Andy.
New member
Hi everyone. I recently got what was sold to me as a 17 week old female eclectus parrot. The breeder advertised her as tame and cuddly and hand raised. He told me he wouldn't be in the day I picked her up but his farther would be so he would put her in a carry box ready for me. I picked her up she looked healthy enough but on getting her home and letting her out of the box she was trying to bite me. I had to wrap a towel around her to safely put her in the cage she did not like it at all. Now every time I get my hands close to her she try's to bite. she is defiantly not tame and cuddly at all. I move slow around her and feed her sometimes through the cage bars to gain her trust. Yesterday I let her out and let her walk around the room and on top of her cage, I decided to see if she would let me get close to her so I put my hand out slowly and wham! she had my finger and it hurts quite a bit. What can I do to gain her trust without my hands looking like they went through a mincer and possibly getting broken fingers. I don't now know if he was lying when he sold her me about her age and I haven't looked at her leg ring. I suppose he could have even took her old one off and sold her with a new one. I rang him up and he said he hadn't handled her since he weaned her but that would have been a matter of weeks. Is there any way I could determine her age? I've noticed that since I started feeding her through the cage with treats she has been screeching at me so I stopped that today. she has learnt to wolf whistle and say hello since I got her. He also said she was a red sided eclectus.. Can anyone help?