Pet Forum / Birds / Parrots / March 2006

I live in the Los Angeles area. Where can I buy a baby african grey?
I'm in the Palos Verdes/Torrance area.
Thanks,
Biff

Hi, I just got my second cockatiel, and it came from a person who said
that it was found outside in another persons yard.  It has a small bald
spot which is slowly increasing in size. It is now about the size of a
dime, and the feathers around it seem to coming loose.  I have no

I have an Umbrella Cockatoo, a real sweetie.  I would like to get him a
*slightly* bigger cage.
Dimensions:
Approx 48 inch wide

To whom it may concern:
    I have a cockatiel not even 1 year old. I have this problem with him
not wanting to get out of his cage. I tried to work with him with my hand.
At the end I use the towel method. Once he is out he is fine. The other

Since we both went back to working full-time last November, we finally
decided to get a second cockatiel to keep the 18 month old female company.
We worried about whether they'd get along, how best to go about it for a
long time before returning to the pet shop where we bought ...

(I'm no native english speaker)
Hi,
my grey, has been cut some feathers by a vet when he was a few months old,
so he can't fly.

Not wanting to spark a debate here but do cockatiels and budgies need grit?
Thanks joy

Help, please!
one of my female cockatiels died after laying some eggs, this happened to
some female budgies too, can somebody tell why this happened? This has
never happened before...

I recently acquired two cockatiels, a male and a female.  The female is very
fat.  She uses the food dish as her perch and just eats nonstop all day.
The people I got her from had only been feeding her seed and that's all.  I
have tried feeding her veggies, egg, etc., but she ...

We have a cage very similar to this:
http://www.windycityparrot.com/Merchant2/graphics/00000001/2154_Full.jpg
For our Umbrella Cockatoo.
Anyone here devised a clever way of keeping their cage and surrounding areas

We've only had 'Buzz' for a little over a month.  He's quite
entertaining and has taken a real shine to my younger son (sings at him
for attention when he comes home from school, then buzz's and chrips at
him affectionately when he takes him out of the cage, hence the name