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Sry for taking so long to get back to you. Benn in hospital with my little son

It was like the bird in the photo, tho slightly less yellow. They were stunning.

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I saw two lime IRN's at the pet shop...I didn't know they came in that colour. They were as lime as anything all over....beautiful.

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I compleatly understand, when my daughter was 2 I couldn't find her either, and this was in the middle of the night. Totally freaked out...think I woke up the whole street looking. Eventually found her under her bed.....she was sound asleep with her hand tucked between the bed slats and the mattress...

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I am in Brisbane, and we are all fine here the cyclones are much further up....if I have the time later I will see if I can get a little map up. (or someone else with amazing computer skills can *wink* )

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The area that I live in is prolific in native birds, so I have always just grabbed branches that I have thought would be interesting and fun.......I figured that the birds use then in the wild...have been doing it for years and have never had a problem, I also grab a lot of native branches with seed...

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We back onto a small creek, and there is always an abundance of trees that have dropped branches. They are great for feet as they are not uniform, they are great for chewing, and so easily to replace.......I can't go anywhere without looking to see if there are any great perches lying around. You ca...

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She is so cute!!!!

My grey has blue eyes tho, and definately a whole lot lighter in colour...wonder what the differance is?

sooty

Hi there, I've got good news and bad news... The good news is that your baby is going through the bluffing stage, we have all been there, so There will be lots of support. The bad news is that until he passes through this stage you are just going to have to grit your teeth and take the bites. My gre...

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Poor darling, she looks so exhausted.

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I must admit that I also have a secret love crush on steve. *sigh* How many people in this world say that when they are rich they will give money to charity...100% of "croc hunter" goes to conservation, I have huge respect for him and his wife for this........imagine the temptation to just make the ...

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Check out this web site

http://www.petlink.com.au/

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About the not making noise, is your houshold reasonably quiet? He might not want to draw attention to himself. I have an increadbly noisy household, and its impossible to make the birds be quiet. Try leaving the radio on and randomly launching into song and dance just for the sheer pleasure of being...

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You could also try to introduce some more interesing and tolerable sounds to him to give him something else to practise.

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I only cover in winter because it gets cold in my house at night.

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Something else to think about is that when an Irn bites it hurts, when a too bites they can disfigure. Do you have the ability to allow the too out of cage time and keep it compleatly away from the kids? I have a Galah, and there is no way that I would ever let him be anywhere near my kids. Don't ge...

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Lol, my arms look as though I've been in a cat fight.
I just put up with it. I did purchase a dried cactus perch for shrek the other day (he is the worst for needle sharp claws), so hopefully it will help.

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I understand compleatly, elmo just gave me a good chomping, and shrek just ran to the bottom of his cage, with a look that said "excuse mum, but new toy to play with" sigh. Damm my finger hurts now

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I drag my birds cages outside once a week for a thorough hose out, and then as a treet after I set the hose up to mist for them. As soon as they see me move the lounge they get all excited.

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That was fantastic!!!

The kids and I have loved watching........waiting for the next installment now

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When you compare dowel to a natural branch, no matter where the bird perches the pressure will always be in exactly the same place on the foot. Also, it being nearly impossible to find a vet that wouldn't think you're nuts for wanting your birds nails trimmed (my first experience at an avian vet's w...

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Those cages are awsome *jealous*
Is it possible to remove all of the dowel and replace it with natural branches??? It's so bad for birds feet, it annoys me that manufactures still make them with it in there *sigh

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Shrek loves to do this also...I just distract him with something else and he seems to forget about it for awhile. He doesn't actually break them or anything, so I figure as long as distraction works (cause it is annoying), as far as habits go this one isn't too bad.

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Well, Hubby and I have decided that we are ready to find the last member of our family. We would like to find a young preferably blue Irn that we can finish hand raising, as our other 2 we were able to do this with and they are both harness trained and are able to go everywhere with us and we would ...

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Thanks everyone

I love him to bits even tho he is a magnificent biter *ouch

I will have to post some photo's of shrek my green as well, he is adorable

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I just thought I would re-introduce myself. One year ago my beautiful IRN Shrek came into my life, and I was lucky enough to stumble across this site and loved it to bits. My computer then crashed and i lost all of my saved webpages Now one year later I have stumbled back across this site and am thr...

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I'm really sorry that you had to make one of the hardes't decisions possible when it comes to our parrots.

The fact that you made it at all after so much effort shows that you really have the best interests of everyone involved both human and bird.

Thinking of you all

sooty

have you tried approaching him in the way that parents do with a screaming infant? maybe some control crying techniques will work..... Also , I don't know if this is right, but does he need to be taught how to entertain himself?......I don't know exactly the best way to do this, but I thought that t...

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Hi there, I was told recently by an amazing animal behaviourist, that there are no problems having parrots sit on your shoulder as long as they will always obey the command to step off.....I guess that this is the problem that you are having. Have you tried doing any trick training with him? keep hi...

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Hi there,
my IRN is about 10/11wks old now, and he's started sitting on his perch, closing his eyes and vocalising/mumbling to himself.

Is he sleep talking? or is he awake while he does this....normally he tucks his head into his wing to sleep.

Very perculiar.

sooty

Wow!!! That sounds amazingly cute.

Hope that everything continues on in a positive way

sooty

What's been happening????

Can you give us an update

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I've had my IRN for 3wks now....(he's 8 wks old) He was being hand fed, and I slowly introduced him to vege/fruit/soaked pellets and seed. He still makes his begging noise, but is flat out refusing to be hand fed (I was using a syringe) anymore. And he won't even take anything from my hand (although...

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Just a silly question, but he definately wants the cockatiels and not their cage? what would happen if the tiels were out on a play stand away from their cage? Where would cha cha want to go to the tiels or their cage? Is there any way of looking at it to modify his behaviour through the tiels? Figu...

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how do I get a little photo thingy under my name?

Is there any way I can get up a photo of my guy if I don't have a web site?

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I'm so glad that I've found this site!!! I have at home currently a short billed corella and a galah, both of which came to me as adults, and two days ago a 5wk old IRN turned up on the door step so as to speak. I havn't got any experience with hand raising babies..( Ido know how to spoon feed , but...

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