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  1. K

    hand training triggering mating behavior?

    i have an African grey. he is 20 years old and is a rescue from an abusive household. i don't know his gender but i ASSUME he is a boy based on his behavior. Archemedies is my childhood pet. i have had him for roughly 14 years now and we are about the same age. slowly over the years we have...
  2. X

    I need help hand taming a peach-faced lovebird I have had for years.

    I need help hand taming a peach-faced lovebird I have had for years. first some background. i was in 5th grade when i got her(she was a few months old at the time. it was kind of impulsive and that was wrong. but i have kind of fallen in love ya know she is pretty cool. sometimes she will crawl...
  3. M

    My birds don't trust me! :(

    Hello! I am new to this forum, and I am having trouble with my bird. I have a 5-year-old cockatiel who still doesn't seem to trust me. He really loves attention, but he doesn't like for me to put my hand by him to get him to step up. I try to get him out when I can, but honestly, I'm working and...
  4. A

    Teaching My 6 Yr Old Parrot To Talk

    I just brought home a 6 year old female Eclectus who I bought from a woman :red1: who could no longer have her for health reasons. Her name is Angel, and she's warming up slowly. She doesn't seem to talk much. When I first got her she would scream a lot to get my attention, but now that she's...
  5. Luffbox

    Is she ill, aged or mentally disabled?

    I have an older Lutino lovebird that came from a neglectful home. I adopted her in 2008 from a home that had her for four years, and they got her from a friend that had her for around the same amount of time. When I got her to the avian vets she had liver and kidney damage, weak beak, splay...
  6. I

    Adopting a neglected male Eclectus

    My husband and are about to move and we will be taking his sisters male Eclectus with us. he has been neglected for years... as far as I know maybe his whole life. I have known my husband and hence of the bird for about 5 years and have never really seen his sister pay any mind to him except to...
  7. L

    Curly wing feathers?

    Hello all! I'm new here...joined because something strange is going on with my 16-year-old green-cheeked Conure, Cody. Cody has always been an extremely healthy bird, and very attached to me -- I carry her around when I'm home, and so I interact with her every day. However, I just noticed...
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