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My only concern is you leave her out in an outdoor cage all day during the day. Sounds like a recipe for disaster but your situation and setup may be different than ours. Do you have hawks or those two legged bastards that run around looking for trouble. I won't leave mine unattended as we have neighbors that can see them and they have people over all the time. I fully expect some day they may try and take a pot shot with a pellet gun (you know how pot smoking teenagers are) and that's when 9mm rounds are going down range - but this is Texas. Florida may be different.

467 grams at this current weigh in. She can get as heavy as 490. When we first got her she was 435-450. Someone's turned into a little piggy. Sorry for the wrong-orientation. New phone and I wasn't paying attention when I shot it.

Thanks for bumping. The OP is before my time here and I've never seen it. Definitely something I would like to try. We do sprouts here but always looking for something to mix things up. I didn't know about the issue with lima beans. We take frozen lima beans and microwave or just let them thaw. Plus I eat them almost daily for lunch. I think they're pre-cooked though.

Our aviary has 1"x2" wire and our Caique can't get his head through that much less our 480 gram flying fatty.

Trying to figure out what's included in the Prime sale. Apparently Amazon is getting razed for over-hyping this event and there's not really anything worth a damn. Pissed off amazon customers

We have Grey down feathers all over the place daily and we don't have a plucker. It's natural.

Prime 30-days for free. I've done it before and just cut it before the 30 days were up. May do it again.

Anyone else keep a little treasure chest similar to mine? Only the best little jewels make it into the collection. Easy to tell which ones came from my big grey goose. Harder to tell which midget the green ones came from.

Wow he's incredibly similar to Greycie. She does all that except the Hi boooyeeee. Her laugh is a little more girlie too. She loves the fart game too, usually I'll do it under her wing and she'll repeat it.

Looking dapper! I suppose those are his eating utensils all over the floor? Any idea why he's progressing? Doing something different?

My cell phone quit working one day a couple of months ago. I didn't bother getting it replaced for 1.5 months. The pressure from other people to get a phone finally sent me back into the store to get another one. It was an old phone and I pretty much hated it. I would love to say I really don't need one but these new Android phones are pretty dang neat. I just discovered the TV remote app on mine last night. WeChat, maps, woooohooo...>!!!!

What a sweety and such a cutie in her box. Glad she feels at home now.

Your example reads like the typical Avian Avenue thread. I go there to dig up info/recommendations etc. Don't much care for the rest.

Another reason I love my GreycieMae - this happened last night: I get home from my Monday evening class around 9:45. It's way past Greycie's bedtime but momma let her stay up so she can see me home. I come in through the garage and step into the living room and there's Miss GreycieMae sitting on her orbit. I start telling her Hi and she starts bobbing her head. I start to walk over and she's already craning her neck and tilting her head sideways ready to give her best birdy kiss. That's when momma cuts us off. Wifey steps up from her chair and beats Greycie to the kiss. So I see Greycie really craning her neck now trying to get a good look over mommy's shoulder. It was the cutest thing. She kept going from side to side to get the best view of my eyes to see if I was still paying attention to her. So we teased her then and just kept ignoring her. That was enough. She flew onto wifey's shoulder and forced her way down in to get some attention. She actually gave mommy a good nip later as she was still annoyed with her.

This is my favorite bird forum - maybe because the bird that holds my heart is an African Grey - I do love my other birdys though. I frequent Avian Avenue but I rarely post, just too damn many members. On Facebook I was in two Grey groups. One had 15K+ members - what a friggin mess that was. It wasn't about the birds anymore, it was chaos. I exited those two holes after a few months. I like it here. I like my Caique hangout too - maybe less than 10 active members! Just like in real life, if I'm invited somewhere and there are more people than I can handle socially (one maybe two) I'm the f outta there.

She got home on Tuesday night. The reactions from each birdy: GreycieMae - Who are you? Out of my way, where's Daddy. Romeo Rio - What's for dinner? We'll make sweet love to your toes when I get something to eat. Toby Toby - off with the cranky-pants, mommy's home. Everything is right and good with the world again. I'll see if I can set the camera up in their birdy room and see if I can capture that sorrowful coo.

Ours has learned to throw a fit exactly like an angry Caique (learned from Toby Toby of course). It's silly really because there's no way this is instinct. Purely learned behaviour.

You might try taking advantage of that magical time in the evening when they are more docile and lovable. Greycie can be nasty and bitey all day long but I can almost always depend on her cuddly time to reconnect. We had a period of time where she was a pill all day everyday but she seems to have settled.

Great story. I love conure too - cute birds

I've seen 3-6 months. This is all anecdotal. I did find a somewhat science based writeup on this information that led me to believe most of this to be true. Hell if I can find that now. We built ours and wired it up and threw the birds in. I don't really see it being a problem unless you don't provide them with places to perch. Greycie likes to walk the top of the aviary upside down and Toby loves to haul rocks up the wire. Other than that they don't really come in contact with the wire that much and I'm not too worried about it.

Stainless which is extremely expensive or as a lot of zoos and our own personal zoo at Sterling-Ranch: Galvanized-after-weld wire (GAW). With GAW, it's highly recommended you weather it first to let it oxidize and then scrub with a vinegar wash to make it safe for the birdies.

Win-Win. Good for Sophie!

I hope you had a proper beak count after the making of those chicken and dumplings. I only have three birds and I manage to lose one occasionally. I can imagine what goes on around there.

Woooaahhh Alfie. Did he just start flying? The approach and landing were a little sketch. He'll get it down and be an ace soon.

What we do when mommy's away. She doesn't let me handle her bird the way I handle GreycieMae. She's away for two weeks and I'm up to no good, handling little Rio the same way I rough house with Greycie. He'll be swinging and singing from the chandeliers in no time! This morning I started playing peek-a-boo with the camera. He can't resist hamming it up for the camera. So I grabbed him (naughty naughty) and started to bouncy-bouncy him the same way I do Greycie. This is what he did. TOOO CUTE: Once I figured out what he wants to do I had to get another Mommy says "What have you done to my bird" when she saw these HAAAHAAAHAHAHAA. He'll be asking for Guiness Beer next!