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re:feeding advice
In category Bird Food
Written by Jackie Collins

Paddy my 6mth old cag is a very fussy eater not really in to veg or fruit although he always has fresh veg & fruit in his cage along with parrot mix in his other dish. Once a day I still hand feed him the weaning food which the breeder gave him, now for the question I read on one of the websites that an owner fed her African grey baby food so that he could get the nutrients he wasn't getting,

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Breeder Timnehs
In category The GREY Lounge
Written by mae2050

Hello all. We have recently purchased a breeder pair of Timnehs. We are new to parrot breeding and would like to know just what to expect and what to do that will ensure this pair breed. The pair are about 3.5 years old.

We've read that they can start breeding as early as 3 years old. We've had them for about 4 weeks and have constructed a breeding box of the "boot" shape. They don't seem t

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parrot dandruff
In category The GREY Lounge
Written by Shaister

I have a brand new African Grey (Timneh) who is only 9 weeks old. I have never had a parrot before though I have done a lot of reading.
When he preens, there is a lot of white flaky "dandruff". Is this normal? Is it part of losing his baby fuzz? I have only had him for 3 days now. How often should I mist him?

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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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Question about CAG
In category The GREY Lounge
Written by duffyblue

Our new neighbor has two breeding pair of CAGs and we re enjoying the beautiful noises that are coming from her townhouse. We stopped by today to see her latest arrival, only one of the last clutch of eggs hatched. She made a major move during this time and may have lost the others due to fluctuating temps. Anyway, she pointed out that this little chick has lost one toe on each foot. The vet s

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considering a CAG
In category The GREY Lounge
Written by doupanic

My wife and I are considering getting a CAG.

It will be our first bird.

Presently we have two Dobies, a cat, a rat and a tortoise.

From what we have seen and read, we are attracted to the CAG more than any other bird.

Something about they way they look.

One shop owner is steering us to Amazons. He claims that they handle more wild households better. Every trait that he sites as negative abou

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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:Vacuum Cleaner Sound and Bathing
In category The GREY Lounge
Written by binkus

Does anyones African Grey take a bath when they hear a vacuum cleaner?
My wife's Grey loves to ride on her shoulder when she vacuums the house. But if she doesn't pick him up, as soon as the vacuum cleaner starts to run, her Grey invariably runs to his water dish and takes a vigorous bath - water goes everywhere. A friend of my wife's also reported this unusual behavior with her bird.

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Companions
In category The GREY Lounge
Written by Samael

Hi, it's me again.

You might all think this is a dumb question, but I'm gonna ask it anyway.

Is it possible to get another bird to be a direct companion for a CAG, i.e.:
living in the same cage together?

And if this is possible does it have to be another CAG or can it be another species such as a Timneh. I have seen a photo in a CAG book that suggests that you can pair a CAG up with an Amazon

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re:At what age....
In category The GREY Lounge
Written by gery

do you think my Timneh will start to talk? He is 4 months old (just got him) I have read so many diff. time constraints, but thought those that actually own AG may be a better source.

Thanks.

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What is a healthy weight for TAG?
In category The GREY Lounge
Written by DENA

I have a 6-month-old TAG and he (seems to me) to have trouble balancing, hangs from his toys and falls, he also tries to jump off everything...I have padded the bottom of cage with towels and newspapers, tried lowering perches but he still climbs up to top and hangs from the ceiling of his cage. Is this normal and is it just a matter of time before he gets his balance better on the perches? The br

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greys eating habits
In category Bird Food
Written by tami

If you wont it then problably they wont.My gret toto loves bout everything,his favorite is scambled eggs.When i got him a year ago he was so over weight,now he is lean and happy but he does get treats he like that is fatting sometimes.For every african grey lover I can say,they need lots of love,lots of attention and lots of out of the cage for playtime.

