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Kim, i am so sorry. He will always be in your heart and ours through your storys! Enjoy each visit!

Mine are good! Thank heavens! Thanks for the heads up!

Signed it this morning!

Thanks! I hit metal today, i got sad. Mom said she would get me a new one!! I got so happy i started flapping my wings, my masterpiece went everywhere, i heard mom mumble, well, maybe not.. She don't mean it! I got her wrapped, all i gotta do is look at her and she smiles! By the way, my new brother from another mother is scary to me so although mom and dad have introduced me to him, we don't play together. Oliver scaed me too so i am pretty happy they leave me alone!

We tried to keep them semi seperated today to see if that would help. For the most part it did! We kept them in the same room but had "time outs" where one would stay on the stand the other would be near but with us. We tried once, leaving Oliver in his room and taking Bubba to the stand but Oliver climbed right over the gate and came out! We took them outside together and Oliver wanted in the aviary so we figured why not. Those two had a blast! Squeeking and screaming and all over the place, Oliver was climbing up the sides, across the top and down the other side. Pat took the hose and put it on a light shower and showered the top of it and the boys were in heaven. Back inside we put a shoebox ontop of Bubbas cage and you would have thought it was a giant pecan the way these two went after it. His cage is now 3" smaller from all the remains of the cardboard on the bottom! Their history is sketchy, it is really hard to get a straight answer. I know the mother rescued Oliver and couldn't handle him so her daughter and husband took him in and they already had Bubba, who they said was naked when they got him also, then he ( the husband ) started getting sick so Oliver was sent back to their mother, a year later i got him. I do not know how much of this is accurate but its all i got. I know for sure they love each other, he screams a blood curdling scream if he even sees or hears the scarlett across the street who he lived with that last year. No love loss seperating them!

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My guys get a big head when they get on top of their cage and make me chase them and nip me the whole time until i get a good reach, then they will step up! I say go for it but leave enough where if you should find the need to lower it you can without much trouble! I think it looks great and they will enjoy it!

Hey, i work! I am an artist! Took me 5 days to do this master piece. Way cooler looking than the paper i use to work with and it floats sooo much prettier when i flap and it has way more color! Heehee

Best of luck! I am sorry about the price but it is worth it to be safe rather than sorry!

Yeah, we had to go back to Bongo full time. It got to where when we said Stewart, he would turn around and look behind him as if we were calling the wall Stewart. These guys are to smart for their own good! Now i need some advice on these two spazzing macaws! They will not be apart. Oliver has gotten very nippie these last few days, we have been trying to maintain our one on one time but they yell for each other, they do not like to be seperated. What can we do? It is like living with an echo! Lol We just want to nip this,( no pun intended ) they have only been together for 6 days and they are getting really unruley. Oliver who use to only beak us has bit me twice now and my husband once today. We are doing the time out in the cage for 10 minutes then bring them back out as behaviour allows. Is there anything we should or should not be doing? Letting them be on the same stand may have been wrong but they will not tolerate being seperated, and really Oliver is active now and not just sitting slumped on a perch which is good to see now! Any advice would be so welcomed.

Thats all i can do is laugh, just not in front of the children! After all that, i get them on their stand and Bubba looks at me and says, "hello"! Like nothing happened.

Total anarchy this morning! The animals have taken over the zoo! Run for your lives! I woke the boys up this morning as normal, opened their doors for them to come out. Went into kitchen to make their breakfast and was bringing it to them when i saw mayham! Both birds were in and on the 2 drawer filing cabinet that i keep their food and supplies in. Chuncks of wood missing, food, paper and treats everywhere, bags full of holes! Oliver moved on to the trash can, plastic and now also full of chew marks. There was no stopping them. I got charged by Oliver while Bubba was pushing the canister of nuts off the table. They were playing of course and did not mean any harm but i gotta change my morning habit to avoid this happening again! Have i mentioned how wonderful my Bongo is? So calm and loving, such peacefulness! Lol

Oliver has a wing the same way, we will not allow anyone to rebrake either of their wings. At this age they are over the pain and have learned to cope. It is not in their best interest. Bubba over groomed Oliver and hit a blood feather. Sad part i was at the pet store and couldn't find septic stick, came home and there was my husband dealing with a nipped blood feather. I got out the flour and he packed it. The bleeding stopped. He was grouchy all night, and i got my first macaw bites, 2 of em! Gesh! Atleast i am past it now, lol.

It is Oliver who is the meanie! Understandable since he was here first. What i got is positive attitude and a bottle of wine! Haha!

