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I do sort of remember a Teak. I must be getting old. Our Jardines, Rio, is 3.5 years old and has just gone through another growth spurt. He's dang near as big as a small Grey now and thugs around like he's some badass boss birdy. I used to be able to wrap my fingers all the way around when holding him but he's too big now.

Name again?

Wait...I'm losing my marbles I guess. I didn't realize you had a Jardines! Or did I?

Awesome! Tell us more when you can. Hopefully someone who will let us keep tabs on baby Casper! ❤️

Good luck. I know you'll find a good home for Casper. It's a good thing I don't live in California, I'd probably have a house full of Greys 😂

In Huey's case, he's been doped by a vet for 10 years. Supposedly he is bi-polar which is why they put him on haloperidol. I don't fault his former owner as the guy wants the best for Huey, which is why he re-homed him to us. I almost bought into the diagnosis as Huey does start to act very strange once off his meds. What helped me to realize what was going on, our Caique started plucking over the same period that Huey went berzerk on us. Then they both stopped their respective behaviors at nearly the same time. I knew at that point I had two over-horney boys on my hands. Now the vet not knowing this, is kind of inexcusable in my opinion. They should know that raging hormones can cause this type of stuff and not just throw meds at a bird indefinitely. Also, he doesn't barber, he literally will chew his feet until they bleed, removing the scales and skin. It's terrible what he does. So far he doesn't do anything to his feathers.

Well, as you know, they say to discourage that behavior, but I'm not one to buy into the common advice that everyone 'parrots' mainly because they're simply repeating what they've heard over and over. Since Sydney is so very much like our Huey, I'll relay what has happened for us. Huey came to us heavily medicated, which kept him dopey most of the time. When I tried weaning him cold turkey he would butcher his feet. So we tried weaning him very very slowly, several times. Three drops, to two drops, then one drop. As he came off his meds, he really took a liking to my wife ( I'm now referred to as second husband). She pets him like you're not supposed to do which makes him get down and do the dirty on her arm. He's also tried mounting GreycieMae but can't figure out how (we're working on it ❤️ ). Wife debated, should she stop doing this? She still does it but limited. Huey eventually stopped on his own and he also weaned off his meds without butchering his feet. We're over two months now. It boiled down to the fact he had raging hormones. Without his little outlet, he had to stay heavily medicated. So next year around January, I'm going to be on high alert for his symptomatic psychosis (which is why they put him on Haliperidol). Apparently Huey was just wanting some loving, awfully bad. I'm also going to setup some solid perches in the aviary, he could never get a good balance on top of a GreyicMae swinging in the breeze on their rope perch. So I guess what I'm saying is, I'd probably entertain the amorousness if it was leading to being able to handle them. It's really brought our Huey out of his shell. But I usually run afowl of the status quo...

One of the most common cages people get for CAGs is this one. It's big and pretty well made. I have two of them. The bar across the top bolts on, so you could just remove it or not install it. I'm not sure why your vet discourages a 'play top' or what constitutes a play top. If I removed that bar across the top, my bird would still consider the area a play top. Good lucks!

For sure she will forget the one little incident as long as it doesn't continue. Greys can and do pick their favorites but that doesn't mean you can't interact with the Grey. I have a female who sticks to me like velcro but still interacts with others in the house. We have another male who very much prefers my wife and I'm on a "no need to touch me" basis with him. I still work with him though but will never be able to pick him up and kiss his belly like my wife can. He'd rip my face off. I still love him just as much.

It's so cute when my GreycieMae reverts back to her wild roots and lets out with the African Grey growly-growly. Every summer I have to put a bamboo shade on top of their outdoor aviary to provide some shade. She absolutely hates it and really lets the neighborhood know it.

He is cute. Those lil TAGs always look so cute. Love those baby eyes.

Our typical breakfast: Cookables that I mentioned on the left in the glass casserole dish, sprouts on the right. Those are the base mix that I use daily. On the chopping board is whatever I have fresh available - today's cuisine: - Pink Lady apple - banana - brocolli - sweet potatoe - jalapeno (greycie loves her jalapenos) Customer approved!

Well, it's a good thing I got that head back on. I'd sure miss my evening sweet sweetums....

That definitely looks like some over-preening there. I wouldn't worry about it though. GreycieMae barbers her tail and wing feathers. It used to annoy me but I figure once they get into a naughty habit it's just like us biting our nails or some other habit. I'll get a pic of her barbering when I get a chance.

I don't have one, but I do participate in a couple - mostly Felix on Facebook. I feel like I'm actually talking to that silly birdy. I also participate in Einstein the Texas Talking parrot's page.

So we rough-n-tumble this morning like we always do, GreycieMae loves a good wrestle. Later on I was just laying there with her on my knee and noticed she was missing something... So just like when I lose my keys, or my marbles, I go back to the last place I saw them....the wrestling blankey. Oh, looky at what I found! So I break out the needle and thread, super glues and some duck tape and she's good as new!

GreycieMae does weird requests! Second photo came out a little blurry... Huey looks nearly identical to her.

My main go to is a combination of 'Volkman Seed Featherglow Fancy Soak & Simmer' and 'Volkman Birdeez Buffet / 15 Minute Soak & Serve'. I cook a 3 day supply of those two and I also add sprouts to the mix. Then I add whatever is around: banana, jalapenos, leafy lettuce. They go wild over it every morning.

Cage looks awesome. I feed a mix of Harrison's lifetime or high potency (my birds are very active in aviaries all day), Zupreme Naturals and Tropican Lifetime pellets - all mixed together. I buy all the pellets in the same size as the Harrison's 'fine' size. We found that with the larger pellets, when they crack them, the pellets go flying in all directions and there was a ton of waste. In addition to limit waste I also use a Seed Corral which really helps. They're not as prone to carry a pellet out of the feeder when they are nibble sized too. Also, keep your pellets in the freezer, they last a long time that way. Pellets are a very small portion of our birds diet though. We mainly feed cookables which I supplement with whatever fresh/frozen chopped up veggies daily.

That's the exact same cage I have (I have two of them), and as you've observed A LOT of people have that cage. It's plenty big enough, you'll just need to fill it with toys!

Huey used to be nervous outside of his cage. Unfortunately (not really!) for him, we're a cage-less house except for nighty-night time and he just had to deal with it. It didn't take him but a few months till he was flying around and acting like the place was his - particularly his swingy rope in the kitchen where he now commands his ship, orders the chef around etc... Huey tends to bite, usually only me as he prefers the ladies, when I try to put him on his rope perches. He'll step up and immediately take a swipe a my hand. He's got me a few times at the base of the thumb and ripped me open good. He's super naughty that way. I quickly learned to make him step up to the rope, never step back, because then his rope is between him and my hand. I can pull down and back and he can't get me although he's learned to hang onto me with one foot and can still get me occasionally. We've had him 9 months now and I'm just now getting to the point where he will let me pet him down the back (he doesn't take it as sexual with me at least) and give him a kiss on the beak and give him a hug. 9 long months!

Not sure where in the world you are located but my female Grey has just started losing feathers in bulk. I guess she's molting as she's not a plucker. We have full feathers all over the place suddenly like what's in your photo.

Any updates on this guy? He reminds me of Huey, looks just like him in the photo above. Huey has trust issues too but he's figured out how to get his hoomans to be at his beck (peck?) and call 😂

Yep, it's our naughty Huey. Now shame him, he deserves it 😂

Somebirdy needs a good shaming....