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re: What’s the best type of bird for a home cage pet?
Posted on 11/9/23 at 8:20 pm to Chad504boy
Posted on 11/9/23 at 8:20 pm to Chad504boy
African Gray, odds are it will be the smartest creature in the household.
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Posted on 11/9/23 at 8:20 pm to Auburn1968
Birds that talk kind of freak me out
Posted on 11/9/23 at 8:22 pm to Chad504boy
None. BTW, a friend has a Cockatoo that is 37 years old. Yes, and she did not like me because she had to stay in her cage while I visited.
Posted on 11/9/23 at 8:23 pm to Chad504boy
Bald eagle 
Posted on 11/9/23 at 8:26 pm to Chad504boy
Bluejay
Posted on 11/9/23 at 8:27 pm to OweO
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Bluejay
I went to rummel brah
Posted on 11/9/23 at 8:27 pm to Chad504boy
quote:then get a raider
I went to rummel brah
Posted on 11/9/23 at 8:28 pm to HillabeeBaw
Little sister had one of these when we were kids. Some old lady died and somehow my parents ended up getting it for her. Sucker only said hello but he’d whistle the theme to Andy Griffith non stop.
Posted on 11/9/23 at 8:32 pm to TigerFanatic99
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Large - Sulphur crested cockatoo
No one without a lot of spare time or experience with birds should ever get a Cockatoo
Source: I own two Cockatoos
This post was edited on 11/9/23 at 8:42 pm
Posted on 11/9/23 at 8:33 pm to Obtuse1
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African Gray, odds are it will be the smartest creature in the household.
My wife has one and it's very smart but they are single-person birds. Not very friendly with anyone other than the person they bond with so not really good as a family pet.
Posted on 11/9/23 at 8:34 pm to Chad504boy
Get some chickens and you will have eggs.
Posted on 11/9/23 at 8:34 pm to stout
How does one get a new bird and train it to let fly around but yet get it back in Cage without hurting it?
Posted on 11/9/23 at 8:35 pm to stout
Nice Moluccan.
Posted on 11/9/23 at 8:38 pm to Chad504boy
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How does one get a new bird and train it to let fly around but yet get it back in Cage without hurting it?
People train birds to free flight outside and come back so anything is possible but it takes a lot of time and patience.
My birds don't fly. The smaller white one (Umbrella Cocaktoo) was abused by his first owner and has a damaged wing and the bigger one (moluccan cockatoo) turned 50 years old in August and from what I understand he has never flown so I doubt he knows how and his muscles are probably atrophied from lack of use.
Posted on 11/9/23 at 8:38 pm to Chad504boy
I had two cockatiels growing up. Pretty cool bird, not very loud.
Posted on 11/9/23 at 8:40 pm to HillabeeBaw
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Cockatiel
Don’t these screech almost nonstop?
Disregard, not a cockatiel.
This post was edited on 11/9/23 at 8:45 pm
Posted on 11/9/23 at 8:41 pm to tonydtigr
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Nice Moluccan.
Thanks. His name is Tiki and he is 50 years old. I rescued him from getting placed on a farm that is a petting zoo on the weekends and travels the birds to festivals for people to pet and take pictures with for money. Didn't want another one but didn't want him to live the rest of his life in a petting zoo.
Posted on 11/9/23 at 8:43 pm to Obtuse1
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African Gray, odds are it will be the smartest creature in the household
If you are familiar with this dudes post, if a mosquito got into his house, it would also be the smartest creature in the household.
Posted on 11/9/23 at 8:48 pm to Auburn1968
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African Grey parrot. Very smart birds with extensive vocabularies
Yeah, Grey's are the smartest bird I've owned as well, but I've found they can be temperamental and "snap" a little more often that other birds. Also, their stares and cries are hauntingly creepy
Posted on 11/9/23 at 8:56 pm to Chad504boy
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How does one get a new bird and train it to let fly around but yet get it back in Cage without hurting it?
I know you can, but I never have. All my large birds have been very well socialized. I would let them out and about and half the time they just stayed with me. When they didn't all I had to do was offer a hand, say "up, up, up!" cheerfully and they would hop up. I'd bring then near a perch in their cage or habitat and they were happy to hop off.
Our one quaker parrot, Greenbean, had his cage open 90% of the time and he spent 90% of that time either in it or perched on top of it. I would close it when we were going to sleep or leaving the house.
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