Re: [Chihuahuas] OT: My Silly Rainbow

[Pam Dean]

I have had parrolets..they are such a fun bird and an amazing flyer.  Mine used to chase me all over the house hovering like a helicopter  We had so much fun. As you said, more mimicking noises than talking, but loved mine,

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From: Peggy & The Girls <phr...@optimum.net>
To: Chihuahuas@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sunday, April 29, 2012 5:38 PM
Subject: Re: [Chihuahuas] OT: My Silly Rainbow

 

Actually they are a Parakeet. I haven't seen any here on LI NY, but the Parrolets are very popular, and look very similar to the Linnie. Years ago I bred the Green-Rump Parrolets and let me tell you, they are one very sweet and comical bird to own. They are not the best of talkers, but can say a few words and mimic different sounds. Smart for training tricks and love to be scratched and hang out on your head and hide in a pocket. My first female bred baby was called Munchkin. She was always a free flying bird around the house and use to go back to her playpen on top of her cage to poop. She never messed on me or anything else.   One day when I was cleaning the bird cages (had lots and lots of birds then) I could hear Munchkin calling, but couldn't see where she was. She always came flying to me whenever I would call her. I had several very large canisters on the kitchen table that had different types of seeds in them. So here I am calling and calling and she is calling back like crazy and I am looking all over the kitchen and looking into everything too, as Parrolets love to hide in tiny things. Finally I realized just how close she was to me.....she fell into the canister of seed and couldn't fly back out!! Too funny and such a wonderful loving bird she was!! I miss so many of my babies, dogs, birds and even my trained Oranda Gold fish. But I have a lot of wonderful happy memories of all of them.   I don't have any photo's of my birds uploaded on my lap, although I have hundreds of them in albums. So here is a web shot of a Lineolated Parakeet and a Green Rump Parrolet. You can see that the Lineolated has bars on it's wings and rump which distinguish it from the Parrolet.   Lineolated Green Parakeet       Lineolated Blue Parakeet     Green Rump Parrolet     Other Mutations of Parrolets         American Parakeet on the left and Green Rump Parrolet to the right                                                                                                                                                                                   -------Original Message-------   From: Becky Date: 4/29/2012 9:23:40 AM To: Chihuahuas@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [Chihuahuas] OT: My Silly Rainbow     Have you all ever heard of a Lineolated Parrot?  We share our home with one named ZaZoo.   Wonderful little parrots!!  A vocabulary that seems to never stop.  They seem to be more popular in the northern states, hard to come by here in Florida.   ZaZoo says, "Good morning", "Whatcha doing"?, "I love you", "Come here kitty", "KITTY KITTY", "I don't know", "Mom",  and laughs just like me!!! Very affectionate little birds.  And not screamers and not messy. Kind of like chihuahuas, alot comes in this small package.  LOL.                           Becky & the girls Sent from Becky's iPhone  On Apr 28, 2012, at 11:42 PM, Joan Croft <joan_cr...@hotmail.com> wrote:   My parakeet, Buddy, said ‘You rascal, you!’  That was the funniest. But, messy…yes!  Besides the hulls I think he saw himself shining on the bars and he did all that spit stuff on the wood paneling (that I heard was like a mating thing…could be wrong!)     <image001.gif>   From: Chihuahuas@yahoogroups.com [mailto:Chihuahuas@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Peggy & The Girls Sent: Saturday, April 28, 2012 6:27 PM To: Chihuahuas@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [Chihuahuas] OT: My Silly Rainbow     My guys actually get a mixture of pellets and seeds, plus of course veggies and fruit and eggs, cheese, and they love a couple strings of plain spaghetti as a treat.   Years ago I bred lots of the smaller birds, and the parakeets and English Budgies were my favorite. What makes them so messy in a cage is that they fly back and forth a lot and thus the hulls get blown all over. My English Budgies were better talkers then most of the large parrots.   Beau was my first male English baby......so sweet and what a talker!. He would say 'Morn Mom!', when I got up in the AM. He called every bird in the house by their names and gave a kissy sound. Some times he would call a buddy in another cage by name and then add 'watch'a doing?'  When my son would go out the door, he would say 'close the door!'  He spoke very clearly and had a sweet baby sound to his voice. I really to this day miss that little fellow.   <image002.png>         -------Original Message-------   From: Pam Dean Date: 4/28/2012 2:52:57 PM To: Chihuahuas@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [Chihuahuas] OT: My Silly Rainbow [1 Attachment]     Parrots are much less messy than parakeets too. Mu Quaker eats pellets and people food vs seed and that leaves much less mess than a parakeet engenders.  I love Ozzie but find him much more emotionally needy and attention needy than my dogs.  But there is something about a species that can actually tell you "Mommy, I love you" in your own language that melts your heart not to mention endlessly singing Jingle bells and Old Mcdonald,  lol.  Ozzie is a ham and loves to be photographed...   From: Peggy & The Girls <phr...@optimum.net> To: Chihuahuas@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2012 12:58 AM Subject: Re: [Chihuahuas] OT: My Silly Rainbow     That's sad. Some people have no common sense with animals. I knew of one jerk that took a wire dog brush and was going to brush his small parrot! Duh!!    Rainbow is not messy at all. She is a green-cheek conure, one of the quieter birds.  She is bigger then a parakeet, but much smaller then a cockatiel. Her species can't scream, they only have a low sweet sound.  Being messy depends upon the bird and the type of cage and the type of feeders that you use. Rainbow has large hooded ceramic feeders and the hulls just fall back into the dish. She has a deep tray that holds the wood shaving and she is very clean about it. When she poops, she goes to the bottom of her cage and pushes the shavings over it and then pushes the little pile to the corner of her cage. She is a sweet bird that loves to be held and scratched, and lay on her back in the palm of your hand. I have had since she was a hand-fed baby and come July she will be 22 yrs old.     <image002.png>         -------Original Message-------   From: abmat...@mysticalharmonies.net Date: 4/26/2012 12:35:17 AM To: Chihuahuas@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [Chihuahuas] OT: My Silly Rainbow   So cute!  I love parrots, but SO messy!  We had an African Grey that died too young... Think Jer gave her chocolate coffee!!!!   Can you believe that?!          <image003.gif> -------Original Message-------   From: Peggy & The Girls Date: 4/25/2012 8:24:18 PM To: chihuahuas-r-amaz...@yahoogroups.com Subject: [Chihuahuas] OT: My Silly Rainbow   It has taken me 22 years to finally get a shot of Rainbow laying on her back and playing with her favorite bell. She got mad this time too, and lurched at the camera, lol! Too funny!  This shot is a treasure for me!     <image004.jpg>   <image002.png>         Reply to sender