SRSeedBurners

oh oh...you're taking requests. I want to see: - Maalik (no wine bottles - haahaahaa) - The two dusky conures and the pineapple GCC (do you know about my Tinkerbell?) - The BHC and the Jardines (we have those two as well and they are best friends forever, or until Toby doesn't want to share)

Greys are the most photogenic. Naturally a black and white...my favorite.

What kind of fish do you have Jayd? I went to see a lady about some parrotlets when I was getting one for my daughter and she had this fish tank that was so stunning when you walked into the room. I've always wanted one after seeing it. But I need another hobby to clean up after like I need another hole in my head. I keep my lights off in my office at work and a glofish tank would be awesome there. this is the tank that was in her office. I don't think they are glofish though.

I think we're having a bit too much fun with this new aviary:

2-3 years ago, GreycieMae started doing this maneuver where she stands straight, lifts her head up and back and makes a sort of exhale noise. No idea where she got this but my wife picked up on it and now they will do their "center"ing together. "GreycieMae....center" is usually what my wife will tell her when they do it. We like to call it GreycieMae's calming yoga...for when she's not terrorizing the house. One needs to cool her jets you know! I've always wanted to catch a picture of it and I just happened to get it today totally by accident. I was trying to snap a pic of her and Huey in the new aviary. I guess it was her "oh gosh, not the camera again" calming yoga moment

I feed Volkman's Birdeez Buffet and have for years. It contains dehydrated veggies/fruits. I basically have a concoction where I boil water then throw in a bean cuisine for 15-20 mintues, then I throw in the birdeez buffet (minus the pasta pieces). Let that cook for another 10 minutes then throw in the pasta and some frozen peas and vegetable medley. Makes for a really great parrot buffet! Huey thinks it's the best thing ever. He gets super excited when he sees me in the kitchen making his breakfast!

We're his new home.

OMG...that's a lot to deal with. I'm hoping you're finding some solace in the birds and they're not causing some the drain. Mine drain me and I only have 6 plus I'm not dealing with any of the family issues you're having....and a move too.

Not sure what's going on with the forum and videos. I upload to youtube and then paste the link in my post. The forum automagically embeds the youtube video. Works great.

That was just the main construction. I still have left to do: Wire with electric - I'm getting an electrician to do that because it needs power from the panel and I don't screw with the panel. Lighting - me and the electrician Cameras with cat-5 cabling - me Window wire panels - me Some landscaping - me More rope climbing nets and toys! - me

Oh you had to ask didn't you! Here's a sampling of his talking, he tends to only talk in private, private meaning on the other side of the wall in the kitchen. His favorite spot is in the kitchen, especially with someone cooking there "La-la-laaa-la....La-la-laaaa-la" F*#! (former owners two teenage sons taught him this along with the next one) S*#t "Get me the hell out of here" "What" "Hello?" (always after the phone rings) "Huey's a good bird" And apparently a lot more that we haven't heard yet. And this one is funny: Wife and I were having one of our usual fights - loud talking, talking over each other, lots of tension and Huey belted out: "SHUT UP - STOP IT...JUST STOP IT". Not only did it stop the fight that was going on because we could not believe what he just said, but since he said it in perfect context we felt bad that we were stressing him out. So the fight stopped immediately. Wife took him to the bedroom and babied him as if he had told me to shut up and stop it and I promptly got on messenger and asked the owner if what I heard was actually what I heard because it was so unbelievable. The owner confirmed that Huey doesn't like fighting and will say exactly what we heard. He's not the most prolific talker and he doesn't talk very often but we get a real kick out of it because he's the only talker now out of 6 birds. However he is not a cuddly bird and will bite the living daylights out of you if you make a wrong move - something my cuddlebugs GreycieMae will never do.

This is a super cute video. Before this was taken, Huey was helping himself to GreycieMae's nut, literally taking it right from her talon. She would look at him incredulously, then pick up another nut and before long Huey would reach over and take that one too. That's what I intended to get avideo of. But by the time I got the camera, GraycieMae had about enough of Huey's one-sided sharing. And here that are just chowing down a little later

I hour your contractor is faster than mine regarding his own time estimates. We were told 4 weeks, 5 max. 12 weeks later we were wrapping things up. Normally we would have said something but his work was such high quality with attention to detail - I just shut my beak. Keep us posted with pics.

With all the exciting luxury aviaries springing up, I thought I'd share a nice blueprint for the perfect home floorspace plan that I found. It's perfect!

