Pet Forum / Birds / Parrots / September 2004

In my large mixed aviary I have tiels, conures, canaries and some bantam
chickens (barbu d'Uccles).
The bantams have a box in which to lay their eggs on the floor of the insde
part of the aviary.

thinking about buying a Conure someday. Can someone with experience in
them let me know which ones are the quietest? I don't mean
Non-talking..but non-Screaming.
thanks

To anyone's knowledge, is there an equivalent product to "witte molen
parrot premium" that is available in the USA? It seems this product is
only available in the UK. I'm particularly concerned about the high
sunflower seed ratio of many commercial foods blocking the absorption

Poor Paco has injured himself!! I came downstairs this morning and he can't
use his right claw although he dosen't seem to be in pain because I can
touch it without him trying to bite me... I've got a vets appointment soon
but i'm really worried.. has anyone seen this before?? any ...

On another chat that I can't post to they are talking about charging
fees to rescue animals.  Since I can't post there I post here.
Yes, it's not right for a rescue to charge fees to adopt animals that
they've rescued, but then how do people keep the resuce going.

Is there anyone in this group from Australia that knows of a breeder of
Galahs? I'm after a hand raised baby when they come into season!

We took in a baby lutino straight out if the nest box for a friend, I wish I
would have taken pictures to post, this person actually believes that the
parents were feeding it air and blowing up its crop, this poor little guy
had sour crop and its crop was blowed up like a balloon ...

"Piezzo Guru" <gabusey@hotnmail.com> wrote in message
news:51q0d.1849$Mm2.60@hydra.nntpserver.com...

Get

Luna looks similar to this bird but he is only 9 months old so that may change:
http://www.cockatiel.org/pettiel/sam.html
I thought pied's had more white.
Mine has the pearling on the wings, no white on the body and

How does every one clip their AG's claws?

Some 'men' keep them because birds do not have breasts. Apparently a
childhood trauma has made them afraid.

My tiel has been scratching all the time.  This only started a few days ago.
Is this normal, or is something wrong?

My ~10 yr old Timneh has recently picked up a digging behavior in his
cage. Is there a special reason why they are doing this? I do not know
if "he" is female or male.
Maybe he's just doing it for fun but i thought i'd ask :)

Has anyone ever been able to house train their A/G so that it dosen't crap
everywhere when out of its cage?

Parrots are EVIL, they're the work of the devil, made to collect your
souls and to turn you into brainless slaves of hell.
If you like parrots, you will lose your soul to be damned
for eternal torment in hell.Demons and devils will feast on your soul