I can't find the answer, so I'm just going to ask! (Dropping size?)

[Ginich]

OK, my experience has been a little different. Last year, I fostered 2 IRNs at different times. One 14 yr old female, Tinkerbell, and a 5 yr old male, Poppi. They were not noisey but Tinkerbell started contact calling with my tiels from the back bedroom in the early mornings. Poppi didn't do that and I covered all of them with no problem. They were messier than my tiels and neither of them ever pooped on me.

This year, I am fostering a 20 yr old Quaker and 20 yr old GCC. Lynda (lynjupiter) thinks that Shrek is definitely a male Quaker because he is so affectionate and is not nippy. I can do anything with him and today he learned to say "Step Up" which he sometime does when requested. He poops less often than the tiels but larger. Since I give them a lot of greens and fruit, there is more white than green. The GCC is also not messy except she has learned to shred and is having a ball shreding paper towels, cardboard rolls and any other kind of corregated stuff I find. At least she is not plucking or barbering herself anymore. Fiona is a little more vocal than Shrek and is usually the first awake in the am and calls out a few times. She does not carry on like Julie's bird, though. I keep them all covered until 8:30-9AM (it is never Spring in this house) and nobody squawks unless they hear me walking around. Perhaps because they are more mature, they don't make as much noise but screeching has not been a problem with either of them. Now my tiels...the boys like to sing opera and they all call to me when they want attention, to go out on the porch, etc. If I am on the phone, they will sometimes join in on the conversation but generally, I have gotten used to their talking to each other or the outside birds or serenading Ladybird and I don't notice it much anymore.