SRSeedBurners

Alfie looks fabulous. He didn't get hit with the forum squishy.

I already see a climbing rope, a plastic chain with a bell to beat on...so many things I see in that picture!

Well, if that's the case, I'd make those spots his permanently. And an endless supply of cardboard shredding material. Love a busy Grey!

That Christmas one is cool...but it's too soon! Me and my spooky Halloween baby are sticking with the gobblins and ghouls! Can you all believe my daughter (the human one) was born on Friday the 13th and my other daughter (GreycieMae) was born on Halloween! You can imagine they get along well and they do! Kayla has been away for 4 months in Virginia at some helo school for her Army training. She just got back in Texas this week and messaged me that she can't wait to come see GreycieMae. That left me wondering...but what about Dad? HAAHAAAHAAAHAA

Haahaa...I doubt he's taking time away from Sukei. If Sukei is anything like GreycieMae, he's right there 'helping'.

Done!

Oh goodness, a Timmy and a Congo

Ok, ignore that previous post. Apparently you can't edit after a set period... Whooaaa....I'm trying bbcode and other options to see if I can downsize this preview...

Hope's naughty parents. He's going to look like his Daddy - the light brown one in the middle. Mommy is on the left. The dark brown on the right is another kind of pigeon, not a Toughie. Toughie's wear dinner vests!

Hope is a baby Iranian Toughie high-flyer pigeon. My breeder pair thought it was agood idea to just let this little one languish and began ignoring it in favor of his fat fatty sibling. I found him/ her pretty much listless and on the edge. Wife decided she wanted him in the house. I can gaurentee this is temporary. Wife named him Hope. He sits above my workstation all day Hoping for his next feeding. Hes starting to walk around a little. A little preening, a little wing stretching. We noticed in the last couple days he's starting to pay attention to us. growing out of the pure baby instinct and starting to discover his new little world.

So....Grey time? HAAHAAHAAHAAAA

Do we get our old Grey favcon back? Or something similar? Gonna be hard to re-train my brain that the little color spheres are 'GreyForums'.

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.