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ahh ok. I thought maybe I had missed his return or just maybe was not recalling correctly what happened. They do leave a long lasting, I'd say permanent, hole in your heart when you lose them. I still have my Raven girls photo as my avatar that I use most everywhere but here.

I'm confused...I thought you lost this bird?!? Which one flew out the door? I can't remember what happened. Thought for sure it was spock.

I love it when they interact with the neighbors. Greycie will get into whistling contests with them occasionally. They've tried talking to her but she won't talk so there's that...

Did you happen to hear that some of the insiders were able to sell off their stock before the announcement went out and Equifax stock tanked? Not sure if it's fake news but if not, I'm hoping there is some long prison time for a few rich aholes.

I suppose those bastards that are holding our information and not keeping it safe are the ones making the dough off of us having to pay to lock it up?

I have to agree Grey love is the best. They get super cuddly in the evenings if they are the cuddly type. All this time your hubby has been soaking up all the Grey love and leaving you with nothing. You should smack him I always look forward to our evening cuddlefest. Greycie will generally rub the back of her head on my cheek. Soo so sweet. She also likes to lay in my hand and we'll both 'preen' her underfloofies under her wings.

Welcome to the forums. Greys are amazing! I just love mine to death. She runs this household.

Yep, that's the lil Tinkerbell. I forgot how much I love conures until this little girl came along. It's weird how it's worked out. Tinkerbell and GreycieMae both claim me as their human slave. GreycieMae tolerates Tinky, only a stab at her tail feathers or maybe chase her off my shoulder to keep Tinky remembering who's large and in charge. Tinky on the other hand gives GreycieMae a wide berth but will fight to the death any of the other birds that try to get my attention. She even goes after Rio, the bird with the worst bite in the house. It's coming up on 1 year (~Sep 15th) since I've had the lil sweety.

oh...I thought you were talking about my wife right there :cool: "Ok, but first...let me take a selfie"

Such vibrant colors. Her feathers look like it would be soft like petting a cat. I've never been around one of those. They have very soft looking eyes too.

I had to read that three times to catch what KevinD meant by being politically incorrect. Ok, 'man' vs. 'person'. Death to figures of speech! We can't have that!! Interesting world we live in right now. However remember, the pendulum is nearing maximum away from it's equilibrium and will be returning home like a chicken to it's roost!

Ahhhh...now you be good and go get lil Phenix an Appoo. I can't resist that stuff. They must see me as a walking pile of playdough. Toby our Caique, who happens to be the slowest learner in the house, bless his sweet cheeks, has learned to fly into the kitchen and do the dog whistle to get Daddy to come get him a drink. Now GreycieMae, it irritates Mommy to see how the Greybie can manipulate me to do whatever she wants. I'm helpless...

Yep broken again here too. It seems to be moody.

Problems disappeared!

Yes - Coccidiosis. I had forgotten what the medicated feed was for. I don't think you need it if you have just a few chicks and you take care of their living area. In 20 years of raising poultry here I've only ever had issues with Cocci once. 2-3 years ago it started raining here and wouldn't stop. I had just bought 30 young chicks and had them in my regular grow out pens. When it started raining non-stop I was forced to move them inside the main chicken house and fenced off a small corner so the big ones wouldn't kill them. Like I mentioned earlier, they've pretty much stopped selling medicated chick feed, I don't know why. I really needed it then because with the cramped conditions and high humidity and just wet nasty everywhere, Cocci got hold in my flock of little ones and wiped out a good 1/3 of them. Other than that, I've never had an issue with it. Mine get to go out and wander when we're home and their grow out pens are large enough that cleanliness isn't an issue. Here's Tinkerbell tending to our flock just this morning! Usually GreycieMae gets to go do the chickens and pigeons but today was Tinky's turn.

I have no idea if mine were vaccinated or not. When they come vaccinated, that means vaccinated against Mareck's disease. Chickens are particularly susceptible to it. I've never heard of it affecting parrots. Medicated feed is for different issues. They've almost stopped selling it everywhere that I buy feed. You don't need it if you keep the chicks living area clean and don't let them mire in their own poop for days on end.

I have about 30 chickens running the place and some of them get into the aviary where my birds stay. I also have 5 silkie chickens that are considered the after hours aviary cleanup crew. No problems so far.

I have to laugh at Sukei's comments surrounding the situation with the fire. He sounds like such a character. My luck I'd meet him and he'd sit there like a lump on a log. I'm glad he has a couple people interested in taking over his care if needed. That's always a nice reassuring feeling. Besides worrying about my house burning down with all my birds inside, worrying about their future is something else I always have to fret over.

At the Lowes where I live they have a resident cat that stays in the outdoor garden area and also stays inside on that end of the building. I was there yesterday (with the GreycieMae in tow of course) and one of the workers there was telling me that when they would close down some evenings you could see the rats running across the floor occasionally. Apparently that all ended when the cat showed up. He's been there 8 months and is now the Lowes shop cat. I think that's so cool. I was talking to one of the workers there about the cat. We got off onto the subject of my personal rat problem in my barn and he said to get a cat and don't feed it. I didn't buy that advice but I do want one now. They don't eat much and he'd be taken care of.

I had them make it 207 cm long (~81 in). The standard length is for their wide version is 200cm. Our door opening is 80 inches too but I wanted it just a bit taller as I was mounting it on the wood frame above the door and wanted it to reach the floor. Their mounting hardware is junk. You'll have to buy something to mount it with when you get it. I used a french cleat hanger which works perfectly.

Holland Plastics imports them directly from the UK. Their shipping is incredibly fast too. Both of ours were custom size orders and all they asked was that we purchase the wide to accommodate for the extra length I wanted. We needed the wide anyway so they basically just added the length without any additional cost. Amazon Holland Plastics fly chain curtain P.S. our two dogs go in and out of this chain curtain without issue, one of them is a big mutt - got some Irish Wolfhound in him and he can't tear it up.

That's definitely a baby. 2.5 months is too young to wean though so I'd guess he's older than that. I see you got the oatmeal. Try putting some banana, cinnamon and a little flax if you have it. Mine love that stuff! I wouldn't worry about the amount he's eating as long as it's enough. Start worrying if they're NOT eating. Just keep working with him. They change a LOT as time goes on and their personality will come out. Things never happen overnight with a Grey unless it's their idea. And make sure you get lots of that baby time. They grow up before you know it and then all you have are the pictures/videos of when they were babies.

Over in Europe they call them 'fly chain curtains'. You can't buy them here in the states except through a couple of companies that bring them across the pond. I have two of them. I had to get them to stop our conure from zipping out the door. She's been out twice since I got her less than a year ago. She's a silent and extremely fast flyer so it's very easy for her to zip out that door. This chain curtain stopped her dead in her tracks!

I stopped feeling sorry for them when I kept going in my pigeon loft and finding half-eaten half-dead squabs still wriggling but no way to save the poor things. I will use any method available now and when I get my hands on one his day doesn't end nicely.