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I'll have to find time to watch that one. I love stuff like that. Hate sitcoms....

Bulkfood.com seems to be a parked domain. I've been looking for a source for sprouting material. Sproutpeople.org is to expensive once you get the setup going. We used to get our stuff out of the bulk bins at Sprouts but they've started catering to the crap junk food people: bulk chocolate pretzels, chocolate raisins, sugar coated papaya, you get the idea. All the stuff we used to buy there for sprouting is now in prepackaged containers and I don't need 5lbs of mung beans to go with my 5 pounds of adzuki beans etc... Any other local sources you may know of?

I've been sprouting for over a year. Sproutpeople.org makes a sprouter that anyone can use. I also buy their mid-bird sprout mix. My birdies love it. Bird Mix Sprout Kit. You get free shipping on over $60. I will sometimes go in with a couple local people because I can't use $60 worth of mix. Also freeze their mix as it is non-pesticide and does have larvae which will sprout on it's own! Their mixes are pretty expensive so once you're setup with their kit you can look into making your own mixes. We use soup bean mixes, Volkmans soak-n-serve makes a REALLY nice sprout mix which is cheaper.

Yep, Toby is the Caique. My wife had a painter here last week. 10ft tall and bullet proof Toby decides to launch off his orbit from the other side of the living room and flies through a barrage of arms trying to swat him down as he heads for his target: the guys head. We had a time pulling him off because he wouldn't let go and the guy was a little panicked. It's the first time we've seen him attack someone as he doesn't do that with us. Not sure if you saw the video in the 'Aviary' thread of Toby carrying a rock up the wire. He's doing it daily now with dirt clods. I come home and we see he's filled the corner of a feeding cage with little dirt clods. Industrious little fella

They sound a lot like Caiques. Very cute over-the-top little personalities.

It's definitely a risk but so is jumping in the car to go get something at the store. You can mitigate that risk by knowing your bird but then our Greys are not 100% readable either. I completely trust my Grey but there are times when I can tell she is bitey and I won't allow her on me until she straightens out her attitude. As for me, mine is a shoulder bird. I end up doing too much to have to balance a bird on one arm while doing all the stuff I get into. Mine are also cageless birds which means they go everywhere with me except out the door unless wearing a harness. If I end up with an extra notch in my nose or my ear or a hole in my lip, my bike racing habit has done a lot worse to me. My only real concern is my eye. I don't let her get near my eyes.

I'm a hand-feeder too. Except my 'baby' is two years old and we both know dang well she still doesn't need the baby food anymore. :) Every time I have to break out the baby food, she's right there to ask for some. We have a snowflake quail that isn't doing so good, so I broke out the baby food last week - here comes GreycieMae for her share. This went on for 3 days until the snowflake returned to good health. P.S. I don't cross-contaminate either. Greycie got hers first before I headed down to hand feed the quail and then sanitize myself like I had Ebola.

Bob is lucky he didn't show up in my backyard. My next thread on here would have been "Bobs Terrarium" made from some damn carport frame...

Murfchck - didn't most of your pluckers come to you that way? I'm not fully up-to-date how all your birds acquired you but I thought most of them adopted you as already fully funtional pluckers. I'm always trying to figure out why these birds pluck. My first Grey was a plucker. I put it down to her cage and the way we trimmed her way back then in the stone age. My manager at work is an interesting case. We both got our birds nearly the same day so they are almost the same age. His started plucking a few months ago. He came to me wanting to know why. My best guess "your bird is home alone all day". I kept after him to get a companion of some sort. His wife started coming home at lunch but unfortunately I think it's become a habit now. I'm just waiting for the day when I see GreycieMae start doing it. I have a whole parrot wardrobe picked out that she will be wearing. Some even have hoodies. I'm the same way, I see some of these rescue birds on FB with horrific stories and they look as healthy as can be. I also see the opposite in which they are plucked bald.

Looks like that might be a direct sibling of GreycieMae there. GreycieMae says hello!

Well, it's their spirit that I am in love with. I don't give a damn if they are plucked bald.

