Prices are increasing,some items not always available.Then there is the cost and availability of fuel and power.
We'll just have to see how this goes. Get ready to hold the line and if you can, be ready to help those people that we tried to warn to prepare themselves,but they wouldn't believe us.
It is certainly going to be a part of history we will look back on in the years to come!
My family is prepared here in Texas. We'll get through it.
I have one of your Rose Breasted Cockatoo (Galah).
Really sweet bird, loves fresh corn, but is terrified if she sees spiders, flies or moths. Also, the Galah loves riding around on my shoulder, but has a really bad habit of biting my ears to get attention.
How do you Aussies prevent your Galahs from biting your ears?
Also, she bites all the buttons off the TV remotes and removed the "U" from my laptop keyboard.
I really don't think you can. All those cockatoos are very intelligent and have a mind of their own. The galahs are excellent birds.
I have had some success with sulphur crested cockatoos by making a coughing/barking sound when they are doing something naughty. It took a while but it did eventually make them stop the bad behaviour.
You could try that when the ear biting starts and see if it will work for your bird. I wish you success.
Is the ear biting painful or is it a friendly behaviour.(Even though what's playful to a cocky can be painful to a human!)
At present I have a wild scaley breasted lorriket that loves to play by biting and scratching my hands.
The cough/bark is starting to make him behave a bit better.
Lucy only bites gently for attention. Sometimes it's irritating or a bit painful, but never drew blood, no damage ever. You know a Galah could snip right through an ear in an instant if they wanted to. She's gentle, but firm about wanting me to scratch her feathers or petting or paying attention.
She also likes watching TV, mostly cartoons, nature videos and coral reef fish videos. We don't let her to watch videos of wild Galahs anymore, because she gets too excited and wants to interact with the computer screen birds.
I'll try developing a click or popping noise for "stop", but she already knows the word. Just Galahs have their own opinions and agenda. I have bigger success at rewarding good behavior with giving her roasted peanuts in the shell.
That sounds good! They are incredible birds. They have a strong bite!
Is she mainly your bird and she has bonded with you or will she accept other people. Sometimes they form strong bonds to one person and aren't happy with other people.
I once had a girlfriend with a male cocktiel and the little monster had bonded with her and was very protective of her. He would try to bite any other males(humans)
Lucy is bonded to me. She just helped me cook a large pot of beef vegetable soup, which is now simmering on the stove. She can't chop onions or meat or veggies, can't add beef stock or seasoning... but she's really good at supervising.
She loves being in the kitchen or sitting on my shoulder and helping clean the house. Lucy does tolerate family members, but NOT a dog or cat and definitely not being picked up or pet by strangers. She does bark if someone comes to the door.
From what I understand, Galahs are considered pests in some areas of Australia.
That is beautiful, you have a loyal friend for life with Lucy!
Most parrots are very interested in what their humans are doing. It can be very interesting to observe that bond!
I don't have pet birds,but I feed the local wild ones. Often I'll be holding 2 trays,feeding a pair of scaley breasted lorrikets,1 or 2 Australian King parrots,while on the ground there is about 25 rainbow lorrikets and the resident pair of galahs.
The galahs are funny. When they need a bit more food (sunflower seeds) the female will walk over and start to chew on the toe of my boots. They always let me know what they want!
Galahs are the most wide spread parrots in Australia and they often will eat crops like wheat,barley ect.When farmers are grain feeding sheep and cattle,the galahs and other parrots ( Major Mitchell cockatoos, sulphur crested cocktails,corellas ect) will have a great time eating the stock food,much to the farmer's displeasure!
That's the reason that those birds are considered to be pests. There are millions of them and their populations are pretty safe. They are born survivors, tolerating droughts, floods,bushfires and what ever nature and humans throw at them.
Lucy is a fortunate little girl to have a human like you! Have a good life together!
Just another thought,is your cocky a female (pinky/red eyes)or a male (dark brown,almost black eyes) sometimes the males can be a bit lively and affectionate, with the biting being friendly but painful!
You could have net search to see if you could find information on training parrots.
Best of luck with your cocky ( they live a long time)
Yeap, decided to be spontaneous and swing into coles last night for ice cream. Its not something I often have yet the kids love it so I know the general prices. Its gone from bad to worse AGAIN. A so called special was 2litres x2 for $14, claiming normal price was$10 a tub. Like fark prices are locked in 🥺😅😭
I'm in pretty good shape,but I ate up all my snack food preps.....
It's getting interesting here in OZ.(Sydney)
Prices are increasing,some items not always available.Then there is the cost and availability of fuel and power.
We'll just have to see how this goes. Get ready to hold the line and if you can, be ready to help those people that we tried to warn to prepare themselves,but they wouldn't believe us.
