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High pitched screech in the ear with temporary loss of hearing here too. I hate it when she does that. All else is fine by me.

The manager that I work for has a CAG that is approaching 1yo. Last night he noticed plucking above the base of the tail feathers, under the wings and I'm assuming around the oil gland area. Anyone venture a guess about what's wrong? I'm guessing infection in the oil gland itself maybe. He set up an appointment with a standard vet and I re-routed him to one of the best avian vets in our area. That should provide some answers hopefully.

I need something that is standalone. I will have no computer or laptop in their room. Timbersmom, do you have any trouble with the birds messing with the camera? I also need to access the feed via smartphone.

Anyone use a petcam to monitor their birds while away/at work? Our bird room is nearing completion and I'm wanting to put an IP netcam (standalone) in the room to check in on them during the day. Wife stays home with them most of the time but we're coming up on a situation where she may need to be away for a few weeks and I don't want them to have to stay caged all day since they're not used to that. Any recommendations?

She looks like a sweetie bird.

What's it made of? Want to sell it?

That's the easiest way I've found to do it. Some people use photobucket but I find it annoying to even watch videos posted there.

Is 'Sugar in the Raw' a good substitute? I may have to try this and batch freeze it.

I saw a thread where someone was asking about DIY climbing nets. A couple of current posters (and one non-current) mentioned having tossed their unused climbing nets into storage because their birds hated or were scared of the nets. I have two birds that are genetically crossed with chimps and will surely use them. I believe Talon and LuvParrots were the two current members. Don't recall the other. We're getting our bird room done finally and want to hang one in the bird room, and another in our shower. Greycie and Tobey currently swing from a towel but I would rather hang a climbing net that I can attach securely. The towel has slipped and hit the deck once already with Greycie in it - ouch. I also want to throw one over the back of my chair as Greycie loves to hang off the back of the recliner and play peek-a-boo.

No jury needed here. We have four birds. Our Parrotlet, Conure and the Caique react as if there is another bird in the mirror. Greycie does not. She stares at it like she knows she's staring at a double, or something strange. When I play youtubes of other birds (esp. Einstein) on our flat screen, she reacts differently as if she's looking at another real bird, which she is sort of. Mirrors work really well for the pea-brains, not so much for the uber::smart Greys! It kind of makes me sad in a way to look at our Caique and know he doesn't have the same brain-power. He looks up at us with that cute little eye and I know there's just not that much in his little head. Doesn't seem to be by size either....as our Conure is on the bottom of the smartness totem pole, then the Parrotlet and Caique are at the same level. Greycie is quite a ways above them all.

Do you really mean 'compressed' or 'edited'? YouTube will take care of compressing on it's own. They actually recommend MPEG4 at 640x360 (16:9) or 480x360 (4:3) aspect ratios. I have a GoPro but I never use it for the birds so I can't recall what ratios it supports. Once you have your video in hand, the best way to 'compress' it is to edit it. I use Windows Moviemaker because it's free and easy. The downside to Moviemaker is that it outputs an .avi file but YouTube supports upload of .avi so no biggie there.

I can tell you this about our Caique: I got lazy one day and just put him to bed in a cage that was on the floor. Talk about a pissed off bird the next day. Higher is better and they'll just be generally more relaxed. That's our experience.

Looks like a happy grey in her Pak-o-birdy. Bet she puts it to good use.

She's a very sweet prairie dog. But like parrots, they are wild animals and have the instinct to bite. The neighbors were feeding her (which is why I had to build a containment fence, she was going over for treats) and she instinctively took the end of one of their fingers. There's a video on youtube or maybe it was America's Funniest videos of someone giving a kitten cpr. That was going through my head when I was trying to save 'Peaches'. I had her laid in my hand the same way massaging her chest and abdomen all the while doing compressions. Can't believe it worked. I need to post some video of her on here, she's a real cutie.

Get Dayo a toy hammer and see if he licks it!

Funny story - We have a pet prairie dog that lives outside. I have her in a containment fence which uses an electric wire 3 inches off the ground to train her to stay in. I screwed up and used the wrong charger when I first set it up. I thought she was still in her cat crate when we were going to test it but she slipped out and ran straight for the fence. I didn't know it but she got herself caught under the wire and stunned then began to cook. I only noticed because I smelled her burnt fur. It took me a while to get to where I could cut the power and was sure I lost her. Anyway, I go get her and she's limp, no heartbeat, no breathing. I commence chest compressions on my prairie dog. It took about 1.5 minutes before I could get a pulse going but no breathing so I started pumping air into her with my mouth. I finally got her breathing. After that it took about 45 minutes before she could move again on her own but overnight she sort of just recovered. No lasting effects that we know of. My teenager couldn't believe I saved the prairie dog. Her comments were, you can never tell Marietta (my wife). She's right, she'd kill me. The prairie dog has to stay in this fence because she bit the neighbors and sent them to the hospital for stitches.

I don't know why I said walnut. I meant pecans. We have multiple pecan trees on our property. It's a race to see who can get them first: us, the humans wandering around looking for free nuts or the squirrels. Squirrels are winning.

What about other nuts? This time of year we're finding all sorts of nuts in the stores (and under our walnut trees). Should they be roasted as well?

Love that falsetto ending there. Someone has been practicing.

Our conure wiggles his tongue and he's about to take a chunk out of you. Greycie only does it perched on the shower rod after I touch her beak with my wet finger, like she's licking the water off the sides of her beak.

We have a similar routine. Every now and then I break with protocol and try and shortcut. Greycie lets me know she's not happy. Cute pic!

This is a first - I've never seen these birds getting along so nicely. They must be thankful or something

That's the size we have. It's only suitable for a timeout cage or a feeding cage which is what we use it for. I also put Greycie in it with me in the garage when I'm on my trainer, she'll settle onto the swing I have in there and start making happy noises. I guess it would work for a sleeping cage which is what you mentioned.

We have the second cage and I highly recommend it. Our Greycie goes crazy in it as it's too small as an everyday cage. We use it for the Caique and our Jardines we used to have. It's very well built. I found it for substantially less than the price you show though. If I find the link, I'll post it.

This guy: