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A pineapple green cheek conure named Shira will be coming home to live with us in a couple of weeks or so. She is not taking hand-feeding formula now, but she is so young that she still should be, so the store will be keeping her until they are certain she isn't going to loose weight.
She doesn't have as much red as do the the other pineapple green cheeks other folks on this site have, but she is still beautiful. I haven't said anything about her because I was waiting until I had pictures, but I finally decided to make the announcement now. I have taken some pictures and should have some to post in a few days.
She is fearless. She loves people. She is going to be a handful when it comes to nippiness, but she is also learning. It is cute to watch her bounce and run, bounce and run across a counter. She LOVES to drop things off the side so I can retreive them for her.
I can already tell that I am going to have to watch her around Roni, because I doubt she will ever learn that other birds can be dangerous. A nanday at the store flew right toward her with beak open. I think it intended to bite her. I scooped her up out of its way, but she would not have moved. The first night she arrived in the store she got out of the baby bird room and they found her perched on a cockatoo's cage. She simply has no fear.
The store manager has been doing a lot of reserach on splendid parakeets and tourquoisines, and he thinks Rebeccah and her clutchmates are tourquoisine hens. She is doing very well in her new home.
I am content with my decision regarding Rebeccah, and now Shira. I think this was just meant to be.
She doesn't have as much red as do the the other pineapple green cheeks other folks on this site have, but she is still beautiful. I haven't said anything about her because I was waiting until I had pictures, but I finally decided to make the announcement now. I have taken some pictures and should have some to post in a few days.
She is fearless. She loves people. She is going to be a handful when it comes to nippiness, but she is also learning. It is cute to watch her bounce and run, bounce and run across a counter. She LOVES to drop things off the side so I can retreive them for her.
I can already tell that I am going to have to watch her around Roni, because I doubt she will ever learn that other birds can be dangerous. A nanday at the store flew right toward her with beak open. I think it intended to bite her. I scooped her up out of its way, but she would not have moved. The first night she arrived in the store she got out of the baby bird room and they found her perched on a cockatoo's cage. She simply has no fear.
The store manager has been doing a lot of reserach on splendid parakeets and tourquoisines, and he thinks Rebeccah and her clutchmates are tourquoisine hens. She is doing very well in her new home.
I am content with my decision regarding Rebeccah, and now Shira. I think this was just meant to be.