Linnies are extremely affectionate. Snuggle bugs. I was told that the little
parrotlets have to be handled every day to stay sweet. But the Linnies can go
without being handled for while and their temperment remains the same. Little
snugglers!
Bill Higdon has a website on the internet, where you can see all the colors.
Very unique little birds.
Becky & the girls
Sent from Becky's iPhone
On Apr 29, 2012, at 11:10 PM, Peggy & The Girls <[email protected]> wrote:
> Are they sweet birds, like no nipping, and love to be held and scratched? How
> can you tell the sexes of them?
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> From: Becky
> Date: 4/29/2012 8:58:52 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [Chihuahuas] OT: My Silly Rainbow
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> Yes, the blue one is like my little ZaZoo. He is a cobalt blue Linnie. I
> never knew this little bird would talk so clear, and have such a big
> vocabulary.
> I actually went to a show with the intentions of getting a parrotlet, but
> fell in love with this little Linnie! LOL.
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> Becky & the girls
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> Sent from Becky's iPhone
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> On Apr 29, 2012, at 5:38 PM, Peggy & The Girls <[email protected]> wrote:
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Other Mutations of Parrolets
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> American Parakeet on the left and
> Green Rump Parrolet to the right
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> -------Original Message-------
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> From: Becky
> Date: 4/29/2012 9:23:40 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [Chihuahuas] OT: My Silly Rainbow
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> 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
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> Sent from Becky's iPhone
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> On Apr 28, 2012, at 11:42 PM, Joan Croft <[email protected]> wrote:
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> My parakeet, Buddy, said ‘You rascal, you!’ That was the funniest.
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> 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!)
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> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On
> Behalf Of Peggy & The Girls
> Sent: Saturday, April 28, 2012 6:27 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [Chihuahuas] OT: My Silly Rainbow
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> From: Pam Dean
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> Date: 4/28/2012 2:52:57 PM
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> To: [email protected]
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> Subject: Re: [Chihuahuas] OT: My Silly Rainbow [1 Attachment]
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> 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...
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> From: Peggy & The Girls <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
> Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2012 12:58 AM
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