xSarahx

Oh yes deffinatly,Archie is not going anywhere,iam in the process of making plans to knock a wall down and open up a whole room that will have perches hanging off the ceiling and everything for him!cant wait It might be the fact he does resemble his old owner abit,same height, hair colour ,deep voice, This is deffintaly something we are all going to work on ,iam not expecting miracles,just to tolerate being in the same room would be enough for me , thanks for the advice everyone hopefully in a few weeks i shall be able to post in here that they are ok sort of lol

I have not read alot of this thread as its just to long,i smoked for 15 years,only time i stopped was when i was pregnant and breast feeding,but iam now a non smoker sinse january this year What did it for me was,i never smoked in my home i always went outside because of my children,anyway we moved into this house in december last year and the woman smoked in here,it was awful!i wiped the walls and a layer of yellow nicotine come off ewwwwww!!so after cleaning every inch of the house and realising how disgusting it is i went cold turkey,even now after washing the walls countless times it still seems to be appearing on the walls i have not yet painted,i think its just so soaked in, so if you want to quit clean a nicotine filled house lol

It does not seem so bad now you have told me that wingy , that must of been hard work

How do you manage to hang them from the ceiling?

Archies wings are like that quite alot

I really like the first one,i find myself very drawn to her eye,she is very pretty

Believe me i nag him every day about the amount of smellys he puts on hopefully he will listen soon,what do you mean by toweling??i put him in hes cage at 830pm and he gets covered when we go to bed about 10pm If you think it is just a matter of time and patients then that is deffinatly something we can do , iam just a natural worrier , but i think i have noticed something tonight,as again Archie was on my lap,(Bens upstairs) and my hubby gave me our home phone,as he put it on the sofa Archie charged at it and re-done the same thing as last night,not as bad as my home phone survived lol,so putting the fact last night was my mobile and tonight my home phone mayby Archie just does not like phones and i was linking it to Ben,i think i shall have to keep my eye on this and see I feel really bad now as i didnt know we couldnt use air freshners in the room,i have an automatic spray one on the wall which sprays every half hour,i can assure you it has been taken down right now so thank you for that infomation

We have re homed Archie from his second owner so we are hes 3rd,we have had him just under a month now,the one we got him from was a single man on his own no other animals except this other small parrot which i cannot remember what it is called but its bright yellow but apparently they got on Both my boys have the same hair style and colour,but ben does smell alot different to all of us as he is going through the stage of putting a whole can of deodrant on every day, which is over powering, It started about a week after Archie being here , first he wasnt to bad he just puffed up if ben acknowledged him, but past few days ben does not have to say anything or do anything,he literally just has to walk in the room and Archie puffs up and you can just tell he is not happy about ben being in the room at all,and he wont calm down until ben leaves I dought its trying to get him away from me as my hubby can sit next to me with archie on my lap and aslong as he dont try and touch archie its fine, i just dont know what to do as obviously i dont want to ban my son from hes own living room but then i dont want him to be attacked either,luckily its not a major problem as such as ben is either upstairs on his xbox or playing out now the weathers nice here but would still be nice for him to be tolerated

I ll ahave to try this with Archie as he has not eaten veg with me yet,also can we feed them tinned fruit??...Archi is very fussy and so are my family we dont like alot of fruit that Archie should have so i was wondering if i could buy tin fruit just to try him out on?

I could do with a bit of advice on how to handle this , bit of home knowledge for you all first.In my home is.... Me,Hubby,2 sons 12 and 10 , 2 dogs,2 cockatiels and a cat. Iam `the chosen one` , my hubby was not liked to start with but now Archie will tolerate him as long as he does not try to touch him, One tiel does nothing but sit on the cage and the other one will try and interact with Archie and again aslong as she does not get to close its ok,obviously the cat is not allowed in the same room as my birds,the youngest son seems to be tolerated aswell,he can give him food but thats as far as it goes now,as for my eldest son,well,he is hated and i mean hated!!as soon as he enters the same room as Archie , he puffs up and kind of flaps hes wings ?and last night it was took to a new level,i was on the sofa with Archie,Ben walked in and Archie done the usual puff up and flap,but then charged along the sofa to try and get ben to bite him,so ben walked out and then Archie turned around charged at me,(i didnt know a bird could move so fast!)jumped on my mobile phone i had in my hand and went mad!! The only way i can describe it is,like a bird of prey swooping down, landing and then covering the food with its wings while eating its catch,it was like a frenzy,obviously my phone did not survive,but ill admit i was scared as he was on my lap and ive never seen him like this before,he calmed down then about 2 hours later Ben walked in the room again and the same thing happened only this time it was one of hes toys that coped it Any Help advice on this matter would be greatly appreciated, as i know it sounds horrible, i now dont want my son coming in the living room incase Archie attacks , and mayby nexttime it might be my son? Ben has never done anything to Archie to make him this way,infact on the first day we had him home BBen sat by hes cage talking to him all day

