SRSeedBurners

Anyone notice the they're scrunched up? It's very important that GreycieMae look her best. Right now she has a flat forehead and an elongated beak. This is no way a for a Greybie to look her best. HAAAHAAHAAHAA I love sitting on the complainer end! We have these morons at work that their sole job seems to be to complain about the look and feel. I usually want to tell them where to go. We don't do too much front-end stuff so I only have to put up with it a little. But this is fun!

Excellent, now we can slink around and cause troubles and no one will know who the heck...

So now it's so easy to post pics, I have a question since I like to post pics and vids: how much does it affect the site storage? I've always hosted my own photos/videos on my own domain and then hot linked them partly because the old forum kinda sucked at photos and partly because I don't want to hog the site resources when I have my own. Kinda a techincal question but wondering before I go posting photos again.

If possible, I'd like to change my username to 'SRSeedBurners'. Long story short: I generally use the same username everywhere. I had a username when I was in college that I ditched it for something very generic about 10 years ago - 'SterlingSL'. Then about 4-5 years ago I changed it again to something that kind of represents our little zoo we have going on here: 'SRSeedBurners' i.e. SterlingRanchSeedBurners. It comes from my mothers email that she's used forever BJSHayBurners. She has horses, and lots...hence the hayburners part. So I ripped off her username because it was pretty clever and because she's my mom - I can do that. If not, no problem. We'll just keep using the same ol boring.... P.S. I figure now's as good a time as ever with the fabulous new forum change!

GreycieMae wants to know just what in tarnation is going on 'round here

90% framed out. Cedars are sitting in my parking lot drying from the stain job. They're going on next. Windows are ordered and should be in next week. We had a change of direction on the middle section which we love much better: we're going with a full glass double slider. It's a 12ft beast and will be delivered on the back of a large truck but it will allow us to open the up the veranda and use it when the birds aren't in the middle section. They could literally be on both ends while were doing our thing in the middle!

I'm kinda hanging low. The site was offline for a couple days while they 'tested blah blah'. I'd be fired in an instance if our software behaved this way. But our software is responsible for $$$$ so that's the difference.

Yeah, this is designed so that I can leave them in it while at work. The walls are house-grade, sitting on a poured concrete curbing with rebar and piers. The walls will be made from hardie board (a concrete slab made to look like a board and paintable). The windows are tempered glass and will be reinforced on the outside with wire panels similar to what is on my current aviary, probably smaller holes though. The roof is being made with cedar similar to a deck but will be topped with 15year hail proof corrugated panels. We're still trying to decide if we want some sun to come through. THinking of making part of the long run partially blocked from the sky with full opaque panels and the rest in solar grey (75% blockage). So during the day when we're not there the thing will be sealed and locked up tight, dogs in the yard and a camera feed on my other monitor at work. Oh...and the great thing, when I'm tired of their b.s., I can toss them out of any one of three windows or the back door and get some sanity back for a bit. I designed the doors to open flat and allow a channel through the whole unit so it's kind of like a 18'x100' aviary with the interior doors open.

These are 5.5"x4" rebar'd curb sitting on 18" concrete piers every 4'. You can just barely see the anchor bolts in the pour. When we put up the forms, I thought it looked way to small to be building on. Concrete crew very hard at work here! I guess the white hen is the inspector Stamp of approval or maybe just her signature int he wet concrete

Of course I didn't get a pic of the 'before'. But this one is close, Day 1. Tools and crap everywhere already but... This thing is going to be three 'rooms'. What you're looking at here are room #1 where the blue cooler is sitting and room #2 is the covered porch area. Here you can see room #3 on the other side of the covered porch. This is after we trenched and have the concrete curb forms set ready to pour. Room #1 overhead Room #3 overhead

Ok if you're not allergic to it!

It's their 'powder', similar to cockatoos, cockatiels and other really dusty birds. We have those inset lights in our ceiling that create a beam and one shines right on our (GreycieMae and myself) evening lounge chair. Whenever she scritches, I see that flume of powder rise to the ceiling. I'm sure my lungs are full of it because I can't keep my face out of her fluff.

GreycieMae LOVES a good buffet! We use glass casserole dish so she walks around the edge picking through all the tasty dishes. Now what really pisses her off is when some draconian Caique walks through the middle of the buffet. Totally not cool.

