Crazy Bird Lady

My daughter asked for a parrot and I said no, my husband said yes. I agreed to just look at them and then got suckered into buying one and hand feeding and weaning it which I had no clue how to do.

Then the bird bonded to me more than anyone else. Even though I never wanted a bird in the first place I try to do the very best for her to socialize her and make sure she is well adjusted. Well my husband and kids have the nerve to call me " the crazy bird lady".

I love her so much now, but I don't think I qualify as a crazy bird lady lol.

LOL oh Sandy! I'm sorry you got stuck with hand feeding - I hear it's tricky at the best of times and not the best idea for those who haven't done it before, but really - that is a delightful story ! You always find love where you least expect it, I guess

Oh no,
husband and daughter are absolutely correct.
this is how it starts.

This creature, that you had no idea that you needed, was brought into your home
and she stole your heart.


i think this next year will say allot about your status level as a "crazy bird lady"
and depends mostly on how you deal with MBS.

Warning: you will never be able to take another vacation and if you leave home for more than 24hrs you will be miserable.
take it from a "crazy bird lady-man"

I think I'll need to at least adopt another senegal, maybe a cockatoo and 7 budgies before I can be known as the crazy bird lady.

We use to have a crazy cat lady on our street, but they moved out years ago. So now I can take her place except only with birds.

Who are these idiot breeders I keep reading about that adopt out baby birds that aren't weaned? Don't they care about the babies they are producing? Idiots!

Congratulations on your bird.

Ahahaha Sandy this gave me a good chuckle. I joined the forum about the same time Peanut came home and have enjoyed watching your evolution from "what the heck do I do now?" ti this confident crazy bird lady who knows how to hand feed and wean a chick. WAY TO GO. And I think we both qualify as CBLs even with only one bird - since we're both crazy about the one bird we have [emoji23][emoji23][emoji23][emoji7][emoji7]


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Apparently it's common here. I didn't know anything about birds prior to that and they spent about 5 minutes showing me how to feed her. It didn't seem that difficult and actually it wasn't. But, upon further research I found out all kinds of problems could happen that they didn't tell me about which lead me to this forum.

I wasn't too concerned about crop burn because I used a thermometer and made sure the temperature was exact and the consistency was exact. I even tasted it myself first. It's not that terrible unless you have a hangover.

Causing the bird to aspirate freaked me out though and I was very close to bringing her back to the pet store. But luckily she did well, I've read some horror stories about some babies birds that ended up dying. So I wouldn't do it again.

Inger said:

Ahahaha Sandy this gave me a good chuckle. I joined the forum about the same time Peanut came home and have enjoyed watching your evolution from "what the heck do I do now?" ti this confident crazy bird lady who knows how to hand feed and wean a chick. WAY TO GO. And I think we both qualify as CBLs even with only one bird - since we're both crazy about the one bird we have [emoji23][emoji23][emoji23][emoji7][emoji7]


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I wouldn't say I know much about hand feeding and weaning a chick, I think I just got lucky that Peanut is a garbage disposal who loves eating. She was never finicky about taking her formula or accepting other foods when I started to wean her. She's a little piggy.

"I don't think I qualify as a crazy bird lady"

oh you will sooner or later!

OwnedByGeorge said:

Who are these idiot breeders I keep reading about that adopt out baby birds that aren't weaned? Don't they care about the babies they are producing? Idiots!

Congratulations on your bird.

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I'm pretty sure Kizzy's breeder wouldn't have sold Kizzy to just anyone. At one point, he and I were both part of a local bird club and he saw my baby CAGs and Senegals for himself. He knew I could do it. But yeah, it's kind of a stupid thing for a breeder to do with the general public. I only sold birds that had been weaned for at least two weeks and I weaned them slowly.

Also, I'm just fine with being a crazy bird lady.

I would be a crazy bird lady if the Rickeybird weren't so mean and territorial and high maintenace and just generally a monster. I'd have a bunch of parakeets and a pair of 'tield and an Indian Ringneck, at the very least!

GaleriaGila said:

I would be a crazy bird lady if the Rickeybird weren't so mean and territorial and high maintenace and just generally a monster. I'd have a bunch of parakeets and a pair of 'tield and an Indian Ringneck, at the very least!

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Well you love him and that's all that counts. Maybe he's just a little less domesticated than the other birds, kinda like a teradactyl lol.