My Parrot is a Pig.

When my birds eat chicken I always feel all Hannibalish. Like...parrots eating chicken??

Julsiebean wrote:

Dusty, I will either get an Eclectus or an African Grey in a couple of years. I am fearful of how phobic people make Congos out to be, but I'm hoping that isn't always the case. Any input?

I think socializing is key. If you introduce an african grey to new thing everyday, I feel like it wouldnt grow up to be a phobic bird?

Julsiebean wrote:

When my birds eat chicken I always feel all Hannibalish. Like...parrots eating chicken??

I feel the same way but then again its not really any different than chimpanzees killing monkeys and eating them.

Julsiebean wrote:

When my birds eat chicken I always feel all Hannibalish. Like...parrots eating chicken??

Chickens eat chickens. . . without human assistance.

...................really?

Yeah, sometimes they peck each other to death and eat the dead. Or just peck pieces off each other and eat it. That's why commercially chickens have the tips of their beaks snipped off.

have you ever heard of the "pecking order" chickens wrote the book on that ,and if your at the bottom of the pecking order you ain't worth much.

We have piggies too, altho they're well trained piggies. They know they're not allowed to step on our plates, they can only sit beside the plate and eat as far as they can reach which means we can push anything they shouldn't eat away from them. Prince is the exception to this rule, he dive bomb the marge, the bubble in the sink, your plate, funniest little thing.

dusty wrote:

your stories are just too funny girls, i loved them...my grey is an oinker she eats off my plate breakfast and supper...there is no stopping her and i wouldn't anyway...lol...but she won't eat seed sprouts....grrrrr

dusty

mix them in with a little brown rice on YOUR plate of course

henpecked wrote:

We have several zons that you could classify as pigs but the worst is Josie's hen YN,Stacie,she sucks downs spaghetti noodles whole,cooked peas whole etc. no manners at all.

She does The worse part is she makes the spaghetti "slurp" noise with it... and will use that sound to get my attention if I am ignoring her at dinner.