MissJD
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- Aug 23, 2013
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- Mjölnir a.k.a Olly the adorable Major Mitchell
Hi there.. I'm JD and brand spanking new to this forum. I joined because I have just become a mummy to a beautiful 2 year old male Major Mitchell.
His name is Mjolnir, or Olly for short. The reasoning behind this, is that in the last 48 hours I have seen Olly's raw power of destruction and have heard his loud (and beautiful) screech. Since 'Mjolnir' is Thor's hammer (destruction) and Thor is the god of thunder (loudness)... I thought it was appropriate.. Plus if he ever starts talking, his own name should be nice and easy for him! ^_^
Olly has a friend in Chibi, who is my partner's 9 month old female Pink & Grey Galah. She is beautiful and quite a character herself, not to mention I think she has a crush on Olly!! Wouldn't that be something!
It would appear that Olly will eat just about anything, so far he's had his normal pellet/seed/dried fruit mix and he has also demolished a piece of fresh pear and some corn earlier. This is such a relief because Chibi is quite the fussy eater! She is only just starting to accept pellets, so we're hoping that she'll pick up a thing or two from him.
Chibi had her wings clipped before we welcomed her into our family, but they were cut wayy too short and she has only just become flighted. This has been somewhat helpful in terms of ease of interaction and I really want to go down the same path with Olly. However, Olly is fully flighted and I'm not sure if he has ever had his wings clipped before. I want to avoid all unnecessary stress and trauma to him but I really believe I will get a better result forging a happy bond with him and starting his training in a more limited environment. If I do decide to go ahead and clip his wings, I'll be making an appointment with my local avian vet - I think they would be able to do this for me with much less stress and trauma to Olly and much quicker than I could. It's worth the cost, to get this relationship off on the right foot, in my opinion.
Well anyway, before this turns into a novel I will sign off, here's a picture of Olly (And Chibi)
-JD
His name is Mjolnir, or Olly for short. The reasoning behind this, is that in the last 48 hours I have seen Olly's raw power of destruction and have heard his loud (and beautiful) screech. Since 'Mjolnir' is Thor's hammer (destruction) and Thor is the god of thunder (loudness)... I thought it was appropriate.. Plus if he ever starts talking, his own name should be nice and easy for him! ^_^
Olly has a friend in Chibi, who is my partner's 9 month old female Pink & Grey Galah. She is beautiful and quite a character herself, not to mention I think she has a crush on Olly!! Wouldn't that be something!
It would appear that Olly will eat just about anything, so far he's had his normal pellet/seed/dried fruit mix and he has also demolished a piece of fresh pear and some corn earlier. This is such a relief because Chibi is quite the fussy eater! She is only just starting to accept pellets, so we're hoping that she'll pick up a thing or two from him.
Chibi had her wings clipped before we welcomed her into our family, but they were cut wayy too short and she has only just become flighted. This has been somewhat helpful in terms of ease of interaction and I really want to go down the same path with Olly. However, Olly is fully flighted and I'm not sure if he has ever had his wings clipped before. I want to avoid all unnecessary stress and trauma to him but I really believe I will get a better result forging a happy bond with him and starting his training in a more limited environment. If I do decide to go ahead and clip his wings, I'll be making an appointment with my local avian vet - I think they would be able to do this for me with much less stress and trauma to Olly and much quicker than I could. It's worth the cost, to get this relationship off on the right foot, in my opinion.
Well anyway, before this turns into a novel I will sign off, here's a picture of Olly (And Chibi)
-JD
