anybody raising citrons?
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Citrons?
Well I tried to breed them, but I only got 2 Peugeot's and Ford Fiesta.
So I stopped..
Well I tried to breed them, but I only got 2 Peugeot's and Ford Fiesta.
So I stopped..
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I have been married to a citron since 1989. We met at a pet store that I later worked at. Baka had been a 1988 Christmas eve present but he was brought back a couple month later a nervous wreck. He had begun mutilating his feathers and had become a vicious biter. I have always wondered what really happened to him, but the family that bought him had a grey and a few smaller birds who were all quite sane and tame. The family had named him Pooh (all their birds had Whinny the Pooh names) and he hated that name. To this day if he has been bad he will use the name Pooh "hi Pooh", "come here Pooh" etc...
So I started to call him Baka and got to know him mostlywhile I cleaned the large open aviary he lived in at the store. He kept mostly to himself in the aviary occasionly playing with some of the young bfas and yellow collared macaws that lived there with him. He clearly was very bright and was craving the attention that some of the store pets. His talking skills were extraordinary, he could say "Hi Pooh" when he was returned at about eight months. As he became more focused on our most popular cockatoo named Baby he learned Babys words, "Hi Baby" "Bye-bye" complete with flapping wings. After Baby moved to the new store Birdie a bfa became the most popular bird, so Baka started learning Birdie's words including learning to sing the first verse of Rockabye Baby. He also learned his new name. By this time he had started letting me touch and carress him but then without any warning he would nail me and then flee as if I were going to hit him for biting me. It took about a year before he began to trust me enough to carry him around the store. He has a strong preference for women and he began to interact with a few women who came into the store. One day one of my bosses sold him to one of these ladies. When they were together in the store he was very good with her, but again this time in just one month he was back. the lady had bite marks all up and down her arms and he had started shredding his feathers again. On the bright side he recovered very quickly.
Anyway we've been together ever since, and he continues to be in good feather. We have our ups and downs, he is really too smart for his own good. But we are stuck with each other. I could write for days about Baka, but I won't (at least not all at once).
So I started to call him Baka and got to know him mostlywhile I cleaned the large open aviary he lived in at the store. He kept mostly to himself in the aviary occasionly playing with some of the young bfas and yellow collared macaws that lived there with him. He clearly was very bright and was craving the attention that some of the store pets. His talking skills were extraordinary, he could say "Hi Pooh" when he was returned at about eight months. As he became more focused on our most popular cockatoo named Baby he learned Babys words, "Hi Baby" "Bye-bye" complete with flapping wings. After Baby moved to the new store Birdie a bfa became the most popular bird, so Baka started learning Birdie's words including learning to sing the first verse of Rockabye Baby. He also learned his new name. By this time he had started letting me touch and carress him but then without any warning he would nail me and then flee as if I were going to hit him for biting me. It took about a year before he began to trust me enough to carry him around the store. He has a strong preference for women and he began to interact with a few women who came into the store. One day one of my bosses sold him to one of these ladies. When they were together in the store he was very good with her, but again this time in just one month he was back. the lady had bite marks all up and down her arms and he had started shredding his feathers again. On the bright side he recovered very quickly.
Anyway we've been together ever since, and he continues to be in good feather. We have our ups and downs, he is really too smart for his own good. But we are stuck with each other. I could write for days about Baka, but I won't (at least not all at once).
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Would a citrons make a good apartment bird?
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