Jumpingtadpoles
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- Oct 22, 2013
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- Parrots
- We are looking for a bird for our family. It's very much like we are pregnant and waiting for the day the new addition comes to the family!
So about a month ago I was asking about what to expect with adding to my flock of one.
I currently had Rico. Rico and I are very well bonded. He is playful, comical, sweet, and a completely love bug. I take him everywhere I can. He came to our home in February, from a family that didn't have time to spend with him anymore. He was screaming, becoming aggressive with them, and was plucking under his wing.
He does none of that here.
His diet had an overhaul coming to our house. No more Doritos. Only the best pellets, of all kinds. But his favourite has grown to be zupreem fruity (of course, mmmmmmm sugar)
He fits the blue and gold standards to a T. Making the choice of bringing a macaw to our home with no real large parrot experience was a big one, and I am infinitely glad we did.
But the day came that I was wondering when to add to to our flock. Is there a good, or a bad time?
So I asked several sources. Some said wait. Said let the bond grow more. Others said, like children, they do better when they are new to things. Not grown to be an only bird.
And yet another source said "I have the perfect bird for you"
So we learned of this girl. A scarlet.
Dun dun dun!
I asked of them. I heard such bad things about them. "They are nippy. They are mean. They are the only macaws I won't handle"
But she needed someone.
Honesty we decided at one point we were not going to adopt her. Then I asked three people I look up to the most in this land of macaws.
They all said if anyone needed to be adopted, this was her.
She has been neglected pretty bad in the last few years of her life. It wasn't that she wasn't loved. It was that she was watching them move on in their lives, without her being involved. It's like making a child sit on the couch while you do everything they love, with out them.
So I said to hell with it, and spent an entire day driving, and ona ferry to bring her back.
I was scared of her. Unlike Rico. I'm not scared of Rico.
But she has proven to be so sweet.
She used to be fully feathered. But now she is plucked her whole torso in her last home.
She is reserved. But she lets me pet her beak.
She has stepped up twice. Never when I've asked, but that is fine. She's not ready.
She is learning to communicate with her macaw grunts. She doesn't attempt much at human speech, but I've been noticing her making more human like noises in the last few days. I don't expect her to talk like Rico, but Pico does say "hello, come over here," and her name.
So Rico and Pico. Those are our babies
I will have to go upload to photoshop, it's not accepting my pictures off my tablet. Lol
I currently had Rico. Rico and I are very well bonded. He is playful, comical, sweet, and a completely love bug. I take him everywhere I can. He came to our home in February, from a family that didn't have time to spend with him anymore. He was screaming, becoming aggressive with them, and was plucking under his wing.
He does none of that here.
His diet had an overhaul coming to our house. No more Doritos. Only the best pellets, of all kinds. But his favourite has grown to be zupreem fruity (of course, mmmmmmm sugar)
He fits the blue and gold standards to a T. Making the choice of bringing a macaw to our home with no real large parrot experience was a big one, and I am infinitely glad we did.
But the day came that I was wondering when to add to to our flock. Is there a good, or a bad time?
So I asked several sources. Some said wait. Said let the bond grow more. Others said, like children, they do better when they are new to things. Not grown to be an only bird.
And yet another source said "I have the perfect bird for you"
So we learned of this girl. A scarlet.
Dun dun dun!
I asked of them. I heard such bad things about them. "They are nippy. They are mean. They are the only macaws I won't handle"
But she needed someone.
Honesty we decided at one point we were not going to adopt her. Then I asked three people I look up to the most in this land of macaws.
They all said if anyone needed to be adopted, this was her.
She has been neglected pretty bad in the last few years of her life. It wasn't that she wasn't loved. It was that she was watching them move on in their lives, without her being involved. It's like making a child sit on the couch while you do everything they love, with out them.
So I said to hell with it, and spent an entire day driving, and ona ferry to bring her back.
I was scared of her. Unlike Rico. I'm not scared of Rico.
But she has proven to be so sweet.
She used to be fully feathered. But now she is plucked her whole torso in her last home.
She is reserved. But she lets me pet her beak.
She has stepped up twice. Never when I've asked, but that is fine. She's not ready.
She is learning to communicate with her macaw grunts. She doesn't attempt much at human speech, but I've been noticing her making more human like noises in the last few days. I don't expect her to talk like Rico, but Pico does say "hello, come over here," and her name.
So Rico and Pico. Those are our babies
I will have to go upload to photoshop, it's not accepting my pictures off my tablet. Lol
