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Thanks Nil. My goal isn’t to eliminate soy, I just want it cut down. I’m sure I eat way too much, much more than I need. It’s in everything, from the cereal I eat, to the pellet I feed my birds. I think it’s a case of a little is enough for me, and for my birds, since they don’t need it, it may be b...

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Ha Ha, I swear, Srider looks like he is thinking of a funny joke! Birdies are too cute. What is it about birdies that could make a construction worker smile and make cute baby bird talk?

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Alana8819, being vegan, I have been eating soy for years, so when I read the links above, I really started to wonder about it’s safety for birds AND humans. This article http://www.missionislam.com/health/dangers_of_soy.htm , although found in a unlikely place, has convinced me to limit soy as much ...

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Melika, similarly, my wife used this technique to get our mini to let her pet and scratch her head (the birds head that is). She would calmly repeat, "touch the beak" while touching Mickey’s beak , and then slowly repeat, "touch the bird" while moving slowly to Mickey’s head. If ...

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Nil, my involvement with animal, reptile, and parrot adoptions let me see first hand how cold, unfeeling, and brutally cruel we humans can be. When animals are killed for human consumption, the pain, fear, and desperation to survive that all animals have should be reason enough, but most of us choos...

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Melika, GREEN is beautiful, some of my best bird friends are green! As for donations,absolutely! Parrot Education & Adoption Center (PEAC) is a non-profit, volunteer organization dedicated to educating current and potential bird owners on the proper care of pet birds. Based in San Diego and cove...

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Did you see my vegan parrot cookie treat recipe?
http://www.indianringneck.com/board/viewtopic.php?t=5031

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Hi there, 7 years for me...

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Well congratulations on your new IRN, and on finding the best IRN, in fact the best parrot forum on the internet! It’s just the right size, with a very diverse membership of the well informed, and those wanting to be well informed!

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I wanted to share two little training techniques I used with our parrots and conures, very simple, but they worked well. Our mini macaw who was afraid of hands would let me scratch her head for a few seconds and then would take a nip. She loves to interact verbally, and we make a chipmunk kind of ch...

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No, never been. are IRNs popular there? Here in Pgh. they are quite rare. I actually never even saw one exsept for PICS until I adopted Norma Jean (IRN) yesterday.

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Well, actually, I only speak Pittsburgeese…

Aint the internet wonderful?

Just wanted you to feel welcome!

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Buna, De unde esti? Sunt din America, Locuiesc înPittsburgh. Ati vizitat vreodata tara mea?
La revedere, BigChicken

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Norma Jean is home! I picked her up yesterday afternoon. She was being fostered by the director of PEAC. Her flock is impressive, and inspiring. The first room had her two amazons. One was hanging upside down and talking and whistling up a storm. He stretched his foot out through the bars to shake h...

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They are Mali Uromastix, although not as brightly colored as some. I think the uros are the most gentle of all lizards. Although the biggest one was named "Whippy" because that’s what happens when you touch his tail!

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Thanks nil. I actually eat some of them myself, not to bad, but I’m use to that "healthy crap"! Never thought to mention organic, that’s almost all my birds get. There is a co-op that I shop at right on my way home from work that has all organic fruits and vegetables, and a nice "bulk...

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Try this cookie bird treat recipe. This recipe is modified from a vegan cookie recipe I tried. They were awful, but they inspired me to make this one for my birds. I think I’ll call them "Norma Jeans". My flock LOVE them! In a food processor; apple sauce, unsweetened ½ cup Bananas, ripe 2 ...

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Hi all. I’ve been looking for reference material for some water color paintings and maybe a relief carving of a parrot. If you have a really good PIC of one of your flock I would love to see it. PLEASE don’t post them here! They need to be nice clear PICS, maybe in flight, a cute pose, a nice pose o...

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Reptiles where my first love, so to speak… Brings back both good and bad memories. The wife and I were involved in the local herpetological society. We did rescues and helped with adoptions. At one time (before the parrots) we had eight iguanas two juveniles and six large adults, four uromastix, One...

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Got to wait until Saturday to get Norma Jean (IRN). We where approved for the adoption yesterday and found out more about her. She belonged to a lawyer that never held her. She was adopted and kept for four years. She was returned to the program because the woman said she couldn’t stand her cooing. ...

