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All of mine are misfits so they would stand out in any crowd! Lol Bongo with his over sized beak, Gabby's deformed leg, Ixta's missing toes, Cotay's attitude and eyes. Koko has such a personality that she wouldn't clam up and would just be saying Hi Koko over and over. Gus is to precious a Too to ever be mistaken. Bubba would be also nonstop saying stop it no outside and Hi Koko. Plus he is almost naked. Mary Ann hates women and yells Hello at everyone. Marley hates everyone but me so who ever finds her will be missing chunks of flesh. Chulo and Nati's beaks and Honey and Sunny tongues. Vincent and Chacho, i would have to take Pat with me. If they attack him they are mine. Menyca, how many people have hawked heads? lol. Plus i know she would be meowing like a cat. Other than Scout who i don't know well enough yet i think that covers it. OH MY GOSH! i forgot Kane. Missing wing missing all but 3 toes and only has a 3/4 of a tongue. Lol no one would want or try to claim any of mine as their own! That's why i love my misfits!

He is wonderful outside of his cage. Just cage aggressive and i am starting to believe that human skin is his nemesis and he feels he must remove it all! Other than that ONE little hiccup, he is a sweetie. Come one, give it a go! ;-)

My chop, my beautiful chop. I was taking it out of the fridge and the lid came off and it dumped to the floor. So sad. On the bright side though i get to make more again tomorrow and you all have added so many options for us! I forgot that i also use beets and ginger and cilantro. Lol

I have hand fed macaws. They are touchy and you need to be trained to do this correctly or you could inadvertently kill your baby. Teaching something like that through the Internet is impossible and i also suggest to speak with the breeder or find a local breeder who would be able to help you hands on. Your baby should already be handfeeding so i don't understand your question on best way to start handfeeding. Are you asking about when to start solids?

Sterling, did you read that? The conure needs this quaker, they would be besties!

I use the Ninja pro also. I don't get to freeze mine. I make 2 huge bowls about 2 x's a week. Remind me to stay away from you lovparrots when you have a knife in your hand! Lol

I always have chop on hand for the fiddo's. Mine will vary with what is in it but the staples are kale, carrots, red peppers, broccoli and dandelions. I also add oats to soak up the moisture. From there I will add whatever veggies are in season. I also add fresh ginger when I can. How do you make yours? This is a great way to start your babies on a healthy diet. Kane was the only one I have since she was a baby and I would always have this for her, now veggies are her favorite treat, the others pick and choose which is why my chop has so many different things in it, I want to make sure that everyone has something they love in it! https://goo.gl/photos/iFF7zb2ba1xiQgpH9

So Scout has moved in with us. Wow, he is a little Quaker and very chirpy I guess you would call it. He is scared from the move. 3rd time in a year and that is all I know. He was actually found in Keller, Tx and was on the facebook 911 but no one ever claimed him so his foster home rehomed him. The person who adopted him is now moving to take care of a family member and will be living in a travel trailer which can't fit her animals so she asked me to take him in. She tried to find him a home but no one wanted this little fella so here he is. He can out scream the Too's which is no small feat. Very nippy also but it makes me laugh when he gets all mean and starts pecking at the cage at me. Such a bad ass he is, lol!

My goodness is he a cutie pie. lol Makes me wish I had young ones, but only to get cuddles like that again. :-)

I constantly find dings and small cuts on Bongos face. He wacks his steel bell around and it always ends up hitting him square in the face. He doesn't stop, just attacks it harder!

LOL, Pat has to build us a coop before he can bring his chicks home! I love the hens but have heard they are very loud and very stupid so not sure if we want to go that route. Thinking donkey. I am not sure why but snakes just don't bother me. We stocked the pond this week and went out there yesterday to look around and there was another snake sunning on a fallen tree in the pond, not sure how I spotted him but when I pointed him out to Pat he said "where this is one, there is another" and took off inside. He came back with his gun which just cracked me up. It is about that hard to spot them in person as in the pictures except seeing the texture difference.

according to everyone out here, Snake Away does work. Right now the copper heads are out in force so I got the "respect" them (nature) lecture yesterday. I tend to just blow and go and not pay to much attention to my surroundings when I am outside. I really didn't believe them until I was asked to go get a piece of wood from our little pile. As I approached it, my brother in law yelled for me to stop. And he walked over and asked which piece of wood I would have grabbed so I pointed to one. Turns out the one I would have grabbed had about an 1 1/2" scorpion under it. They both already knew it was there because they had killed it but had to prove my carelessness to me. lol Since we don't have the flights up yet and don't have the security at the doors, the birds have not be outside but I would guess they wouldn't handle snakes very well. My birds are spoiled! Had them out of the cages yesterday, Vincent decided that Cotays cage was his new cage. He got in it and just pranced around, which under normal circumstances wouldn't bother me. This time though, Cotay was still inside her cage and not very happy that Vinn was there. lol

