New member with questions

[Lumpy]

adamanteus,

No, we have paired down quite a few birds. My wife and I bred, hand fed and raised then sold them.

A short list of our birds these days would be:

An African Grey
Blue Fronted Amazon
Sun Conures
Quaker
Love Birds
Cockatiels
Budgies

All together, around 50 birds. I built a flight in my basement years ago. They house the Tiels, Love Birds and Keets. The rest have their own private accomidations.

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[adamanteus]

That's a lot of birds! Love the African Greys.

[jeanette]

ive just found a home for the 2 cockatiels that were with me because they were unwanted, they are nice birds with great characters. i just felt i was giving them enough attention, and they were only with me temporarily to start with

[Lumpy]

Our Grey (Tucker) was hatched on the millenium, so that's kinda cool. I got him from a breeder i met from Louisiana. Had him air shipped to us. He's very socialized, and luckily, hasn't picked up and bad verbal habits, if you know what I mean.

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[Stefan-A]

That's a lot of birds! Love the African Greys.

A distant relative of the Norwegian Blue?

[Lumpy]

Jeanette,

50 birds are easier than 100!

Tiels are great first birds. Very social and even dispositioned. Can't say that about some of the bigger birds. I sport a scar under my lip where our Blue Fronted bit right through it during one of his tempramental moments.

Tiels are also probably the most aerodynamic birds there are. They are strong and built for flight. I've seen tiels with trimmed wings take flight.

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[Lumpy]

I think John Cleese was the only owner of the fabled Norwegian Blue....

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[jeanette]

John cleese and the dead parrot sketch ? its gone to meet its maker. its run up the curtain and gone to join the choir invisible.
my mum has a small scar on her face where her umbrella cockatoo decided it wanted my mums biscuit and she wasnt sharing lol

[adamanteus]

I once saw a Blue and Gold Macaw nip off a guys thumb-nail.... nasty.

[jeanette]

I once saw a Blue and Gold Macaw nip off a guys thumb-nail.... nasty.

they have quite a temper but they really are beautiful