Coco and Cookie Coojo Having a Tea Party

[Danita]

So cute!
Coojo just got home from being a blood donor at the bird hospital. So we had a Hero's Tea Party for him.
One of my favourite videos!

 

[Birdbabe]

Oh my goodness!!

 

[Peachfaced]

Coco, you are such a stinker! She's like no, this party is all about ME!

 

[Rain Bow]

They ARE wayyyy to darling @ that tea party! TY for that afternoon smile!!!

 

[Zara]

So much sass! Love the video!!!

 

[Hankmacaw]

@Danita Is Coco growing any feathers back or is she just staying fuzzy? She certainly has plenty of get up and go.

 

[Danita]

@Danita Is Coco growing any feathers back or is she just staying fuzzy? She certainly has plenty of get up and go.

She grows them in the spring and summer. Then something triggers her to start trimming the big ones. This year it was her sickness, started in the summer and she got the last tail feather over Xmas. Thankfully she doesn't do anything with the fluff. Her thing is anting, she is obsessed with it. Because she can't have toys really, as she eats them, she uses her feathers to ant, takes pieces off and uses that. Its a big deal when her big feathers start growing in. Her face feathers, she uses her foot, she does that when she is deep in thought.

 

[Danita]

Oh, I keep bowls of food in her cage so she can use the pellets to ant with.

 

[Hankmacaw]

@Danita
Funny - (peculiar not tee hee) Jasper has no toys either - she eats them and become impacted. She eats plastic too. I give her fresh papaya every day now so she doesn't get impacted, but still no wooden toys. Papaya is called the poopy fruit.What does "ant" mean?

 

[Shezbug]

Awww, Coco is way too adorable
I just love her to bits!

 

[Mockinbirdiva]

@Danita
Funny - (peculiar not tee hee) Jasper has no toys either - she eats them and become impacted. She eats plastic too. I give her fresh papaya every day now so she doesn't get impacted, but still no wooden toys. Papaya is called the poopy fruit.What does "ant" mean?

I bought a papaya a couple days ago and finally cut into it today for the birds. I was surprised it was very lightly sweet and other than that it really had no flavor. I was disappointed in it. I did cut some pieces for Henry and Lola and they didn't touch it. I chopped the rest up super fine and bagged it to freeze it and will mix it in with their chop. Since it really didn't have any flavor they shouldn't notice it in there.

 

[Nobirby]

I think she is absolutely beautiful!

 

[Danita]

@Danita
Funny - (peculiar not tee hee) Jasper has no toys either - she eats them and become impacted. She eats plastic too. I give her fresh papaya every day now so she doesn't get impacted, but still no wooden toys. Papaya is called the poopy fruit.What does "ant" mean?

Where they take a piece of something, place it on their back and preen. It falls, they catch it and keep doing it over and over. Coco uses pieces of her feather if there is nothing handy to do it with.
The reason some birds do this is apparently they used ants to preen in the wild, they would give them a little squish and it has analgesic properties.

Why do birds practice anting? - Biology Bulletin Reviews

Anting is the application of ants or “substitutes” of ants by birds to their plumage. The earliest scientific reports concerning this behavior appeared in the early 19th century, but the targeted collection of facts began in the late 1930s. As a result, anting has been recorded (in nature or/and...

link.springer.com

 

[Hankmacaw]

OK - our birds are as crazy as we are.

 

[Clueless]

I always wondered that too.

 

[rockoko]

That is adorable!

 

[SandraK]

Where they take a piece of something, place it on their back and preen. It falls, they catch it and keep doing it over and over. Coco uses pieces of her feather if there is nothing handy to do it with.
The reason some birds do this is apparently they used ants to preen in the wild, they would give them a little squish and it has analgesic properties.

Why do birds practice anting? - Biology Bulletin Reviews

Anting is the application of ants or “substitutes” of ants by birds to their plumage. The earliest scientific reports concerning this behavior appeared in the early 19th century, but the targeted collection of facts began in the late 1930s. As a result, anting has been recorded (in nature or/and...

link.springer.com

Sooo, when are you getting an ant farm for Coco Too?

 

[Rain Bow]

As soon as you buy one for Coco & ship it to Danita! Lol!!!