China has feathers!

I noticed the other day while feeding and watering that she has a nice, thick coat of feathers coming in all over!

China has seen us scold the cats for trying to get out. Goliath was trying to force the screen door but we didn't notice. China started screeching and I looked to see what was upsetting her. As soon as she knew I was paying attention she kept looking towards the door and screeching. As soon as I shooed Goliath away she settled down.

She's way too smart!

China is the best guard-bird ever!

China's "home" is right in front of the back window. Whenever someone she doesn't recognize goes out there she will shriek. Usually it's one of the kids with their friends. Once she realizes that the person is with the kids she stops.

Well, we are having the shingles on the roof replaced so the guys are working out back where it's easiest to get to the roof. It took Hubby and I a good 5 minutes of her shrieking to figure out that she was panicking over the guys out back!

Then she wouldn't stop so we ended up covering the window so she wouldn't see.

Miss China

We got China and the Amazons cage top perches. Since China has a round topped cage, we set it on the dove cage next to hers. She won't go anywhere near it. We put peanuts on the floor of it in hopes of showing her it's ok. Nothing doing. Hubby tried showing her it was ok. He touched it, talked to her, let her on his shoulder and approached it. She ran up and hid under his chin each time he's tried.

She won't play either. And even though she doesn't pluck, she can't get her feathers to grow. They start growing then as she climbs around and such they get mangled and broke. I've even checked to see if there might be a dietary reason they break/mangle so easily. I can't find anything I'm not giving her that she needs.

The forum I was on was totally useless. If you weren't already an established member or fully bought into their ultra-radical views they wouldn't even acknowledge you. If you posted something that wasn't 100% their idea or approved by them they would spin it and turn it around to be whatever evil they wanted it to be. I'm sure I was totally slammed by the moderators (yeah, they insult and degrade everyone and they, and the chosen few, got away with it but if you weren't in their little club you would get banned and/or not be able to defend yourself).

Meh, piss on em! Not going back to see what they had to say about anything.

China, my neat freak and Mother Hen

China has a "poop can" below her poop spot. Just a small trash can with a grocery bag in it so she doesn't poop on the floor. Well we also use it for trash.

She watches EVERYTHING and is an extremely fast learner. If she has something she doesn't like she will go over and drop it in the trash! If it misses (which is rare) she lets us know it did.

If one of the kids is upset she tries to comfort them. Abby dropped her school folder heading out the door and China let out a scream to alert her.

My little Button Quail, Hector, was acting funny and I was calling to him (He was ok). Since I talk to every one of my birds constantly they all know their names and so does China. He's right next to her cage and as soon as I started calling his name she went right over to peek in.

When Alfie and Tilly get worked up she will ask for the music because she knows it calms them.

The OWA's are definitely my perpetual two year old's but China is my Little Mother Hen!

I taught China to play Peek-A-Boo!

She was kinda bobbing behind a toy and I just started saying "peek-a-boo" when she ducked out. She will now duck out of my line of sight when we play. Or I will cover my face like I used to do with my kids. She will get all excited when I open my hands and say "peek-a-boo".

I'm NOT the most evil thing in China's world!

Well, I discovered last night China does not consider me to be the most evil/scary thing in the house. Apparently the kitchen is.

She didn't want to go in her cage and took off down the outside and across the floor. Under my chair and found herself in the kitchen. She stopped dead, turned around and saw me leaning over to get her and decided I wasn't that scary after all.

She took my finger gently in her beak, hopped on my hand, scampered up the other arm and around my back onto my opposite shoulder (I know, I know but trust needs to start somewhere) all before I realized what she was doing. I was bent over when this happened and all I could think was what a site that must have been having a featherless monkey-bird spiraling up me, lol.

She rode as far over on my shoulder as she could without falling off as I took her home then I was so giddy I woke up Hubby and told him. She hasn't been quite so anxious if I get too close to her as she usually is.