You all know I have a spoiled rotten African Grey. Well, she's about to get spoiled even more. Let this be a long running thread, cause I'm going to post photos as this progresses. First the background: - my wife went back to work last year around December. Before that my birds had the run of the house and their outside aviary. Wifey was home to watch them for three years. When she went back to work I was forced to lock them up in their cages, in their bird room. I know this is probably what most people do, but I can't handle that. I watch them from my camera while I'm at work and it's heart breaking to see a Grey, who is normally so playful and full of life, just sit there slumped on a perch for 8-10 hours just waiting for one of us to come home. - my maternal Grandmother, just before she died, sat me down and had a talk with me. Something I was never expecting, she gave me a sizeable amount of money and asked me to use it for a car. I think she felt bad because I had bought her old car a few years prior and it was always giving us trouble, to this day I'm constantly tearing something out of it and fixing it. It's about to hit the 20 year mark and nearly a quarter million miles. I told her that I didn't want the money because I hate spending money on cars as they depreciate to nothing in 10-15 years. To me, a car is the worst way to spend money. She asked me to take the money anyway and do something special with it. - I have always been very frugal. When I was in the Marines and 17 years old, it took me over three years to save my first thousand dollars. This was a time when my breakfast before heading to base was 1 bowl of the $0.60 box of corn flakes we could buy at the commissary. We could barely buy anything but I was still trying to save and when I got that first thousand dollars I wanted to bury it in the front yard of my base housing unit. Sounds a little crazy but that's me and I'd never had any money before. So around a year ago, it just came to me what I should do with that cash that Grandma gave me...I'm going to build that addition onto the house for my babies. And should both of us pass on unexpectedly, it's something my daughter can easily take over and my birds won't have to get tossed into the wind. Something that has bothered me ever since I got GreycieMae. I've gone through four contractors who I had out to look at what I wanted. We've NEVER had any luck with contractors for other jobs that I don't have the time to do myself. Without getting into the details, they never do what they say they will or what you pay them to. And it usually involves people who pretend not to understand English. So out of the blue my wife asks me to contact this other guy she knows about. I don't know where the hell she found him but he is the REAL DEAL. He sat down and told me what I wanted and I was lapping it right up. He is semi-retired and only does "small jobs". He has apparently been involved in very large projects but I'm not sure how large. A few interesting notes about this contractor: - he's a very religious man. He told me prior to bidding the job that he would not be able to work on Wednesdays as he uses that day to perform his church duties. He's always fasting. And he uses no crew except his home-schooled grandson on Mondays and Fridays. I could not believe the day he showed up to start trenching and he pulled a bunch of digging tools out of his truck and just started ripping ground - manually. He's 66 years old. Can you believe that? I am still dumbfounded every day when I see him show up and start laboring away. He reminds me of my Dad who is near 80 years old and is THE hardest working man I've ever seen. They are both apparently cut from the same generational cloth. The purpose behind this new addition is, I'm hoping I can keep them inside in it, separated from each other and they won't have to live their daily life in a cage. My wife hates it that we can never go anywhere or do anything anymore because I feel 100% neglectful asking my birds to stay in lockup while we go have fun. That isn't fun for me. All I ever do is worry about them. It will have cameras and lights, just like their bird room and I'll be able to monitor them while we're out - at work, at play, whatever. So I'll use this thread to post photos as we go along. Let's hope this doesn't turn into a disaster. You never know how a project will go!

Yes, she was such a happy little soul. Loved that lil birdy.

I see a Grey working that Grey magic making hooman do what hooman is supposed to do.

Wouldn't putting the vinegar in boiling water kill the beneficial bacteria (the 'mother')? Thought about giving your recipe a try, because I know my fools will be tripping over themselves for anything with a little honey in it, but not sure about boiling water with the vinegar.

For my pigeons I mix it 2.5-3 tablespoons per gallon of water. This comes from a lot of experience from the flying pigeon gurus so that's what I use. They only get it once in a while.

It will show back up. I did the same thing. Plus I now see it on Chrome too. There are several things that will cause this. Expired SSL/TLS certificate. I doubt this site was running one of those. A hacked site with pages that have a payload on them. I'll have to look it up a little further when I have time.

P.S. Guess who we are celebrating their arrival here one year ago!!!! Somebirdy patiently waiting for Daddy to come back in. She's been outside on the lamb twice but the chain curtain put a stop to all that! Lucky for me if she finds me outside she flies straight to me.

I use Apple Cider Vinegar with the mother. My chickens, high-octane high-flyer pigeons and the tyrants living in my house get it.

Just my guess but it could be because they're not being cared for by clueless complete idiotic morons any longer? (gosh I hope I worded that correctly )

Anyone else that is using Firefox as their browser getting the "Deceptive Site" warning?

Yeah, that's a google/yahoo search. I'm looking for someone who may have been prescribed quest through a veterinarian. I've done the google/avian avenue/facebook search. And with what I went through with Raven, I don't really trust vets either. Looking for firsthand knowledge similar to what I get on Pigeons.biz with the racing lofts that have very high value birds.

I have pigeons, not your flying rat type, but very expensive flying Iranian, Pakistani, Toghie, Homing and Fantails. I am worming them on a horse wormer - 'Quest' as it very well know within the performing pigeon fanciers that it works very well and is safe. I also worm my chickens and guineas on this. However I won't even dare give it to my adored babies unless I know it's safe for them. The ONLY reason I am considering worming them is because they are within close proximity of my silkies which I use for after-hours cleanup of the parrots aviary. My babies do spend a lot of time outside and I don't want to just assume they don't have a parasite. Does anyone know what they use on parrots? What is safe?