I have had my Linnie for 3 years so far, I hope he lives for a long long time.
My cockatiel is 10, and I think they can live up to 25.
These little birds are a lot of company.
Becky & the girls
Sent from Becky's iPhone
On Apr 29, 2012, at 9:32 PM, Pam Dean <[email protected]> wrote:
> Mine were both green but I have seen some beautiful colors now at bird shows.
> The same with my Quaker..he is the normal green but now they have come out
> with the blues and yellows and even white. Mine did not live that
> long..seemed to be very fragile. The first one had constant sinus problems
> and was always in the vet and the second developed a stomach tumor.
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> From: Peggy & The Girls <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
> Sent: Sunday, April 29, 2012 8:52 PM
> Subject: Re: [Chihuahuas] OT: My Silly Rainbow
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> Pam do you remember how long they lived? What colors did you have. After I
> stopped breeding birds back in the late 80s-early 90s that is when the blue
> and other hybrid colors came out. I also had a couple of pairs of blue wing
> parrolets, but they were nastier then the green rumps, even when I hand fed
> the babies, they were not as sweet. They seem to have preferred being in a
> flock then with humans.
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> From: Pam Dean
> Date: 4/29/2012 8:26:54 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [Chihuahuas] OT: My Silly Rainbow
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> 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,
>
> From: Peggy & The Girls <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
> Sent: Sunday, April 29, 2012 5:38 PM
> Subject: Re: [Chihuahuas] OT: My Silly Rainbow
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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.
>
> 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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> Lineolated Green Parakeet
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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
>
> Sent from Becky's iPhone
>
> 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.
> 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.
>
> 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.
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