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That's interesting: I looked into making soap after buying my last pack of Dial and noticed they are really curving the bars so as to sell you as much air as possible. The bars disappear really quick in the shower too - maybe last a week. I swear I remember soap used to last A LOT longer than that. I decided I'm done with them after reading about others who are complaining about the same thing. Deceptive packaging really pisses me off and I usually won't put up with it. How hard is it to make your own soap? I've forgotten all that I looked into after I found a supplier of no-name-no-frills soap that we use.

Here's some more fuel for the fire: I came home late last night and since the sun is setting near 5:30pm it was already dark. I mildly paniced because I still had my Gambels outside PLUS our dogs are grounded 'for life'. Now the dogs are grounded because they escaped on Sunday when our gate froze wide open and they ended up running the neighborhoods for new hunting ground causing me an all-day search in 34 degree temps on my scooter (we found them after dark on Sunday night). Back to my qauil in the dark...So I ran to get my quail and found one be-headed and partially eaten through the cage bottom. He was still warm, so I knew the perp was nearby. So I ran and released my wickedly fast and notoriously good huntress - Bella our Rat Terrier - and sick'ed her on him, whatever it was. She found him in less than a minute: a big old disgusting rat hiding near my aviary of all things. JUST THINK IF HE'D HAVE GOTTEN MY CAIQUE!!! I relished in the slaughter of that lil <blankety-blank-blank-blank> while holding my headless Gambels quail. If Bella would have let me at him I would have hacked him into pieces with my machete since I was so pissed at losing one of my prize Gambels males. Suffice it to say - it's always my fault things like this happen. I had forgotten when I left that morning and put my quail out that the dogs were in deep doo-doo with wifey and wouldn't be allowed to patrol AND I'd be getting home in the dark. All that to say, I have no love for rats/mice around here. I caught the mice at the barn eating my less than week old chicks which is why I built a bucket trap. I can't use poison around here because Bella will dang sure get them and I do not want her harmed. Here's a pic of Sterling-Ranch rodent and varmit control. They also fend off the coyotes and even a bobcat twice. Both are rescues, Pinky the big one was actually found inside a dumpster as a week old pup:

I use a bucket trap in my barn. I lost my concern for their cuteness and well-being after they started destroying insulation, wood framing, wiring etc.

Oh, she's a cute little stripper.

Recall GreycieMae was beginning to enter what we all like to term the - "TERRIBLE TWOS" - whether it be real or a figment of parront imaginations. Whatever, she was getting nasty bitey, cantakerous and just being generally hard to live with. It was getting bad enough I didn't want her near me. Then we built an aviary. Her behavior changed dramatically. She went back to being that sweet little bird I remember. The one that barely talks but I figured that's ok because she has one hell of a personality and loves to wrestle and play and just be handled any way I please. Roll forward into November and we are caught in an Ice Age for North Texas standards. We are barely getting out of the 30s on a daily basis for the last two weeks. GreycieMae hasn't had any aviary time since the wooly mammoths began roaming the earth again. About 8 days into daily bird room confinement and here we go again. The nasty bitey witch has returned. There's something to be said for keeping them busy all day. She's nowhere near as busy in her bird room as she is on high alert all day in her aviary. Can't wait for this ice storm to pass.

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You may be mistaking the 'rotten' smell for the earthy smell they have once they get sprouted and going.

'Crackheads' - we're on a parrot forum - *CRACK* At least that's the way I took it.

No turkeys, ducks or geese. Have you seen their crap? So messy. I won't have anything here that creates a mess.

Murfchck - since you're running a bed and breakfast over there do you have room for: - three well-behaved parrots - two dogs - one cat - two Gambels quail - three Button quail - two fan-tails - two oriental frills - three llamas - two goats - eight silkies - oh about 35 assorted chickens We're going on vacation. The quail, chickens and pigeons aren't fussy, everyone else will need 3-squares a day and most of that will end up on the floor and the walls. If you do it right, the chickens will cleanup for you - well, sort of. They do have a bad habit of crapping everywhere but I'm sure you're used to that.

Maybe just zip the sharp point off but I wouldn't go any further as their nails contribute to their balance. You can always just simulate working with his nails too as it is nice to have a birdy that will let you maintain them.

