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i agree with nicole i have adopted a disabled 3 year old female she is very slow to trust compared to my hand reared one but each tiny step is greatly rewarding it will take patience time and lots of yummy treats i use popcorn as a training & taming treat not only do they love it but if you use ...

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when i got my blue irn his name was bluey
i changed it to kieron with no problems
i like rueben its a cool name

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i was just wondering what would be the best color hen to mate with a silver cock?
im looking for skeets new girlfriend now

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im always complaing to the bloke that you cany find anything with irns on it.......
guess ill have to shut up now

but ... gotta admit they are so way cool!!!!!
i want some!!!!!

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i would say a definite silver ( cinamon grey)
he looks just like my skeet
they are a beautiful color
ive had a few bird that seem like they were chewing on their nails
what did you call your bub?

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trivi had her first "fly out" today!!! she was so cute i opened her cage and she attempted to fly but didnt do too well at that (trivi is my disabled bird she has damaged wings) once she was out she puttered round the dining room and into the kitchen i knelt down on the floor and talked to...

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OMG!!!!! YES!!!!!!
irns love chillis!!!!!
robby will love you forever for that treat
also try him with popcorn

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you can but i would make sure you have enough cages i always try to introduce new birds slowly by placing the new birds cage near you guysi wouldnt put the 2 girls in the same cage either as females can be very territorial about there cages (i found this one out the hard way) but you will lose some ...

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i would like to find one in melbourne its so cool when i am able to share details of my beloved fids with like minded people face to face

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pickles gone guys :( i moved him (or her ) out of skeets cage because skeet was attacking him but he died not long after i was told by one of my breeder ffriends that it was probably from stress due to the bullying recieved at skeets hand fly free now pickle i miss my little panic bird so much

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im in the process of finding a new gal for skeet
hopefully ill have news soon

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thanks rituparno
im now looking for a mate for skeet (the bub that survived out of this clutch)
hes turning 2 next month

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i voted & commented shes so pretty reminds me of our dear departed bipo

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my silver male went through a similar thing at about the same age as yours we had to evacuate from bushfires & just after we got skeet back home and settled he was alone in his cage when a minor eathquake hit skeet was behaving exactly like your bird is the steps i took were i stopped forcing hi...

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hmm answer about ten year old boys?.......
my advice is be grateful hes not an 18 year old girl!!!!!
my boys an angel compared to his sisters

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i ahve one bird (riku) who has arachnaphobia & will not stop screaming if there is a spider anywhere in sight and my kingparrot (fred) is terrified of my dog but only when i ahve moved his cage outside for fresh air when he is inside he totaly ignores the dog and trivi is just scared of being to...

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the attaking fingers is one i had to deal with alot i was told that alot of birds react to fingers like that due to preservation instinct beacause fingers can look to a bird like snakes try offering a fist to the bird instead i cut strip of apples so i can jam them between my fingers in the fist so ...

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thankss altho i cant take credit for the m.b.s. i learnt about it here
but embraced it so fully i even wrote a poem about it its posted in the share your artwork post

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the territoriral of her cage thing is actually quite common in the femalr irns i had a girl that will attack me if i put my hand in her cage with out food in it what i did to counteract that was i would offer my forearm to her just outside the cage door & ssay step up holding a pice of popcorn j...

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M.B.S. (multiple bird syndrome) is a wonderful thing you will find many like minded people here
hmmmmmm
maybe we should start a support group......we could gather sitt around drink coffee & encourage each other to buy more birds!!!!

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my profile pic is me on a green motor bike shaped like a dragon
tasha i love that pic of rafiki!!!!! he is so adorable

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ther smallest cage ive hade succsess with breeding inside was a 3 foot wide by 2 foot deep by 6 foot high
my other breeding pair were just free range in a spare room coz i couldnt fitt the nesting box in the cage

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i alway take oranges when im picking up a new bird i was told the smeel calms birds & its also a fliud supply that cant be spilled

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sound just like my breeding pair riku & lala

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if youve only just got him id give him a day or 2 to get used to your home before starting things with him put his cage somewhere he can watch you whille your doing other things & eat in front of him food you can let him have some of (like fruit ) this will stimulate his natural curiousity and l...

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im going to agree with both pinkdevil & funder09
its great to see another melbournian animal lover!!!!
cant wait to see pic of your "family"
i have a noisy animal run house too
great isnt it?

