I really miss my community there 🥲It feels like breaking up with a shitty boyfriend, but his grandma was really nice to you.

Communities should be called slices! Lemmings don’t often congregate in groups, but when they do, it’s called a “slice”! It’s not at all dependent on the “sub” nomenclature from Reddit, it’s our own thing!

I have parrots which are the same as chickens but more manipulative. Subscribing.

Yes! "Masturbating Marty", they call him. I decided to leave Reddit, though I left my profile intact because I think there's important information there.

In your video we can see some significant asymmetry; his right wing is sitting much higher, and further from the body, than his left wing. Asymmetry is a clear sign that something is wrong. I would definitely get him checked out by an avian vet when possible. If you are unable to get to an avian veterinarian by tomorrow, some veterinarians, or emergency animal hospitals, will prescribe pain control while you wait for an appointment with an avian vet.

When you see the avian vet, mention the clumsiness. Something might be causing him to be off balance. Healthy birds shouldn’t be clumsy enough to cause significant injury; if they fall, they should be able to recover by flapping.

Thanks for reaching out for advice- it can be scary and stressful to hear that your little buddy might be hurt. Make sure you’re taking care of yourself too.

I’ve made a LOT of comments on Reddit and every so often I end up searching my own comments to copy and paste a response to a similar question. I 100% intend on continuing this practice on Lemmy, assuming my niche community ever takes off.

My life is “Murphy’s Law: the Movie”. Every time I try to reassure myself by saying “well, at least it can’t possibly get any worse than this”, it gets worse. There’s no way that there isn’t some asshole running a simulation where they just fuck with me.

Please tell me that the S. in Sterling S. Sterling is short for Sterling.

My African Grey was definitely traumatized. He (understandably) developed some separation anxiety. From his perspective, he was alone for 14 hours, in the dark (because the power was out), then there was a big scary noise in the middle of the night and strangers kidnapped him.

Marty’s emotionally unaffected. I took both birds out in their carriers to a pet-friendly shop the other day (trying to teach them that carriers don’t always mean they’re going somewhere bad) and Marty said “Hi Marty” to everything.

Miss Echolalia is an excellent name for a parrot! What sounds or phrases are her favourite to repeat?

We never got around to it, no. We were preparing to do a trial of Fluoxetine (Prozac), but the compounding pharmacy said that they weren’t able to make a dose small enough to have room to titrate for his tiny little body. Our next plan was to try Clomipramine, but the whole wild fire thing happened. Marty lost his tail and has been absolutely exhausted while re-growing it. He hasn’t been exhibiting as much hormonal behaviour because he’s sleeping so often. Once he’s back to normal, we’ll consider trying Clomipramine.

So smol! What is their name?

A lot of the psittacine medical knowledge base is actually from poultry research. They’re surprisingly similar anatomically!

One big difference is that hens lay eggs every day, that still blows my mind. A parrot risks death if they lay more than twice a year because they can’t recover enough dietary calcium quickly enough.

I can now sleep peacefully at night knowing that there is a cockatiel named Sterling Sterling Sterling. I love it.

Human names for pets is super normal! My bird’s names are Marty and Theodore. Birds are also definitely smart enough to recognize their name. Yasha looks like a very sweet birdie. 😊

I've been doing my links like: [/c/cockatiel](https://lemmy.world/c/cockatiel) No idea if it works or not.

I use SD to make character portraits for TTRPGs online and I’ve had decent luck fixing images with Photoshop (Beta) generative fill. It’s good at some things, like replacing one eye so that it better matches the other. It’s okay at noses. It’s very bad at mouths. It’s good at removing backgrounds or replacing something with background. Extending images is 50-50 but it can be nice for getting a character centred in frame, or for filling in the top of their head if it was cut off. It’s also pretty good at blending two images- for example, I often have a good full body image with a really weird face; it makes it a lot easier to paste a different face on top and blend the edges.

I know this is a paid option for what you’re asking but hopefully it helps.

There's a community here for parrots and one for cockatiels specifically! I've added a link to Backyard Chickens to the sidebar of the parrots community. 🙂

Memmy’s been giving me issues with repeat comments today too.

25 years later and he's still finding new ways to manipulate you. My Grey is only 1 year old. Right now his favourite game is throwing toys near the dishwasher so he can go "get the toy", and while he's there, geez, look at that! The dishwasher kickplate I'm not supposed to chew on! Might as well chew it while I'm here...