Is this a possible case where you may suspect the lady may want her bird back sometime in the future? This is just my opinion on how I would deal with it: if her marriage proposal should go south, as they sometimes do, and she's missing her bird, I'd be happy to reunite them. I can't stand the thought of a bird with nowhere to go but if there's a loving home, I have no problems letting them go.

As one who has kids, I'd just let things roll. If they're both 'bird people' there are plenty of birds out there to accompany them through life. I didn't want to see my conure Stewart leave but he was so attached to Pickles the Parrotlet and Pickles is an external appendage of my daughter, I had no choice but to watch the three of them march out my door to life and beyond. Sounds like Sophie is going to end up with Ryan sometime in the future?

oh shoot...did I say 'FCT'? I hope this doesn't get me DQ'd. Felix is all-knowing so I'm sure this will get out. Timbersmom has it - Certified Felix Trained. GreycieMae has recieved a card from Felix in the past. Word got around about her new aviary, so at Felix's mom's request we sent pics and I was immediately certified as 'trained'. I must say it's nice knowing that I can do what I'm told and I get it right at least part of the time.

My opinion of vets and doctors are not very high. In know everyone screams to take the birds to the vet and once they get the all clear everything is supposed to be ok. We found out with Raven that with a LOT of researching on our own our knowledge of PDD far surpassed the many vets we had used. It was to the point we walked in and told them what we wanted done and what meds we wanted.

That Felix is a funny one! By the way I am FCT! My cert is coming in the mail soon I've been told. Did you all see Einstein's Scary Birdie Ghost Stories Halloween movie? That is REALLY good if you haven't.

Well, if you are like us, you'll wish you would have named them something else When I named Greycie, I quickly found out just how dang many people name their Greys a variant of Greycie or Greyson. I should have called her Princess Penelope or something like that..Penelope would have worked good because it fits her. With the amount of time she spends in trouble, I am usually always calling her GreycieMae and it has stuck. With our other two knuckleheads: Toby our Caique, I keep wanting to call him Elvis. He has that slick jet-black doo on the top of his head. Wife wouldn't let me Rio our Jardines - we all are now in agreement that he should have been named Romeo. He is such a sweettalker and smooth operator with my wife. He really knows how to pour on the sugar. He gets called Romeo Rio a lot now.

Bose makes a really nice set of noise-cancelling headphones. They worked perfectly until the cord was severed

space space space space space space <<----- GreycieMae

That's a stripper. I've seen those before.

GreycieMae has combined the dog whistle with "love you" when she wants us to come back whenever she sees us going out of her sight. It used to be dog whistle + "cm'on" which is what my wife does to call the dogs. She also says "TICKLE TICKLE WICKLE PICKLE". At first I thought she made that up from her standard "TICKLE TICKLE TICKLE" but then I caught my wife one day saying that to her. Mind you, she picks up nothing from me which is part of my problem with her not talking much. My wife won't cooperate on the training front. So i'm pretty much stuck with a non-talker or non-sense talker. Along that that same thread she did start doing a little giggle after I play stick-em-up with her. I approach her, give her the shifty eye, then point my pistolas into her wing pits and tell her to "STICK-EM-UP". Then I would tickle her side saying 'tickle tickle tickle'. One day she busted out with the cutest giggle and she's been doing it ever since. I guess I need to look into some professional methods to teach her some talking.

That doesn't mean I wouldn't try and extort you into slipping that lil baby into your pocket on the way out

Ok. You seriously have to stop posting photos of that widdle baby red tail. A. He/she is a direct sibling to GreycieMae. B. He/she is cuter than what I can withstand. C. CAGs talk directly to my soul. D. I don't need another bird. That picture is so cute. And he has food on his little face.

We have a Jardines with a serious foot fettish. He will do a slow dance around my wifes feet then swoop in with a serious Romeo "Oh! Heeellllooooooooo..."

They have a good video and come with good instructions on how to use their sprout mix. It's pretty simple: rinse the sprout mix in the container, fill with water and let soak 8-12 hrs. Then a cycle or two of rinse and let drain for 6hrs and they are ready for the birds to eat as is. The bean mixes I cook before serving. They don't actually split open, a tail starts to grow out of the pod which supposedly indicates the germination and higher food quality content. I'm going with it... Go to sproutpeople.org and look at the ingredients of the bird mixes, that will tell you what you can sprout.