I will say this ... and I hope its just the excitement of being in a new environment and she still needs to settle in a bit but, they weighed Marco at 4pm before we left the store at 424 g and I weighed her this am and shes at 393 g :confused: so I hope the drop is just cuz shes just been nervous and tryin to get used to her new environment. I have seed mix (no sunflower) and pellets (Zupreem) IN her cage at all times and fresh water and she gets "fresh" fruits and vege's 2xs a day she loves her apples thats for sure. So Im hoping her appetite picks up, she seems VERY eager to eat when I bring her plate to her and her poops look healthy. I did change the paper in there this morning so I can look at it when I get home again, so ... please tell me your thoughts?

smiles big ty ty OH MAN ... yes I do have to be careful I can normally judge her potty times but she did nail my jeans and the back of my shirt the other day. Glad you are ok now Cathy! the tree stand is on rollers so I could put her ON that and roll her to the kitchen LOL lol I try to watch it too ... its a little wiggle wiggle It was pretty cool to watch her as I put the music on she cocked her head and then when I started to sing specially a super sweet song her eyes got all droopy like a little lulabye putting her to sleep ... it really made me smile !!!! but hearing her chirping was the best! She seems happy we'll see how each day goes ... its been super fun having her home thats for sure, and quite the adventure ... This morning i took her out and put her ontop of her cage to play while i cut up some apples n stuff for her breakfast and I could hear all this ruffling of papers and figured she was chewing up the newspaper ontop of her cage ... so I ran in there and :eek: she was GONE !!!!!!!!!! but I could hear her ... OMG !!!!!!!!! i run to her cage .. she had flown down and landing ontop of my laptop!!!!!!!! and I could hear her little nails clicking on the plastic lol ... I was like NO NO NO Marco! thats mommys :rolleyes: so I spose I better remember to close the lid to it each day!

Ive been singing to Marco ALL afternoon .... you should see how intensely she watches me :eek: its almost freekish and shes chirping LOTS n LOTS like shes singing with me .... I TOTALLY love it :D

oh gosh theres lots of easy things to do "at home" with lots of house hold things like ... lids to milk jugs, caps to soda bottles, heck even soda bottles with some stuff in it to make them rattle tie it and hang it from the cage ... you can youtube home made bird toys there is a TON out there. I bought some cotton clothes line and some wooden cooking spoons, some clothes pins, popsicle sticks and thread bobbins from someone from work and threaded them up to make tons of toys! find your creative bone I find now how much MORE i recycle thinking of ............ "what can I make for marco" out of this lol ... even stuff like my creamer bottle now that its empty Im going to make a toy for Marco out of it! stuff that she can destroy that wont cost me much of anything!

Im glad your breeder is taking such good care of your spoiled baby smiles

Those are Marco's intials I didnt even know he did that till I was taking the pictures :eek: Hes still working on the tree stand. We finalized the "plans" for it last nite where all the branches and things will go. He has made these out of a pecan tree from his yard, cut it down, widdled it, soaked it, baked it ... and then fashioned it into the stand and swing. He's worked really hard on them. The stand will be able to be moved back n forth on rollers.

oh they are forthcoming .. I'll show you the swing ... too

niceeeeeeeeee job you should get one of them cute little basketball hoop things teach her to drop the ball in that! Very nice work! how long did that take you to teach? how old is your baby?

lol @ duh

I did a small little spritz bath with Marco today and she kinda runs back n forth on the little bath perch we made her but she doesnt appear to mind it ... I will try the shower tho see how that goes soon. She like Ellie has yet to be "soaked" specially on the underneath so I will try the removeable shower head as well good thead thanks

I definately think its going to be in the way you "handle" the situation with your FID. Just like luv said, if you go ahead and include your FID and you talk to them about what you are doing it might be easier for your fid to accept and understand the newest addition to your flock! Good luck post pics and keep us posted

thats what I told my kids ... I told them 1. dont be scared of her, be confident when you go up to her ... 2. TALK TO HER ... dont just go up to her with your finger sticking out :rolleyes: 3. dont pet her belly or try to pet down her back just do little scritches behind her head when SHE wants them and 4. take the time to get to know her before you expect her not to grumble when working with her. and course ........... PATIENCE !!!!!!!!!!! (something an 18 n 17 yr old dont have) :rolleyes:

LOL at bombsaway!!!!! I know that Marco nailed my leg today and it ran down from my knee :rolleyes: my kids think its funny cuz she wiggles like she does as a pre-warning LOL Buttttttttt shes been fun. We just got her NEW swing installed and I hope to have her tree stand finished tomorrow sometime and OMG its So cute and totally homemade by my neighbor!

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you are just an excited parront and that is GREAT ... it is such a long wait but it will be SO worth it when shes super healthy and weened and ready to come home !!!!!!

to say your life REALLY changes having them home is pretty much an understatement lol Im running round behind her cleaning up things, making her yummy foods and course wiping up poops LMAO I am totally changing her name to Ms. Poopfire (i.e. Ms. Doubtfire) sheesh! :rolleyes: BUT ... even with ALL of that .. she's been so much fun ... shes even getting better with the family

:o ty we've played in water, and ate grapes and chattered back n forth

Heres 2 of my OTHER hoodlums..... this is cricket the yorkie and taco the min pin :eek: taco is 1.8 pounds and cricket is 3 pounds! ok its totally nap time here everyones snoozing !!!!!!!!!! b back later

Heres My happy girl !