Yellow Sided Green Cheek Nursery 2008!!!
Click here to see the Pineapple and Turquoise Nursery!
Parents are Beau and Rain, Cookie and Apple and Tango and Kaida
All of our Yellow Sided Green cheeks are reserved for this season. We will hopefully have more eggs in January of 09. We do have 2 little Turquoise babies that are in the nest boxes!
June 28, 2008 Band 195 has now gone home with his new family and with a new name. He is to be called "Sydney." Band 194 is reserved by Doreen and can be seen in a video below.
June 22, 2008
We have 2 baby Yellow Sided Green Cheeks are available for adoption. They are Band 194 and Band 195. You can see them in the video below!
June 20, 2008
Click To Play a video that shows these last 3 babies going to bed. They are very friendly and want to be with people!
June 19, 2008
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My home is
feeling very empty with Green Cheek season ending. We
only have 4 babies right now and one of those leaves on
Monday. Band
191 is pictured here in a white flight suit.
Band 194 is
being preened by him in the picture on the right and is
available for adoption.
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June 17, 2008
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We love when we start getting the emails back from families as to how their new baby is doing! I added some of the Green cheek emails to our reference page. |
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Happy Father's Day to all you Dads!
Click To Play We are busily feeding the Green Cheek babies and they prefer their "Eclectus" playgym to their fancy bottlebrush gym!
June 7th 2008
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Band 189 (reserved by Ethan)
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On the subject of poop....It is not unusual for a parrot to hold their poop all night long. This makes for a great opportunity for potty training. When they awaken in the morning, they have saved up a "bomb." We run them to a good spot and say, "go potty." and they are usually anxious to let their bomb drop. I am going to have to video tape Jessie and Du Bonker (her Blue Crown)...it is so funny to see, for the "bomb" drops in the toilet!
May 28, 2008:
Most of the babies from previous clutches have gone home with a few still weaning. Everyone is delighted, but I do hear frustration at the flight suits. Flight suits are hard to get a bird used to. We start them while they are here, putting them in them about 4 times per week. If you are getting a baby from us, review carefully how to hold your baby while putting a suit on. The better you are at that, the easier it is for your bird. It takes a bird about 6-9 months to get used to wearing one from my experiences. Even my Grey who is one year old still protests. I took her out on a miniature horse ride just tonight. She loves being behind the cart with the horse pulling us, and I am glad she is wearing a suit, but she protests while it is going on. Click here to see her on the cart!
We are feeding a new group of Yellow Sided Green Cheeks. We have 4 babies from Beau and Rain and 3 babies from Cookie and Apple. Some are being handfed and some are still in the nest boxes. With the oncoming heat in Arizona, I am thinking that we will be limited to shipping only on Continental. I need to recheck their rates for our rising gas prices are making them increase also.
May 20, 2008:
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May 12, 2008:
Every baby in our house is wearing a flight suit right now. So....it is not a good time to bring over your grandchildren.... you never know what I may do to them :)
May 7, 2008
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There are more Yellow Sided babies in nest
boxes! Beau and Rain have 4 babies. Cookie and Apple have 2 babies right now! I am accepting deposits on these babies.
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They are all growing up so quickly! Here are pictures from today. Every day, we play with the babies as we go through our home schooling. We leave the flight suit on each baby after they have been with one of us and that is the way we are sure of who has been played with and who has not gotten an outing. A big part of our day is spent on piano and violins. The babies are all being "classically trained!!"
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March 31st, 2008
Click here to watch a video of the babies flying around the kitchen!
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March 26, 2008
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Lisa plays piano about 2-3 hours per day and keeps switching which baby gets to be her audience. The picture on the right was taken right after our noon feeding and they are all contentedly sleeping in their flight suits. |
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March 18th!!
Click here to see a crowd feeding the babies on March 16th
Click here to see the babies learning to perch
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Kaida hatched 2 babies. And,
if you look closely at the egg on the right, you can see
that the baby is pipping out. See the little crack in it.
That is where the baby will exit. They always come out up
through the empty space in the top of the egg. Kaida is the
goofy mom in the first videos on this page. Another
interesting note on this picture....we breeders can often
tell by looking at a clutch of eggs what is fertile and what
is not by the outward appearance of the egg. The egg on the
left is dull and non fertile. The egg on the right is alive.
There are Gouldian pictures that show this better if you
click here.
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March 14, 2008
Can you believe that the oldest 3 babies moved into a real bird cage last night? There are 7 in with us and our home is very fun late in the evenings when we are all feeding. During the day, it is fun too, but there is not the slap happy giggling going on. Click here to see the babies being fed.
Now is a very good time to being preparing yourself for when your baby comes home. Please read the "asterisked" articles under the "Diet" section on our articles page. Click here and it will take you to that section. As you read the information, please ask away if questions arise. Ideally, I would like you to review all the articles with asterisks (or stars on our articles page, but we can do it a portion at a time.
February 20, 2008:
We have 3 pairs of Yellow Sided Green Cheeks that are actively nesting.
"Cookie" (he is the one in the green cheek talking video) and "Apple" are on 7 babies.
"Beau" and "Rain" are on eggs.
"Tango" and "Kaida" are preparing to lay:
Watch Tango/Kaida playing with popcorn and children
Watch Tango/Kaida breeding and more attitude!!!
Here are articles to read more about Green Cheeks:
A very accurate description of the Green Cheek personality
Watch our last baby of 2007 fly to us when we call her.
How well do Green Cheeks talk? Watch a Video.
A very cool picture sequence called "The miracle of Green Cheeks!"
How does a Green Cheek sleep? A very funny picture sequence.
What to do if your Green Cheek, or any parrot, is biting
Read answers to the question....Just How Nippy is Your Green Cheek??
Watch the "restraint technique" that helps retrain some biters
Watch Green Cheeks with children
Green cheek nursery videos of 2007
Green Cheek Explosion! How to pack a Green cheek?!?!
See a Green Cheek Conure Go For a Car Ride in Her Flight Suit.
Word of Warning to all Green Cheek Buyers. What happens when the lights go out?
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