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Wow! That's nice to have a little conversation like that. I'm looking forward to the day when Fats might utter his first word.
I wonder what the error rate is of DNA sexing? Anyone have a statistic?

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Skyes_crew wrote:I am such a dunce I had to share...I didn't see that the bird bath was listed on amazon uk. So when I looked at the measurements I was like WOW that's a big bird bath. Duh!!

I did too

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Fats likes to climb up onto shoulders, especially if you try to give him scritches--he just goes up to the should to get away from the hands. But he doesn't like to sit ON the shoulder, he likes to sit BEHIND the shoulder. I admit I don't have the best posture or the best flexibility... So how do I ...

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My baby has been home for 2 whole weeks now. I still am trying to get him to bathe. I tried a spray bottle first, but he didn't like it. This weekend, Camo the QP took a bath in a baking dish and we had Fats watch him. After Camo was done, I tried to put Fats in the bath, he was eager to get out! I ...

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I love Mr. Pretty Bird :) I have been saying "I can haz cheeseburger" all day. And "Nobody put baby bird in a corner" :) Our quaker Camo heard me watching Disco and had to fly over to me to see what was going on. About 10 seconds after he got over to me and the laptop, he got VER...

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And I just parsed Disco's list of phrases on Facebook... I count over 160 words. I even dis-counted different tenses of the same word. I did not discount the same word in other languages.

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I went to an avian club in Arizona early this year when I was passing through. The presentation that month was on the budgerigar. The presenter mentioned that the Guiness Book of World Records has a Budgie recorded as the bird with the most words. Well, I can now imagine why. Listen to this little g...

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Ok. Fats Waller, my 11 week old ringneck is getting warmed up to the house rather nicely. He came home on Monday and was very quiet. I handled him a few times on Tuesday, by the evening we had a new trick--I whistle, he does his "pew pew" yell. Contact calling. He also learned to climb up ...

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Oh, that's Nele in the car video! I had seen it whiel poking around youtube completely independently of this thread

My boyfriend loves cars. He loved that video

TOO CUTE!!!

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It's ok. My baby mews too. It sometimes sounds really sad, but don't worry. You can look up videos of baby IRNs on youtube... most of them make this same sound. That'll put you at ease.

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Latest news... I guess I probably am seeing things...
Dad is a Violet Blue, Mom is Albino.

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His nails do look very black

He hasn't come home yet. He comes home on Monday. I am going to go out and buy all kinds of toys for his cage today. I'm SO EXCITED!!!!

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So here are some more pictures. I'm pretty convinced he's got a turquoise gene. The lowest row of flights... or I could still be imagining things.

and fluffy

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The slow bobbing is weird. Your little bird was being creepy!

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Breeding is a possibility. We'll see. I have alot of hobbies already...

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wait a minute... I might see something...

Green? Maybe he could be a Turquoise Violet Blue. I'll check on the parents now. I know there were also many Turquoise babies available with the same breeder... I think it to be likely.

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So cute!!! I can't wait to get my baby on the 20th. I hope he's as cute and smiley as yours

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So here are some pictures in the dry, unfortunately you can't see any of the questionable green spots in these... The one with question spots is in the back of these pictures. The one in the front seems a little darker in the head. Last picture helps to see the difference in the tails--so does the f...

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Check here for uploading picture guidance.
I uploaded my first pics today

http://www.indianringneck.com/forum/vie ... =4&t=15060

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We keep our Quaker Parrot, Camo, on our shoulders at our house, but he also likes to hang out on our knees while we watch TV and play board games. TV time laying down he sits on my chest in prime scratch collecting position. He always lands on the head and I move him to the shoulder. I find the only...

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And don't forget cilantro as a tasty dark leafy vegetable. I see it added to all the mash mix recipes I read.

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You two are hilarious.

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I have a choice of two violet blue birds to get for my pet. One is very evenly violet all over, the other has some blue or green on his back and blue on his neck and blue in his tail. I was wondering what the difference is between these two bird genetically? Is one maybe a DF violet and one an SF vi...

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It will lighten. The man at the bird pet store in my area just told me this week that you can get an idea of how old a baby bird is by seeing if his eyes have lightened at all. At first they are all black.

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TOO CUTE!!! Congrats on your adorable babies!

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I always thought Daffodil (Daffy) or Buttercup would be a good name. Like Princess Buttercup.

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Congrats! Wishing you much patience and many good times!

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YAY!!! My birdie can come home this weekend!!! Ack! I haven't gotten a cage yet! So opinions folks... how much does it matter than my boyfriend and I will be going on vacation in two weeks (for 4 days)? Should I hold off on brining him home until after the vacation? We'll have to have a pet sitter f...

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Waiting for the baby is the hardest thing to do! Look like I'll be getting a violet blue--but I'm waiting on the sexing results.

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Wow, MissK! How scientific!

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I've read a few accounts of IRNs starting to say word at 7-8 month range.

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The only behaviour that Nele has ever exhibited that could possibly be translated into being domineering was when he was about 4 months old he was on a visitors shoulder and when they tried to to remove him he threatened to bite. HAHA... You've never met a Quaker Parrot have you!? This is a several...

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OK, learning all my German translations-- The same website uses both Misty and khaki terms. Zimt mean cinnamon. Gesaumt means edged.

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in German terms, I forget does khaki=misty? or is khaki=cinnamon?
and if khaki is cinnamon, then what word do I look for to describe misty?
(and what is Gesaumt mean?)

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Dark!
So, if D = dark, what is deep?

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Oh no! It doesn't look like any lutinos hatched yet for my breeder

I have a choice. I can wait for a lutino to maybe come along, or I have a choice of Tuquoise, cinnamon, or violet blue.... hmmmm

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Try getting your bird used to you touching it's feet and try to file the nails of your bird no more then a few mm.

You can file them rather than clip them? We have a Quaker parrot that is a bit long in the nails right now--can I just take my nail file to them?

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Has anyone ever put together a diagram illustrating the different chromosomes and alleles? I have been reading this forum for months now trying to understand the genetics of IRNs, but I'm a picture person. The words are not helping me to understand very well. Maybe the idea of cross over rates could...

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Option 1: green ino x green cinnamon (or green cinnamon x green ino). Here, one mutant gene is inherited from each parent. This offspring male will be used to breed a hen where crossing over occurs. Option 2: green x green cinnamon-ino Here both mutant genes are inherited from a single parent, i.e....

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Glad to know I have a ringneck loving neighbor! Miss K, I will surely mention you to the breeder. She's in Brooklyn, NY. That's the closest I've seen babies to here. Look forward to maybe meeting you sometime!

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Even before we brought him into the house, we had talked about getting a second bird to keep him company. We tossed around the idea of a cockatiel--but we are pretty sure Camo would bully him. Camo has a true quaker parrot personality. He owns us, not the other way around. I had found videos of a fe...

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The last month and a half have been great with the quaker parrot. Aside from being a bit bitey every now and then he's cute and fluffy and lets me pet him and put my hand in his cage. He'll preen himself while on my shoulder or knee. Awwwww!

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Sorry about the multipart posts, I am a new user and the forum thinks I'm spammy...

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I just recently became aquainted with my first bird... My boyfriend and I just brought his 14 year old Quaker Parrot, Camo, into our new house at Christmas time. I had met the bird a few times before--boy, it took a long time to be able to handle him.

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My name is Jen and I live in Baltimore, MD, USA. I am going to get an IRN! There's a lady not too far away with two clutches, one that should be Turquoise Blues and Turquoise Blue Lacewings, and the other may have lutinos. I have dibs on a male lutino if there is one

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