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From: fleming@acsu.buffalo.edu (christine m fleming)
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Subject: INDOOR: Bird Magazines
Summary: Cockatiel Magazines, others...
Keywords: also... Safe Toys!
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Date: 14 Nov 90 21:54:53 GMT
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I am interested in subscribing to magazines about birds: i already get
BirdTalk, and would be interested in other general types, as well as
any that are devoted to Cockatiels. Could someone post addresses, names,
and prices of such publications?

Also: how does everyone "rate" magazines like BirdTalk and American
Caged Bird? Any of the other "better known" journals? (Helpful?,
interesting or boring?, inventive?, factual?, stylish, colourful, or
plain?, Breeder oriented or Pet oriented?, expensive, worth the money,
or cheap?, etc.) 

Which are your favourites, and why?

Also...
My new Cockatiel is wonderful: sweet and beautiful. But, he doesn't
seem to like "normal" toys -- at least not the wood toys in his cage.
Any suggestions? He does seem to like stray pennies and paperclips.
Are these ok, as long as he is watched constantly? He seems very sad
when we take them away. His other favourite is rope. Are there "made
for chewing" ropes around? Or are they unsafe, because he could get
caught up in them? Help! We have tried moving the other (wooden chew
toys) arround the cage to no effect. Are there any almost sure fire
Cockatiel favourites, either easily made at home or on the market?

He also seems to break blood feathers quite a lot. The breeder says
that it is part baby clumsiness, and part baby playfulness: is there
anything i can do to make his cage especially travel easy. He has VERY
large feet which he hasn't quite grown into (at 10 weeks). Should i
give him ladders? (He's never seen one before.) He BACKS off of
everything (hands, perches, feeders): is this just a weirdness or part
of the baby-figuring-things-out stage?

 Thanks! 

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