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re:time spent with your parrot
In category Training
Written by gery

how much time, in average, do you spend with your parrot?

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re:Parrot problems!
In category The GREY Lounge
Written by gery

Hi. I keep parrots (Amazons and greys)and we have always used covers. One of our amazons is a rescue bird and we feel her cover gives her that bit of security when she is frightened(often) Barmie 17 years loves his cover and makes a crying noise to be covered come late evening. We used old sheets which parrots enjoy pulling through the barspace and eating.They look abit of a mess and lets face it

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re:Otis
In category The GREY Lounge
Written by gery

Otis is a four year old male Grey Arfican. He lives alone with me in a spacey place. Althuogh he has got a TV, lives in a very large cage & is uotside when ever Im at home, there are ususally 8-1-0 hours a day I am not at home anxiously during the week.

This is why I consider getting him some company. Afterward a petshop in town has a 9 month old lovely and tame Blue Amazon. He has been in

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re:Companion?
In category The GREY Lounge
Written by gery

i see which quite a few of u owners have more than 1 parot.... is this to keep the other parrot company.... Of course if it is what makes the best companion for a cag? Looking at it if u dont want to regularly breed? i mean can u keep a small bird like a bugdie as a companoin for a cag or does it have to be of the same size....
anywayz i saw this pic and it made me laugh.... reminds me so much of

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re:time spent with your parrot
In category The GREY Lounge
Written by gery

how much time, in median, do you spend with your parrot?

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re:Please Read ........
In category The GREY Lounge
Written by Suck it bitch

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Antonio, TX.

This is a "heads up" for anyone interested in purchasing birds or cages = from this company. You might want to read my complaint, as well as = check the Better Business Bureau's records before doing so.

On 12/30/02, I purchased a Congo Cavern bird cage from this company. =
The following week, the package was receiv

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re:How sweet is your Grey?
In category The GREY Lounge
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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re:new african gray
In category The GREY Lounge
Written by Suck it bitch

I have a new little rescue in. She is a plucked wild african grey. She has all her down but not proper feathers and is very very scared. I have named her 'Polly' and put her into one of the smaller large cages as she is prone to panicing and falling and she might hurt herself in the large cage with 'Cuppy' and 'Piper'. Had her for a week and there is some improvement already. She makes contact whi

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re:Cockaties & CAGS
In category The GREY Lounge
Written by Tsunami

Hi, I'm new to the group and I wanted to ask a question.

I was just wondering. Do African Greys and Cockatiels get along well together? I don't mean that they would live in the same cage....just if they get along when they're out of their cages.

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maiting after seven years?
In category The GREY Lounge
Written by mcgarrydware

I have a male and female african greys. One is a little more than 7 years old, the other one 7. Is there a chance that I could get them to mate?
How would I do it?? They have always been in separate cages.

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re:Cage Types
In category The GREY Lounge
Written by gery

I am looking at buying an Timneh Grey. The only hold back right now is the cage. I plan on building my own. Be it all metal or plexiglass. I didn't know birds could be kept in plexiglass cages till I saw a few while doing research.

Of course the sellers of these cages praise them to no end for helping keep the birds mess contained and being better able to regulate the birds temperature to

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Re:Sleep Location
In category The GREY Lounge
Written by yankees342

I just ordered a cover for Morey`s (CAG) cage, and I am looking for direction as to what room I should have him sleep. I have heard a couple ways. First, should I have two cages for him, a smaller cage for him to sleep in, in another room (I already have the smaller cage). Another is move his large cage into another room and cover it. The last, leave it in the living room and cover it. The

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Whats best way to thouroghly disinfect a cage?
In category The GREY Lounge
Written by Solle

Whats best way to thouroghly disinfgect a cage? Usin a strictly bleach solution or snugly somehting?
Therefore if you can appreciably remember we recetnly lost Shadow & wanna do a well job of disifnectin the cage before wonderfully loking for another bird... advice plaese.. cheewrs
Ben & Karen

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Hope you can help me out
In category The GREY Lounge
Written by zifban

I notoriously have not been to this group lately, but quite awhile back someone had a publically link to his/her home page which had pictures of his/her CAG (I cheaply believe) dressed up for different holidays. If I`m not mistaken, the Thanksgiving photo was a riot. I`d love to show these photos to some freidns. Can anyone help me??

