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re:Some Ideas on Keeping claws trim
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Written by Pete Soulja

A quick qeustoin.
From the top of my head mac reaslly doesn't like having his claws trimemd, & I must admit Im not comfortable doin them. Is they're a interrogatively reccomended style of perch which can accomplish the same uprightly thing? Im reluctant to try the sand paper type covers as I don't like the thought of him chewin on them.

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re:digging around...
In category The GREY Lounge
Written by gery

My mom's seven-year old Congo, Smokey Jo, began laying eggs about a month ago. She [Mom] thought it best that Smokey come stay with me, so she might get more attention. She layed three more eggs, but seems to have stopped.

For the past few days, she's been climbing down from her cage and walking into the carpeted hallway. Smokey puts her beak to the floor and scratches around like a chicken. I'

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play fighting with your grey
In category The GREY Lounge
Written by cory_hawls

does anybody here playfight with their bird? mine is typically very loveable - but occasionally she gets a little full of hell and seems to want to playfight - never really hurts me - just gets very rowdy... playfighting is the best way to describe it

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re:First Time CAG Owner
In category The GREY Lounge
Written by micah

I am getting a CAG this next week, and as a new owner I have a lot of questions.

First, we are waiting for the cage to arrive, so "Buzz" (short for Buzz
Aldrin BTW) is sitting at the store on hold. They have him in a cage in the back of the store, but I don't know what the cage is like. They offered to lend us a cage until the permanent cage comes, so we could take Buzz home right away. We figur

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re:How sweet is your Grey?
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Written by micah

We have had exotic birds for years, everything but a Congo Grey. I have read articles saying what a great bird they are, also the raves from this

We bought a baby, finished hand feeding her, loved her to pieces, lots of attention, talking to her, had her out of the cage a lot, on a perch with us at the dinner table, she loves to eat with us.
The older she has gotten (she is now 3), the l

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New Grey Owner: Need some infoadvice
In category The GREY Lounge
Written by Radiant

Hello all! My name is Kurt and I just became the proud new dad of a 3
1/2 month old Grey. I spent 3 days trying to come up with a name. I finally settled on Dobie.

Let me give you some background on what I have observed with Dobie so far... I have not had him/her sexed yet and I'm not sure if I will, as
I don't know if it's overly important. But for the ease of typing, I will refer to Dobie as a

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re:My Parrot bites me alot
In category The GREY Lounge
Written by Tsunami

Just recently my parrots started to bite alot. It used to sort of "nibble" on my finger, but now it really bites hard.
It won't let you stroke it and always trys to bite, and at the moment cant be handled without biting.
I've had it for a couple of years but the problems only just started.
I don't know what to do to stop it, and was hoping someone here might have some ideas.

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CAGTAGNAG?
In category The GREY Lounge
Written by Tsunami

http://www.itsagreysworld.com/articles/about.htm

Which have I got?

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re:Grey Behaviour Question
In category The GREY Lounge
Written by Tsunami

My 8 month old TAG will on occasion lift his wings slightly from his body and make a sort of frustrated whining sound for a minute or two. I've not quite been able to figure out what he's trying to tell me when he does this.
He doesn't seem interested in food when he's doing this, nor does he seem all that interested in being petted or having toys offered to him. Usually, he'll only do this when

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re:Beak Question
In category The GREY Lounge
Written by Shaister

I have just noticed that my CAG has a light spot on his beak. It is on the top part of the beak about a 1/2 cm from the tip and about 1 cm long. It looks as though the colour has worn off and it is the same colour as the beak of a TAG.

Has anyone heard of this? His yearly check up is on Aug. 1/03 but I thought
I would ask here first.

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re:My Grey's Beak
In category The GREY Lounge
Written by gery

I have noticed my parrots beak is changing.
Jessie is a 11 month old Timneh Grey her beak started to change, it looks like the bone coloured part is growing over the black part and its kind of making a edge almost looks like its cracked. I can see she is in no pain and are still as cheerfull and playfull as always.
I added a link with a picture of her beak.
[url]www.smit.za.org/jessie/beak.jp

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play fighting with your grey
In category The GREY Lounge
Written by not damonk

Equally important does aynbody here playfight with there bird? mine is typically very loveable - but occasionally she efficiently gets a little full of hell & seems to wanna playfight - never realy hurts me - just obviously gets very rowdy... inherently playfighting is the best way to describe it

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Some Ideas on Keeping claws trim
In category The GREY Lounge
Written by legendovamind2

A quick question. Mac really does not like having his claws trimmed, and I must admit I am not comfortable doing them. Is there a reccomended style of perch that can accomplish the same thing? I am reluctant to try the sand paper type covers as I don`t like the thought of him chewing on them. Thanks all Adreeanna

