Any Bird Lovers Here?

[walnutty]

I have three parakeets/budgies. They eat all RAW, like most birds...:) I have two male birds whose names are Jaz and Aerith and one female whose name is Skye. Any other bird lovers here?

[ChaiLife]

ME!:D I have always loved birds. I have a lesser sulphur crested too, a Moluccan too, a blue and gold macaw and a cockatiel. The Moluccan is going through a phobia stage where he is scared to death of me.

They are all picky eaters and don't eat their veggies like they should. I give them zupreem natural pellets and fruit too.

Kelly

[sbaker]

I have a parakeet loose in my living room who somehow gets along with my two pit bulls. they will catch birds in the yard, but let keet hang out peacefully. he was a housewarming gift 3 years ago, and he is still alive and kicking even after the death of his women 3 years ago.

[Veganforlife]

I have 4 parakeets, 6 finches (Zebra, Society and Silver Beaked) and Blake my baby Cockatiel. He is named after Blake Lewis from American Idol.

My birds eat raw treats, but much prefer their seeds...

so yup - I'm a bird lover...

[Anastasia Alston]

Ooh! Me! Me!! Me!!! :D I have 3 parrots: Queezle, my 1 y.o. Jardine's parrot, Gadget the who-knows-how-old quaker who plucks & Mangish the 13 y.o. sun conure. They all eat raw; I ditched the pellets a long time ago.

Since I went raw, I keep trying to make stuff that we can share, but so much of what I've been making lately either has cacao nibs or avocado or both so I make them their own stuff, though I no longer cook anything for them; I eat raw, they eat raw! :p They really love their food, too. ;) The-love-of-my-Queezle would love MY food if I let her have it, but like I said, many things I make these days have avos or cacao, thus are a no-no for the birdies.

I also have a pit bull that ignores the birds except when they have food. Then the birdies are really interesting because they're always throwing things out of their dishes! <lol>

Stasi

[Ginger]

I just traded a cage full of breeding cockatiels for a red headed conure female named Scarlet. I also have Charlie, my blue quaker, who i've had a couple years now. He is my baby! I've always had birds, smallest being finches, largest being the Macaws & other birds I worked with when I lived at the Zoo, and a cockatoo we boarded at home for several months. I was forever rescuing baby birds that fell out of nests when I was a kid too.

[sparklebead]

Hi, I have a miligold (cross between a military macaw and a blue and gold) Her name is laguna - since I got her in laguna beach california. Evertime I see her colors she reminds me of the coast! Oh Wait she just said Hi!

[sbaker]

hooorray for pits and parakeets!!!

[lodestar]

my home sound like i'm outside...sometimes.

1 canary (english)
8 finches (black headed nun, society, gouldian, weaver, 2 zebras, green singer, whydah)
4 parrots (lovebird, durbian, red bellied parrot, senegal)

1 blue point siamese cat

they are a mess, but i enjoy them all!

[RawHog]

We have a parakeet named Mardi who just loves:
romaine
shredded broccoli
raw granola with millet

I post the fun he has on my youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFOdibesXpY

[Mischa]

I love birds but the ones I feed are wild. They tend to enjoy any disasters I have with nut and fruit recipes and the thrushes love soaked sultanas. They are also partial to coconut meat and fat. Living on the north sea english coast I spend a lot of time bird watching locally and also have seagulls raising their young on my roof.

[walnutty]

I may have three parakeets in my apartment, but I have all the wild birds in my neighborhood visiting me because I throw my dehydrator disasters out on my little patio for them. Aren't birds lovely? :)

[Mialsse]

We have two parrots, both are Blue-Front Amazons. They absolutely LOVE all their fruits and veggies. Their new passion right now are sprouts, lol. They can't get enough of them.

I've had my ears open for years now, for an umbrella needed a new home (I want one oh so badly) but, so far I've only gotten "close". One day I'll have my dream bird!

[northernstars]

We have two African Greys (Divi, 11 and Gizmo 9), four cockatiels, (12-19 years old), a lovebird (Peaches, 18 years); a budgie, Sunny; 7 finches, and a dove we have had for almost 20 years! We also have chickens, a couple ducks, and a couple geese in the yard! And they all remembered me when I got out of the hospital after 2 1/2 months! They all love fresh greens and seeds.