!!!Done!!! From here on out - it's my wife's problem, unless it falls apart It's been a hell of a lot of work but so worth it when I see GreycieMae in it. She absolutely LOVES it. She was a happy bird to start with but I swear I detect an even greater happiness in her. She's full of happy noises in the evenings not to mention tuckered out most of the time from playing non-stop. The thing cost a lot more than I was expecting but when you see what people pay for an aluminum macaw cage - I still came in under that. It makes taking care of three fully flighted no-cage birds a breeze. It's really lifted a burden off of my wife who takes care of them during the day while I'm making the donuts. Still have some new bare spots to fill with winter rye from new digging. The white rock looks really good surround the lush green in the interior. Not sure how long it will stay white as the dirt mixes in with it. I really screwed up and should have put the root barrier on top of the dig wire rather than underneath the dig wire. Cost me about double the rock and lots of trouble keeping the wire down as I was filling in rock We finally found a way to keep Rio happy in the aviary. He now has his own fort. Every boy needs a fort He stayed in his fort nearly all day once I installed it... And finally - what's a girl to do after a long day watching Daddy work hard? [video=youtube_share;Bn0T7bcfGck]

Great thread - I've never seen it since being here: 1. I grew up on a cattle ranch in Northern New Mexico. Hardest 16 years of my life - by a long shot. 2. I was a U.S. Marine from age 17-24, participating in the Gulf War I or as I like to term it - the fight for Big Oil. 3. I put myself through college after the Marines and ended up as a telecommunications software engineer. 4. I took up bike racing (bicycle - like that famous cheat doper Lance Armstrong) when I was 35 after I started putting on weight at 31 in my new, first time in my life sedentary, office job. 5. I cycled the End-to-End route across the U.K. and then across The Netherlands and Germany when I was 38. It took 7 straight weeks to do it (4 weeks across the U.K. and 3 weeks to cross Netherlands and Germany).

Beautiful Grey there, and an inquisitive one too. Lucky you!!!

Great idea for a subroom. Haahaa Acapella...you have a great idea, now you get moderate it. Like they told us in the Marines - don't ever volunteer for anything. Maybe you should move the '4 the birds' room in as a subforum too so they are side-by-side. Messages to our birds and of course our birds get to have their say as well.

Good magic tricks leave your audience terrified and shaking. Love it.

There is a post on here, or one of the other avian forums I'm on, about their bird getting a burn in their eyes from using a reptile light - so be careful with that. I think it started out with the bird exhibiting irritation and turned out to be the light.

What a cutie. Glad she's adapting well to her new home.

Definitely find some place level to start with. I spent at least three days hauling and shoveling 4 truck loads of Texas black clay by hand and leveling the pad site. Unless you have access to heavy equipment which I don't. I bought the wire from a local farm store in the area. I can ask him where he sourced it from, I'm sure he'll give me the info.

As with all projects this one was under-budgeted, under-staffed and is currently over-schedule. I'm not kidding either! This thing was supposed to take a weekend...or two. The Cockatoo rescue that uses these same structures makes it sound so easy. I'm 100% sure I could do the next one in about half the time as I know what I'm doing now. I wish I would have kept track of the time I've spent and the costs. I'm thinking we are approaching $1000 on the materials cost. The Cockatoo Rescue that published the webpage which I'm following makes it sound pretty simple to set these up. But to their credit, they have a team of people, they buried the structure legs so as to use only one roll of wire, and the gates they built are simple PVC. I screwed myself by wanting this thing as tall as possible and mounting on concrete deck blocks buried just below ground. Plus I built a safety cage that could easily work as it's own outdoor aviary and two fancy wood gates. Now were laying some pretty white'ish rock that my wife found at a materials place around the outside on top of the dig wire. I have the feeling this project will never end. My wife wants to really purty it up and that means a lot of work for me

Poor Sunny. I'm glad he's found a new buddy. Somebirdys do need buddies.

My guess is a horizontal hood is better placed above the bird. That's what you typically see people doing.

That would have scared the hell out of me too. We get an abnormal poop around here and we're on pins and needles all day until things 'normalize'.

She has her human trained nicely!

That's a cute little sweater Kilaya is wearing. Is it cool/cold where you live? I might find one for our birds as I plan to have them in the aviary when it cools off around here and that might help extend their outside time. Maybe a hair-brained idea but I'm going with it.