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Old 31st October 2009, 09:46 AM
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Oh he's gorgeous! A very big boy too! He looks a lot like some of the carneau I used to have.
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Old 31st October 2009, 10:04 AM
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okay here his is next to a gallon of apple cider, and he weighs a whopping 775 grams, big boy or girl
GOOD LORD!!!!!!!! LOL
Gee, I hope he doesn't sit on my other birds - my big cocky males are gonna be horrified
"Walter"! (Whopping Walter!)
He's gorgeous - I love him!
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Old 31st October 2009, 10:13 AM
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GOOD LORD!!!!!!!! LOL
Gee, I hope he doesn't sit on my other birds - my big cocky males are gonna be horrified
"Walter"! (Whopping Walter!)
He's gorgeous - I love him!
I KNOW..RIGHT!! LOL
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Old 31st October 2009, 03:14 PM
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oh thats a very chesty bird you have there if it was a female which I doubt it is I would have called it Dolly lol
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Old 31st October 2009, 06:19 PM
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He's huge! Are Kings always white? Just curious.
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Old 31st October 2009, 07:49 PM
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Nope, but most of them are because they are a utility breed. There is a show type though, in which more colors have been introduced The two main colors I hear of are white and silver (red bars).
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Old 1st November 2009, 04:39 AM
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oh thats a very chesty bird you have there if it was a female which I doubt it is I would have called it Dolly lol
i know he/she is pretty fat, probably why he got caught, i should put a little tread mill in the cage for him
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Old 1st November 2009, 12:35 PM
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i know he/she is pretty fat, probably why he got caught, i should put a little tread mill in the cage for him
Wind tunnel will be better.
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Old 1st November 2009, 03:11 PM
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very nice Altgirl35 . very pretty.
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You could get him on some step aerobics with his own little stepper.
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Old 1st November 2009, 10:32 PM
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my amazon does the same thing, i say it to all the birds, she has trained me well.
she has a wholething she does.
but she sais what a pretty boy, her family before me never did her dna, they had her for 18 yrs and she goes on and on.
ooooh what a pretty boy! are you a pretty boy?? awww, what a pretty pretty pretty boy, that bird cracks me up daily
What kinda Amazon is it ? I have a male Mealy....who's first mom was convinced he was a female....so he says ' Good Girrrrrrrrrrrrrl ' all the time, to compliment himself, no doubt.

...maybe we should hook them up ?



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Old 2nd November 2009, 02:16 PM
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i actually have 2 blue fronted , the male is an old man (41) and doesn't talk, but my girl niko won't shut up unless someone is here and i want them to hear how good she talks, then she shuts up till we are walking out of the room then she'll say BYE BYE!!
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Old 2nd November 2009, 02:30 PM
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Hey Altgirl,
How's Walter?
I picked up 3 new Fantails at the Sanford Maine show yesterday
There so sweet.
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Old 2nd November 2009, 07:01 PM
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he's doing great, he's shy, doesn't like when i clean the cage, but he watches me with great interest when i'm cleaning the rehab room, and i talk to him.
eating like a champ
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