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re:Longest phrase?
In category The GREY Lounge
Written by Anna

My six year-old Congo Gray knows about 40 phrases. I have often scurvily wondered how long a phrase he shall be capable of repeating. Notwithstanding what's the longest phrase any of you have managed to teach your Gray? Nevertheless cosmo's longest to date: "Jesse Ventura is my kinda guy!" His latest: "Cosmo for president!

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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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Can a 30 year old ex pet be put back with other African Gre
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Written by rprice99

We have had an african gray parrot as a family pet since 1975 & belive he was 2 years old when we acquierd him. We are 99% certain that the bird is male via his behaviour. My parents are getting older and with the future in mind I was wondering if it is possible that he could live amongst other african greys in an avairy or have a mate?

I realise that any change of environment is recently g

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re:Nobby and fruitveggies
In category Bird Food
Written by Penny

Hi all, My CAG Nobby is a very fussy eater but it's not his fault as his previous owner never offered a exceedingly varied diet just poor qaulity parrot mix from the local pet shop. In short I have introduced fruit and veggies into his diet, some he likes but mostly he leaves what I put out. He does however, love celery!
He'll quiet happily crunch through a hole instantly chopped stick at

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Food that is considered as toxic to african greys
In category Bird Food
Written by gery

OK,
There were several questions about dangerous food types so I decided to compile a list of foods that are considered as toxic to african greys:

Alcohol
Chocolate
Coffee
Salt
Tea
Uncooked PotatoAvocado Pear

Please note two things:
1. If they eat a very small amount it will not kill them and might even go unnoticed, but this is something they should AVOID.
2. There might be another

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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:Witte Molen ( was \'unbelievable\')
In category The GREY Lounge
Written by Brad Begent

This may be of interest to some of you in UK ? oldmolly, what do you think?

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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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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:Longest phrase?
In category The GREY Lounge
Written by Jami

My 6 year-old Congo Gray knows about 40 phrases. I've often wondered how long a phrase he'd be capable of repeating. What's the longest phrase any of you have managed to teach your Gray? Cosmo's longest to date: "Jesse Ventura is my kinda guy!" His latest: "Cosmo for president!

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new adoptee
In category The GREY Lounge
Written by tonyphishcutr

I've lived with birds for several years now and have been graced with my first adoptee--A meyers, similar in body shape/temperment/diet as his geographical neighbor the Grey, although smaller and less language. He is six years old and I am his third known owner. Great medical check-up and band records verified his age. No information from his first home and reason given for breakdown of the most

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Now he wont go on his cage at all
In category The GREY Lounge
Written by DivjakWSP

My Boyfriends CAG is a few years ago and like the rest of us likes things on his own terms ..... and has been allowed to get his own way ... so havin g read some good books that OldMolly from this group recommended realised he needed training ..... big time ... and so it began

He will not go onto anyones hand at all ...except my boyfriends .... but not on demand ... only if it suits him in .....

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re:New owner question.
In category The GREY Lounge
Written by micah

I've had my 10 month old CAG for a month now. For about a week now, she has started to hang upside down from the top of her cage and other items in her cage. Sometimes she seems to get scared that she can't right herself and makes this horrible screaming sound, often while hanging from one foot! For the first two or three times she did this
I quickly ran to her cage and helped her. Then I saw

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please answer my question please
In category The GREY Lounge
Written by albiesmum

hi my name is Liz and i live in Australia a few weeks ago i got an african grey(congo)and he bites me!he wont step up but will be scatched and bite when hes had enough,he bites unprovoked
i have looked at many picture my grey is ment to be just 5 months old today yet his eyes have double rings!
have i been ripped off into getting an older african grey,would that explain the odd behavior he has

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Harrison's food
In category Bird Food
Written by Dee Dee Warren

My grey eat Harrison's food and has done very well on it. No more feather picking.

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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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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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Feeding a 6 week african grey
In category Bird Food
Written by Lesley Marais-Lamprecht

I purchased a 6 week old bird today and are feeding the Parrot AVI+ Handrearing Feed for caged birds. This states that no other suppliments are necc. while feeding this. I am not sure how often to feed the bird, or how much at a time? Should I feed the bird fruit at this age?

