Ive been looking at these birds for a while, and as far as size is concerned they are very similar to Codex (BCC). So my question is, does anyone have any experience with cherry headed or mitred conures? and do you think that it would be a good addition?
Cherry headed conure question
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FutureDVM
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I don't have much experience with them, but I've always thought they were beautiful birds. There are a few at the recue where I volunteer. I think they are pretty similar to blue crowns, but I'm not 100% sure.
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Well they are very noisy! But you already have a blue crown so I'm sure your used to it. I don't have any personal experience really except that I have met a few and they seem to be very energetic. You have a blue crown, I'm mean really how different can they be. I'd say just go onto YouTube and type in screaming cherry headed conure, and turn your volume up. That's what you will here in the morning and at night.
Again, I don't own one so I can't really be a big help, just go to YouTube and listen to them and see if you can handle it. Then just go meet some and see if you like them or they like you.
Again, I don't own one so I can't really be a big help, just go to YouTube and listen to them and see if you can handle it. Then just go meet some and see if you like them or they like you.
bumblebec
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That documentary was lovely, I really liked it.
I've heard Cherry Headed Conures can be a bit fiery, but also loving, playful and friendly.
Annageckos
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I worked at a pet store years ago that had a cherry head conure. I don't remember if she was loud, but I do remember she bit everyone. Well everyone but me. She learned very quickly that if she bit me I would put her back into her cage. It only took a couple times to teach her. Though she still bit others, but they wouldn't work with her at all. I really liked her, she was very friendly after the biting stopped.
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I have heard they are very playful, affectionate, and good talkers, but can be nippy. i have never met or owned one so i cant say much, just going by research. then again, there is always the one exception that seems to be perfect
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Parent's have, I baby sit a blue crown conure.
My husband and I adopted a rescue blue and gold macaw.
I grew up with a mitred conure. We got her when I was 14 and had her for 28 years. While I have seen some videos with very good talking mitreds, she never said that much, but I think she understood everything we said.
We named her Pedro, as we didn't know if she was a boy or girl. After 12 years she bore a hole in the bathroom cupboard and layed three eggs. After that the bathroom was hers, and she was defensive over it. I think she was stimulated into laying eggs because my mother hung her soft, fluffy bathroom robe on the door and let the parrot play in it.
We let her have the run of the house, and she slept on the bathroom shower curtain rod each night.
She loved to cuddle and wasn't into toys that much. We were her toys. She did have a tennis ball that she could pick up the fuzz and throw across a room. She insisted that my dad kept his hand on her back each night when he watched television. When she started getting sleepy he would tell her to go to "cluck, cluck corner" and she would fly off of the couch, and walk to the bathroom making the cutest clucky sounds all the way there.
She was very nippy and liked to chase people if she could get away with it. She would get angry if anyone sat in places that they normally didn't sit in, and each Christmas when the tree was up. I stopped holding her against my face or letting her perch on me when she did talk cause she would get so excited she would bite and draw blood. If you made funny noises that she enjoyed she would also get overly excited. She didn't mean it, she just had that kind of personality. A very bossy, but loving bird.
She would behave herself if you had spaghetti or fried eggs.
She slowed down as she got older, but always would be willing to play with you and cuddle.
She could fly anywhere, but preferred to walk. Everything was exciting for her.. open a drawer.. ooo stretched neck, eyes going, even at 28, we think she may have been about 29 or 30 when she passed away. I think she had a stroke the day before because she was walking a little oddly and died that night.
