#66440 - 06/24/05 02:01 AM
could use some goffins advice
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Sunni
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hi guys! i am new to this forum. i have wanted a parrot for a long time, did lots of research, decided that altho i ADORE the toos i couldnt deal w/ their demands, and had decided on a grey. in search of the "right" bird, i ran into a baby goffins too..i had not researched this bird, and believed all the breeder had to say..ok you can beat me up, ... i did not know that going to a breeder was bad. all you read, even birdtalk suggests going to a breeder. I didnt know that parrot rescues existed. after reading this site i am throughly terrified..I still havent seen much about goffins tho. are they susceptible to the same behaviors? i love my new baby..only had him 4 days now, but i do not want to watch him destroy himself as he matures. i feel like as much as i thought i prepared i have made a horrible mistake. I am home most of the day, and i can give him one on one time, and i know not to overdo it. he has a nice big cage, lots of toys..fresh food. these are the things i learned. i knew that some birds plucked from stress or mistreatment. i didnt think it would be a prob, as i love my babies and would never mistreat them. i read birds for idiots..my parrot, my friend lots of birdtalk..but noone ever said how unsuited toos were to captivity. I am so afraid now to love this baby, and have to endure the heartache i have been reading on this site. any goffin specific advice?
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#66445 - 06/24/05 03:42 PM
Re: could use some goffins advice
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Lori Conarro
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I have an eight year old goffins named Daffy. I bought him when he was 14 weeks old and not weaned. He is the love and joy of my life, let me tell you. My little guy is my baby and I swear without him a few years ago, I wouldn't be here. He does have his problems though. At two he pulled some feathers but quit until early last year when he was almost 7. He is still plucking and looks pretty raggedy but he doesn't mutilate. Plucking I have learned to deal with, mutilating would break me. Every few months he wears a collar for awile when he gets really bad.
Still, he is my love! He loves to play with cat balls and pill bottles I fill with little things that make noise. He also will play with a rubber band forever, he can flip it and he likes to fetch it and bring it to me to flip.
I've been a member for a long time and people here have helped me through the good and bad with all my birds, but most especially Daffy. If you search some of my posts, maybe that will give you an idea of what living with a baby goffins is like. Best wishes to you.
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#66450 - 06/25/05 12:17 AM
Re: could use some goffins advice
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Sunni
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sodapop, thank you so much! the goffin success story really helps! and i would love a hand made toy  even more i would love to know how you make em!!! sounds like lots of fun. Okay i know this is dumb, but i hate to cook, but i LOVE to cook for my birds!! if not for the birds my kids would live on take out and frozen dinners! (this is the only forum i can admit that!) so i guess in a way, the birds keep us healthy!! <img border="0" alt="[laughing]" title="" src="graemlins/laugh[1].gif" /> while i am sitting here, Omelet is in my lap..innocently nibbling the keyboard, he just figured out how to remove the rubber pegs on the bottom, i took it and put it back and gave him his toy, he oh so sweetly edged his way back over and FLASH had it again! too smart!!
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