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This is Miss GreycieMae during her evening 'special time'. She gets to go to bed one hour after the littles. Mommy's in the background discussing business.

The joys of dealing with sub-contractors! We had a situation many years ago when we first bought our place: the guy we hired to wrap the place in pipe and horse wire fencing took half payment, did enough to then want the remaining payment and then 'fell on hard times'. We harassed and threatened him for two years before he finally came out and finished our fence. We almost gave up and decided we were out the remaining 7K. I don't trust anyone anymore.

Unless it's a breaker switch that you can turn back on, I wouldn't be jacking with the learning how to reconnect that chandelier if you have to have a handydude undo it in the first place. Funny story time: My wife had a 'handyman' redo the lighting in her bathroom as she put in a chandelier (who has a chandelier in the shitter - my wife that's who) and some track lighting above her new counter tops. I told her, no one flips the damn switch until I'm there to observe. I flipped the switch and the chandelier came on, the new bathroom vent came on as well as the light that goes with the vent which is supposed to be a separate line. He TOTALLY screwed it up and I was horrified when I crawled into the roof and saw the mess he made trying to figure out how to wire the whole thing - no understanding of line and load he just tried matching wire colors. I spent a whole weekend completely pissed drawing up the wiring schematics and then redoing the wiring myself so I could be assured my house wouldnt' burn down at the hands of some idiot handyman. He also ended up flooding a spare bathroom when he ran a nail through a copper pipe in our laundry area. Chalk up another weekend to re-soldering pipe because I damn sure wasn't going to turn him loose with a torch to try and learn how to do it himself at the risk of burning the place down.

I'll shove them out there around 55 degrees if there is no wind. They also stay out there into 100+ temps although I have a big box fan and mister that I use after 98 degrees. They DO NOT stay out there unattended. My wife is home all day watching them. Too much risk from the hawks constantly casing the joint and I also don't trust that someone won't find their way onto our property and steal them or thinks it's funny to shoot one with a pellet gun.

There's a third one that was playing in the basket in that photo - he's a Jardines, you can just see his head over the top. They spend their days doing a lot of this - throwing toys overboard so I can come home and pick them all up again. ...and the big fat naughty queeny who lords over all - Miss GreycieMae:

GreycieMae does that same thing and it scares the hell out of me. Every time it's something has spooked her. As you probably know she's isn't locked up much except in the outdoor aviary. She gets spooked out there too and I've found if she has room to corner in her flight, she won't slam into things. Occasionally something will spook them while they're in our living room and she'll go into a hot freaky-fast loop around the living room doing her screech. It scares the hell out of everybody/birdy in the house when she does that. I think bigger is still better considering. We also have little feeding cages 18x24 inches or something. She'll flip out in one of those and I hate it. The bigger the cage the less she's inclined to hurt herself.

If she ever wants to come on a play date or needs a baby sitter, we have a full outdoor aviary that ours play in during the day and dedicated birdy room in our house! I've always wanted to see how GreycieMae reacts to another Grey.

Hey Ray, I saw this posted on FB by a quasi-former member of this place and it reminded me of you and cricket and my tigger who talked just like the bfa in this video:

Natural light is best!

- - - - - <----------------- 6 months old eyes

Oh wow, you are close! Might have to have a birdy meet-n-greet! We use Dr. Lass of Allen Veterinary Clinic as she is a certified Avian Vet. You are probably going to Dr. Osofsky in Carrolton. Dr. Lass consults with her when she needs to as Osofsky is considered the best Avian vet in the metro. We adopted a sick Jardines a few years ago and got to know who all the good and bad vets were in the area. We only found these two good ones. We ended up doing some consultations with the Avian research center down in A&M through Dr. Lass. Nice to know you're so close. Would love to know more about your Greybie!

The bird pictured is older than a year. Looks like a few years old at least.

We removed our chandelier in favor of a solid light fixture. GreycieMae thought it was way too much fun and refused to stay off of it. I had to build a cardboard 'teepee' around the thing so she couldn't get a spot to land. Wife got tired of explaining why we had a teepee around our chandelier and made me change it out.

Thomas J - where in DFW are you? I saw in another post you mention north east metroplex. That's where I'm at, Allen to be exact. Anywhere near you?

Just treat her like the queeny she is and get us some pics. Make sure you know how to feed them right - stickies in the food subroom.

helium ballon. Greycie hates them.

Felix says macaws are ok, even two and a mix of cockatiels if you so desire.

Had to watch the videos to remember who Fred was!

Jealous. Wish mine would talk like that.

That probably won't go away. We have a bedtime routine here: we walk inside the dark bird room, GreycieMae hangs off my back so I have to get against a wall to get her back where I can get her. She then flops forward and crawls into my shirt. After that it's the death clench followed by 2-3 minutes of sweet talking and reassuring and she'll finally release and let me gently place her on her sleep swing. They're silly.

Certain items are sure to kill a Grey. Just ask them I would remove the offending items and set them somewhere in the room where she can have a good look at them for a few days. Might help if she sees you messing with them occasionally too.

She made you pay. Now she says "don't you do that naughty running off again - you hear me? Or next time it will be worse, now where's my treat?" She's a real cutie.

Welcome to the fart club. We get that noise more often than any other out of our Grey. We made the mistake of laughing and giggling the first few times and now she loves to get a rise out of us with a well placed fart.

That's a cool name for a Grey. Never heard that one before. Very unusual.

What do you mean by "picking his white feathers"? Does he have bare patches? I'm sitting here right now with Greycie and she's lost probably 4-5 white down feathers just in the process of normal preening. This is an everyday occurrence. During a molt they'll even lose a lot of the regular feathers. I chase her down feathers all over the dang living room daily just cleaning them up - it's very normal. I'm not liking what this vet is recommending but it could clearly be a communications gap between us and what you're describing.