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We had miniature donkeys. Never. Again. They murdered every beneficial plant on our property. They have the instinct to carefully dig a root grass out of the ground by pawing to consume every last bit essentially killing the whole plant. They also chewed the bark off the trees at donkey level killing several of our beautiful trees. This eventually lead to a pasture full of nothing but weeds and several dead trees which we are still fighting to this day 8 years after I shot the bastards. Just kidding - I didn't shoot them but the only thing that stopped me was my wife and the city ordinance about firing live munitions within city limits. You will love chickens, especially their eggs! We have Guineas now too. This is my third go-around with them. We usually end up getting rid of them because of their noise and/or because they are mean to the chickens. However we just had some city-idiots that are building a 100 story house overlooking our property so I'm thinking they will enjoy my roosters and my guineas and the piles of horse shit right beneath their kitchen windows!!!

Not sure if I've posted this here before or not....lose track of where I've posted what. If you seen it already, Miss GreycieMae demands you watch it again to get a grasp of her amazing beat boxing skills. She works on them daily.

I know how it feels. A couple years ago Greycie and I were rough housing in the bathroom and she was all balled up in a towel. I accidentally dropped her to the hard tiled floor and she hit with a thump and let out a noise. She was not herself for a couple of days and it nearly destroyed me from guilt and worry. She bounced back though...and we still rough house it up.

Interesting story regarding snakes: a lady from Queensland Australia on the conure group I follow posted a photo and story of her little conure. She was awakened at 2:30am by screams from her conure in the bird room. She ran in there to find her conure was completely wrapped by a carpet python that had gotten into the house and found its way to the bird. She was able to get the python off the bird in time and sat with it the rest of the night as it was pretty shaken from the ordeal. Can you imagine? She got a little bit of a flaming for destroying the python but her reasoning was that the python would no doubt be coming back for a re-visit knowing there is a meal waiting. Myself, I would have hacked the snake into a fine powder, run it up a flag pole, and set the flag pole on fire. But that's just me. Nobody eats my babies and gets away with it. A pic of the little sweety directly after the incident...

I just made the link to Tinkerbell a shareable album. Try again and let me know. Uploading to youtube is such a hassle.

A conure was my first bird back when I was a teeny (a white eyed). My first love is the Grey but the conure is a close second. Murchck had a conure that was found in her area that apparently escaped it's home and was attacked by a hawk/crow. She had it a week or so, no owner could be located, so she asked if I wanted a conure and I went over and got her. She was missing some of her scalp feathers for a while but has healed. She's a pineapple GCC. Everyone here has absolutely fallen in love with her. She's got that conure cray-cray going on too. Here's a little video of her rotten self. Let me know if you can't see it and I'll upload it to youtube and direct embed it. Tinkerbell

Sorry to hear about the conure. We have a conure now too thanks to my crack dealer 'murfchck'. They are my second favorite bird and not sure how I got along without one.

...and flaked out again this morning. Profile and Inbox 'database error'.

Have the camera ready for when the babies emerge!!!

Mine are fine now too when I looked. But it seems to flake out every so often.

Yep, been that way for a few days now...

That chaps my ass. Why do they think they have a right to clip your bird in quarantine?

When I wanted a boat I wanted a pontoon boat, so we think along the same lines. I'd rather jump off the top of a pontoon with tubes in the water than speed along any day. Oh, and fish, love to fish. One thing I would love to do is have a jet ski in the middle of a body of water where there is no land on any of the horizons and just let GreycieMae do what she will. If she took off into the water I'd just follow her. I doubt she'd go far though.

Your aviary situation sounds exactly like our aviary situation when we started. We get to 110 in the summers here with brutal humidity so I had to put it under a tree. I also have a mister and box fan for the 95+ days. Check out my thread about GreycieMae's aviary. It documents the whole build process. I also have a parts list on my facebook album dedicated to her aviary if you decide to the go the route we did. Go big or go bigger - haaaa!!! Miss GreycieMae's Aviary

Have you heard about 'Lucky'? She's a bird that lives on a boat sailing the Caribbean. They have several videos on youtube of their adventures. Not sure if they're still doing it as I haven't kept up with them for a couple of years... This one is probably my favorite:

The last two pics of Alfie hanging in the window are beautiful. Just what a Grey would love! Good job.

What a cutie. That's funny he does the horse 'purr'. I was expecting him to do the 'neigh' after he said he was a horse.

They are very sweet like that. There haste been a couple times where I've been out of it and had to lay around for a while and GreycieMae will usually sit on my head while I sleep. She'll be very quiet too which is not her MO.

Well I got you guys beat then, i got my birds in the late 80s! Sadly only one is still alive and living with my aunt until she passes. The advice them was to butcher one wing so they fly in a circle to the ground. Stupid stupid stupid....

Awww, she's looking great and really fitting in. We have those wicked storms here too and on up into Oklahoma. This time of year I always am on top of the forecast and if there is any chance of the destructive stuff headed in I move all my cages to the non-window side of their bird room, the heavy curtains go up to catch any glass and everybirdy goes on lockdown for the day. I couldn't handle coming home and a window has been blown out and my birds are gone. Wife has been after me for a few years to put up some kind of expanded metal safety screen as well as storm windows in their room.

I keep looking on google maps to see if they've renamed to the town to Parrotdise yet. Any news on that?

It's good that you have a snuggle muffins in Kya to get your fix. You can focus on moving at the speed Gracie needs without having to wish and hope for a Grey snuggle. I so wish I had two Greys. I think they do better with another of their own kind to get in mental lockstep with. One day my Odie may come back to me but until then...

Haahaaa! Can't be seen loving on someone other than the favorite. How dare you try and step her up in front of Daddy! Sounds like that girl has landed in a Grey paradise. She so deserves it. Her pic she looks so proud of herself. Just love her!

You might try some warm chamomile tea on Gracie. Our GreycieMae guzzles it like a camel in the desert. I think it knocks her out for bed time.

Something I just read in another thread reminded me of another benefit of Facebook, not that I'm trying to justify it over this forum or anything: there are TONS of people out there just like me. When I first got my Grey and the other rascals we have, I felt like maybe something just wasn't right in my head. I had this overwhelming feeling to treat these guys like they are my flesh and blood children. I dote on them. I smother them with affection. I worry about them. They are pretty much the majority of what I think about on a daily basis. After getting onto several groups and seeing how other's feel about their birds...well now, I'm completely normal!