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OMG that's hilarious. Settle down Mom! Just because I bit you gives you no right to get testy!

If Olive does end up having to wear a collar full time there is a solution that is less cumbersome than a rigid collar. Some lady designed a vest for her cockatoo who is a chronic plucker. I saved it off in case I ever needed to go figure out how to make one. Ricobird's plucker vest

Time for some ear plugs till Dorian gets it out of his system. And you know Grey Time requires much patience. I don't do Toos, Macaws or Sun Conures because of their insane noise levels.

Damn...wish you were flying into DFW. Miss GreycieMae would have to go meet her brother. We always plan our trips around where the LaQuintas are because they allow pets no questions asked.

We live just north of Dallas.

Well, have a safe move. Keep in touch. Would love to hear more about Elwood when you get a chance and get settled. We'll be right here. Oh...where you moving to?

Hilarious!

I'm living on the risky side of this topic. My Grey is too cuddly and loves to ride there. She has nailed me before but I'm willing to risk it. Everytime she's nailed me it's a jealousy fit because I'm loving on one of my other birds right in her face. No woman should have to stand for that and I definitely deserved it.

This video is super long, 15 minutes, but probably worth a watch since you have her brother. Some really cute stuff around the 8-10m mark. Lots of different ways we play in this video. See if you see any similarities! Shows how tactile and playful she is. [video=youtube;7laZxI-SzUc] Hope I didn't bore you to death!

I tried putting these videos in the same thread but apparently they made some stupid change where you can only embed one video per post. Must be Microsoft in charge - useless enhancements, zero improvements. My favorite video of her - beat boxing. She taught this to herself, I guess I was watching some and she picked it up. She's a dancer and loves bobbing to music:

Most likely the same parents. If you still have Elwood's paperwork, it says who the parent birds are: Manley and Jessup are GreycieMae's parents. Wendy gave me a tour of the place and I only saw one breeding pair of Greys. She had a lot of other different breed pairs. Her initial name was 'Mystery'. Clutch of three, she was the youngest. Sister's name was Dixie, brother was Loki. Wish I could go back in time, I'd get him too. Dixie was sold when I went to see Greycie. I'm getting a kick out of reading her paperwork, I don't think I've read this stuff since I got her. Wendy went into a lot of detail how she raises them, their personalities etc. Great breeder. She no longer lives here Your Elwood sounds identical to my Greycie. Talked a little at first, 2-3 words and then nothing. She also said Peekaboo, I think that was her first and best word. Has moved on to a lot of her native Grey lingo. Also has picked up Caique and Jardines. She also communicates in a very physical way. She pushes the front of her beak against my cheek which means she wants attention. She will reach out for kisses. Will pull on my hand wanting to hand wrestle. Offers food (better hurry or she'll rescind the offer). I also carry Greycie around like a little baby/puppy. She's super affectionate and tactile. Gets around on her own super well too. We have the same theory about why they don't talk. I've put it out here and on FB/Avian Avenue why I think none of my birds talk (exception of a non-flying cockatiel). Someone always shoots it down with an example of their flighted bird that talks just fine. However I'll stick to my primary example of Project Perry: they have tons of Greys in a habitat and those birds do nothing but talk Grey. I think they learn to talk because they're locked in solitary most of their lives. Just a theory though. We have an 10'x20' aviary that she spends a ton of time in with her two flock mates mentioned earlier Toby (caique) who she hates and Rio (jardines) who hates her). Great dynamics there! Would love to hear more about Elwood. I'll probably spend some time digging through your past posts looking for info on him. Super glad to find out about him! Sorry to derail your thread! Here's just a few videos to help you get a feel on her personality: Helping me play some shoot'em up video games:

Oct 31 (yes, Halloween) 2012. I didn't really have any interaction with any other breeders but I was adamant I wanted mine un-clipped. I wonder how similar they are. GreycieMae is a mess but most of that is probably because I am very playful and rough house with her. She is one of the most playful birds I've ever seen. Not sure how much of that is genetics vs. environment. She won't talk, at all. Does yours talk?

Looks like I have a sister-bird to your Elwood. Wendy Craig Grey here too.

You may have to buy a seat...I would for my Grey. No way I'd leave her behind.

You should get one, at least on the door that poses the greatest threat. We didn't really need one until Miss Tinkerbell came along. She is so dang fast and silent and hard to spot. The other flying pigs I can hear before they even get close to the door. We feel so safe with this chain screen. I actually leave the door open now when I have just the conure with me and the bigger birds outside in the aviary. GreycieMae could accidentally fly through it as she weighs 500 grams (i'm only guessing here, she would most likely get tangled in it.) but tinkerbell would be stopped dead in her tracks at 90grams.

Also the small version of this would be suitable for a cabin. We also have these and use them as feeding cages. Use a lock on the door, our girl can open hers: Country Roost travel cage

Sounds like your bird is a chewer and destroyer of carriers like my GreycieMae. She has destroyed two pak-o-birds so it's metal containers for her. This petco acrylic also contains her. You might try this. It's small but will work for a flight and can't be destroyed: Petco carrier

5 fliers here. - GreycieMae (CAG) came with her pilots license, never clipped. - Rio the Jardines: breeder insisted on a very slight clip. It probably save him a few times as he starrted flying into windows and the aviary wire when his clip wore off until he got it through his thick skull. - Toby the Caique: I had to slightly clip him after a few incidents to save him from himself when he was learning the layout of our home. He nearly killed himself by flying straight into a door jamb at Mach-Caique speed which sealed the deal for him. He's since grown out and is 100% zippity through the house. - Tinkerbell the Conure: came to me flighted and will remain so. - Stevie the Cockatiel: came to us fully butchered. He's just started flying within the last two months. Still the worst flyer in our house but we're working on it.

