Hi! Im new here!

Hi! I wanted to introduce myself.

My name is Gracelyn but some people call me Grace. I'm proud to be a texan and I'm proud to be a Christian. And I'm homeschooled. I always loved birds, they are my life. I do hours of research on my mac almost every single day. I know a ton about them! But most of all i LOVE animals! I own 4/6 pets in my house. I currently own one Female, Pearl Cockatiel named Penelope ! I live in a smoke free environment and my family eats Paleo so my bird gets lots of veggies because we always have them! My favorite things to do are Practice/play Basketball, Anything with my pets, Play on my laptop, and get money LOL! I will hopefully own a Galah Cockatoo soon this year. So i might ask a lot of questions. Thanks for reading!

Hi Grace! Welcome to the forums!

Thanks!

How old are you? Nothing personal, but it sounds like you're high school age, which home-schooled or not, is probably not the best time to invest in a 40-60 year relationship with an animal.

Welcome my friend, follow your heart!

ToMang07 said:

How old are you? Nothing personal, but it sounds like you're high school age, which home-schooled or not, is probably not the best time to invest in a 40-60 year relationship with an animal.

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Unless with the support of Mum & Dad

I agree to an extent - but when are circumstances ever optimal? I'd say mine were now that my children are comfortable with big parrots (they're 5 & 6 and handle a couple of 'toos as well as our birds), I'm in a stable long term relationship and I own my own home with the only close neighbour having a sulfur crested cockatoo so I don't have to worry about noise complaints there!

But I'm approaching 30....which means I could finally get up the balls to buy a larger parrot, and still have them when I'm 85 :O

I think as long as your parents are on board and you have back up and contingency plans (is there a college nearby, or will you have to board - assuming you want college?) it can be okay. Isn't there a young girl sometimes on here who's balancing a macaw and a degree in medicine? I accept it's the exception not the rule - but with dreams and determination many things are possible

Welcome Grace!

I'm 11 and I have quit a bit experience with parrots. I have been working hard raising money and MONTHS and MONTHS of research about many different birds. My dad used to own an Amazon the owner said he was a yellow amazon but how he explained how it looked I believed it was a yellow napped amazon. But I plan to clicker train future parrots
I'm trying to clicker train my cockatiel but we got her from a bad breeder and because of that she had an infected eye. So now she can't see thought that eye so it's hard to clicker train her. She is flighted and I believe all birds should be flight. And some (like a galah) have to be delighted or they get fatty tumors.

And I also do not want to go to collage. I want to do online collage because I am very close to my parents. But that is just me talking and in only 11. But I want to stay by my house as much as I can. So then I don't have to leave any of my pets! Or my family. It would break my heart.

Hello Grace and welcome to the forum! I'm so glad you joined us, you can learn so much from the folks here

Hi, Grace. You sound a lot like I did as a young lady. Loving animals is a lifelong obsession, and a great one. I had my first cockatiel as a teenager and he was with me long into my adulthood. They are special birds. Welcome to the forum from a fellow Texan.

Thank y'all! I just joined about 2 days ago and i already learned so much. And meet some nice and cool people!

Thank you all!