kakariki

My pet Pickles (kakariki) has had yellowish toes and strange looking scales for about a month. I suspected it was mites at first and used scaly face and feet treatment according to the instructions. However, a week has passed and it hasn't changed at all... I'm starting to worry that he might...

I want to get another Kakariki but, i don’t know if mine is a male or female! Hope someone can help me in here

Hi! So I have 7 birds and 5 cages. My Indian ringneck is alone, I have two females conures together, a 5 weeks old lovebird, other 2 conures in other cage and a kakariki and a cockatiel together. Every single morning at 6 am my kakariki wakes up and starts yelling like crazy. After he’s been...

Hello, I'm here again for the second day in a row. It's been about 3 months since I was last here and I was wondering if anyone had any advise with bonding with a kakariki since they do not particularily enjoy scritches. Just a little bit of context: I got into researching birds about 10 months...

hi, it is as I said it is! I'm a new kakariki owner and I'm looking for advice. I have a male who is under a year, I made the mistake of buying him from a pet shop after I kind of fell in love but wasn't intending on adopting as I don't like pet shops (I was getting cuttlebone - I have Giant...

hi I'm wondering if our current kakariki is male or female. the lady at bought her from said she was a female. I've attached a photo of her beak. we want to add another kakariki but are worried the two might not get along. has anyone had issues with housing two? Thanks.

help forum friends! My Kakariki has stopped trimming his beak recently and its growing and growing, Im going to have to deal with it... option 1 have a avian vet trim it. option 2 I trim it. I don't like either of these options! Living in the boonies of southern Ontario its a trek for...

hello all. my name is Andrew and I have a 6year old male Kakariki. I was working at someones home almost 4 yrs ago and was captivated by this beautiful yellow bird. You could see he was a pretty smart cookie, then my co-worker noticed that the bird was listed on Craigslist... I talked to...

Hi, I'm Hannah and here are my birds - Puff (blue with yellow head), Peewee (white), Pixel (blue), Pippy (cockatiel) and Pikachu (kakariki). My birds are my whole world, they are extremely spoilt. They are only put in cages for bed, even Pixel who as you see had her wings clipped as a baby has...

So, I have a buttercup kakariki called Cheese. Right now I'm doing target training. He does it pretty good, however he doesn't bother to move. He will rotate his head, even stretch his head a bit but he will not move at all! Not even one step, he's just that lazy. I even change treats from...

It is weird considering I've never seen him doing it before, he usually steals it for a bit or two but recently he's been putting tiny bits of it in between his feather. It's like disguising his smell in it, I don't know man, but this is a first time for me. I'm hiding the sage from him, he's...

Hi all, I have had my kakariki for just over a year now, 13 month old male. I hand reared him and he is very tame and shown with many people he is comfortable with human interaction. This morning when going to let him out, i noticed some agreesive behaviour as he went to bite me and i opened...

Hello! I've got a kakariki and I'm curious if he is a male or a female.

Hey Everyone, Firstly I am very new to both owning a parrot and the parrotforums. I have had nothing but canaries for the last 10 years, and sadly lost my old girl to a tumour. I decided that I wanted to acquire a bird that would last a bit longer, therefore I could get more time with. I have...

So my Kakariki is now 3 and a half months old. She thinks she owns the place but she's young and learning. She's in this bite mode where she needs to check everything out with her beak, toys, clothes, ears, neck, hands, floor, whatever. She's maturing. I can still pick her up though although she...

TLDR: Male kak's girlfriend died. He cries for a mate. I can't bring one because history'd repeat, but his heart is breaking,and so is mine. What should I do? This will be a strong rant. First of all someone up there decided to take my pretty girl away,who loved the boy more than I could ever...

Can weaning ages vary? I'm 99% positive that NO TWO BIRDS are the same, and I'm getting some grief from people on a parrot facebook group about my new bird. I brought home my new kakariki last night. She will be 6 weeks old in 2 days. The breeder was raising her and weaning her for me and...

So I previously mentioned I had a baby girl kakariki on reserve from the breeder but the last group of babies didn't work out for me due to time constraints. But so it looks like this will be the bunch that I will, more likely than not, be getting a new baby from once weaned. The chicks are only...

Please don't judge immediately about the fact that I am asking this question so soon after Cleo. :23::19_indiff This has been a difficult week already. So let me explain: 1. Merlin has been crying so much that he has made more noise the past 2 days than the entirety that I owned him and Cleo...

Hey everyone sorry I've been absent the past week or so, I had the flu and just wasn't online much. But I am really excited right now. I have had Cleo, (my 2nd kakariki ever owned,) since The end of October. (My recently deceased boy was extremely hand tame since day 1.) However With Cleo, she...