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I know the feeling of waiting for a birdie, I think I’m picking up our IRN today (Norma Jean). Good luck with your new baby! We have a Yellow collard mini. Quite the clown! She doesn’t like hands, (she is slowly getting over that) but is very playful. They are so smart. Can’t wait to hear about yours!

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Yes, Nil, IRN is a she. My wife and I have been walking around humming "candle in the wind" (Elton John song about Maryln Monroe AKA Norma Jean) I added PICs of our other guys as an edit, I'm still having trouble staying loged on occasionally making it hard to answer questions to my posts....

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Good suggestions… Yes on the added salt, I never use them for everyday feeding. I should throw a bottle of whiskey in there too, uh.., for sterilizing stuff… ummm yes ,,, thats it, not for drinking or anything…

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Didn’t know exactly where to post this, diet and housing is my best guess! It dose involve both diet and housing…. We just got done with our house inspection for our fourth adoption for an IRN this tine, and it all went well. I started thinking that I should pass along a tip. PEAC recommends an emer...

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Think I figered it out...dah ...may bee...
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No, still not working, any ideas what I might be diong wrong?

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I have a question about this forums use. I have had questions or comments about a post I have made, and can’t seem to reply back all of the time. It tells me something about an invalid session, try again. Am I doing something wrong or what?
Dan

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http://i231.photobucket.com/albums/ee31/BigChickenPics/kiley2.jpg This is Kiley, our Sun Conure doing the two things Suns do best, screaming because, well, just because, and showing a ton of attitude. Note the puffy marshmallow head. That means how dare you pay attention to any other bird. http://i...

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Good advice Nil, one of the parrots we adopted, our miniature macaw Mickey was completely bald on her chest and back when we got her. We spent a lot of time with her which was not easy, she had a fear of hands, and hated being touched in any way. After all of our research, Internet, books, breeders,...

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Corn has been added to the list of possible causes of feather plucking and self mutilation, at least in those birds that develop an allergy to it. As for the soy, the articles linked above seem to indicate a potential serious problem when feeding any soy products. Worth at least seriously limiting, ...

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Gave me a desperately needed smile and giggle three times now! Their precision is amassing! I give them a ten for their ballet like choreography!

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Thanks all, never even thought to check on the health benefits or dangers of soy beans I don’t even recall seeing them on any no-no bird food lists. It doesn’t surprise me that there are processed bird foods that still contain soy. As an avid label reader, I guess I never even thought about it as I ...

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O.K., maybe milk and meat are good for us humans. (just not me!) I still have doubts that they belong in the diet of a creature that would never consume them in the wild. Just my opinion, and as I first said, I am certainly not an expert.

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Driving home today I gave some more thought to this discussion. I was thinking back several years ago, I was involved with the Pittsburgh Herpetological Society and we where doing species samples in a local stream. At the time, there was quite an uproar in the press about several reptiles and amphib...

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No, not at all. With Iguanas, no one knows exactly what they eat in the wild, but it's safe to say they are not eating pizza and french fries. In captivity you need to use a bit of comon sence. Just my opinion.

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Just got a new camera, PICS coming soon. Hey, what do you mean I don't have a penguin? You saw the PICS didn't ya.

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I’m not an expert on bird diets, but I am very familiar with the proper diet for many reptiles, especially Iguanas. Their natural diet, despite being mostly herbivore, dose occasionally include carrion, according to some that have observed them eating the odd dead fish when near water. Like most rep...

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Wanted to share this joke I pulled on my boss. He knows my wife and I have been involved with reptile and bird adoptions so this was too easy I told hin that I was going to be a foster keeper for a Little Blue penguin. Over the next several weeks I kept adding to the story, even producing an (fake) ...

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Been looking around for a while. Just joined, Wanted to say hi from Pittsburgh. The wife and I have a small adopted family that presently includes 3 Euromastics, 1 Chuckwalla, and 3 birdies, a miniature yellow napped Macaw (Mickey), a Sun Conure (Kiley), and he smartest little bird in the world, Luc...

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Why veggie?

cookie treat

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Whose training who?

welcome!

Norma Jean is home!

Thanks nil

cookie bird treat recipe

informal "contest" to help parrot adoptions

teaching older bird new words?

Good luck with your new baby!

emergency travel kit.

test?

dah...what?...

IRN coming soon! (I hope!)

good advice...

corn & soy?.......

big smile

Thanks all

Didn’t mean to offend...

pizza and french fries

PICS coming soon

Just because your bird likes it ?

Just a joke...

hi from Pittsburgh