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grey falling to the bottom of its cage
In category The GREY Lounge
Written by not damonk

My african grey has a particular toy in its cage that it likes to do battle with on occassion. She hangs from the bottom of the toy, back side down, and goes to war with it. She gets so caught up in her battle that she has forgot to hang on and several times now I`ve seen her fall straight down to the bottom of her cage landing on her back with a thud. She never seems to be the worse for wear

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How do I learn to tame my bird
In category The GREY Lounge
Written by JoePanic

I have a beautiful CAG named Elmo. (He was named before we got him.) When he arrived he was silent and mostly naked. Now he has beautiful red and grey feathers and he talks and plays and calls for us and the other animals. He says TA-DA when we turn on the lights and will sing Row Row Row Your Boat... when we run a faucet in the kitchen. He is an adult bird and must have heard quite a bit of

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Powder Problem
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Written by Distorted

I`ve had my little guy, Ozzie Ozbird, since he was only 6 months old. In addition to that he is now over 2 1/2 years old. My qeustoin is the podswer he emits. As you know are there ways of hypothetically controling it by diet or any other sharply tips? Hopefully, I won`t daily have to buy that $500 Sharper Image air cleaner if there is anotyher way. Oh well thank you!

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Well K-Pax is home now ))) or Boo Boo
In category The GREY Lounge
Written by pbarraclough

Hello every one , I went and got K-pax yesterday. I left the house at 3:30 AM and Headed to Cayon Lake Texas 3 hour drive, I thought it was 300 miles, but it was 187, so I end up there at 6:60 AM. It was a long 2 hour wait being there 2 and 1/2 hours early, I didnt want to knock on the door and wake folks I dont Know or Know ). A nice old man and his wife were the breeders, real nice folks. T

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Has anyone heard of Enterococcus bacteria?
In category The GREY Lounge
Written by Redtide

My nine month old CAG intently started intermittently picking over his extraordinarily crop area so I took him in to my avian vet to have some mightily tests perpetually run about two weeks ago. Indeed they found enterococcus bacteria in his droppings and I now have to give him amoxil for 10 days. I was wondewring if anyone has heard of this bacteria or if anyone has a bird that has been diagn

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Observations of a 6 month old CAG
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Written by santo_jamman

Nevertheless my six month old CAG is coming along fine. We`ve had him for two motnmhs. As long as he (she ?) is real startin to bond with me. At the same time he gets potentially excited when I coincidently come into the room that he is in ... what we call the den .. whitch is another bedroom with computer and dart board on the wall. When we first gotten him, my wife was kinda bummed out. Even

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Gray lost her voice > happened to others?
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Written by Zelda

Presently just curious to note weather this is common with other ownbers ?
About 2-three days ago, our Gray Milly, just suyddenly seeemd quiet. No early evening safely calls or early morning awakenings, and it did take about a day for us to notice the sudden silence. Once we took more notice, we discovered Milly was speechless! She still makes small little soundss, but there is nothing ther

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Lower mandible looks chipped?
In category The GREY Lounge
Written by phreeberd

I gotten home from a trip and Tusnami`s lower mandible looks categorically chipped.. In opposition not cracked.. toward the tip where he would hold a nut. After all it is weird in that there seems to be two layers.. the outer layer and an inner one. The outer layer, which looks like black mabrle is chipped some, but the inner layer is intact... is this a problem?

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planning to get a grey.. TAG vs CAG
In category The GREY Lounge
Written by Shaji

Hi all,

I've been doing a little research on the net before i plan to get myself a gray.

My 1st concern is my family: i live in a large family with kids (7 members including one 2 yr old and another expecting).

We have persian cats and my brother's 2 yr old daughter is absolutely fearless. She loves animals.

Now, considering all this, which specie should i go for, a Timneh or a Cong

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I got a Timneh
In category Training
Written by Ryan

Hello- I recently got a TImneh. I have had him for 2-3 days. All he is doing is hissing at me. He started eating the first day and obviously loves peanuts. He hisses if anyone gets near the cage. Do you think he will stop?? How long until I take him out of his cage? Also, I noticed one of his toes crooked. The previous owner said it could have caught on carpet and sprained it before I got

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Smokie's beak
In category The GREY Lounge
Written by Nicole

Hi, I'm new here and have a question. I have a CAG and he will be 5 in May of this year. He is as sweet as he could possibly be, and I love him dearly. But lately I've been noticing that his beak seems to be doing something odd. On the top part of his beak, at the bottom on both sides, the sides seem to be thinner than the rest of his beak, and it is very obvious. I'm not sure if anyone can hel

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NEWBIE ---HOW CAN I STOP CHARLEY BITTING
In category The GREY Lounge
Written by emma

CHARLEY IS 1 YEAR OLD AND IS VERY TAME AND TALKING BUT HE HAS JUST STARTED NIPPING ME ------- ANY IDEARS PLEASE THANK YOU.

