Hi There

07-31-2007, 08:31 AM

Howdy Everyone

My name is Stephanie
I have 6 parrots.
Sadie, a 7 year old blue fronted amazon, I got her when she was 5 as a rehome.
Darwin, a 6 year old bronze wing pionus who is blind
Dawkins, a 6 year old white cap pionus who lived in a crawlspace for 5 years before I got him
Lulee, a 3 year old green cheek conure we got her as a rehome when she was a baby.
Annie, a 4 month old black capped conure, the only normal one of the bunch
Pepper, our 15 year old foster lovebird, he is plucked and has scissorbeak but a great personality
I also own www.noveltweets.com - Â*Novel Tweet Toys, home made parrot toys.
I have tons of pictures and vids of my flock for you guys, don't worry

07-31-2007, 08:33 AM

Welcome to PC! It's great to have a Pionus owner here, there aren't very many

Can't wait to see the pics!

07-31-2007, 08:39 AM

Hi and welcome, would love to see pics! I love Pionus's.

07-31-2007, 08:40 AM

welcome to pc

07-31-2007, 08:56 AM

07-31-2007, 09:06 AM

Welcome Stephanie! I'm interested to hear about how Dawkins lived in a crawl space for 5 years! Poor guy.

07-31-2007, 09:11 AM

Dawkins and his sister were handfed, and never sold, so his owner stuck them in a cage in a crawlspace together.. so they could breed. A girl I know in town ended up rescuing him and his sister from the owner. After five years of that Dawkins sister was completely wild but she could tell Dawkins liked people. I was looking for a white cap and after hearing his story I couldn't say no. He has bad feet, he can't bend his toes really at all. So when he does step up for us it's hard on him because he has a terrible time gripping and therefore no balance on your hand. He prefers to be carried cupped in your hand like a baby bird. He loves scritches from me and I'm just totally in love with him.

07-31-2007, 09:15 AM

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Originally Posted by Sivholm

Dawkins and his sister were handfed, and never sold, so his owner stuck them in a cage in a crawlspace together.. so they could breed. A girl I know in town ended up rescuing him and his sister from the owner. After five years of that Dawkins sister was completely wild but she could tell Dawkins liked people. I was looking for a white cap and after hearing his story I couldn't say no. He has bad feet, he can't bend his toes really at all. So when he does step up for us it's hard on him because he has a terrible time gripping and therefore no balance on your hand. He prefers to be carried cupped in your hand like a baby bird. He loves scritches from me and I'm just totally in love with him.

Thanks for taking him in. Did he not have perches at all? (Because I know that my crawl space is not tall in height AT ALL - must have been a small & short cage to fit in there)

07-31-2007, 09:22 AM

I am not sure, I never got to see the setup. I think it had to do with his diet as well, he has a really bad liver from it as well. We offer him a huge variety of perches, and he gets around quite well.

07-31-2007, 09:46 AM

Welcome to parotchatter