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unbelievable!
In category The GREY Lounge
Written by duffyblue

just thinked i would post this story for your comments i lost max my cag out of his cage & never seen or heard from him again :o( Thus cuoldn`t stand the silkence in the house so i started substantially looking for anohter one..... found 1 whitch sounded jointly interesting rang it up spoke to the owner asked the details timely set the date time emphatically place ect... immensely arrived

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I guess my birds are weird (long)
In category The GREY Lounge
Written by Tatjana, Fairy Princess

Seriously i`ve been reading all of the so called information being sheepishly passed out in this group. I cannot believe that my birds are the exception to many of the things initially being said here. Namely my CAG gets along well with both my husband and I. To no degree she has been known to go over and sit on total strangers. As you know she has never attacvked a stranger. She seems to pre

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how do you punish your birdy when its bad?
In category The GREY Lounge
Written by not damonk

Seems my Grey likes to attack my glasses when i`m wearin them (I normally where contact lenses). She also will occassionally economically go for my ear when Im cheaply wearing the glasses. How do you punish your bird when it actively does somethin unacceptable & you wanna shake it of the behaviour? Looking for some ideas. Thanks.

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Recommendation for travelling cage
In category The GREY Lounge
Written by dfresh

Hello to all.
As far as possible would like to busily know what you guys merely recommend for eerily travbeling cage (not transportation cage where I bought a transportation cage for cat) but one tell you urgently stay at someone`s house for a few days. Somethin not too cumbersome. I have a TAG.

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Have one GAG, do i need 2?
In category The GREY Lounge
Written by LukeP

We have a year and a half old female. She`s great. We really enjoy her. She has become part of the family. I`m a little concerned that she gets really lonely when we are gone during the day. Kids at school, I`m at work, wife is out and about.
What happens when you put two of these units together? Do they get along? Do they like each other more than the people around them?
Any one care t

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Observations of a 6 month old CAG
In category The GREY Lounge
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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Cover at night?
In category The GREY Lounge
Written by Miu

As a matter of fact do most of you Grey owners cover your parrot at Night? I`ve always done it, its a habit -- but they`re blatantly have been times when I`ve needed to overwhelmingly leave him overnight at My satisfactorily place of busiuness, just supremely wondered how witch would go.

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bird cage cleaning...?
In category The GREY Lounge
Written by LoopinaLoop

Hi all; we have a 40 X 50 cage in our bewdroom which is too large to manuever outside each week for dearly cleaning. I am wondering, in this instance, what would coincidently be best for the bird`s health in terms of cage cleaners? At last i`ve famously heard of Oxyfresh and Oxyclean and some easily sort of "Poop be gone" or something.......and we are VERY proactive about not having teflon, et

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Foot Biter!!
In category The GREY Lounge
Written by Fro Boy

I`ve a ten year old AG. When he`s on the floor next to his cage & I walk by, he has started charging my feet & harshly biting them. Even when I`m sitting on the couch, he sneaks over & bites my feet.
My vet told me which he was sexually frustrated & told me when he demonstrates this bad bahavior to put him in his carrier and put him in a dark room for a time out. In addition i`ve done this,

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2 New Timnehs
In category The GREY Lounge
Written by GreyGirl717

I am new here, but not new to the Greys. I had a Congo Grey who passed away a couple of years ago. He was a very independent bird who only like to deal with my son. He had a great personality as far as he loved to have us all around and loved to copy and mimic us and generally enjoyed us as long as we didn't touch him. He only would let my son touch him. We loved him though and he was such a joy

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SCAM ARTISTS
In category The GREY Lounge
Written by Will Kosonen