I have discovered something, all these days of me and Koko talking. "Hi Koko, what cha doing?" followed by her replying "Hi Koko", I have not been talking just to Koko, seems Bubba has picked this up as well. lol. I should have known it wasn't Koko replying because she isn't in the same area as Bubba but I am slow to catch on, what can I say. I also now have 2 birds that will say my name, Marley and Chulo! We let the greys out in their room, unsupervised, this includes Vincent. Haha, all went just fine except for some wall damage around the windows. Nothing casing can't cover I guess. They had fun and that is all that matters. Had Nati out as well, she needed her nails done so we trimmed those and then we were going to do her beak and realized we have not seen the dremmel. Hmm, I know we moved it here but what box? What room? Which closet? Had another snake encounter, this one was wrapped around the door handle of the only door unlocked when we walked outside. lol. This one was a rat snake trying to get to a bird nest that is on a light over the door. Despite Pat's slight panic, I just poked it in the side and asked him to move, which he did very nicely. The next day Pat spent over $100.00 on snake away to spread around the house and pond. lol He said if there was any left, he was going to spread it around the bed as well so he could sleep in peace.

After 3 years with my same phone I still don't know how to work all the features and this has never bothered me before until today. I wish I knew how to screen shot a text my husband sent me today. I laughed so hard that I had tears coming out of my eye balls. I am going to try and paint this picture for you. I will preface this by saying he hates snakes. He is a manly man until he sees one... Moving out here our little push mower just doesn't cut it so one of the first things he bought was a VERY expensive Zero Turn mower. He has babied this thing and washes it and wraps it up in what we dubbed a condom to protect it from the rain. This shop/shed that is being built is for his mower, the area for the mower is already walled and has a roof so he parks it in there now. He was just so excited to be able to hop on it and mow, not unwrap it and fold the plastic and move things to hold the plastic down while he mows then clean and cover when he is done. I was happy for him that he had his lean-to built. This afternoon he got home early and decided he would start our burn pile and started moving branches around that we had just cut and dropped. (nope, no snake yet. Wait for it, lol) He did this so quickly he decided he would then pick up the dog poop and weed eat the back yard we made. (nope, still no snake) He got all of that cleaned in record time as well so still looking for stuff to do, he saw some higher grass areas. Now keep in mind he spend ALL of last Friday mowing this yard so these few little "high" grass areas are just his excuse to ride his mower again. He saunters to the bedroom of his mower and hops on, starts it up but what is this? I will not go forward. He looks down the side and it has a flat tire. Okay, not a problem he can air it up. He spins in the seat to look at the other tire and wow, it is flat too. Now this mower is still running and looks back down at the tire only to see a snake coming right for him. As he tells this story the snake is very close but I know him enough that it is a good 10 ft away. Panic consumes him as this snake gets under the mower, his first thought is to drive away. Okay, he has 2 flat tires and it isn't budging but that doesn't stop him from continuing to give it all the power he can while rocking back and forth to get it moving. Do we all see what is coming yet? He rocked so hard the tire left the rim on his little baby who now is in nature because he did mange to ease it out some. Snake still under the mower, he runs for his one handle post hole digger to "kill" this 5' snake, but first it is a good snake or a bad snake, he needs to find out so having no jack he gets cinder blocks and a pole and is going to lift the mower so he can look. In his excitement he forgets he is the only one home so as he stands there with the mower in the air it hits him that he is pretty much stuck, there is no one to put the block under the mower so he sets it back down and gets his one sided post hole digger and starts shoving it under the mower to scare this snake out, hitting the blade, scratching the paint etc. To no avail, the snake will not come out or has already gone. But now since he doesn't know where it is he is scared to go back near his precious mower. He calls the company who he bought it from and tells them the story, they get a good a laugh and tell him they don't have anyone who travels to repair but if they did, his story would have earned top billing. What a mess!!!! All because of a snake minding his own business!!!

In the process of building a shed for the mower and for all of my tools (which right now are in every closet of the house). After that we have to do a fence for the dogs because Jake is an escape artist and can actually undo locks and open doors. THEN we start on the flights again. lol Even if we just get one up close and secure until we can build the real deal for them they will be happy! Carriers to and fro but it will be worth it for them. I just love my babies and love how much they are loving it here and they have not even see half of it!