We went with the Solar Grey, it's a really nice smokey color and casts a bronze light (sort of like the color you see when there's a forest fire in the area and the sky is filled with smoke - bad joke I know - but that really is what it looks like underneath them). Home Depot only carries Clear and Solar Grey in our area so I never got to see the others. We have enough sunlight that comes through the windows on the side that I'm not concerned about maximum sunlight overhead. They provide the partial shade I was after and then under the soffits it's full shade. How are you building the roof? We have 16 ft beams like what they use on a pergola. The beams come directly off our house roof. The Suntuf panels sit directly on top of the beams (on top of the Suntuf 'horizontals' but that has no bearing on what I'm talking about). Then on the underside of the beams I am putting up 16 gauge wire. So there will be a space the width of the beam between the wire on the bottom and the panel sitting on top. Similar to you I don't want something punching a hole in the panel and my birds getting an escape route. My concern is a squirrel chewing through. If there is threat of hail, I won't have them out there anyway so a baseball size hailball I'm not worried about. These panels will take a pretty good strike but it is possible a branch could punch through if directed just right.

If you are feeding any one of these three foods, pull them. Word is going around about two sanctuaries that have had small mass die-offs and two of these foods are common among both. The third, Lefebers is being tested, I would pull it too. Also pass the word along in any channels you participate in. The original posting is lengthy so I'm including the foods here in case no time to read the post. Zupreem Fruitblend, large size for macaws, cockatoos etc. Higgins Vitaseed Lefeber's Nutriberries Original posting from "Birds And Beaks Rescue and Rehab":

That's a tough call. We had the exact same dilemma and I finally decided to just use one type of panel all the way across. We went with the 'Solar Grey' as it has 35% light transmission. We have plenty of soffit for the birds to hide under should they want to get completely in the shade. Here in Texas we regularly get temps 90-100 for weeks or months on end. So I'm fully expecting to have to find a way to push air through our aviary. If you do use the SunTuf, I don't believe you will be able to use any other panel as the ridge profiles are hexagonal in shape. Most galvanized panels and the regular polycarbonate panels are a 'sine curve' shape. There is no guarantee those will fit together either as the curves may be different sizes between the two products. I do know, you DO NOT want to use the clear polycarbonate paneling that you will find at Lowes/HD. That stuff is pure junk and breaks easily. It's listed at HD under the name 'Palruf'. If you're going to have open sides, which I believe is what you are doing, you can easily hang a box fan and a mister on the outside and cool their jets with that. That's what I did on our outdoor aviary. Here's what I would do based on what I think you're building and what I know of how my birds have behaved in both my aviaries: I would put a solid section of roofing ~2ft out from the side of the house, very similar to the way our roof soffits are in our new aviary. Our birds tend to want to hang out under that. Our outdoor aviary has a tree that shades part of it and that's where they hang 90% of the time. They sell a closure strip that we used to join the SunTuf panels to the flat roofing board which is exactly what you would do too. I think I may have a pic of that before it was shingled. Have you thought about having a camera out there? I can't tell you how much peace of mind that brings being able to monitor them from inside the house. I have a dedicated monitor at home and work that is nothing but the live feed from my camera. Here is the manufacture link for the Suntuf panels. It contains the different colors, how much light they transmit and a couple of good videos comparing them. https://www.palramamericas.com/Products/corrugated-sheets/SUNTUF/ If you do decide to go with Suntuf, you will need their closure strips and what they call their 'horizontal'. Those are not sold at Home Depot which is completely stupid. I had to order them and wait, fortunately our contractor had other stuff he did in the meantime. https://www.palramamericas.com/Products/corrugated-accessories/CorrugatedAccessories/

Take a look at Suntuf panels. That's what we used. 15 year damage warranty. They sell it at Home Depot too.

This puts a rest to my suspicions that there is a Grey conspiracy out there to get their hoomans to build luxury aviaries. You'll love being able to shove them in and out from the house. That's the one thing I didn't like about my first outdoor aviary - it's too hard to get in and out of. Once I put them in I was reluctant to pull them out. Silkies make really good cleanup crew if you need something to pickup the food that gets tossed. What kind of roof are you putting on it? Wire? If I didn't know any better, I'd guess you were from Australia. Your yard looks really similar to the yard where my wife grew up in Toowoomba. Those almost look like native australian gum trees.

That's Huey.

If you ask around, the most common answer you will get is Avianbiotech. However they were busted a few years ago providing false results so I have avoided them. I have successfully used vetdna and my birds have all seemed to match the results - meaning my males ended up looking and acting like males and vice versa https://vetdnacenter.com/dna-tests/avian-dna-testing/

Welcome back!!!! Now for some pics! Way back when I had three birds and that was it for us. Now at 6 birds I say, what the hell, they've taken over!

I almost made it....zzzzZZZZzzzzZZZZZzzzzzzz!!!!

Saw something on FB about it. Might have to investigate further!

Me and the brats finished net #1. Only 5 more to go haahaahaa!!!