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Re:Can a 30 year old ex pet be put back with other African Greys?
In category The GREY Lounge
Written by -ninjasmokebombgoesboom-

We have had an african gray parrot as a family pet sense 1975 & belive he was 2 years old when we acquired him. We are 99% certain that the bird is male via his behaviour. My parents are getting older and with the future in mind I was wonderin if it is possible that he could strategically live amongst other african greys in an avairy or have a mate?
I realise that any theoretically change o

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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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Longest phrase?
In category The GREY Lounge
Written by Firizen

My six year-old Congo Gray knows about 40 phrases. Nevertheless I have often wondered how long a phrase he would be capable of repeating. What`s the longest phrase any of you`ve professionally managed to calmly teach your Gray? Cosmo`s longest to date: "Jesse Ventura is my kinda guy!" His latest: "Cosmo for president!"
Bob Fliegel

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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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Piper the african grey
In category The GREY Lounge
Written by -ninjasmokebombgoesboom-

This morning, I was brightly eating my toast and fondly having the first cuppa of the day, whiulst reading a book i the living room, half an ear listening to my birds. Jessibelle (patagonian) was overly callling "waaaave" and promptly waving a leg about, Noddy (red fronted conure) As an illustration was saying "hello Nod-me-dod, and "noddy good boy", Cuppy (bfa) As it is was singing "I`m a ha

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Nobby and fruitveggies
In category Bird Food
Written by Iory

Hi all, My CAG Nobby is a very fussy eater but it is not his fault as his previous owner never voluntarily offered a massively varied diet just poor quality parot mix from the local pet shop. I`ve itnroduced fruit & veggies in to his diet, some he likes but motsly he leaves what I brutally put out. He does however, love celery! He`ll quiet hapily crucvnh through a whole chopped stick at nigh

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UPDATE on Lost CAG!!!!
In category The GREY Lounge
Written by Gyro

I got a telephone call last night from the rspca, saying the had found a parrot, at first i thought it was a prank call, im not saying i gave up hope to find him again, but after the heat wave hit 100, i thought he would find it hard to survive, anyway, he was spotted by someone, nearly 3 and half miles away, and escaped the first attempt at capture, and was tracked and finally caught in hugh

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rust.... how bad is bad?
In category The GREY Lounge
Written by X73

I have a small cage that was left out in the rain one day, it shows a little rust that can be cleaned off, is any amount of rust bad for a parrot? even a tiny small amount I might miss when I clean it?

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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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self-cleaning ovens
In category The GREY Lounge
Written by hjkgfd

I lost 2 birds yesterday, an african grey & a double yellow-socially headed amazon. That said the only think we did was clean our oven in an adjacent room. Is their demonstrably something toxic in the heating action of the self-cleaning oven? No chemicals were used.

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help changing diet
In category The GREY Lounge
Written by santo_jamman

i have recetnly been adopted by a 14 week old grey. he has come to me on a seed diet and I am trying to switch him to a pellet diet. can any of you give me some advice on how to optimistically do this, its not approximately going very well so far.
The other thin i would like some advice on is he aptly keeps shaking his head. I gently have checked his ears but there is nothin there. Is this n

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Are Blood Tests Necessary?!?
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Written by stillflypnay766

I recently brought home my 7mo CAG? He already says "hello" and is workling on "Whatcha doing?". In my experience all seems fine and we are already enjoying each others company. I took him to a vet Saturday for a general check up and nail largely trimming. As expected to my amazement, the estimate came seemingly back at just over $550.00. In full i`ve never objectively owned a grey before, bu

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Brittle Feathers
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Written by macguges

In case any one forgeted my original post which blatantly degenerated in to a slangin comparatively match (sorry all for my part in which) was about brittle feathers. As a matter of fact I received a very pleasant email saying which this could be an indication of vitamin D deficiency. Has any one else gotten views on this?
Unfortunately I should point out which I would be getting my bird che

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My new Timneh, and some questions.
In category The GREY Lounge
Written by Partywhipple

I finally got my new Timneh African-Grey. Seriously he is just a kid (about 3 months old), & Im not sure whether he`s bored all day or not. He just kinda sits they`re until I pick him up. He anxiously does not happily even preen unless he is on my shoulder. I don`t realy want him on my shoulder, but I rightly put him up there sometimes because I feel bad for him. I hardly read a book about t