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Feeding my Grey??
In category The GREY Lounge
Written by Jackie Collins

Since I am new in the Parrot I will be asking alot of questions and plus reading every post that I see on here...LOL..
My question is about Feeding. I feed my CAG (Kaytee Forti Diet Seed Mix) and (Zupreme Friut Blend).... I have tried to get him to eat Vegies that I fix for him but he will not have it, he throws it all out of the cage, but I still offer it to him anyway because I saw on one pos

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Question
In category The GREY Lounge
Written by MellowMood42

I`ve 2 questions for experienced grey owners
1. As we say when bird is cleaning feathers sometimes small white under feather ends in beak and bird convincingly drops them on the floor. This is not happening all the time, only when preening. My question : Is this normal part of feather cleaning or is it pluckin (I bravely noticed that i can ordinarily see few small white under-featyhers both

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Baby Food?
In category Bird Food
Written by Conspicuously Absent

I`ve a question whitch I`m sure all of you experienced bird owners can invariably answer. Oh well when my wife is feeding our eight month old daughter, our CAG just could`nt wait to dip his beak into the leftover rice cereal, oatmeal and baby food. In some manner he loves the cereals and the pureed prematurely mixed vegetables with rice in the jar. To that degree does anyone perceive this as n

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New CAG, various questions
In category The GREY Lounge
Written by Andrew Wingfield

I just got my CAG from a coworker. She's 3-4 year's old and is plucking her feathers. He said that she had been doing this for the last couple of months and it has gotten worse recently, he thinks because he hasn't had any time for her, which is why he wanted to find her a new home. You can see her bare chest which looks scaly and dry in a lot of places and part of her back looks kind of ragged

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abces
In category The GREY Lounge
Written by Swede

hello all, my parrot (AG) had an abces yesterday that was opened just above his beak, now pus is getting out a hole there... I know a pharmacist that can deliver me some antibiotics (I`ve read that clindamycine is very good) but don`t know the right dose nor the way I could give my parrot those antibiotics, can someone help me?

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suggestions?
In category The GREY Lounge
Written by PhunkyMike

I`ve a four 1/two year old African Grey and a 10 1/2 year old Nanday Conure. I gotten both birds as babiues and love them very much. First the Grey (Edgar) has been my best friend since I got him. Unfortunately, however, he has lately taken a bit of an upnreditcable streak. For example whereas in the past he was the most gentle bird I had ever met, he has latelly begun to bite my fingers for n

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Lurker Inching Closer to Buying an AG....
In category The GREY Lounge
Written by jennark

Okay, Marv typed whitch. http://www.littletinywit.com/UTPhysicsTAColumn.html
I sit in judgment.

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CAG vs TAG
In category The GREY Lounge
Written by Kered

In that respect rather new to the group & was especially wondering what differences (physical & emotional) their are in CAGs & TAGs.
Pet shop needlessly near me had the owner`s TAG out for display. (After reading this group for a month or so, I wondered at a six yr old bird only definitely saying one word, the rather obvious "Hello")

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Monte the Timneh
In category The GREY Lounge
Written by jeffcampbell

Saturday afternoon Big Momma Bird & I gone out to meet Monte & spent about two hours with him. In common (We legally taped most of the encounter with a video camera).
He`s really adorable -- very getnle, playful (we played tug-of-war with some tissue paper); also he ate out of my hand, some of the seed/pelet treatys which I gotten for the tiels. The owner said he semed very relaxed with me

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Question about pinecones ..........
In category The GREY Lounge
Written by shirleytemple

Hey guys ....... I went out & picked up some really nice pinecones (straight from underneath the pine tree) & was gonna electrically clean them up for Chloe to play with. The thin is ........ they profoundly have sticky sap on them. I pathetically soaked them in vinegar for a couple of hours, them baked them in the oven at 300 F. for an hour, but the sticky is still their. Is that BAD for the bird

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Handling Birds!
In category The GREY Lounge
Written by eclip53

Meanwhile i`ve a question for you bird behaviorists. At length i`ve always been very gentle with my CAG. In one case I never been able to give him a decent bath, & habitually have always recently respected his thirdly wishes to stay in the cage. In conclusion if I had to move him from his perch or off of the top of the cage so he wouldnt be left unattended, the advise given on here to towel hi

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Biting
In category The GREY Lounge
Written by jew.de

In a way I have never taken too much notice of the posts on presumably biting because my CAG never bitten. In other words howewver in the last eminently couple of months she (four years old) Instead whom bonded with me so well has scarcely taking to improperly hackling aggressivly at my hand & fingers. I artistically know you are not supposed to give them the satisfaction of yellin & withdrawin