Welcome back, you have been missed!

Caught Mickey! Set him free in the woods. He was a cutie. (Well as cute as a mouse in your house can be anyway)

The bell is what I was going to suggest! We have a few feral cats here, they don't come close to the house and of course I started feeding them. I set my live trap for Mickey Saturday but still no luck in catching him, he went around the trap that I put peanut butter in and to the apple in the bin :-(. I am now infested with fruit flies because I thought if I left the apple there he would come back and have to go through the trap. This isn't a stupid mouse or a hungry one for that matter. Pat said he should be easy to catch since he will be so fat from eating all of our food. lol

Wow, we have a new animal living with us, his name is Mickey as in mouse. I expected it with all the food the birds toss but this little guy is not interested in that food, he wants the fresh apples and potatoes. He isn't a fan of oranges I have noticed. Everyone keeps telling us to get a cat, umm we have a cat! A cat who obviously isn't earning her keep, but a cat none the less. I was contacted Friday about a Quaker and then was contacted yesterday about the other guy I spoke about before we moved. She was trying to make it work but hasn't been able to. Her and her husband are going to come out, meet us and make their decision. I love that because it shows they really do care about Gringo and want to be sure where he is going. He is having some behavior issues being very attached to her husband.

That was her "I am afraid and this is overwhelming" look. lol

https://goo.gl/photos/s661YVN9HwRLiVuE6 https://goo.gl/photos/ZNQkWXBTgwKKwet69 Kane and MaryAnne both out by the pond. Since these are the only 2 that can not fly and we know this for sure, they are the only ones that have been allowed to venture outside. MaryAnne acted like a queen, that she was meant to rule this land and poor Kane was so scared, she just kept running after me for me to pick her up. We think she just went into overload with all the room and no fence as a boundary. She did settle down and start to explore. I can not wait to show her the goats and the turkey next door. When the turkey met MaryAnne, neither of them were to sure of each other. The greys are picking up some of the local birds calls, which gets a little confusing when I think a bird got in the house.We leave the back door open a lot and my head tells me there is always that chance that one got in so even though I am sure it is a grey making their noise, I always have to check, lol.

I can't believe I have not posted pictures. Here are our 2 big boys, Jake (white/black/brown one) Athena (brown) These 2 are best buds and can always be found together. Even when they nap, they have to be touching each other. https://goo.gl/photos/VDun1vC8rH1Xb6XV6 Chulo out in the kitchen. He has really started talking up a storm since we have moved here. https://goo.gl/photos/HdtipgbBkdxU6BAH8 I will post some more pictures, I just noticed they did not download to Google plus so I will take a bit for that. There are cows, chickens, goats and wild turkey all around here on the property. Turkey season just started so we are dumping corn all over our back pasture to get them safe. Our next door neighbor does this as well so they at least have a safe spot of 17 acres total. :-) I did have a few Toms, beside me as I was trimming some trees. https://goo.gl/photos/YAVMpt8bWRLtPq7G8

Sterling, that is a contender for the property name for sure!

The birds are a big hit here in Paradise. Word is out and neighborhood kids are just stopping by with their friends to "see the birds". It is nice that the birds are getting visitors but there is no warnings, just a knock on the door, lol. Today we are going to be installing a gate at the end of the driveway, I don't have the warm fuzzies that so many people know we have birds and can just drive right to the house. I don't think anything bad would happen but why chance it? Bubba and Bongo are the hams with the kids, who can out shine the other time. Bubba talks away to them, Mary Ann also. There was a little boy talking to her saying "hello" over and over until Mary Ann yelled (and I mean yelled as in annoyed) "hello" back to him. Scared the poor kid so bad he was on the floor behind his sister in shock. Bongo will let them hold him on their arm so they really get a kick out of that and Bubba talks to them with his "lalala's" he clucks like a chicken and Pat will flip him on his back and blow bubbles on his belly getting him to laugh. The kids are in awe. I have heard that there are or were breeders here, so there are actually many family's who have birds, Scarlett's. I have already been told about 4 that a woman has who "wants them gone". They are suggesting we go to the schools and talk to the kids about birds which we would love to do but I need to get my life in order, or at least in somewhat of an order, before I take any more on. lol

No, there was a woman who had one she needed to rehome but she wanted to take him for his yearly and make sure all was good before turning him over. I was 2 weeks out to be able to welcome him in and when I called her that we were ready, she would never return my calls. I only hope she changed her mind and is keeping him.