My Quaker is 10 and never been sick. Crossing my fingers he has a lot of years left.
________________________________ From: Becky <[email protected]> To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, April 30, 2012 8:42 AM Subject: Re: [Chihuahuas] OT: My Silly Rainbow 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. > > > > >________________________________ > From: Peggy & The Girls <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Sent: Sunday, April 29, 2012 8:52 PM >Subject: Re: [Chihuahuas] OT: My Silly Rainbow > > > > >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. > > ><FULL4-~1.GIF> > >-------Original Message------- > >From: Pam Dean >Date: 4/29/2012 8:26:54 PM >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: [Chihuahuas] OT: My Silly Rainbow > >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 > > > >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 > > > ><GIRLS&~11.PNG> > > > > > > > > > >-------Original Message------- > >From: Becky >Date: 4/29/2012 9:23:40 AM >To: [email protected] >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 <[email protected]> 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:[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 > > >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> > >
