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That is a great picture. And exactly what Olive, née Oliver, was doing that caused us to restructure our thinking on her gender

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The nuts that are in the bags of seed or the ones that are sold in pet stores generally are "not for human consumption". If something isn't for human consumption, I'm not sure I'd want to feed them to my fids. I don't feed them anything that I would not at least try once :) So MissK is cor...

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She is now letting me stroke the back of her neck, head, cheek, around her eye and the top of her beak, whilst doing this she makes a really cute squeek and moves her head around to positon my finger where she wants it lol. Just out of curiosity, does she arch her neck when you are doing this? If s...

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I absolutely think you can. With time, consistency and patience.
Good job on what you are doing for him

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Just as an observational "oh by the way", I would personally only use the peanuts (unsalted and not from a bag of bird seed but ones that are sold for human consumption) as treats. Only an opinion though.
As you were

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Not every molt is the same. Oscar's last molt, he looked scrounge and scruffy. Like bed head scruffy. Have you posted enough to post a pic yet? Seeing it might help.

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That's good information. Thank you.

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I'm not a breeder so I can't help you on that one; I'm not sure what makes pieds or anything like that.

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Sounds like male posturing to me. Females will generally arch their necks and flatten out their bodies, almost like they are laying down, and raise their tail slightly. The males usually do the standing up tall and oscillating their heads around. Do you know for certain that he/she is three years old?

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Some don't get their rings until almost three years.

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I don't think this is just a young bird thing. Oscar does this. It's been a year and almost a half since we've rescued him and Luna. They've both made tremendous strides and I have learned so much from watching them. But we noticed the meowing early on. Wondered if maybe their previous owner had a c...

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I took some Vaseline and rubbed it onto the hook that holds my hummingbird feeders up. They won't go near it

And I sprinkled cinnamon around the bottom of the outdoor aviary. Much better.

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Sunni spends a lot of her time on the floor of the cages. She likes to "forage" and they all like to be on the living room floor foraging and playing with foot toys. I think it varies, not only from bird to bird and day to day, but hourly.

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After a few days of allowing him to come to you on his terms, I would begin actually holding the apple in my hand and reaching out. It is important to not look at him directly, as they are prey birds and looking at them full on could be considered predatory to them.
Keep up the good work

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Now I was told by a door greeter at Walmart that I could not bring Sunni into the store. I took her back out into the car. Then I walked back in and saw a border collie on a leash???? Seriously??? If that thing poops, it's on the floor. If mine poops, it's on me. Since then I have seen so many dogs ...

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They are so smart

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You are on the right path. He/she still has down feathers? I personally would take him/her to an avian vet, to check on the status of the wing as well as an overall health check. If there are still down feathers, he/she might not be weaned yet. A vet would be able to tell you what is needed to make ...

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I actually bought a case of the little foamy earplugs that you squish into the ears. I literally have a pair within reach no matter where I am in the house. And in the pocket of every article of clothing that has a pocket

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I just read this: A new study, published this month in the journal Behavioral Ecology, finds that birds not only can see more colors than they have in their plumage, because of additional color cones in their retina that are sensitive to ultraviolet range, but they also see colors that are invisible...

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It's rather irritating, isn't it? I don't want a purse or shoes nor do I need to see boobs. I'm good to go, thanks.
*_*

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Good to know.

Sunni used to go everywhere with me. She has missed it, I can tell. I will be taking my time with her.

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Oh absolutely

It's going to be a long process. She is used to me scuffing her on the top of the head and rubbing her beak, but under the wings? Ya. That's going to take slow patience lol

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Look what came in the mail today!!!! WOO HOO!!!

No more flying into the neighbor's tall trees! Now to get her to wear it and like it *_*

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https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-LuZNWwkQty0/U6enEWlUW3I/AAAAAAAAAYg/tFKClPu_WlA/w426-h320/rsz_1rsz_dscn3507.jpg You cannot tell from this picture, but this is our evening Flock Talk time. It is actually QUITE loud :lol: Now, to my question, and maybe the breeders out there can answer this more r...

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Sunni ate the formula until she was about three months old. But in the meantime I was introducing veggies to her. I let her continue on the formula, not knowing how long was long enough. She weaned herself off of it at about three months. I heated up veggies just enough to soften them and let her ea...

