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curious2garden

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Sir Napsalot said:
My wife and I have hand-reared dozens of lovebirds, we had several pairs of normal peachface and peachface mutations including a pair that produced a line of clear pied cinnamon variants which were absolutely stunning. It was also a sex-linked mutation, so we could determine the birds' gender almost immediately- all the females carried the cinnamon gene and had light-colored beaks and toenails, whereas the males had dark beaks and toenails, but carried the cinnamon gene and would produce cinnamon females if paired with a normal female.
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Ahhhh I had a pair of peach face lovebirds and I used to hand raise their progeny. I only have large birds now. I miss how sweet the lovebirds were.
 
GreatwhiteNorth

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curious2garden said:
Ahhhh I had a pair of peach face lovebirds and I used to hand raise their progeny. I only have large birds now. I miss how sweet the lovebirds were.
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My Mother gave my Dad a Yellow fronted Amazon for their 10th anniversary. That bird adored my father but was a demon to anyone else. He had that bird for over 40 years and when he passed away my brother became the inheritor of Sinbad but then he turned into the devil on him too so we had to "re-home" him to a couple that had half a dozen birds (and somehow he tamed down for them).
That fker was MEAN!
 
curious2garden

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GreatwhiteNorth said:
My Mother gave my Dad a Yellow fronted Amazon for their 10th anniversary. That bird adored my father but was a demon to anyone else. He had that bird for over 40 years and when he passed away my brother became the inheritor of Sinbad but then he turned into the devil on him too so we had to "re-home" him to a couple that had half a dozen birds (and somehow he tamed down for them).
That fker was MEAN!
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They really can be. I have to be very careful with these guys they crack brazil nuts with their beaks. They can take a finger off you, in my case they could fracture my ulna/radius. But I just put the nest box up. I am hoping for babies in the spring.
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Interesting the female, in the foreground, loves my husband and hates me with a passion. The male is a bit more reticent and though I hand fed him from an egg he's hesitant with me now. For scale that cage is about 10' long and about 5' wide. The rest of their toys and crap needs moved in but I'm done in from putting that massive, heavy thing together.
 
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Indacouch

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curious2garden said:
They really can be. I have to be very careful with these guys they crack brazil nuts with their beaks. They can take a finger off you, in my case they could fracture my ulna/radius. But I just put the nest box up. I am hoping for babies in the spring.
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Interesting the female, in the foreground, loves my husband and hates me with a passion. The male is a bit more reticent and though I hand fed him from an egg he's hesitant with me now.
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My mom had some kind of large bird.... ((lol)) that helps I'm sure to identify it .......it was green and it was possessed by satan himself @GreatwhiteNorth I feel your pain .....it loved mom and never did any shady shit to her at all .......I tried multiple times to hold/touch that fucking bird ....every attempt ended the same ......bird latched onto my hand full force.... with me waving my hand like it was on fire ...with a rather large green bird attached to it .......and that bird would fucking bait my ass into the attack .....act all sweet and flick it's little tongue/make cute bird noises while winking at me .....but as soon as I was in striking range ......BAM ((SATAN))

Those birds are gorgeous Annie ....very cool
 
GreatwhiteNorth

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curious2garden said:
They really can be. I have to be very careful with these guys they crack brazil nuts with their beaks. They can take a finger off you, in my case they could fracture my ulna/radius. But I just put the nest box up. I am hoping for babies in the spring.
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Interesting the female, in the foreground, loves my husband and hates me with a passion. The male is a bit more reticent and though I hand fed him from an egg he's hesitant with me now. For scale that cage is about 10' long and about 5' wide. The rest of their toys and crap needs moved in but I'm done in from putting that massive, heavy thing together.
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Beautiful Hyacinth's - while in Costa Rica we saw wild Lapas daily - quite the raucous and colorful bird.
 
Grandpapy

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Singlemalt said:
I finally remembered to stop and take the pic this morning after 2 weeks (accomplishment). Explanation follows the pic
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The dude has that irrigation valve (front center) dressed up in a lil ghillie suit like a sniper or mortar man, actually all the valves that way
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So, it's no longer Kansas. Used to be used to just scare the birds! lol
 
tangerinegreen555

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I moved a snowblower to garage last night because they said up to 5" of snow overnight.

Woke up early and could see snow covering trees out the window. Fuck.

Then, I went to driveway and...
No snow!

The 50's and 60's for the last week, and the slow falling of the snow made it melt on driveway and sidewalks while the grass has 4".

Sometimes, shit just works out.
 
neosapien

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tangerinegreen555 said:
I moved a snowblower to garage last night because they said up to 5" of snow overnight.

Woke up early and could see snow covering trees out the window. Fuck.

Then, I went to driveway and...
No snow!

The 50's and 60's for the last week, and the slow falling of the snow made it melt on driveway and sidewalks while the grass has 4".

Sometimes, shit just works out.
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Same.
 
neosapien

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My adventure continues. At the Oriental Market. Yep that's what it's called. I'm staying in the car. I just texted my wife to get me some of the mixed fruit drinks. Then realized her phone is next to me charging. When I heard her text ding. Probably just gonna give up on today.
 
srh88

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tangerinegreen555 said:
I moved a snowblower to garage last night because they said up to 5" of snow overnight.

Woke up early and could see snow covering trees out the window. Fuck.

Then, I went to driveway and...
No snow!

The 50's and 60's for the last week, and the slow falling of the snow made it melt on driveway and sidewalks while the grass has 4".

Sometimes, shit just works out.
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neosapien said:
Same.
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It was over 70 degrees here yesterday
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