So it's ok to have dozens and dozens of bird related posts on a chihuahua list..... But these very same people have complained often and loudly that another breed of dog was discussed? Hmmmm.....
Sent from Carey's iPhone On Apr 30, 2012, at 7:05 PM, Peggy & The Girls <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Yes, I read that it is done by the length of the tail and the chest feathers, > but a lot of breeders do a DNA test to make sure. > > <4-1CAN~1.JPG> > > > > > -------Original Message------- > > From: Becky > Date: 4/30/2012 8:48:48 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Chihuahuas] OT: My Silly Rainbow > > One more thing, sexing them is difficult. Breeders seem to be best at this. > > 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 > sweet baby sound to his voice. I really to this day miss that little fellow. > > > > <image002.png> > > > > > > > > > > -------Original Message------- > > > > From: Pam Dean > > Date: 4/28/2012 2:52:57 PM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: Re: [Chihuahuas] OT: My Silly Rainbow [1 Attachment] > > > > > > 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... > > > > From: Peggy & The Girls <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2012 12:58 AM > Subject: Re: [Chihuahuas] OT: My Silly Rainbow > > > > > > That's sad. Some people have no common sense with animals. I knew of one jerk > that took a wire dog brush and was going to brush his small parrot! Duh!! > > > > Rainbow is not messy at all. She is a green-cheek conure, one of the quieter > birds. She is bigger then a parakeet, but much smaller then a cockatiel. Her > species can't scream, they only have a low sweet sound. Being messy depends > upon the bird and the type of cage and the type of feeders that you use. > Rainbow has large hooded ceramic feeders and the hulls just fall back into > the dish. She has a deep tray that holds the wood shaving and she is very > clean about it. When she poops, she goes to the bottom of her cage and pushes > the shavings over it and then pushes the little pile to the corner of her > cage. She is a sweet bird that loves to be held > > > = > > > >