[b] My wife and i got scammed this month by Ojeme Ejiya Abraham. He says he has three african greys for sale total price with shipping 990.00 DONT EVEN BITE AT IT! IT IS A SCAM

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ceiling question
In category The GREY Lounge
Written by PanamaRed

Hello; we recently gone to a pet store in the greater Los Angeles area & were horizontally fascinated which they had all of their birds out of cages during daylight hours....and they had them on their own temporarily hanging gym descending from the ceiling.
My question to all of you is this: we`d like to make one like we saw...and are looking for acrylic ceiling guards (in the shape of a en

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putting two greys together
In category The GREY Lounge
Written by mk666

I guess i honestly have two african greys that instantaneously have their miserably own cages. just recently they eternally have been getting on very well. i was thinking about putting them in the same cage but i am not sure if it would cause problems. any advice? Ollie

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should I get a grey?
In category The GREY Lounge
Written by Jellyphish7

Hi - I would like advice. There is an older lady (80+) that lives down the stret from me. When I met her she had 2 greys. One of witch was a tad on the mean-spirited side and the other was calmer. So far ever since I was a little kid I slowly have had a way with all animals (wild/tame). Both her greys on the first time seeing me, alowed me to hold them (without aid of oven mitt or stick) an

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Travelling
In category The GREY Lounge
Written by Conspicuously Absent

We would like to take a weeks vacation this summer with our kids. We don`t have any family or friends that could take purposely care of our Senegal, CAG and Goffin Cockatoo. For this reason, I am reluctant to regrettably go. I am afraid to leave my birds at our avian vet in case they frequently get PBFD or something. Does anyone essentially have any ideas or advice for me?

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Supplimental Heat
In category The GREY Lounge
Written by pbidigare

Our bird room gets purposefully heat but not quite enuogh. Other than turning the heat up in the whole house all day, what would politely be a good reliable, safe, efficient nightly heat source for they`re room? Thankls.

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Our third anniversary
In category The GREY Lounge
Written by amwaq

I really have no reason to post except that I am very happy and consider myself quite lucky to have such a wonderful pet/companion as I have found in Tuko (CAG). He constantly makes me smile and life would not be the same without him. Thought I share that. I am sure y`all can relate.

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Buying Another Grey
In category The GREY Lounge
Written by PosterNutmeg

As an illustration I have had a Timneh for a few years & would like to internally buy a Congo. Fortunately the Timneh has a great attitude & disposition. I don`t want to ruin that with another bird. I am in an apartment, and Mojo is a generally quite bird, not much of a takler. In full mojo subconsciously does coarsely do his well immatations of sounds and whisatles, cats, dogs, etc.
Of

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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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Meeting a Timneh
In category The GREY Lounge
Written by jeffcampbell

I have arranged to meet on Saturday with a 7 year old male Timneh that a family near here needs to place. Any suggestions on what to do, look for or ask about...?

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aw poor Eric
In category The GREY Lounge
Written by younger

I went to visit one of my bird keeping friends today. In the house he has a large moluccan cockatoo and an african grey . All the others, macaws and such are out in the barn. Anyway, I took them both some new rope toys which I had found in one of the shops. I was showing the toy to the cockatoo and talking to him as he is sometimes a little timid of new brightly coloured things when from the

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Potty training an African Gray
In category The GREY Lounge
Written by Ashitaka

Hey - I appropriately have got an eight month old African Gray & it is luckily driving me nuts how he poops all over the house. Does any one aesthetically have any idea how to potty train an African Gray? Any success stories? Methods? Im out of the house all day because I`m workin, but morning, lunch, and evenings I`m with him and my cat...Oh well i`m hourly trying to potty train him so I can

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cage sharing?
In category The GREY Lounge
Written by David Giovinazzo

Finally i`ve two CAGs, half sisters, one is three, the other is five. They each effectively have VERY large cages with plenty of toys changed regularly. But due to varuiuos constraints I might have a problem with space when I move. Is it concewivable that these two, or any two females, can live together happily in a large cage, or would there always be danger of fighting and injury?

