what first got you interested in irns

julie · Post by **julie** » Mon Jan 16, 2006 2:11 am

when i was about 15 i went into a pet shop and there was this green ring neck that caught my attention straight away and he was so friendly.just wondering about everyone elses first experiences with this wonderful bird.

Jeremy · Post by **Jeremy** » Mon Jan 16, 2006 2:19 am

Pretty much the same story, i went into a pet shop. In amngst about 50 budgies and a few Tiels, was a Green Ringneck sitting on a swing. It looked miserable and i fell in love with him. He had a short tail but once i bought him home and fed him a good diet, he grew his tail back and got his ring.
I eventually paired him with a Blue Hen, she was really aggressive towards him and wouldn't let him eat. There was a stage where i could stick my hand in the cage and he would eat from my hand. And remember, this was a fully parent raised bird that had previously had hardly any human contact

From then on, i have loved Ringnecks and finally got some babies this season which i handraised.

Post by **kyria** » Mon Jan 16, 2006 3:48 am

Same thing here. I had been out shopping with mum at Eltham, a local shopping mall and a tiny little petshop had a ringneck sitting on a stand quietly, very friendly looking beautiful (black ring, long tail). I thought it was amazing that it could live out on a stand like that without just flying off out the door and not have to live in a cage.

I was only a youngster and thought $150 was a heap of money but swore one day, when I lived on my own and could afford to I would have my own on a stand.

Got caught up with life, had kids and forgot about the ringneck until, my kids are all getting older, can't have anymore, so fids was the answer

finally my ringneck sitting on a stand out in my loungeroom and I adore them both Kai and Jordan.

Post by **Datsun and Family** » Mon Jan 16, 2006 4:08 am

Well I was walking through a pet store looking to buy a rabbit December 30th 2004 and a green blob kept flicking water at every passer-by. We stood there and talked to it for a while and I turned to James and said with great puppy dog eyes "aww baby I want it!" we decided out of all the birds in that cage (3 yellow, 2 blue, 1 green) that the green one had the most spunk.

We went home and researched and came home with Datsun the following day. She wasn't quite an impulse buy but she wasn't planned, I had never even liked birds before that. She was $195 and her cage cost $240. It was all the money I had in the world at that point and its the best money I ever spent! I still ended up getting a rabbit not long after too :lol:

Bryan · Post by **Bryan** » Mon Jan 16, 2006 5:23 am

kai that was a great story :wink:

I remember about August last year I was sitting in science with the teacher blabbering on and I was talking to my best friend George about my birds, when he pulled out a sheet of paper printed from the internet about this so called IRN. Because I had told him so much about birds he wonted one. Then from behind me a voice said is that an IRN, my family breeds them we have heaps at home. I thought the bird was crap but in the end I ended up with one from my friend who gave me him to hand rear and George never got one, but instead he now has a budgie and a rainbow Lori :wink:

I love IRN’s

Dani03 · Post by **Dani03** » Mon Jan 16, 2006 8:13 am

Um let me think...I first saw an IRN in the local bird farm (real nice place BTW they treat their birds so well). It was a pair of blues and I thought they were so beautiful. The male had a wonderful ring and the female kept begging for treats. I was just there to pick up tiel food so I didn't think much of them later. Then I had a pair of breeding tiels that I had could no longer care for and found Prinny's breeder. She said that she would take my tiels in trade for one of her birds. I went there and she had some IRN chicks. I saw the albino sitting there looking so cheeky and sweet, I knew she had to be mine. I am so glad I did actually get her. After reading so many bad things about IRNs I almost decided to choose something else. (Note this site and Mazziesmom's site both cemented me getting my Prinny so you guys rock!) Anyway that's mine. :lol:

Dani and Prinny

Mazziemom · Post by **Mazziemom** » Mon Jan 16, 2006 10:30 am

Hehe, most of you know how I ended up in love with IRN's... and how I ended up with my Mazzie

I wouldnt change a thing. I get asked all the time if I "knew then what I knew now" would I have gotten a handfed baby instead of Maz... and no I wouldnt have. Taming her sucked, but she is the most bonded bird in this house. She lives to coo at me and I live to hear her coo