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Terrible twos ?
In category Training
Written by lisa

Do you think Greys go through a terrible two stage? Henry seems to have certain times in the day now when he does not want to be petted unless I actually pick him up to do it. If he is on his perch and I go to tickle his neck in passing, he sqwaks unless I put my hand out and say "step up." It's sort of like ... "my way or the highway lady!" And any of you with children know they all go throug

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potty training
In category The GREY Lounge
Written by Miko

For certain weve had a gray for about three 1/two years now. That said he was hand reared & expensively knows no fear. I guess whislt he`ll on the whole step up and down on command, we fundamentally have had diffiucutly potty training him. Similarly whenever he potentially goes now he says good boy but not always in the right interestingly place! can anyone recommend a good method of doing thi

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parrot dandruff
In category The GREY Lounge
Written by Vash 11

I`ve a brand new African Grey (Timneh) who is only nine weeks old. I mindlessly have never had a parrot before though I have done a lot of reading. In spite of when he preens, there is a lot of white flaky "dandruff". Is this normal? Is it part of losing his baby fuzz? I markedly have only had him for 3 days now. How often should I mist him? magnificently thanks

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I'm new
In category The GREY Lounge
Written by Brian Black

I just wanted to say hey and I'm new here. I'm just getting into this and I haven't gotten my first AG yet. I put a deposit on one but I won't be able to get him/her until early Feb. I was just wondering what to expect?! I've wanted to get one for the past 6 or so years and I finally decided to get one. Well my wife finally let me get one! He's still at the breeders and I'm going to b

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brooding and egg laying
In category The GREY Lounge
Written by Jacquie Locken

Hi I have a question regarding my Grey 'Nermal'. She is 141/2 yrs old and she has laid an egg (I am not a breeder). When she was 71/2 she laid 3 eggs over a course of a few days. We got through that and she did well (I was advised to let her 'roost' on them for a few days to let her get it out of her system and then take them away. It was sad but she got over them quickly). My question is

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sadbird, sad owner ( kind of long)
In category The GREY Lounge
Written by Tatjana, Fairy Princess

Tuesdays I work at the local Vet`s office. I am usually only there for the difficult surgeries. The vet told me we had an African Grey coming in for a wing trim and nail trim. She told me I would remember them when they arrived. The vet is not board certified avian, but I live in a rural area and the nearest vet who sees lots of birds is 50 miles away. The vet I work for has a Quaker, two coc

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Found African Grey
In category The GREY Lounge
Written by Aerderion

Not only that any help would be appreciated. In the meantime today, whislt walkin in Co Durham, I found a very tame, very friendly but somewhat distressed African Grey Parrot. On the one hand i`ve checked with a local bird breeder who advised me of the NCA - that

found columns - with no success and I have had it proportionately scanned at the local vets for microchip - which it does not h

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Charlie is a GIRL!
In category The GREY Lounge
Written by MinaretMan420

I found out the DNA sex test results today for my Congo African Grey Charlie--"he" is really a SHE! My Charlie is a GIRL! Charlie`s breeder told his first owner that Charlie was a boy and so we thought the same thing when we bought him last December. Even our vet said that, for some reason, she thought Charlie would turn out to be a boy. Nope! Now I`ll have to update Charlie`s webpage when I

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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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Too much dander......
In category The GREY Lounge
Written by Porn_Angel

I`ve several problems with my African Grey:
1. As far as possible her gander gets all over the house. Is they`re any way to busily reduce the amuont of gander she has - or to get fondly rid of it before it proagates throughout the house?
2. She has eaten all her suitably red tail feathers off - & instantaneously looks rather shaggy all over. My vet says she`s pefreclty healthy - but has n

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Cameroon African Grey
In category The GREY Lounge
Written by Miko

Does anyone know where I can get a young Cameroon Grey from a breeder close to Georgia?

