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that breed? They are very active with plenty of flying time every day and Squeaky is very good at chewing anything and everything, so the pine wall clock has to come down, pictures removed, the small TV moved, sideboard covered up and so on, this is a daily ritual when she comes out and she watches us do it, eyeing up what’s not been moved or covered over. She likes to sit behind me on the back of the old chair I use at the computer, she huffs and puffs and whispers me all sorts of secrets, some I understand but mostly not. Over the years they have had several chicks and their last one named Chick (aged 4) still lives with us but has his own cage as mum and dad got fed up with him living with them. (So it happens in the parrot world too!) However they all come out together


and have a great time. Squeaky and Pip still tread but we have not provided a nest box for the past 3 years as the last clutches were infertile, now is this due to age? I rather think it could be. And I hope so as Squeaky does look ‘old’ some days so I am hoping her chick rearing days have finished. Then we have the 3 Senegals, the


terrors of the flock. Eldest is Glossop aged 20, or so we think. He was bought about 18 years ago at the PS Sandown show as a ‘steady’ bird, which he is but has never ever come on us but enjoys being talked to and flying round with his ‘friends’ Jaffa and Boxer. The 3 boys as they are known come out together (but separately from the Pip Squeak family). Jaffa and his brother Boxer are both 17, these two boys are tame and were hand reared


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