Awww how cute,me being a complete novice why are they different colours?

ok thanks,i have not tried him in the shower with me yet but he does not like it any other way so ill give it ago , think i best turn mine down abit as i like it so hot i come out red

congratulations my husband is very jealous at the moment as he would love a macaw but my youngest is scared of them,hope he settles in nicely for you

How i started with Archie (bear in mind i have no idea what he did/did not play with before) was i read in another forum,get the tube from inside a toilet roll put their favorate food inside , pistachios for archie, and stuff the ends with pine cones,i then left it on the sofa that Archie was on it took him about half a day to get the courage to touch it and then about 5 mins to tear it apart but he loves it and now nothing is safe with him around he wants to shred everything!! thats why i cover my leather sofa with blankets as he has ruined it already

Thanks everyone i thought he looked so cute.....it was kind of a mistake doug,i have abig cardboard box i keep all of Archies toys in and i noticed he was chewing it yesterday,so my children finished the cereal this morning so i took it into the living room and meant to tear it up abit and put it in hes box for a later date,i chucked it on the sofa and went and got my brekkie and coffee came back and he had flown from his cage to it and was having lots of fun so i left him to it

I have had a quick browse around and do i serve all veg up raw??i have been doing it cooked i wonder if thats why he isnt eating any

How do you know what size to buy as i have no idea how much Archie weighs,i know he is on the smaller side as i have seen a grey twice the size of him

when you shower with them can you still have the water as hot as you normally would?

How have you done that??...What wood is it and where did you get it from?ta

Thank you , he was frightened of it when i first put it in his cage but had abit of a chew on it noe

Thank you everyone,and thanks for admiring my handsome boy Archie is our first parrot,he came to us as we was thinking of buying a Parrot,we didnt know what one as i was scared of birds,we went to see Archie and out of my whole family,me,hubby and 2 boys iam the only one he didnt bite,now we are attached by an invisible cord i think lol We have 2 cockatiels aswell,(for just over a year now)which i was happy to clean out but i would not go near them and if they flew,well i went into a panic attack!so i was very apprehensive about getting a parrot as the size of their beaks was leaving me like jelly,now though iam like a different girl i think me and Archie were made for each other i instantly was not scared of him and worked hard building a relationship with him the first few days,now i cant enter the bird/living room without him flying on me and i wouldnt have it any other way Unfortunatly i dont really know his back ground as the man we got him from had only had him a couple of months then found out he had cancer,but he did tell us that before he got him he was in a budgie cage!!that was never cleaned and he had never been given any food other than hes parrot mix,but i dont know how much of this to believe as he also told me Archie loves a shower yet the 2 times i have tried he was not amused,if looks could kill i think id be dead!lol I have a family joke with my husband now as i really wanted a pet pig but he refused,but iam ok with it now as i swear Archie is half pig half parrot,i cannot have anything without him having a bit ,although still struggling with hes vegtables but i will get him there His las towner told us he is a boy but had no papers to prove this,he has a ring on hes foot,apperently thats a good thing??,the main problem i have is the amount he `number 2s` every where,i didnt know a bird went this much lol,i have read that they can be toilet trained but iam in the process of training him to step up and go home at the moment and dont want to confuse him, anyway as iam still very new to all this iam sure everyone will have alot to teach me about these wonderful birds and iam very willing to learn

Archies cage

Morning everyone my name is Sarah and my babys name is Archie,he is about 2 years old,ive only had him about 3 weeks but i love him like my baby already and here is my gorgeous boy....