We’d very much appreciate it if you would support us by voting for our son Kyler who we recently entered into the Next Online modelling competition, the competition started at the begining of November so there’s some catching up to do, the competition closes at the end of November.

For Kyler (our son) to get to the Next stage (pardon the pun) he needs to be in the top 100 most voted, which is where you come in.

All you need to do is click the image below then vote on the next page easy as that.

Many thanks,
Paula & Rick Duncan (AGPC)

But this is no ordinary member of staff as Boyz II Men Barbers on Raikes Close, Hood Manor, had an African Grey parrot join their ranks earlier this year.

And to help raise money for St Rocco’s Hospice they asked customers to donate £1 and put forward a suggestion for his name.

Last week after raising £1,000 the draw was made and the winner was Rocco.

Owner Darran Coulburn said: “Every time people come in they have always asked me have we named that bird yet. Rocco has become a part of the furniture now. Everyone gets intrigued, most people have not seen an African Grey.”

It appears Rocco is already fond of his name.

“He has already come out and said Rocco and he says good morning, hello and come here,” added Darran.

No need to get in a flap about the house being fouled – just slip a nappy on the bird to stop any danger of carpets, furniture and owners being splattered.

The nappies are fixed with Velcro around the bird’s body and do not affect flight – which means it can be freed from its cage or let loose from its perch to cruise round a home that will always look spotless.

The nappies cost £10, with disposable linings £2 for 20.

The linings need changing about every five hours.

A spokesman for US maker Jungle Wear said: ‘They have been carefully designed with comfort in mind.’

Great idea or just plain crazy i know what i think!!

Without boring everyone with the techincalities of things it’s quite simple, we changed the software we use to blog with and along with that change came a change of look too, I hope you like it!!

Why did we change I hear you say? In a nutshell the last bit of software we were using had good reviews which is why we went with it but it became apparent after a month of using it that it just wasn’t doing the job we wanted it to do properly, so we’ve switched to the most popular blogging platform (WordPress) as it’s the same thing I use at work and it’s pretty good.

So there you have it the reason we have been so quiet recently is because I had to install the new software and I manually added all the posts from the old software (believe me that was a big job).

Anyway as I say I hope you like the new blog any comments you have or suggestions please feel free to use the comments section below or if you feel really brave send me an email on:

admin@african-grey-parrots.co.uk.