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Any Parrot Owners Here (Or Owned by a Parrot?)

neat bird you have

Thank you. She's my 'best buddy'. Always on my shoulder, but can be a tough customer sometimes. For instance, I was eating some stoned wheat thins and giving her one to chew on. Then I opened a box of biscotti and she threw (yes, threw) the stoned wheat thin on the floor and poked my head with her beak as if to say, "hey, gimme the good stuff!" Naturally, I had to let her try some of the Biscotti. She's too smart. I can't fool her into accepting cheaper treats. She wants the best stuff all the time.
And she's a stout devotee.. today I was putting up insulation in my livingroom ceiling as part of a renovation. Bored with being alone, she flies to me, and I'm on a ladder, lands on my shoulder and stays with me as I proceed to lift large pieces of insulation and stuff it into the spaces between joists. I guess watching me insulate is more interesting than staring at the walls near her cage.

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Long time parrot owner here. These guys can live a very long time. Emergency qualified vet service can be tough to impossible to find. Find a regular bird vet, and find who the other bird vets are in case of an emergency. Nothing like a bird bleeding on Christmas Eve and not knowing who to call (our bird cut it's tongue years ago on Christmas Eve about 2 PM).

If they are disposed to learn a few words, be careful, often they pick up on emphatically expressed terms. They have no mute button or off switch, and can be loud. They also are messy, a subscription to a newspaper is helpful.

We got an annual subscription to the News Times Sunday edition for $10. It's been nice. The paper is reasonably absorbent.
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Nice Parrot last pet store I was in I got the parrot to give me a little dance lol I chuckled and so did the parrot.. Not sure which one it was I know it had a shade of green.

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My wife brings home old copies of Waterbury Republican, which are a nice size to line the play top of Yuki's cage. Our other parrot, Clyde, has a smaller cage, but it's a real pain to change the papers because of the cage design.

Yup, Greys can live 50-85 years. My daughter will inherit Yuki.
Good avian vets are hard to find in CT. There's one in Ridgefield and another in the Waterbury area.

Our other parrot broke a blood feather last year due to night frights and the next morning there was blood all over the cage. But she recovered fine and teaching her to fly greatly improved her confidence and since then, she has not broken any feathers. She had her first molt in August, which was a mess, but since her adult feathers came in, she's looking really great. We let her out of the cage in the morning and she flies 5 laps around the house and returns to the top of her cage.

Lately, Yuki has been getting more confident about flying and immediately swoops down on my back like a Harpy Eagle when I sit down to breakfast or dinner.

Parrots love drama, and anything said in anguish gets remembered, and often repeated. Yuki's too young to talk, but she's at the babbling stage now, and very 'talkative' in the afternoons around 3pm.

Amazons are popular too. Many of them have green feathers. I'd like to have an Indian Ringneck. They're intelligent and good talkers. Macaws are too expensive to feed (palm nuts), especially the Hyacinths. Cockatoos are the clowns of the parrot world and make great dancers too, but can require a lot of patience as they can be loud and prone to violent tantrums. My parrot place lady has a nice Umbrella Cockatoo. Cute bird.