Yes they are comfortable by themselves. I worked then but he was cheerful and funny and played in his cage. I think if I had more time to devote to handling him, perhaps he would have been better at being handled if that makes sense. He was a nippy little bugger sometimes. Surprising how something that little can make a owey..lol
________________________________ From: Becky <[email protected]> To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, April 30, 2012 1:29 PM Subject: Re: [Chihuahuas] OT: My Silly Rainbow 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 Sent from Becky's iPhone 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. > > > > >________________________________ > From: Becky <[email protected]> >To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> >Sent: Monday, April 30, 2012 8:46 AM >Subject: Re: [Chihuahuas] OT: My Silly Rainbow > > > > >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? >> >>Peggy >> >> >> >> >>-------Original Message------- >> >>From: Becky >>Date: 4/29/2012 8:58:52 PM >>To: [email protected] >>Subject: Re: [Chihuahuas] OT: My Silly Rainbow >> >>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 >> >>On Apr 29, 2012, at 5:38 PM, Peggy & The Girls <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> >>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&~1.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 >>