She was a very hardy gal and strong. She could pick up an entire coffee cup filled with coffee and throw it far. (She hated coffee) She was wild caught and fed on seeds, but the majority of her diet was everything from our plates. It was years ago, and we knew nothing about parrots. Throughout her life she had her feet accidently slammed in a door (perching on the top), ate an entire chocolate pudding pop and got a tummy ache; the vet thought she had arthritis when she started to pluck her feathers a little at 20 years old. We gave her medicine to her at first in jelly until she figured that out and wouldn't eat it. Later, we kept it on the table in a little juice cup for her next to her favorite fruit, pear. In the mornings she always looked a little stiff and would go immediately to that juice drink. I think she knew it helped. I also think while the feather plucking may have started with being in a little pain when she reached around to preen, it continued because my mother got very sick and couldn't allow Pedro to pearch on her feet each day, preen her hair or help her with the housework anymore. While being taken out of the wild, dealing with me going away to college, laying a clutch of eggs didn't do it, I think by the time she was in her early and mid twenties my mother being sick was just too much of a negative change for her to deal with.
She was an awesome friend, and there will never be another bird like her.
We named her Pedro, as we didn't know if she was a boy or girl. After 12 years she bore a hole in the bathroom cupboard and layed three eggs. After that the bathroom was hers, and she was defensive over it. I think she was stimulated into laying eggs because my mother hung her soft, fluffy bathroom robe on the door and let the parrot play in it.
We let her have the run of the house, and she slept on the bathroom shower curtain rod each night.
She loved to cuddle and wasn't into toys that much. We were her toys. She did have a tennis ball that she could pick up the fuzz and throw across a room. She insisted that my dad kept his hand on her back each night when he watched television. When she started getting sleepy he would tell her to go to "cluck, cluck corner" and she would fly off of the couch, and walk to the bathroom making the cutest clucky sounds all the way there.
She was very nippy and liked to chase people if she could get away with it. She would get angry if anyone sat in places that they normally didn't sit in, and each Christmas when the tree was up. I stopped holding her against my face or letting her perch on me when she did talk cause she would get so excited she would bite and draw blood. If you made funny noises that she enjoyed she would also get overly excited. She didn't mean it, she just had that kind of personality. A very bossy, but loving bird.
She would behave herself if you had spaghetti or fried eggs.
She slowed down as she got older, but always would be willing to play with you and cuddle.
She could fly anywhere, but preferred to walk. Everything was exciting for her.. open a drawer.. ooo stretched neck, eyes going, even at 28, we think she may have been about 29 or 30 when she passed away. I think she had a stroke the day before because she was walking a little oddly and died that night.
She was a very hardy gal and strong. She could pick up an entire coffee cup filled with coffee and throw it far. (She hated coffee) She was wild caught and fed on seeds, but the majority of her diet was everything from our plates. It was years ago, and we knew nothing about parrots. Throughout her life she had her feet accidently slammed in a door (perching on the top), ate an entire chocolate pudding pop and got a tummy ache; the vet thought she had arthritis when she started to pluck her feathers a little at 20 years old. We gave her medicine to her at first in jelly until she figured that out and wouldn't eat it. Later, we kept it on the table in a little juice cup for her next to her favorite fruit, pear. In the mornings she always looked a little stiff and would go immediately to that juice drink. I think she knew it helped. I also think while the feather plucking may have started with being in a little pain when she reached around to preen, it continued because my mother got very sick and couldn't allow Pedro to pearch on her feet each day, preen her hair or help her with the housework anymore. While being taken out of the wild, dealing with me going away to college, laying a clutch of eggs didn't do it, I think by the time she was in her early and mid twenties my mother being sick was just too much of a negative change for her to deal with.
She was an awesome friend, and there will never be another bird like her.
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annemarie
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Good addition to what for whom? Yes very similar to BCC but not so many talkers with CHC. I've heard more schreecching less talking with the CHC vs. BCC. just my expereiences.
annemarie
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Yes, its mostly bark and not as much bite when they realize it won't stop you. They learn real quick.
annemarie
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That group is all CHC, there was only one Mitred that showed up and one BCC.
annemarie
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That documentary was lovely, I really liked it.
I've heard Cherry Headed Conures can be a bit fiery, but also loving, playful and friendly.
yes that is true, they are boundary testers! A big bird in a medium body. Sassy and sweet, quite playful but throw a tiny temper tantrum when they don't get their way! ha ha lol
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