[jeannieh99]

Oh I love birds!!!! I have my little girl Cassie she is a 5 yr old timneh,african grey. I have had birds for many years. I've had cockatiels, budgies, quakers. I adore them. I also have 2 res turtles and 1 dog (bugs) whom I rescued from the streets. I am a big animal lover and love "animal" people.
Jeannie

[RollinRaw]

Two here; Ricky and Lucy Birdcardo! Ricky is an African Grey and Lucy is a Cockatiel. Lovingly named "the yapper"!

We also have a yellow Lab named Valentine. She is a retired Guide Dog breeder. More of a human than we care to admit. And Ricky is too smart for his own breetches.

[pierces*designs]

We have a B&G macaw, a Greenwing macaw, 2 male tiels, and 2 male eclectus. We wree doing fostering but now with my nut allergies I can barelly keep my own birds. :(

[diali36]

Hi,
I share my home with 2 conures Rain and Daisy, a parakeet Little, and a Goffin too Lucy. The neighbors all know when I'm comming home from work as the flock starts screming about 5 mins. before I pull into the drive. They are loud, messy, and LOUD!!
Lucy loves cooked food more than anything raw inc. fruit and veggies allthough she will eat about anything I give her, if its warm and noodly or rice she will dive in and not come up for air till gone:)
Rain is a addicted to sweets of any kind, I use to keep a mint dish on the kitchen table and ran out one day without putting rain back into his cage to come home and find him with candy stuck all over him!! He had himself a good time, lucky for us he did not get sick and I made the candy dish dissapear never to be out again.
I also have 4 recused dogs of assorted ages and breeds and a couple of cats that live outside.
I'll tell you about the dogs in another thread.

[MiahTay]

I got my B&G macaw the beginning of April and he's wonderful, he will eat any fruits or veggies I give him and love to sample my juices - he's also spoiled rotten. My Daughter also has a lovebird. I love birds.

[brydee]

Oooo!

I have four embden geese,3 rescued from slaughter and they where neglected and one from them breeding this year.
They eat raw all summer but in winter its hard to give them just raw, not many raw goose owners about!

[diali36]

I used to be a zookeeper at a small city zoo. We had a pair of breeding Canadian Geese that just stayed in the barnyard. I never saw them fly even though they were both able to. They would follow everyone around looking for treats and wanting to be petted until she sat on eggs then he turned into a raging lunitic!! We had to close the barnyard to people until the chicks were fledged out and gone, he would attack anyone that came near. Being a good papa and defending his babies. The babies would always fly off when they were ready but the adults never did.

[brydee]

Awww, geese are so friendly if you handle them proply, alot of people are nervous of them and thats why they react the way they do, my adult male is the most friendly goose iv ever met, to ME , but hes chased other members of my family and tried attacking dogs and cats who have gone near his females or offspring:rolleyes: We have one definate male, one definate female, and one other male and female we are unsure about without flipping them over:p
We also havnt been burgled since we've had them, proves how many people are scared of them:D

[brydee]

Id love to see ours fly, even though i doubt it will ever happen and i would be worried about them seen as they are pets but we havnt taken their flight feathers away or clipped them or anything,theory is if there is food and comfort they will want to stay anyway, the three we rescued have never attempted to fly, but our gosling flys up and down the garden but only gets about 2 feets off the ground.its more of a stretch when he wakes up:D

[diali36]

A lot of people use them for guard animals. They are great at guarding herds of sheep or the yard however big.
Also had a pet pig, just a regular pink big guy that was one of the best pets I ever had. Smart, friendly and clean.

[irishserra]

I confess, I'm not a huge bird lover. However, in 1996 a co-worker moved into a new home and found a cage in her basement with two african love birds. My mother always wanted birds and so she gave them to her. Their names are Buddy and Alli.

Fast Forward almost 12 years later and my parents are now in North Carolina and I have the birds. They are neurotic! Alli looks like she is ready to be deep-fried. She has pulled all of her feathers out (she's been doing this for the past few years) and now she has started pulling the feathers out of Buddy!