I have to agree: - hanging light chains are something I never ever even considered until one day my little Tinkerbell smashed right through the one in our living room. She hurt herself a little bit but it could have easily broken her wing. - Door and cabinet tops are also another critical one. I've nearly shut a bird in a door that I didn't realize was up there. I now have an inner nervousness about shutting doors which always makes me check that nothing is getting slammed in the door - even when nothing is around. It's a good habit I developed. One thing we did for safety since I now have an escape artist was to install a European style insect chain screen on our main entry door. Tinkerbell, our conure, has gotten out twice because she is so silent and fast. Both times she was following me or looking for me. So now we have a hanging 'no-fly screen'. These are common in Europe and nearly impossible to find here. I had mine shipped from the U.K. It works crazy well! Edit: we thought about having a storm door installed but it's too easy for this little girl to fly around a door, she's done it multiple times. She is also absolutely impossible to hear in the air like you can our other flying pigs. She's incredibly difficult to spot in the same room as she will sit silently and the minute I'm out the door, she's out there with me. However something about this chain screen that confuses her and NONE of our birds will go near it. It apparently screws with flying insects vision as well as they won't go near it. It even makes me dizzy when I get too close to it and stare at it. Tinkerbell was basically holding us prisoners in our own home as every time we wanted to go out we had to physically locate her to make sure we knew where she is before opening that door.

oh jeez...momma always told me not to hang around the crack dealers...

I'm almost embarrassed to say I have no idea what GreycieMae's leg band has on it. I'm 100% sure it's written on her hatch certificate from the breeder. However, if she ended up in a CAG lineup, I know 100% sure I could pick her out. I have spent WAY too much time grooming her, kissing her, fart sounds under her wings, pushing her on her swing perch and just general rough house with her. She would do something that would clearly give her away as my little feathered girl. I bet I could even pick her out blind folded by noise and touch-n-feel. I know my Grey. I obsess over her.

Great thread. Hope other's chime in, I love reading how you got your birds. Repeating what I've written here before but I got my first bird, a white-eyed conure I named Lester, when I was 18. Soon after I got my first African Grey, Odie. Shortening the story I got booted out by first wife and she took my birds who later ended up living with my Aunt, except the little conure. My Aunt still has Odie and someday I'm hoping I can take over her care again. For about 10-15 years I've had an itch to get another bird. However all I could remember was the constant mess and wasn't sure I could deal with that again. Then one day my manager here at work told me he was getting a CAG to replace his Quaker that he was tired of (*#!@#$). That's all I needed to push me over the edge. We had been visiting a Caique named Spanky in a local pet store for a few months. I kept wanting to get him but just couldn't make myself do it. So after my manager started talking CAGs I started looking for a breeder and found one nearby (Spanky had been sold by this time). We went to visit and there was this naughty little CAG busy-body who later came to be know by 'GreycieMae'. She also had two clutch mates. One was a male which I wasn't interested in (who knows why). She also had a sister there which is the one I REALLY wanted. Her sister was SUPER friendly and just wanted to sit on me. However she was already sold and the breeder kept trying to talk me out of her anyway saying I wouldn't want a velcro bird. The breeder clearly didn't know me. GreycieMae wasn't a velcro bird at first but she is now - HAAAHAAHAA!!! On the trip when we went to see GreycieMae for the first time we stopped at a "rescue" which was nothing more than a filthy disgusting animal hoarding situation and they had two birds, one was a little super scared Jardines. My wife fell in love with her in an instant. I tried to leave the place but my wife wanted that bird. That was Raven, the bird we lost a few months later to PDD. She really captured our hearts. I had to get another Jardines after her and that's how Rio came into our lives. He's a totally different bird but still has those Jardines traits and absolutely adores my wife, just like Raven did. Now Toby, our Caique was that itch that I just had to scratch. He ended up being a back parking lot deal. I felt like I was buying drugs when we went to see him. Something shady about the people selling him and they would only deal in cash and only in the parking lot. However he's a great little bird albeit a ferocious little tyrant. He was clearly a baby when we got him as he grew out of his baby face. Stevie our Cockatiel was a lonely little caged bird at a local bird fair. I made the mistake of taking my wife. She said we're getting that bird over there. I said no we're not. She said we're getting that bird over there. I said no we're not. She said I"M GETTING THAT BIRD OVER THERE. I said NO WERE NOT. We went home with that little bird over there. Tinkerbell our Conure came to us by way of Murfchck my crack dealer right here at GF. Since my wife got that cockatiel she owed me a conure, that's just the way I saw it. She's been an absolute cutie-pie and I love her to bits.

OMG...I go on hiatus while my Mother is in town and come back to find several members are conspiring to stuff my house full of more birds.....hrrmmppffff. I'm not sure a bird that can give a group of cockatoos a run for their money in the noise department would do well here. We have a cockatiel that gets pretty damn loud and he's nearly ended up on the chopping board a few times. If Quakers are aggressive that's also a no-no. We have one highly aggressive bird, our Caique, and he's a damn handful. He's convinced he'd look good wearing conure and cockatiel scalps. He tried to wear a African Grey scalp but she beat the living tar out of him and he's learned his lesson.

My Mom traveled from Northern NM to deliver some Sterling Ranch beef that my Dad raises. After pulling several ice chests and unloading into the deep freeze there was a dunlap bag still sitting there. Mom says "that's for GreycieMae". Looks like GreycieMae has been super schmoozing her Grammy behind my back: 75 lb bag of walnuts right off the tree on the ranch I grew up on

Do you ship Haahhaaa! What do you use to 'chop' it? You probably told me while I was there but I forgot.