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The facebook groups are too big and too full of drama, although I do remember when there was a bit of drama here too. I only frequent them looking for cute videos. There was one I found the other day of a Grey singing to some childrens song and his singing was absolutely terrible, it was so stinking cute I couldnt' stop watching it. But this place is always my favorite.

She can't mix with the others. We had an incident a few weeks ago where my Tinkerbell (conure) got out and came flying in to fight with Nikki and get her off of me. Nikki bit Tinkerbells bottom beak and I thought I was going to lose Tinkerbell. It took her a week before she could apply any pressure with her beak. I was syringe feeding her to keep her weight up. I think we're out of the woods as she's eating and preening now on her own. The whole reason we took Nikki in was because she wasn't allowed out around the macaws and then this happens. We're getting the patio glassed in soon and I should have their outdoor aviaries built by spring time.

She has had a bit of a name change. No matter how much I want to be able to say her name 'Muneca', it doesn't roll off the tongue very easy. I started bastardizing her name and calling her 'Moo-Nikki'. Now I just call her Nikki. And since she is the biggest DIVA I have ever witnessed, her altered name goes well with the song lyrics "Hey Nikki you're so fine, you're so fine you blow my mind HEY NIKKI!!!". She gets to hear my cover of that song quite a lot. I'm glad she can appreciate my singing 🤣 Other than that she has taken a HUGE dislike to my wife. She will attack her any chance she gets. I know it's because she has claimed me as her very own man and Marietta can just get the heck out in her view. The only positive to this is we get to see her HawksHead flare quite a lot. She can really spread those war dress feathers and looks very stunning. But the BIZNATCH is coming with it so we all better watch out. She also makes this huge annoying sound all the time when she wants something. I realized the other day it sounds like the starter on her car has gone bad. I'll have to get it on video sometime. Now that I've heard it as a bad starter in a car, I can't unhear it. 😆

Great to hear from you. I love hearing abour HRH Inara. She's a real character. I don't think it would be such a bad thing for her to be incorporated into another flock. Huey is quite the talker and has adapted well from being an only bird to the big mouth of the flock here. He sits in there all day long and tells everyone to 'calm down' and then proceeds to stir them up and then has to drink coffee (BIG gulps), call for a shower, call for his love 'Belle' and around and around it goes all day long. Oh and don't forget the constant fart noises. He LOVES doing fart noises.

The picture I have in my head of watching all this go down is quiet funny. Dorian sitting there all relaxed after his delicious chocolate foray and you flustered giving out credit card numbers, calling anyone that will listen. Bad Dorian...bad bad bird. So naughty.

I'll bet he loves that. Throw a few loose almonds in there (if he's into that sort of thing). That'd keep mine coming back for more and probably making a bigger job putting everything back in.

C'mon Alfie, you have to treat your hooman better than this. I know it's super fun to fling food and act like a spoiled brat but you gotta eat something besides junk food.

Mine are just the opposite. If they're in my office with me when I'm working, they're quiet as little church mice. Huey will fly down and attack my headset occasionally. He's a little weirdo about that.

They are the best. I have my fuzzy lil dinosaur planted on my arm right now. I think she's becoming an appendage 🤣 Happy Birthday Corky!

Time to bust out the fermented apple cider!

These Greys have the patience of the Gods 😆

I doubt your house is too cold for a Grey, or you'd be pretty uncomfortable too. They're fine as long as there are no hard drafts on them.

Never really heard of anyone being successful with potty training. Their natural instinct is to go wherever. Mine will even try to sneak one knowing that if I sense the wiggle I'll come a little unglued and she flies off. She still tries to sneak one out on me.

They are big sooks in the evenings. I can always get away with a lot more in the evenings.

Sounds like you're doing everything correctly. My GreycieMae was a very headstrong independent chick. When I went to the breeders to first look at her, she really didn't want nothing to do with the two-legged creatures in the house. Her sibling however was a love bug and that's the one I wanted but she was already spoken for. It took a few months, maybe even more than a year to really get through to my grey but over time she's become the little love bug I always wanted. I just couldn't help but persist to get into her good graces. Now all she wants to do is hang on my shoulder 24/7. They are very malleable at this age so you've got a nice little lump of clay there to work with (analogy). Persistence pays off big time with these greybies.

