What gets your birds wound up?

[Dot]

At my house it is loud music or my telling a story. Boy, were they wound up tonight. I love them all the time, but when they are like this, I really love it.

I wonder what gets them going when I am upstairs. A couple of days ago it was Fergie (Scarlet) and Blusher (RFM). They laughed and laughed and laughed plus went through some vocabulary. But, oh, how they laughed.

Tonight it was Blusher and Leroy (YNA). Leroy was teaching Blusher how to crow like a rooster. It was precious.

What gets them going at your house?

[bonnie]

Loud music, Playing 'flip' and company make things pretty interesting around here... lol

[Bambam]

Dancing with the stars:dancered::yeah:M2 loves the show...but when I play Wheel of Fortune..he sits there quiet as a mouse:rofl::rofl:

[Evelyn]

My E2 goes wild when he has big sheets of newspaper to play with. He runs back and forth, hangs upside down on his perches or from the top of his cage and screams like a banshee. He's not scared--he is just having fun. If we are playing with the paper outside his cage, he sometimes gets so wound up we have to stop so he can calm down. He's never offered to bite, but I don't want him to get so wild he forgets himself.

The other two (LSC and CAG) get real active and loud in the evening for a short while. They don't need anything to help them do it.



Evelyn

[FoxersArtist]

Because our aviary is seperate from the house, the birds always get wound up when someone goes out to see them. It's as if each of them is shouting "pick me, it's my turn!" We love all of the racket because we know that we are loved. You wouldn't believe how quiet it can get when we aren't in there. People are totally shocked to learn that we have a large number of parrots on the property.
-Anna

[TikiTalks]

i noticed that music gets the FIDS going, that, or with tucker the quaker he REALLLLLLY likes american idol he almost sounds like he's laughing at some of the people it's really funny

[Darryl Jones]

If my wife and I are having a disagreement over something (which we rarely do)
the birds start in to. It usually gets so bad that we have to go to the other side of the house to keep the discussion going.

[Anne-Samantha's Mom]

Sam will see the birdies outside and phew..non stop yakking

[too&me]

Harry is his loudest if we have company that goes upstairs without being introduced to him first. He will hear them laughing and talking causing him to really sound off! If they meet him first -no problem.

[Evelyn]

Anna -

So that is how you keep your sanity! The aviary is separate from the house.

Evelyn

[michelle]

At my house, to get everyone excited, it only takes two words... "Macadamia nut."
But generally, in the afternoon, everyone just gets excited and starts sounding off.

[FoxersArtist]

Anna -

So that is how you keep your sanity! The aviary is separate from the house.

Evelyn
It's not seperate per say. It's kind of hard to explain. Our house used to be a sales office for new homes. The garage had been converted into an office complete with heating and cooling and extra doors and windows. They had to convert the outside of the house back into a "garage" for legal reasons (they had to install a garage door on the front of the house) but the inside still looked like an office space. We essentially built a whole new structure inside the garage and there are closets and a fire wall between the kitchen wall and the aviary which gives an additional 3-4 feet of sound deadening space. You have to go through 2 doors to get to the aviary and that deadens the sound more than it would if they were all just in the garage. We hear the birds more through the livingroom walls than the kitchen walls. Thankfully our one next door neighbor has her garage and kitchen on the side closest to our aviary and we have never had a complaint.
-Anna

[too&me]

What great set up. John my husband worries about letting Harry have an outside cage due to possible neighbor issues. I know that unfiltered sunlight is a benefit he would enjoy.

[Evelyn]

Anna -

I'm still jealous!

Evelyn

[TikiTalks]

Anna -

I'm still jealous!

Evelyn
We're all jealous! LOL luckily! i get to benefit from the mayhem usually on a weekly basis.. hmmm I think I'll go visit tomorrow! :nanner: Then Anna will hear me talking and yacking and ... :blab:

[FoxersArtist]

We're all jealous! LOL luckily! i get to benefit from the mayhem usually on a weekly basis.. hmmm I think I'll go visit tomorrow! :nanner: Then Anna will hear me talking and yacking and ... :blab:

You want to leave some more pocket change in our dryer too? :D
-Anna

[TikiTalks]

:confused:You want to leave some more pocket change in our dryer too? :D
-Anna
well i figure if i do enough laundry i can buy the birdies a years supply of nutriberries before long - slow nod - :smiles:

[FoxersArtist]

:confused:
well i figure if i do enough laundry i can buy the birdies a years supply of nutriberries before long - slow nod - :smiles:

HaHaHa, that's funny. :)