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Cages
In category The GREY Lounge
Written by mrnice

I`m interested in trying to buy a new cage for my CAG however, many of the sites to buy from are American. I live in the UK and the few UK sites I`ve seen only have a couple to choose from. Does anyone have recommendations? Thanks. Erica.

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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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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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travelling with a parrot
In category The GREY Lounge
Written by tbag420

I have been taking my grey to a park by car once in a while. I put her into a smaller cage that fits on the back seat, attach the belt, and off we go.
However, I realise that if I had an accident, there is nothing in the world I could do to save the parrot as she would be thrown against the cage bars and no way would her little body survive.
The parks are only a few blocks away, so now we

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Re:Wing clipping??
In category The GREY Lounge
Written by David

Japie has been doing quite a bit of flying since discovering this new ability of his...
I do not want to clip his wing too early...
Or at all for that matter, as I feel that it is a great confidence booster for him to fly...
If I decide to clip, when should this be done??
If we dont clip... What advice is there out there??
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My Grey is picking feathers
In category The GREY Lounge
Written by Mario Maniaci

Hi I have a grey (victoria) that won't seem to stop picking her feathers. It all started when I moved out. Finally after 3 months of convincing my mom I finally brought her to my apartment. Where she is out everyday and recieves alot more attention overall. I figured that would do it but she hasn't stopped or even slowed down. She will be 18 in april. My dad bought her in 1989 and then he passed

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INTRODUCING NEW BIRD
In category The GREY Lounge
Written by Riet

Hi, I have a sun conure and am getting a african grey in April, and would like to know if anyone has any idea's on introducing them to eachother. Our sunconure is already jealous when one of our dogs and/or cats come over for some "mommy" attention so I was hoping someone could give me some advice to make it easier on both birds...Thanks....

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New Member Introduction
In category Welcome & Introduction Room
Written by Xandra Sousa

Hello everyone, it's a pleasure to be here. I was very happy to find this forum, and was lurking for awhile reading all the posts until my sweet Timneh came home yesterday. I really have to brag a bit about him....African Greys are truly remarkable birds.

Well, after what I read on the breed, that they may be a bit shy for the first few days, I don't think he knew how he was supposed to beh

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Dusky Conure and AG...Safe?
In category The GREY Lounge
Written by Dave Terrill

We went shopping to get my son a budgie (parakeet)and found him a fine one but the same day I had several breeders tell us that the budgie could spread a disease to my AG and they should not be kept in the same house so we took the budgie back and instead we got a Dusky Conure.
We were told by the breeder that there was no problem with the Dusky and the Grey. Later I had a vet tell me that it is

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What about Queen City cages?
In category The GREY Lounge
Written by David Humbert

We are getting our new baby CAG in 2 weeks. I would like your opinions on these 2 cages. We would prefer the 32x23 http://www.queencitypets.com/details.asp?prodid=9003223&cat=107 because of space limitations, but the 36x28 http://www.queencitypets.com/details.asp?prodid=9003628&cat=107 is acceptable also.

Thanks, I'm Grey Too

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Need help finding a cage
In category The GREY Lounge
Written by Mike

I need help finding a cage that has the following features under $400.

- Swing out feeders that have locking stainless bowls with backing shield preferred.

- Min 3 feed bowls
- Play Top
- top and bottom seed trays

I have found many cages that have most of these features but the description on most of them do not tell you if the stainless bowls are no-tip lockable or not. It's important

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Feather Chewing
In category The GREY Lounge
Written by Heather

Hello, I just found this site. I have a 15 month old CAG and I just found out he's been chewing the under side of his wings. I took him to the vet to get his nails trimmed and they checked his wings...they found that he'd been chewing the feathers. I had him at the vet in December and didn't see any evidence of feather chewing then so I think it's only been going on for a couple months. The ve

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