Murfchck is trying to get out of the bird rescue operation. Both her and her husband have developed breathing issues from having all those rescue birds in the house with them. She is trying to find homes for most of her birds now. Over the years I've taken three birds from her, a conure (Tinkerbell), a whitecap Pionus and now Muneca. I would love to take all her Greys if I had anywhere to put them. Anyone want to donate a wad of cash so I can build a Greybie party barn? 🤣 She also has macaws and cockatoos that she needs to re-home. I cannot deal with those last two types of birds as they are too big, too loud and too dang destructive.

Meet Muńeca! She's a 21y.o. hawk-headed (red fan) parrot. DNA female hatched and raised at Kookaburra bird shop right here in Dallas. Some of you all may remember a member here that hasn't posted in a long while, Murfchck. She recently just asked if we'd be interested in giving this girl a new home where she can get out of her cage more. I didn't really need or want another bird but my wife said years ago that if a bird like this ever became available to us, we'd take her. Well, here she is. Going to take good care of this girl. We're not sure what to make of her yet. I've read that these birds don't make good pets, are territorial, can be very mean. I'm trying to go slow with her and back off when she warns me to. But that feather crest is too much to resist. I keep trying to give her scritches and she keeps snapping at me. She'll come around I'm sure, persistence always pays off 🤣

Prepare for a long holdout 🤣. Huey will sometimes go into his hangout and stay there all day.

I converted an old two-drawer dresser into a Huey hangout. I put a utensil tray in the drawer with a bunch of wooden cuttlery and other cardboard chewy toys. He is HIGHLy possessive of this now. It's his roosting area and you better keeps your mittens off of Hueys stuffs. He has chewed a hole on the back side of the top drawer and now crawls into his little cubby hole. I suspect he's nesting back there but so far he hasn't convinced Greycie that it would be a good idea to join him.

We moved our Huey and GreycieMae into our bedroom as well. Greycie used to have night frights all the time. We could hear her thrashing around in the birdroom. Stressed me the hell out. When we moved into our new house, one of the deals I cut was Greys in the bedroom since it's so big. She sleeps on a ladder and he sleeps on a rolling perch. Not a single night fright in a whole year now.

Welcome to the party. Would love to see pics of the babies. Don't think it's been mentioned yet so...one of the most important things you can do is get them on a proper diet. I use two Volkman products: Soak and Simmer and Birdeez Buffet. Those are cookables which I use as a base and then throw whatever I have available, jalapeno peppers, sweet potato, frozen peas, etc. After while on this stuff they start to shine. We rehomed a couple birds on rotten diets and you could see their transformation within months. If she's on pellets, those can be holding the weight on. Most pellets are corn-based. Garbage fat-fillers. Also Harrisons is bad for weight too if you're bird is not active enough. My GreycieMae is very active and she somehow can plump herself up on that stuff (we don't use it anymore due to their predatory price-fixing). That will help reduce the weight and get birdy healthy. If you're comfortable with the idea, once birdy is settled, you can help with little exercises like perching birdy on your hand and lowering your arm over a mattress to induce some flapping. Will help with the leg strength too. I'd be careful though with a bird in the condition you mentioned. Don't want any accidental flights and broken bones.

We just moved here. Give it some time 🤣

Huey gets put on a rope in the kitchen every morning while I make mama's coffee. I usually go off to the office for a few minutes until I hear the coffee is ready. It's not unusual for him to fly to their cage area to investigate as he has been in our room all night long. I heard him fly as he sometimes does but this landing sounded different. I stalled about 5m and then decided I better go check in case he's remodeling the wood work. Poor Huey got hisself in a pickle and needed a Halp from the kitchen staff. That footy....and his expression at the end when he finally gets rescued off the door frame. 😍🥰 Halp.mp4

Vorna's flying reminds me of our Huey who also never learned to fly as a young bird. He was a cage bird for the first 20 years of his life and when he came to us, I started by giving him small tosses on our bed to strengthen his wings. It wasn't long before I was taking him to the end of the hallway and letting him fly a nearly straight path to the living room perch. He had some really hard crash landings to start with but those didn't last too long. His flying is very different from our GreycieMae who was allowed to fledge normally and is a master graceful flyer. She will regulate her speed and smoothly corners, can fly through tight spaces without error. Huey has one speed when he flies and that's 'haul ass'. He also corners like he's flying around the edge of a wall, hard left/right, nothing smooth about it. He's getting much better though, loves to fly as he will initiate his own flights from his cage, around the kitchen and back multiple times...just for the fun of it I guess. Good to see your still posting about your Greys.

Come on Grammy....gib headrub 😍 🥰