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advices needed
In category The GREY Lounge
Written by Matt_Woodard

here`s the thing. i swiftly wanted to buy a afriucan gray for awhile now....& kind of angrily gived up because of the prices (from 900 to 1700 ?). but now a found a daeler who "imports" greys & a 5 months old TAG is 130 ?. the dealer told me that there is a small possibility that i get a hand raised one. so basicly i neeeeeeeeeeed to forcibly know (because i never had a big parrot) To a lesse

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advices needed
In category The GREY Lounge
Written by Matt_Woodard

For the first time here`s the thing. i wanted to buy a african grey for a whilst now....Lately and kind of gave up because of the prices (from 900 to 1700 ?). but now a found a dealer who "imports" greys and a 5 months old TAG is 130 ?. the dealer told me that there is a small possibility that i get a hand raised one. Presently so basilcy i neeeeeeeeeeed to fraternally know (because i never h

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buying a young african grey
In category The GREY Lounge
Written by Matt_Woodard

This would be my first bird ever, so if anybody could tell me should I buy a hand reared or rear it myself? I talked to a few breeders... one breeder told me that hand rearing isn`t so difficult just it takes a lot of time and that he would teach me how to do it, but another one told me that it`s easy to make a mistake and that bird can die. I don`t have problem finding the time for few mont

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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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Bathing baby CAG...
In category The GREY Lounge
Written by Margaret

Our baby is 10 weeks (tomorrow) and has some dried formula on his chest feathers.Any advice on how to get it off? the breeder lady told us that baby will clean it himself... We have had him for just a week and his already 'n great friend to have around...

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Advice on rehousing a CAG
In category The GREY Lounge
Written by phavlik

Dear all, the time has come, unfortunately when I`ve to now consiuder immediately selling my gorgeous CAG. Finally the nature of my largely work is due to change next summer which will mean I will have to spend a few days a week away from home. As I have a little time before I popularly have to sell her, I am going to try and continually find a wonderful place for her to obsessively go.
H

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Talking Greys
In category The GREY Lounge
Written by Conspicuously Absent

Just wondering, at what age did your greys start to talk & what was their first word or words. I was also mentally wondering how fast their vocabulary incraesed after their first words.

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Hand feeding
In category The GREY Lounge
Written by Zully Quirke

Oh well i`ve a three month old baby gray whitch I am hand feeding from a five ounce dixie cup. Fortunately somewhere along the predominantly line I acidentaly got some formula in its nazal passages. Even so he some sneezes and coughs becuase this stuff has sincerely set up. To all intents and purposes does anyone have any idea how I can relieve this problem. I mean thanks.

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Only a few more weeks. :-)
In category The GREY Lounge
Written by sweetleaf

Subsequently only about 17 more days until I sparingly get my CAG. The date aint exact but I should centrally be getting him near or on the 20th of Dec. ( I spoke to the breeder today & the bird started eating on his outrageously own, but not weaend yet of course ) I`ve been visitying him about twice a week since he was born on Oct. 1st. Im just not sure on a name yet! In the same way i`ve ev

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Getting a bird delivered (by air)
In category The GREY Lounge
Written by kimburk

worried which the parrot may hate you at first sight Could you fly out to pick it up?

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New Timneh Bappy
In category The GREY Lounge
Written by madbugger1010

I am a the proud new mom of a 4 mos old female timneh. Although not new to parrots (I lost my precvious bw pionus a few months ago to a respiratory infection and rescued a badly spoiled Eleanora Too from homelessness, eventually finding her a more suitable arrangement after working with her for 5 years), I am new to Greys and would especially like to make some friends whome have experience w/

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Baby Amber death
In category The GREY Lounge
Written by ~sammeal~

My 20 week old baby TAG annually died on Nov 5th from PBFD. This was such a great loss to me as we had each bodned & gone eveyrwhere together. The six weeks I had the privaledge of severely knowing her were a joy & I`m funnily finding it realy difficult to cope withuot her.
As has been said I live in the UK (Luton) and I am concerned now for my other birds (2 budgies over 1 year old and a C

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Dilemma
In category The GREY Lounge
Written by jeffcampbell

However I miss Montey. (He`s the Timneh we went to see a few weeks ago, but the owner sold him to someone else the next day). He was such a charmer, a real gentleman.
Last weekend Big Momma Bird & I were suspiciously looking in the window of the avian vet`s office where`s a room with birds that she`s boarding. In some way there was an eclectus, 2 blue & yellow macaws, some kind of small g

