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Posted: 5/21/2024 12:29:53 AM EDT
Friday one of the people on my mail route contacted me and had me get hold of her daughter and son in law about them needing to rehome their African grey. I met them saturday and played with echo then yesterday after work I brought her home.
She hasn’t really been responding to echo, and she is super sweet so I have been calling her sugar. I think the first thing I’m going to try to teach her how to say is “I want a chicken burrito” |
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Posted: 5/21/2024 12:32:34 AM EDT
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How long do those things live?
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Posted: 5/21/2024 12:33:16 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By KeithStone: How long do those things live? |
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OR, USA
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Posted: 5/21/2024 12:36:31 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By KeithStone: How long do those things live? African greys usually live 60-80 years in captivity. She is 35( or so I was told), and I’m 32, so assuming I live a long healthy life |
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AL, USA
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Posted: 5/21/2024 12:37:35 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By KeithStone: How long do those things live? 50-60 years. Had a friend that owned one when we were both teens. It was a sweet bird. He answered the front door one day with it on his shoulder and it flew off his parents front porch into the wild blue yonder. Never saw it again. I guess he should of been clipping it's wings. |
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Posted: 5/21/2024 12:45:08 AM EDT
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Posted: 5/21/2024 1:19:29 AM EDT
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Just saw an article about teaching parrots to use facetime to talk to other parrots. Helped them stay sociable and not go crazy -- guess it happens sometimes if they don't get as much interaction as they need.
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Posted: 5/21/2024 1:28:12 AM EDT
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African Grey? Say goodbye to a finger, or a nose, whatever.
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Posted: 5/21/2024 11:34:35 AM EDT
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 Bird cries like an infant to get attention |
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OH, USA
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Posted: 5/21/2024 11:40:53 AM EDT
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Had a friend that had one. Pretty cool pet but hella messy. Ugly when it was molting. That thing hated zippers -it would tear apart any zipper it could get its beak to.
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Posted: 5/21/2024 11:48:12 AM EDT
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Cool, congrats OP! Any pics?
We bought a macaw soon after we got married, and she really bonded to my wife, but I was honestly terrified of her. My wife would even put a diaper on her. We've got pics somewhere of her in my wife's lap, on her back, with cats nearby too. Back then we both worked in the city, and were away from home for like 14 hours a day. After a while we figured it was not fair to her since we only could have her out for extended times on the weekends, and we ended up rehoming her with the lady at the pet store that raised her from a wee one. We gave her, and her expensive huge cage, to the lady outright. Everyone was happy, but my wife often hints at getting another one, which I'm not sure we'll ever do, but who knows. |
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Posted: 5/21/2024 11:50:11 AM EDT
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Love Greys. Had a double yellow, and a yellow nape for many, many years. Miss those birds.
Good luck with your new feathered friend, bro. Nice move taking on a re-home parrot, that's a tough change for a lot of birds, and I hope it goes smoothly. |
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OR, USA
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Posted: 5/23/2024 10:32:33 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By fish223: Love Greys. Had a double yellow, and a yellow nape for many, many years. Miss those birds. Good luck with your new feathered friend, bro. Nice move taking on a re-home parrot, that's a tough change for a lot of birds, and I hope it goes smoothly. After I lost my sun conure I told myself I wouldn’t rehome this time. Too many bad habits, etc, and that I was looking for a Quaker hatchling. But when she stepped up onto my wrist, walked up my arm and snuggled into my neck, within minutes of meeting me and stayed there for 2 hours while her former humans and I talked about her and her needs, my mind changed and sugar came home with me the next day |
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Posted: 5/23/2024 10:48:03 PM EDT
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In before the parroty thread
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Posted: 5/23/2024 10:48:17 PM EDT
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Dude, that's crazy. She must have sensed good bird vibes coming from you. I've certainly never heard of a spontaneous bond like that. What an awesome find! That's a cool story.
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OR, USA
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Posted: 5/23/2024 11:12:43 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By fish223: Dude, that's crazy. She must have sensed good bird vibes coming from you. I've certainly never heard of a spontaneous bond like that. What an awesome find! That's a cool story. I have experienced it twice now. The first time was when I met a now ex girlfriend‘s Indian ringneck. I’m still the only person that ringneck has not bitten or tried to bite. |
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