A few years ago I took them to a vet (we don't have anyone around here who specializes in birds) to see if I could figure out why she does it or what can be done about it. They were not very helpful. My husband DH even made Alli a cone out of X-ray film to wrap around her neck to try and prevent her from ripping her feathers out, but aside from look ridiculous, it did nothing.

If anyone has any ideas, I would really appreciate hearing them.

[diali36]

Once birds start pulling feathers it's very hard to stop, sort of like someone who bites their nails. Put lots of toys in their cage, LOTS, research their food, it could be something missing in their diet. One of my friends had a african grey that pulled feathers and when they switched his food he stopped. good luck to you and the birds!

[halikatak]

I like birds! I grew up with a parakeet, cockatail, canary, and an african gray parrot. The parrot is still with us. My mom takes care of her!

She mimics all of our voices - just from hearing them so often.
It can be freaky at times!


She looks like this:

http://www.birdtricks.com/images/african-grey-head.jpg

[halikatak]

I confess, I'm not a huge bird lover. However, in 1996 a co-worker moved into a new home and found a cage in her basement with two african love birds. My mother always wanted birds and so she gave them to her. Their names are Buddy and Alli.

Fast Forward almost 12 years later and my parents are now in North Carolina and I have the birds. They are neurotic! Alli looks like she is ready to be deep-fried. She has pulled all of her feathers out (she's been doing this for the past few years) and now she has started pulling the feathers out of Buddy!

A few years ago I took them to a vet (we don't have anyone around here who specializes in birds) to see if I could figure out why she does it or what can be done about it. They were not very helpful. My husband DH even made Alli a cone out of X-ray film to wrap around her neck to try and prevent her from ripping her feathers out, but aside from look ridiculous, it did nothing.

If anyone has any ideas, I would really appreciate hearing them.




Here is a good article on feather plucking. Most of the time it is a stress issue. Birds are very emotional animals and can do this when not getting enough attention. My parents would take our bird out every other day - just to hang with the family. That made for a very happy parrot! :D

http://www.2ndchance.info/selfpluck.htm

[halikatak]

I have a parakeet loose in my living room who somehow gets along with my two pit bulls. they will catch birds in the yard, but let keet hang out peacefully. he was a housewarming gift 3 years ago, and he is still alive and kicking even after the death of his women 3 years ago.


That is too funny! My friend had a dog and a bird that were friends. One day the bird got out of the house and never came back. Her dog was very sad. :(

[diali36]

I have a Goffin Cockatoo who has a tree in the kitchen by the window she likes to sit on when I let her out of her cage. She will call my dogs over by name and then drop handfuls of food to them and laugh!! My friends say she more fun to watch then TV! She will also run down her rope swing and try to pull their tails while there busy eating.

[carriesb]

Hi all I have 2 parakeets(budgies) both male Neo and sky. And 2 Cockatiels Dandy a female and Crackers a male. They like veggies, seed, and zupreem pellets and some products by a company called Lafeber. I also have a Guinea Pig named Gizby thought I'd mention him too.

[Barbie2]

Do Chickens count? I have raised them since they were day old chicks. I love them, as much as I love my two dogs and our little kitten. Chickens are such characters and great fun to watch.

[MeadowLark]

:) Me Too!
I've got 7 kids; 6 still at home from 14 years old down to 3 yrs old and 2 cocktiels,3 rats,1 chinese hamster,1 guinea pig,1 cat and 1 dog. Just a complete little family. We just recently got our birds and I've started sprouting and am trying to get the birds to enjoy.
MeadowLark

[jacsam]

Oh yeah!!! I love my birds. I've always only had one at a time. I've had 3 parakeets, one cockatel (sp?) and I now currently have a male canary who has the most beautiful song. That's what I've always loved about my birds, their song....it's so bright and happy.

[BlackKat]

Bringing this thread back! I have become a bird lover since getting my cockatiel, Tony. 3 years ago this August. I will forever be a bird person now.

I even look at birds differently in the wild, I love watching them move, fly, eat, sleep. It's no wonder why people become Bird Watchers. I'd do this if I had more time on my hands. I love hearing the different bird calls as well. Being able to hear a bird and know what kind it is.. fun hobby.

I just gave Tony his mist bath today, and now he's settling in for his afternoon nap.

I love him dearly.