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yeah heaps of us do
im rebecca sabin on it

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aaaaaawwwwwwww!!!!!!!!!!!
sounds like they are in love!!!!

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your bub sounds like its been a very stressful time for him i would give him time to settle in to his new home this can take a bit of time talk to him alot while not aproaching the cage let him have time to get sed to you too place his cage in a room you use alot eg: the room you have your computor ...

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important things to look at is it he can manouver around in it wthout tail damage and bar spacing and the bigger the better (especialy if there are going to be toys & branches (for perches & chewing) i did like the locks on that cage thought irns are extremely intelligent bird & find the...

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well bluffing is basicaly the irn version of teenage years & like humans they can go through it at different ages some just mature slower also like toddlers they re always pushing boudries too also it also do you know for sure bluey is a girl? female irns are very terrtorial about their cages &a...

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yeah it was pink devil and i agree as long as its rinsed off he should be fine i had a kitten do a similar thing one (launched out of my arms into the sink) he was fine (mind you his mum blamed my daughter & spent the next three days attacking her for it it was so funny the poor kid had to wear ...

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this is sounding more & more like bluffing but the flying attack are a bit of a worry....... you never know where she will land on you maybe you should think about clipping her wings just till she calms down a bit another thing to think about is why not let her have the odd bit of cardboard to d...

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welcome im in melbourne too

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lol my guys LOVE!!!!! chippy night i have to buy about $2 more these days so they all get some

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make up a platter of fruit & veges then sit down near him & start eating!!! garentee it will get him curious every time ive gotten a bird thats not used to anything other than seed thats what i do then when hes curious offer some to him from your plate according to irns it ALWAYS!!!!!!! tast...

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hanf trared simply means they were fed by humans it is a totaly different thing to hand tame

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yeah its fine to let her out to reduce stress from getting her back in try loading her fruit bowl with yummy treats just before bedtime (or use popcorn) if she get herself to bed it will be less stressful for her i did have one that found the bedtime thing so hard that as i got up to get them into b...

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sound like bluffing read the posts on the subject theres heaps of help for this

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lol i can so see that!!!!
how old is bluey?
skeet at about 8 months old went through a stage where i couldnt read a book with a red cover in front of him he would fly up and tear the thing to shreds right in my hand

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i agree with miss jojo the glove is not a thing i normally use but i do have a bird who is scared of sitting on bare hands........ not because he is scared of me (and anyone who knows mutley knows that) but because he cannot grip my bare skin & loses balance so i wear a long sleeved hoodie for p...

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if you were going to have a tamed bird too it would help but i wouldnt have them in the same cage just yet (the wild one would freak everytime you tried to get the tame one out i would have them in seperate cages and then play with the tame one in sight of the wild one i did this when i got kieron (...

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i have had birds that were avairy born and adult when i got them i have tamed a few of them it iis very hard work & slow going but well worth it in the end

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i regularly put branches with leaves gumnuts & flowers in the cages they all love to rip them apart & destroy them with no ill effects i also use bottle brush alot too

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oh poor bubby.... she reminds me of trivi who i got from a parrot rescue she has the same thing a poorly set broken wing but i was aware of that when i got her i have her in a very large cage though as she still doesnt like to be touched i have put ladders & flexible rope perches all through her...

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well ........ riku likes hot potato chips skeet likes pizza crusts pickle & kirara like penut butter on multigrain toast trivi likes apples the best (she was a rescue & doesnt trust the scary new things i put in her fruit bowl) and mutley (scaley breasted lorikeet) likes strawberries

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i agree with small world there if he was being treated that way by his mate i dont think he would miss her that much if he actually did mate with her he may be a bit down or agressive as breeding season starts my male kieron was really down at the start of breeding season if he didnt have a mate but...

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hi how lucky this bird is with you now it will be a very slow process earning the trust of this poor taumatised bird but with time consistancy & patience........ lots and lots of patience the chirp chirp sound you said he makes as you husband walks away sounds like my trivi does when she cant se...

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yeah i know imran plus julie commented just above you so she would have been even more in your mind
as to the falling apart bit yep i did that .....still trying to put myself back together

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thanks imran it was realy hard he was the second one we got (the first of mine) i had to rearange the whole bird room on the weekend so hi absence wasnt to glaring so its been tough all weekend but imran you gave me my first smile of the day........... did you realise in your post you called me julie?

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