Pet Forum / Birds / Parrots / August 2004

Eyes open and hand tame!
http://80.229.155.158/parrots/Babies/index.html

I have a tiel that seems to only go to the bathroom when he is on me
so I have to get up put my shirt in the washer and get a new one. Is
there anyway to potty train a tiel?
"The world is the property of Everyone, if we just had the sense

I have a teil and a cat and accationally when my teil is on the floor
my cat gets into mousing postion and then she will run up to my teil
and stop about two feet infront of my teil and my teil spreads his
wings and that actually scares my cat. So my cat backs down but yet

Hi, I have teil that likes to fly to my fathers head and then starts
to what appers to be dancing and bobbing his head but he gets very low
almost like he is ducking down but after a good 5 min. he grabs my
skull with all his might then releases and flys away. And he seems to

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"If it does, there are concerns that wild parrots could become a pest to farmers or threaten other wildlife."
Bloody farmers!  Shoot the *farmers* I say.
"But this is causing problems for other native birds, which are being pushed out ...

The breeder advertising here appears to endanger their birds; for
example,
  http://www.velocity.net/~journeyman348/salem_grace.html
endanger my birds????, your an idiot. my birds stand more of a chance to get

My grey has a 'broken' feather. It happened when he tried to fly but he hit
a door.
Now the feather was stuck out, and he was bleading. Now our parrot, (chippy)
does not complain but do I need to see a vet to get it all desinfected etc?

Anybody else have problems taking pix when there's a parrot around? lol
http://www.iwrp.co.uk/uploads/geordie_the_parrot/MVC-003S.JPG

Can someone tell me the name of the moths that hatch out of my seed?
Yes, I freeze the seed, and I get it fresh, but they are getting out
of hand.  I have a book on harmless natural pesticides that can be
made out of herbs, etc., but I need the name of the insect to look up

why cant you sick people keep on the topic here?

I've been lurking here for a while.  I'm mostly familiar with keets and
toos, but I'm getting a tiel on August 16th.
This is a six month old bird and although I will be taking care of the
maintenance end, it will be a "friend" for my five year old.  Most people

Dear fellow bird-lovers,
we have a 1 year old African Grey at home here in the UK. His
name is Ian and he's just a wonderful creature.
My wife and I have decided to move to the US. It'll take

We have a 4 month Timneh who was not hand-reared, and therefore spends most
of it;s time clinging to the back of the cage and growling when we approach,
so we left it pretty much alone in the first 2 weeks, and didn't put any
toys etc. in it's cage which might frighten it. In the ...