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Cutie. My favorite stage is when those cute little tail feathers start to pop out.

Our Grey learned to do an ear-piercing shrill that drove everyone in the house bonkers. We tried every damn thing and probably made it worse till we learned to just wear ear plugs and completely ignore the behavior. She finally quit after six months. It may be a long haul.

Is it because they are older birds? Mine are outside in 101 the last couple days and doing just fine. Shade tree, mister and blower and it makes me want to hang out in there. The mister is what makes the huge difference.

Its apparent you're attempting to poison poor Maalik.

The great thing about encouragement and the words from our Greys is you know they are genuine. I don't think Greys know, or for that matter care to know, how to fake it like so many humans. We have three pak-o-birds. I ordered two small size for our Caique and our Jardine and went ahead with the medium 'African Grey' version for GreycieMae. It is huge and cumbersome to take anywhere. I've taken to throwing Greycie into one of the smalls for short rides and she's a big 'ol heifer at nearly 490 grams. She fits in the small just fine. The one thing I don't like about the pak-o-birds is they can still destroy them no matter what Celltei will tell you. Even with the stainless mesh upgrade, GreycieMae figure out how to chew a hole in it. She literally destroyed the inside of hers in just a few short stays in it. So she's back to sitting in a metal cage while the other two get the pak-o-birds. If HRH Inara isn't a big chewer she'll be fine in one. I'd still suggest the stainless mesh upgrade though.

A Grey can never be too careful!

Throw that tanning bed on craigslist. There's always someone that wants what you have to sell. Can't wait to see pics of the paint job.

Oh you turkeys can laugh all you want to, I think the GreycieMae pulls off the look much better:

Somebirdy rules this roost.

Very sorry to read this. However it's not the first time I've read about a bird that was off, then seemed to get better, even back to normal and then is gone. These wonderful beings are so fragile sometimes.

The Monk Parakeets of the Dallas FortWorth Metroplex

There's a link I go to make homemade skeeter traps and he has this link indicating if you're not so inclined to make one, buy one of these. Guaranteed to work - he says. http://preview.tinyurl.com/zxmgkmy

Very common. She's cute. We have a wild flock of those here in Dallas near White Rock Lake. Not native, they seemed to have started from a group of escapees. Picture of the group close to where I work and ride (from their facebook page)

You have to be more one-track minded in stopping her. Over time she will stop. You've had her since Tuesday, give it a couple or more weeks but you must be persistent. One "Ok I'll let you sit up there" will backtrack to near starting over.

oh boy.... I've seen these and know it will be right up GreycieMae's must have list.

We use a giant drum fan to keep the bugs at bay. With a mister in front of it, it allows us to keep the birds out in 100+ Texas heat. Skeeters (and flys) don't like moving air. And GreycieMae is yet to be convinced that this thing isn't going to kill her.

I'm no parrot trainer, but I'd try laying an arm on the cage and seeing if she would step up onto the arm or step over the arm to the other side to get a treat. Make sure your arm is vertical to your person...don't make it to where she'll get trapped between you and your arm.

We had coffee out on the back porch and served up their breakfast this morning as the sun was rising. Only birds we heard were the wild ones making racket. All was quiet for about 20 minutes in the aviary while beaks were getting stuffed. They even laid aside their feuds long enough to inventory and pack it in.

Mandate from onhigh is to get good birdfood for the summer so the birdy brats can outdoor aviary all day. So i found this, seems to be high quality stuff, but isnt dirt cheap. I mixed-n-matched four different varieties. Three cookables and one ready serve. 10lbs Ultimate Blend 5lb Asian Buffet 5lb Primo Bean 5lb Pasta Salad Buffet 25lbs of food $97.43. Free shipping and I applied a 20% off coupon. That comes out to $3.89/lb. My reference is $9/lb which is what I normally would have ordered from SproutPeople.org. Chainsaw for reference - 25lbs of delish!

He's a serious cutie-pie!

So based on your comment - I disabled the blocking of popups and turned off adblocker and some other stuff. On FF, absolutely nothing happens when I click on the drop-down item. I'm too lazy to throw it in debug right now. My IE is wide open for ads, popups and malicious whatever as I don't use it except for dev work and all I get is a blank page. An HTML document is returned but not rendering. ^ What browser are you using? edit - so a quick debug on FF indicates a javascript error 'unexpected value parsing ViewBox attr'. IE is a lot more forgiving for crappy coding and it still won't render on my version. I normally wouldn't give a rip but I'm on orders to get the birdies some good food and have been given license to spend with wild abandon. This stuff seems worth a try, if I could order it.

Their website is seriously broken. I can only get so far using IE and Firefox. Haven't tried Chrome yet. Not sure how you buy anything from them with a busted portal. Looks very interesting though.

Everyone's situation is different but my Grey has been trying relentlessly to let her sleep on the ceiling fan mount above our bed. That's where she would prefer to sleep - with us. However wife won't let it be so I have to move Greycie to the birdroom every night. Your Grey would probably prefer to sleep with the flock, and that's probably you. Also, I have noticed that Greycie will be quiet when I'm laying down trying to sleep, even in the middle of the day if I just came back from a long training ride or just feel like crap and am laying down...she'll be quiet as a mouse. I've heard of other's Grey that do the same thing here on the forums. They're very sensitive to what we're doing. My Caique on the other hand, will sit there and screech his damned head off if he's feeling like it.

Loved the video. Ife is definitely on her way to becoming a spoiled rotten Diva just like Megan. I can see it in her body language.

You go Timber. That foraging ball needs a good beat down. I love how Greys try to be tough thugs. They're just too cute to really pull it off.