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But she has a plethora of useful information in her little bag of long posts

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Try giving them fresh veggies. They may not eat them the first day. Or the second or third or tenth day. But keep trying a variety. I personally would not give them too many more sunflower seeds. Certainly not to make it the main staple of their diet. My thinking is that if they get too many at such...

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Poor baby bird

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That's a good question, Donovan. One I would like to know as well. Sunni showers with me on a perch, the other three love it when we turn a fine mist on the outdoor aviary with the hose. Or they bathe in the rain. When it's been a while, though, they get awfully dusty. I don't know if this is good f...

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Could be a finger thing. Ringnecks are not overly fond of fingers. Even very tame ones have an innate distrust of fingers.

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Is there any way you can put the cage close to a window? We have our daytime monstrosity set up by the front windows. Two things are great about this: they get the morning sun and we have set up the one window to lead directly out to their outdoor aviary. I don't know how yours feels about the openn...

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Ellie, thank you for the post. this will come in handy in the future I am sure. We live in Washington state so I believe the actual courtship period is somewhat over. Luna seems to be losing some of her aggression. On another note, we have seen Oliver displaying as a hen. Looks like we may need to r...

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We have four birds and honestly it can get rather loud around here at certain times in the day. When they first wake up and in the evenings. We just understand that there are certain times in the day where we will not be talking on the phone, listening to either radio or television, or having any ki...

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I will, Ellie. And thank you

Just out of curiosity, what do you mean by manipulating diet? The environment part I get, but how would I manipulate her diet to discourage breeding bahviors?

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And they are so soft!!! Why can't they realize we just want to touch them and cuddle them?!?!?

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Soooo. Ellie, I just read the entire thread. :shock: I think I may have an idea that my usually feisty but lovable fid might pull and Exorcist and become something entirely different. I had no illusions with Luna. She was pretty aggressive when we rescued her, and I'd heard that breeding season coul...

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Not a lot of ringnecks are cuddly creatures. They can still have fulfilling lives without the cuddling and they can be great companions even if they don't cuddle. I have found that ringnecks can be somewhat slow to trust. That being said, I am perfectly happy with my four fids. They all have differe...

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That was awesome

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I will go read your post. Sunni isn't mated to any one of them. In fact, she's somewhat of a loner amongst the other three. Unless Luna is dive bombing her in a blitz attack, she pretty well stays to herself. She will sit up on perches in their close proximity IF Luna is caged and be fine with it, b...

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Ellie, I don't think I am ready lol. If I had my way she would stay my baby girl forever

I do know that she is going to become crabby and aggressive and I THINK I'm preparing myself a bit for that. I guess we will see

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I guess in this matter I'm a tad bit of a fence sitter

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And what about those who have been hand fed? Where do they learn their maternal instinct from? (just to add another question haha)

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Some people will argue for clipping while others will argue against clipping. It is a personal choice. When I got Oscar and Luna, they were clipped. I let them grow in and have left Oscar's. Luna, however, since she has become aggressive to the others, gets a light clipping. That way the others have...

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That's kind of what I figured, Ellie. She will be two at the end of June.

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Yes they do

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My little weird Sunni Dai LOVES to play with rags. She will fluff it up and slip under it and then run out from under and do it all over again. She will literally do this for HOURS off and on during the day. We have to change the rag all the time since she has a tendency to fray the fibers with her ...

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My lutino is named an obvious name: Sunshine Dai. Sunni Dai for short.

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The breeder I got Sunni from showed me how her crop fills up as I fed her and told me not to overfill her crop. Do you know how to watch for that?

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Oh and I can understand the fascination with the different color mutations. They are beautiful. When I got Skyelar, he picked us. I purposely picked Sunni. The other three I knew nothing about. I'm more of an artist than a biologist. I found your "pack of Now and Laters" comment funny :lol:

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Yes it is possible. Oscar, Luna and Oliver are all rescues, so they pretty much don't let us touch them freely. They tolerate us being near them lol. But in the past year, Oscar and Luna have come a LONG way and Oliver has too in the six months we've had him.

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