Athena

jen5239 · Post by **jen5239** » Mon Jan 16, 2006 11:01 am

I was at this really, really cool bird store in Bakersfield, CA called "For the Birds" and they had a pair of IRN. They were blue and beautiful. They weren't for sale. And I walked up to them and they just started talking away. They were talking to each other. And one could meow just like a kitten, cuz there was a litter of kittens in the store. And when my sister and I went to leave one of them goes, "Hey wait for me." And they could speak in Spanish. I was in LOVE. Not only becuz of how intelligent they were but the sheer beauty of these birds! Went home and got on the internet and checked em out. It was years later when I got Byndi and Remmi. But I'm glad I did. I love my babies!

carrie · Post by **carrie** » Mon Jan 16, 2006 3:19 pm

Same kinda story here. Went to the pet store for some flea stuff for the dogs and walked past the birds there which were all out of cages and just hanging around on a play gym - except for one little blue thing which was climbing all over the cages, jumping on the floor, jumping on anyone who got too close! Well I'd never seen a blue bird before (never touched a bird before either!) so that caught my attention. So we walked around for a while, went back to laugh at the antics of this little blue terror and 15 minutes later walked out with bird, cage, play gym, toys, food, grit - and no idea. The sales girl said he (wrong) was a ringneck but that is all the info I had. (Mind you, while she was off getting everything ready to go, this little blue thing jumped on my arm, climbed up to my shoulder and bit be on the ear! I should have seen the signs right there and then.) Did a lotta reasearch on the net (thanks to this site mainly) and almost a year later after a lot of blood sweat and tears I wouldn't change a thing (well - maybe the screaming). I laugh when I think about it now - "Let's get that pretty blue one that's climbing all over everything and everyone and bossing all the other birds around. Yeah, the one that bit me on the ear - let's get that one!" If only I had known. But I still love her.

~*Gwennie*~ · Post by **~*Gwennie*~** » Tue Jan 17, 2006 5:41 pm

I was at a pet store and was checking out the birds. I only had my one little budgie at the time. Well there was this very active silly IRN that kept trying to get my attn. Well he did, and one day later, he came home with me. That was three years ago, and he was a little over one year when I brought him home

jen5239 · Post by **jen5239** » Tue Jan 17, 2006 6:31 pm

Gwen,
He was a year when you got him? Was he hand tame? Man! My Byndi is anything but and I would die to have him that way.

Post by **kyria** » Wed Jan 18, 2006 12:30 am

Kai was almost a year when I got him, 11 months actually .. takes alot of work but well worth it. Like Mazzie said about her baby, I had to spend every day hours with him to begin with but now he is sooo loving and very social.. He loves his day with me, playing and practicing talking and kissing. And his nights he MUST spend with Dad on the sofa, getting kisses and affection and playing games like peekaboo, they even share food and icypole sticks.. lol

julie · Post by **julie** » Wed Jan 18, 2006 6:49 am

indie was older when we got him the pet shop said he wasnt tame but i think he liked people to start with now we cant get away from him he comes to the loo,shower sits beside my 3 yr old daughter and watches movies(prob because she sneaks him junk food).jen just keep doing what your doing he will come good eventually.

jen5239 · Post by **jen5239** » Wed Jan 18, 2006 8:38 am

Thanks for the words of encouragement Julie! I appreciate it!

julie · Post by **julie** » Wed Jan 18, 2006 3:10 pm

jen im impressed that your babies dont get scared of the camera indie tries to make himself look like he is taller and more buff when i get the camera out i wish he would stay still for 5 secs so i can take a decent photo unless he can see his own reflection or something.

Neokireina · Post by **Neokireina** » Wed Jan 18, 2006 4:46 pm

My friend was in love with the IRN and wanted one. I remembered them from way back when they only had green and yellow. To me they were giant budgies. He called me up and told me all about this yellow one in a pet store. He pined over it and told me how awesome it was.
I just said to him, "What are you waiting for? Go get it!" So he went and got Niamh. A few days later he was kicked out of the place he was living and moved in with me. I had a cockatiel at the time.

After my cockatiel vanished one day I researched and contacted a breeder and I found bappy. And thats where it all began.