New rainbow Lorikeet

Jimdc

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Getting baby B F A in 2 weeks
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Hi everyone I'm looking for some advice! I'm getting a parent raised Lorie it is a last years baby.looking for help on how to tame it and look after it . I only say it as I don't know what sex it will be and not getting the baby till this Thursday so no name as yet. I have a large cage all set up with lots of toys . I have Lorie food and have ordered bee pollen grains as have read this is good to use as a training treat. Thanks in advance Jim C
 

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Welcome Jim to the wonderful world of lorikeet insanity!! Looking forward to some baby photos and hearing what name you finally settle on :)

As far as "taming" goes, that will depend on how much your "parent raised" bird has been handled so far. Has he had much human interaction at all or has he been in an aviary setting since hatching? Whatever his history, this will be a MAJOR change in his young life and will depend very much on his prior experiences and may take quite some time.

My purple crowned lorikeet Lilly came to me at the age of almost 4 months old and had spent some time as an aviary bird so had reverted back to a semi-wild state despite being hand fed as a baby. I say “hand fed” rather than “hand raised” because I’m fairly sure the only interaction she had with her breeder was at feeding time, and I suspect this is quite common. When she first came home she was terrified of everything but especially of me! I spent 3 solid weeks, all day every day, sitting progressively closer to her, reading quietly to her and playing YouTube videos of her species on my phone which piqued her interest and enticed her to come a little closer. Finally one afternoon it was like a switch flicked on in her brain and she leapt onto my shoulder to inspect the bottlebrush flower I had picked for her and she has been my velcro-bird ever since!

Unfortunately living in Scotland you won't have easy access to our native Aussie eucalypt and grevillea flowers like Lilly and I do, but you can use chopped up bits of fruit as a reward. I was also using things like those tins of two-fruits in nectar you can get from the supermarket and a syringe full of the nectar as bribery with Lilly. You can also use those jars of infant food that are 100% pureed fruit, there's a fair bit of wastage with those as you can only keep them open and refrigerated for a few days but they're very handy to have around.

If you still have the other two birds you mention in your profile, hopefully at least one of them is hand tame and is able to provide an example to your lorikeet that you can be trusted and that you're not going to eat him! My cockatiel Fang was about the bestest big brother that little Lilly could have had and was instrumental in showing her the ropes of her new home and letting her know that the humans were not a threat. She of course now pushes him around quite mercilessly so that's gratitude for ya!

Anyway I look forward to more news about your baby when he/she arrives, and seeing some cute baby photos too. Life with a lorikeet around certainly is never dull!
 

Chicothesunconure

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Lories are the friendliest birds. Be sure to give it lots of love, they love attention, to play around and be crazy.
I would suggest keep the bird on your shoulder and walk around the house with it just so he/she can get used to you and the surroundings...even if you are just on your computer keep the lori on your shoulder.
 

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