Bella 7-18-18 by wes mcfaden, on Flickr
Bella is doing very well. She will have been our flock 3 years this coming December. As you can see from the photo her feathers are growing in (again) and she is still learning new things to say all the time.
Bella has been spending a lot more time with my wife mostly for scratches. This still makes my wife uncomfortable because she is afraid of getting bitten. I think the worst think that would happen is getting pooped on but she remains intimidated by the beak.:11:
She has been regurgitating recently. I have not seen this behavior since the first couple of weeks we had her. I am thinking we could be seeing the beginnings of puberty but I am not sure. If so it lets me gauge her age a little more closely than I have been able to. When I got her I was told she was 7 months old but the CAV I took her to did not agree.
The biggest problem I (still) have is that she gets so scared of anything new. She chewed through her favorite perch and I can’t put anything new in there without her freaking out. I can leave them next to her cage till the cows come home but she will not accept it inside the cage. I have tried mounting the perch so it’s on the outside of the cage and it’s still no dice.
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Bella is doing very well. She will have been our flock 3 years this coming December. As you can see from the photo her feathers are growing in (again) and she is still learning new things to say all the time.
Bella has been spending a lot more time with my wife mostly for scratches. This still makes my wife uncomfortable because she is afraid of getting bitten. I think the worst think that would happen is getting pooped on but she remains intimidated by the beak.:11:
She has been regurgitating recently. I have not seen this behavior since the first couple of weeks we had her. I am thinking we could be seeing the beginnings of puberty but I am not sure. If so it lets me gauge her age a little more closely than I have been able to. When I got her I was told she was 7 months old but the CAV I took her to did not agree.
The biggest problem I (still) have is that she gets so scared of anything new. She chewed through her favorite perch and I can’t put anything new in there without her freaking out. I can leave them next to her cage till the cows come home but she will not accept it inside the cage. I have tried mounting the perch so it’s on the outside of the cage and it’s still no dice.
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