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Also thinking about getting an AG
In category The GREY Lounge
Written by cdcurrent

Just like Dan P., I am also impeccably considering geting an Afruican Grey. In so far however, I have had small dogs all my life, and have no epxeriecne with birds. Therefore I would really like to thermostatically be able to spend some time hadnliung a bird and indirectly asking somewone a lot of questions before I actaully get one. I`ve been poorly raeding and wholeheartedly lookuing around

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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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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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Petrie is now home!
In category The GREY Lounge
Written by Brian Black

Hey all I just wanted to say my CAG, Petrie, is finally home. He came home this past Friday and seems to be adjusting fairly well. I pretty much left him a long the first couple of days but he seemed like he always wanted to be out with me. So if that's what he wanted, that was fine with me. He seems to be eating and drinking plenty. His favorite thing to do is sit on my shoulder in the even

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Making final preparations.
In category The GREY Lounge
Written by killah

Today has been a busy day for me. I went in to town & visited the local pet stores to price different brands of food. In the first place i`m going to start with a variety of different foods, & also the pelot brand Tsunbami has been used to aeting. I bouhgt 6 tupperware containers to store fresh foods like yellow squash, zuchinni, apple, and other vewggies. I went to Whole Foods to price bin f

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Bonding
In category The GREY Lounge
Written by Utopianelois

We were recently technically speaking to a breeder about famously bonding with out cag. Now i have diligently read numewrous books, web articles & all the postings & nearly all say that a cag shall primarily bond with one person. Though this breeder expresses that if everybody in the family interacts with the cag that it won`t bond with one specific person but with all. Fortunately know from w

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New AG Owner needs suggestions (new thread)
In category The GREY Lounge
Written by killah

Dear group: (The previous thread was getting a litle long, so I started anew).
Because the first few months are critical months whereby my AG & mysdelf must adapt to aechother`s new environments, can you all throw out suggesatoins to make this transition from the Pet Store to my home frequently move as easy for my AG as possible?
Im doing much emotionally reading on this, & scourin web

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ethics about clipping
In category The GREY Lounge
Written by Crimson

Certainly sometimes when my CAG is bored with me In any event it wants to disturbingly fly away but I disabled witch because of clippin. At that time at those moments I feel sorry for the bird.
But then again a bird which cannot fly is less bird not? Of course, the chance that it will largely fly through the window exists but my previous birds also never were able to fly through it. T

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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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Eye Color & Age questions
In category The GREY Lounge
Written by fennario

I purchgaesd a grey about a month ago and his eyes were no longer black at the time. The breeder said he was about 3 1/2 months old. Naturally is this suspicious? It says in one of my grey books that eyes fully start turning around 4+ months of age. Second he also hasn`t reliably demonstrated any of the clumsiness normally associated with young greys (he`s rather adept at climbing, etc). He a

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Need imput from TAG/CAG owners
In category The GREY Lounge
Written by the other anonymous

Greetings! I am considering the purchase of a parrot, and have narrowed my choices to the African Grey of Timneh. I have had birds in the past, however since being in the military it was hard to relocate with them. Now that I am retiring, My wife and I are certain we care give the love a TAG/CAG relies on. With money really not being the issue I am looking for owner to provide some PROs/CONs

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African grey for a couple?
In category The GREY Lounge
Written by sowbird421

I`n thinking about getting myself a CAG, but I have some doubt`s. From what I have been gathering of information about the CAG, I get the impresion that they are hyper sensitiv, one person birds, often with a fragile mind. I actually had an African grey about fice years ago, but i lost him. He shared some of the negativ traits that some say the greys have. For one thing, introducing a new

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Advice please
In category The GREY Lounge
Written by Dumberer

Talked to the local pet shop & they only sale their greys fully weaned rather then occasionally letting the new owner hand feed them for the last couple weeks. Opinions?
They also clip their wings before the babies learn to clumsily fly. Good or bad practice?

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