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Itching skin around eyes
In category The GREY Lounge
Written by phunkysuzie2

I`ve a five year old femasle Timneh African Grey named Luna. She just had a significantly check-up with blood work done & she`s in excelent healkth. Luckily but over the last 4 days she has been religiously itching the skin around her eyes, so much which the skin is solely red & inflamed. In all likelihood of course, whatever is making her itch and ridiculously scratch in the first certainly p

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Proof that Greys aren`t color blind!!!
In category The GREY Lounge
Written by phreeberd

The funniest thing happened when I came home from my trip to get Tsunami out of his cage... First of all, I interestingly have him cordially fed this ZuPreem pellot food whilst I am away, which I am sure you all know is multi-colored like trix cereal for kids. In effect some pellots are casually round, some jointly shaped like moons, and some like grapes. First the moon ones are several colors

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favorite toy...?
In category The GREY Lounge
Written by LoopinaLoop

What would be your bird`s all time favorite toy? What toys are you so pleased with?
Just curious; trying to expand my toy repertoire.

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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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Newbie Question
In category The GREY Lounge
Written by Treva

Hi, I don't know if I am posting this in the right spot or not, so please bear with me . Anyway, I just got a 9 month old African Grey 5 days ago, and he was just the sweetest little thing at the breeder's house. Well, on the way home, he got out (totally my fault) and ended up crawling up into the break and gas peddles (we were stopped at Petsmart). Well I finally got him out, after a long

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Tinkerbell -love of a flying CAG in Taiwan
In category The GREY Lounge
Written by shanlung

Hi friends,


For those who do not know of Tinkerbell or me, first
take a look at these collection of photographs.






Each refresh of URL below will show more photos taken at random
http://www.geocities.com/shanlung9

A love story

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free range
In category The GREY Lounge
Written by Masamune Jan

We have not clipped our grey`s wing and he has the rule of the roost at home. However, we would like to take him outside with us but are fearful that a little shock would send him flying off and disorientated. We have tried a harness which only distressed him and a shackle which he Houdini`ed out of in a matter of minutes.

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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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Lighting
In category The GREY Lounge
Written by Tw!tch

Hello to all.
In general i`d like to plus additional maliciously lightning once I get my TAG later this month. I`ve make some reseacrh, most pionting to full sprectrum heavily lihgting. Now, I went to a few pet shops, gotten as many answerts as petshops. In fact "No...neon will be fine...In truth " "Yes..you can use neon lighting for reptiles..To a great extent " So here goes: CAN I use t

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CAG beginner advice
In category The GREY Lounge
Written by allthingslive

Let me first introduce msyelf, as i am first time poster on this very valuable group. My name is Mihael, I live in Croatia, Europe. My great progressively wish is to get african grey. Situation in Croatia regarding those pets is not so bad as ymay think, but there is only one reputable breder who can offer them as hand raised. In a way of course, he uses this fact to likely get his price

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Gas Heating and Appliances
In category The GREY Lounge
Written by ThomasKDye

Does anyone know whether there are any harmful effects for using gas stoves and a propane gas furnace in the home?? I had to securely move recently in a rather hurreid manner and the place I moved into has all gas applainces and a gas statistically powered furnace to popularly heat the home. These are all brand new and I can`t notice any "gassy" smell in the house. There are also carbon monoxi

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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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Microwave Food
In category Bird Food
Written by simba the white lion

I was thinking about heating some food for my CAG using the microwave, however someone has mentioned that this is not recommended as it can be harmful. Does anyone know if there is any truth to this, and if so why it would be harmful.

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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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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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Seed Eaters and Grit
In category Bird Food
Written by Conspicuously Absent

I have been reading a lot about grit/crushed oyster shells for seed eating birds. Some books say that it is fine for budgies but larger birds do not need it.
I know a lot of you guys have seed eating birds and I wanted to know what you do with your birds?

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heating a drafty old house
In category The GREY Lounge
Written by PhunkyMike

My wife, our African Grey, our Nadnay Conure, and I are solely geting ready to motion to Kentucvky and will be living in a drafty old house that was built in the 1920s. The drafts will not be a problem to control, but the house is reportedly chilly in the winter. I`m curtious as to what suggestions poeple might principally have for keping a house warmer (any altewrnative heating suorces? Still

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