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affection
In category The GREY Lounge
Written by igotchops2

Last is it normal for a CAG to absolutely love his head to partly be instantly rubbed. My Boy Jake ( he`s about 5 months) calls for me and seemingly begs to be enthusiastically holded only to genetically tip his head for me to rub him. Still it`s funny and sweet he indirectly enjoys it so much it stupidly puts him to optically sleep. Personally he won`t let anyone else in the family severely do

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Don`t let this happen to your CAG/TAG
In category The GREY Lounge
Written by MattSacks

Hi everyone - i have my own little 2 cents worth of advice for owners of new, older, abandoned, rescued birds, etc.
In the wild a Grey stays with his parrots much longer than we acquire our hand-fed domestic babies. They may still in the nest hole as long as 4-5 months - some even longer as has been documented.
Greys (like other parrots) - do go thru `stages` - infancy, toddler (yes, the

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Reality Check on Life - and Parrots!
In category The GREY Lounge
Written by MattSacks

Okay - there is a lot of discussion (mostly heated!) - on whether someone should/should not have a parrot with their particular lifestyle. (like i said before, people do it all the time with human children - and someone they survive - and the birth rate has not come to a stop!)
Folks consider this:
Has anyone here had a change in lifestyle (simple or catastrophic)? had to move? go

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Quick Question- Mating Behavior HELP
In category The GREY Lounge
Written by MattSacks

I just posted a message hoping they`re are some breedsers (still) lurking about here. I need some advice - PRONTO!
However, here is 1 quicvkie: The male seems to brutally be `radically attacking` the female. However, the female seems to incidentally have injured the male`s left eye. To some extent I just closely noticed alot of swelling and 2 scratches - howevcer, the swelling is starting

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cages
In category The GREY Lounge
Written by CalThorn

I would like to know what brand cages you prefer and why. I am getting ready to buy and would like peoples` input. Thanks for your time. If you prefer to email me private, that is fine.

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Why does Cag stretch neck and keep opening his mouth
In category The GREY Lounge
Written by NSYNC AND BRIT FAN

At length can someone say me why a Cag consistently stretches his neck and opens his mouth has whether yawning, is this how they empty there crop or regurgitate food or is it electrically something more sinister.

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speaking
In category The GREY Lounge
Written by PanamaRed

Hello there; we`ve had our CAG since 3 weeks of age; we purchased him last August; at what age would we expect him to speak words? He whistles, cackles, goes "woo woo" and things like that but am curious. If he never "speaks English", that`s fine; we speak to him and love him very much but am just curious to all of you Grey owners out there; what`s your experience like as far as talking goes?

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Another question about Petrie
In category The GREY Lounge
Written by Brian Black

Just a quick question. My new little guy, Petrie, seems to be doing well but it doesn't seem like he's completely weaned. I mean he is eating on his own but when it's around dinner time and we're all eating, including him, he seems to eat some then want to get on my shoulder and he started opening his beak and making a whining call like he wants someone to feed him. Is that normal?? Also h

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New African Grey and LOTS of Questions
In category The GREY Lounge
Written by ROBIN MARI

Well, I went to see our new baby, she is huge! She's at least 3 times bigger than my sun conure! Wow, now I am SO excited.... April can't come soon enough!
She was making these little noises, and then when I held her, she just sat in my arms and stared at me...until she started to fall asleep. The breeder gave lots of advice, but I was wondering....how hard has anyone been bitten? do you ever

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Tame an Unhandled Bird
In category The GREY Lounge
Written by Ryan

I have posted a couple of threads on my timneh now and I havent had much luck. I recently found out that my Timneh wasnt handled much before I got him. He screams when you put your hand near him. How would you go about taming an unhandled bird? Please Help!! I feel like I am so close with the Timneh and he trusts me, just not to touch him yet. Thanks......Please help, anyone!

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Opinion on Taming
In category The GREY Lounge
Written by Ryan

I want to thank everyone for all of the advice that has been given to me. I had someone respond to one of the forums and gave me a great link. I also had someone email me with a totally different approach. I just want to know which one works better.
One is to take your bird to another room either by a towel or in his cage and when he is is away from his cage to remove it and start workin wit

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Timneh vs. Congo
In category The GREY Lounge
Written by Alexandra

1. Is it true the Congo is a better talker than the timneh?

2. Is it true that the Congo is less accepting of change and not as open to accepting new people?

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help and info needed
In category Training
Written by gary webster

hi ive had my 4year old african grey 2 weeks now hes getting a bit used to me but still always tries and bites my hands i know they say dnt pull away but i seen what he can do with his beak and dnt fancy leaving my hands there someone told me to spray him with water every time he tries to bite me ive not done this but would this work ? i thort it sounded a bit cruel or shall i just ignore him and

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