Those little parrotlets are adorable. And I hear they are wonderful
companions, but have to be handled regularly. One thing I wondered, are they
content to be by themselves, or do they do better in pairs?
My Linnie is completely happy by himself, pays alot of attention to me.
Becky & the girls
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On Apr 30, 2012, at 8:55 AM, Pam Dean <[email protected]> wrote:
> I found that true about my parrotlets..they can get cranky cranky but so darn
> cute.
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> From: Becky <[email protected]>
> To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
> Sent: Monday, April 30, 2012 8:46 AM
> Subject: Re: [Chihuahuas] OT: My Silly Rainbow
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> 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
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> On Apr 29, 2012, at 11:10 PM, Peggy & The Girls <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> 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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>> Peggy
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>> -------Original Message-------
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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.
>>
>> Becky & the girls
>>
>> 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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>> Lineolated Green Parakeet
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>> Lineolated Blue Parakeet
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>> Green Rump 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
>>
>> 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.
>> 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.
>>
>> 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
