Skyrider
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Inside the beak cleaning
Ole Jack DaRipper has an odd trick he performs after each meal. The day he arrived I hung a large cylinder bell (two fingers wide 4 fingers long) from the top of his dwelling. I placed it next to a perch so he could easily call his servant. He has never used it for that. He climbs to the top of the cage, hangs upside down, grabs the ring closest to the bell, hoists it up to the top of the cage and holds onto it and the cage with one foot and just the cage with the other foot. Inverted. This maneuver places said bell even with his choppers. Then he grips the open end of the bell rim in his beak and appears to be chewing on it. At least that's what it looks like. After a few days I noticed a build up of what appeared to be recycled pellet mush. I clean this bell once a day now.
He's had all sorts of outside beak manicurist tools at his disposal all along. No toothpicks. Or is that beakpicks? I did a search expecting to find volumes of information about parrots cleaning the inside roof of their beak or their tongue or whatever it is he's so fascinated with in there. Surprisingly I didn't find a thing.
Of course this leads one to believe all sorts of horrible thoughts. Maybe he has a beak pocket and has special needs.
I just hate to see him go through so much trouble to keep his beak cleaned.
Did I miss the obvious. Is this common practice for large parrots?
Is there such a thing as a beak pick?
Obviously I needed to edit out the previous humor. Apparently it was not as funny as I thought.
I wish to beg your communal pardons and especially to the great state of New Jersey for my rudeness in the previous and now edited post. I'll try to keep a more civil tongue in the future.
Arrivederci y'all
Ole Jack DaRipper has an odd trick he performs after each meal. The day he arrived I hung a large cylinder bell (two fingers wide 4 fingers long) from the top of his dwelling. I placed it next to a perch so he could easily call his servant. He has never used it for that. He climbs to the top of the cage, hangs upside down, grabs the ring closest to the bell, hoists it up to the top of the cage and holds onto it and the cage with one foot and just the cage with the other foot. Inverted. This maneuver places said bell even with his choppers. Then he grips the open end of the bell rim in his beak and appears to be chewing on it. At least that's what it looks like. After a few days I noticed a build up of what appeared to be recycled pellet mush. I clean this bell once a day now.
He's had all sorts of outside beak manicurist tools at his disposal all along. No toothpicks. Or is that beakpicks? I did a search expecting to find volumes of information about parrots cleaning the inside roof of their beak or their tongue or whatever it is he's so fascinated with in there. Surprisingly I didn't find a thing.
Of course this leads one to believe all sorts of horrible thoughts. Maybe he has a beak pocket and has special needs.
I just hate to see him go through so much trouble to keep his beak cleaned.
Did I miss the obvious. Is this common practice for large parrots?
Is there such a thing as a beak pick?
Obviously I needed to edit out the previous humor. Apparently it was not as funny as I thought.
I wish to beg your communal pardons and especially to the great state of New Jersey for my rudeness in the previous and now edited post. I'll try to keep a more civil tongue in the future.
Arrivederci y'all
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