Love, hate! Lol there is also cage aggression for sure and now Oliver is starting to act the same, which he has never done. It is funny, we took them outside and they turned into babys again. Bubba wanted to play mimic games, he makes a noise, i repeat it. Lets see we screamed like a little girl, said Bubba many times, said i love you, he clucked like a chicken, i tried to cluck like a chicken, then to top it off as i was trying to get him to say the basic hello, i got the blah blah blah blah instead. Then Oliver said Bubba ( not real clearly but it was a good first try!) Once back inside Cujo and Cujo Jr came back! My saving Grace is my Bongo, he got on my lap and we had ourselves a long love session and all my tension went away! Going into today positive that they just needed a good nights sleep and all will be right in the world again! (don't laugh please, that lie to myself keeps my headache at bay ) :-)

Oh boy oh boy oh boy. We are in trouble. Not sure whats going on with these two but it sure is a love hate relationship. They protect each other which means they are mean to us, then they beak and scream and stomp each others feet. I am am at a loss how to correct this, if i can correct this. Was it a phase today? Two feathers are missing from Olivers head but he is the one shoving his head at Bubba for grooming. Yikes! They were on top of their cages this morning, then switched cages then switched back and tore up their own cage? If pictures could show the mess, i tried! One entire phone book, shredded, half by each. All the paper for lining, shredded. It is like they were taken over by a demon today. Fingers crossed tomorrow they wake up happy again!!!! Lol

Everyone always warns people about the sunflower seed addiction, but cheese isn't mentioned and it should be! They love it!

Hugs and prayers to you both! Please let us know!

I spoke with the previous owner today and asked about the wing. She said she took him to the vet and he said it was a broken wing when he was young and that it could only be corrected by rebreaking it. She then said i should get another opinion.... Had both the b&g's on my new birthday present from hubby today. A huge manzanite tree. They beaked a bit but then settled in and chose their side. Going to try it by myself tomorrow! Fingers crossed. He did good this afternoon with the feathers. When he and Oliver got together playing, he played so hard he really wore himself out! They played tug o war with a shredder toy that had us laughing so hard there were tears! It was great to see both boys playing so hard!

Our biggest fear is that it was broken by someone to keep him grounded as a baby. He has no clue how to fly from what we have seen. I just saw him holding onto a wing feather with his foot and chewing it. I have put alot of chew toys and some shredding toys in with him to distract him from this but i guess it doesn't work. Any ideas? He is much better today with his cage aggression, i can atleast go into the room without him charging me! He is a lock picker too, gotta fix that! Lol they said he will open his cage door and then open the other doors to the other cages. I also now understand why not to let a bird regurgitate like i was allowing Oliver to do. He is just fine with Bubba UNTIL i enter the picture, then he turns into one of those possive boyfriends who are labeled crazy!!! :-)

The first evening we had Bubba, i thought his name should have been Cujo! After just one day he has allowed my husband, not me so much, to pet him and he has gotten kisses. He is very cage mean but once out he is more mellow. And by out i mean, he can not see his cage. Just opening the door for him to come out to the top doesn't curb his mean streak, he must be away. His health, he is missing his tummy feathers and has destroyed one wing and some missing in spots hear and there but my fingers are crossed as we have not seen one on the floor since Sunday. One of his wings (the one with feathers) seems to be floppy (?) hard to explain but it has an extra bend in it like double jointed. He also holds a wing up fully open when he is playing, either one, but one at a time. Reminds me of driver using his arm to signal turns. Bubba does not know how to fly but boy does he want to learn. He shakes his head alot so we are watching that. My first thought was lice or dry skin so the misting has begun, lol. He is okay with it. If Bubba should ever get lost, he will not be hard to show proof of who he is, atleast 100 times if not more he said Bubba. Even with a mouth full of food he is saying Bubba!

I like stars! Gold ones are the best!! That was fun.

Hey guys, hey, i gave in and started beaking this curley rope thing that had been hanging in my house for a month. Mommy moved it to my stand area and i hit it with my beak yesterday. Today i started pulling it and chewing it, then i got the courage to put my foot on it. I could hold it steady while i chewed it! Mom seemed happy cuz she kept saying to me that she knew i would love my boing. Wha? Boing? My new brother arrived here today too. I don't think we will be good friends and mom and dad are not pushing it. In fact, i hardly saw him. I did see the lady who took me in for a while, i just shook but then i saw the man who lived there and gave him a kiss. He seemed proud of it, he was scared at first, he said i would bite him but mommy said i wouldn't cuz she saw my eyes light up when i saw him. He took pictures of me, then he talked to Oliver and took pictures of him. He seemed to get sad and said he had to go and said bye, then i heard a bye come from another room, guess it was my new brother. We will see how that goes.

Today is the day! I am so excited/ nervous that i woke up at 5 am, this will make for a longer wait but there is always cleaning to keep me busy! Friday my hubby bought me an early birthday present, a huge, i mean huge, large enough for all the fids, manzanita playstand! Only the macaws will be using it though. Bongo is scared of Oliver so he will still have his own stand, of course we tried to see if he would like the tree and that scared him too, lol. I will get some picts as soon as i can of them on it!

How so? I don't encourage him but if he does it, i am not stopping him. I kinda feel i would hurt him if i turned the other way. When i spoke to the vet about it, he just laughed and said that he loves me.