My wife and adopted a Goffin, and it has not been as smooth as we hoped LOL
So a little back story. My has wanted a goffin for a while now, and when the opportunity to adopt one came up she could not resist. We are not ignorant to there temperaments. My wife and I did a lot of research, watch the videos of horror, and fun. Plus we ready many topics here on Goffins.
So the back story of our Goffin. He is supposedly 5 years old. He was a breeding bird, and his mate died from heat stroke in SoCal.
Now to our issues. He is afraid of people. He doesn't scream or anything, but if will get up to furthest corner of his cage from wherever you are standing. We have been working with him for a little bit. We started with him sitting a good 5 feet from him. We have been able to get up to 3 feet from him, after that he leaves his perch and climbs the cage. This is the wall we have seem to hit. We will talk with him, be very relaxed, and he will sit on his perch and look at us. We can tell when he is done talking as he will turn around and play with his toys. (He has a couple toys that we change out daily..... He LOVES foraging toys). He also loves apple slices, which he WILL take from our fingers (very cautiously of course) We love this aspect, but know he can't have apple slices every day. The other issue is a strange one.... He won't drink water. Not from a bowl, not from a sippy bottle, not from a bird bath in his cage. He doesn't look dehydrated as his poop is moist. We do feed him lots of vegetables, and he loves legumes. We make sure the legumes are soaked in water for some time. He also loves his organic pellets. Another thing we started is we have a radio with easy listening playing in the room. I am not sure if this is helping or making it worse for us LOL
Any help is appreciated. He is a gorgeous bird, and we have the patience to work with him. We are in this for the long run, but would love to do this in a manner that is educational and not traumatic for the poor guy.
BTW my wife named him John Snow .... this may not be the best thing.
So a little back story. My has wanted a goffin for a while now, and when the opportunity to adopt one came up she could not resist. We are not ignorant to there temperaments. My wife and I did a lot of research, watch the videos of horror, and fun. Plus we ready many topics here on Goffins.
So the back story of our Goffin. He is supposedly 5 years old. He was a breeding bird, and his mate died from heat stroke in SoCal.
Now to our issues. He is afraid of people. He doesn't scream or anything, but if will get up to furthest corner of his cage from wherever you are standing. We have been working with him for a little bit. We started with him sitting a good 5 feet from him. We have been able to get up to 3 feet from him, after that he leaves his perch and climbs the cage. This is the wall we have seem to hit. We will talk with him, be very relaxed, and he will sit on his perch and look at us. We can tell when he is done talking as he will turn around and play with his toys. (He has a couple toys that we change out daily..... He LOVES foraging toys). He also loves apple slices, which he WILL take from our fingers (very cautiously of course) We love this aspect, but know he can't have apple slices every day. The other issue is a strange one.... He won't drink water. Not from a bowl, not from a sippy bottle, not from a bird bath in his cage. He doesn't look dehydrated as his poop is moist. We do feed him lots of vegetables, and he loves legumes. We make sure the legumes are soaked in water for some time. He also loves his organic pellets. Another thing we started is we have a radio with easy listening playing in the room. I am not sure if this is helping or making it worse for us LOL
Any help is appreciated. He is a gorgeous bird, and we have the patience to work with him. We are in this for the long run, but would love to do this in a manner that is educational and not traumatic for the poor guy.
BTW my wife named him John Snow .... this may not be the best thing.