It is certainly going to be a part of history we will look back on in the years to come!
My family is prepared here in Texas. We'll get through it.
I have one of your Rose Breasted Cockatoo (Galah).
Really sweet bird, loves fresh corn, but is terrified if she sees spiders, flies or moths. Also, the Galah loves riding around on my shoulder, but has a really bad habit of biting my ears to get attention.
How do you Aussies prevent your Galahs from biting your ears?
Also, she bites all the buttons off the TV remotes and removed the "U" from my laptop keyboard.
I really don't think you can. All those cockatoos are very intelligent and have a mind of their own. The galahs are excellent birds.
Best of luck with you cocky,fren.
Lucy only bites gently for attention. Sometimes it's irritating or a bit painful, but never drew blood, no damage ever. You know a Galah could snip right through an ear in an instant if they wanted to. She's gentle, but firm about wanting me to scratch her feathers or petting or paying attention.
She also likes watching TV, mostly cartoons, nature videos and coral reef fish videos. We don't let her to watch videos of wild Galahs anymore, because she gets too excited and wants to interact with the computer screen birds.
I'll try developing a click or popping noise for "stop", but she already knows the word. Just Galahs have their own opinions and agenda. I have bigger success at rewarding good behavior with giving her roasted peanuts in the shell.
That sounds good! They are incredible birds. They have a strong bite!
Is she mainly your bird and she has bonded with you or will she accept other people. Sometimes they form strong bonds to one person and aren't happy with other people.
I once had a girlfriend with a male cocktiel and the little monster had bonded with her and was very protective of her. He would try to bite any other males(humans)
Apart from that he was a nice little bird.
Lucy is bonded to me. She just helped me cook a large pot of beef vegetable soup, which is now simmering on the stove. She can't chop onions or meat or veggies, can't add beef stock or seasoning... but she's really good at supervising.
She loves being in the kitchen or sitting on my shoulder and helping clean the house. Lucy does tolerate family members, but NOT a dog or cat and definitely not being picked up or pet by strangers. She does bark if someone comes to the door.
From what I understand, Galahs are considered pests in some areas of Australia.
That is beautiful, you have a loyal friend for life with Lucy!
Most parrots are very interested in what their humans are doing. It can be very interesting to observe that bond!
I don't have pet birds,but I feed the local wild ones. Often I'll be holding 2 trays,feeding a pair of scaley breasted lorrikets,1 or 2 Australian King parrots,while on the ground there is about 25 rainbow lorrikets and the resident pair of galahs.
The galahs are funny. When they need a bit more food (sunflower seeds) the female will walk over and start to chew on the toe of my boots. They always let me know what they want!
Galahs are the most wide spread parrots in Australia and they often will eat crops like wheat,barley ect.When farmers are grain feeding sheep and cattle,the galahs and other parrots ( Major Mitchell cockatoos, sulphur crested cocktails,corellas ect) will have a great time eating the stock food,much to the farmer's displeasure!
That's the reason that those birds are considered to be pests. There are millions of them and their populations are pretty safe. They are born survivors, tolerating droughts, floods,bushfires and what ever nature and humans throw at them.
Lucy is a fortunate little girl to have a human like you! Have a good life together!
Never heard of those before. Googled. Beautiful bird.
Just another thought,is your cocky a female (pinky/red eyes)or a male (dark brown,almost black eyes) sometimes the males can be a bit lively and affectionate, with the biting being friendly but painful!
You could have net search to see if you could find information on training parrots.
Best of luck with your cocky ( they live a long time)
Yeap, decided to be spontaneous and swing into coles last night for ice cream. Its not something I often have yet the kids love it so I know the general prices. Its gone from bad to worse AGAIN. A so called special was 2litres x2 for $14, claiming normal price was$10 a tub. Like fark prices are locked in 🥺😅😭
That sounds like the Coles special on Bulla 2 litre ice cream! It's excellent ice cream but the price is getting a bit dear!
The cost of everything is really increasing.
Best wishes to you and your family in these trying times, digger.
Someone should do something about all these floods
East Coast Australia has record rainfall since records began and we don't have the infatructure to harvest the water to drought proof the country.
The Cabal has treated this country as a farm and a mine to retard our managed growth.
Feels deliberate to me. I've never seen anything like it here and apparently my old home town geelong is in flood warnings too
Sure hope we don't keep seeing weather events and natural disasters in a scope and rapidity not seen before
saucy sauce? By which I mean: conny context?
Is this informed boss living in the US, living in Canberra, living in Vancouver, or living in Milan?
Context means everything.
Maybe u.s, its a fb page I've been watching.
A rumor so far
Yeah, a rumor, but a rumor in WHAT context (where?)