Can a parrot be "hand fed tame" if I start hand feeding formula at weaning stage?

[weco]

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Lol, so yes, Josh gets a say in the names! And the dog is name Ranger and the cat is named Whiskey Lima
Fly free Scout, IRN

Never paid attention to your flock names, but happened to today...different generation in uniform, missed your first 10, but looked harder when I noticed Chantilly & Shiloh & especially the aircraft platforms...missed the Marie too, but Angel was both an operational area (Angel's Wing) in Viet Nam and a reference to nurses back then.....

 

[Betrisher]

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Wow! Coming in late on this thread, but Mr Pickles you sure do have an odd way of asking for help. How to win friends and influence people - NOT!

Either you want to raise healthy, pet-ready chicks or you don't. The people who have attempted to help you are experienced breeders who know the pitfalls and what doesn't work with babies. Why you would choose to chuck a tanty when told something you don't want to hear escapes me, but if you want good advice you'd do well to stop abusing members and listen to their wisdom. Or not. Your choice. Or, maybe, mine: please consider this a polite warning to cease being disrepectful.

 

[SilverSage]

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Lol, so yes, Josh gets a say in the names! And the dog is name Ranger and the cat is named Whiskey Lima
Fly free Scout, IRN

Never paid attention to your flock names, but happened to today...different generation in uniform, missed your first 10, but looked harder when I noticed Chantilly & Shiloh & especially the aircraft platforms...missed the Marie too, but Angel was both an operational area (Angel's Wing) in Viet Nam and a reference to nurses back then.....

Wow! Well now we have something military to associate her with! Thanks! I showed my husband your original comment and his response was a big smile and "Good wifey!" lol. Got any knowledge on a correlation for Lacey? I'm thinking "Boot laces"

Also, usually I wouldnt want to be carrying on a totally different conversation in someone's thread but this one turned ugly so I dont mind using it for something silly

 

[Betrisher]

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LOLOL! I picked up on the helicopter cockatiels! My husband is a tragic helicopter enthusiast and I have been drilled, yes, drilled in their names and functions. I LOVE your birds' names, BTW. I like the idea of picking a theme and sticking to it: well done!

 

[Flboy]

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Poster Roast!
In defense of CharlieP's question, not his lash back, there is all kinds of misinformation presented as fact. Sugar or salt on a tail tames a wild bird and such. Since I have been around birds for 7 years now, I am fully aware of how little I know. Remember Teflondon's post showing his cage- first reaction, boil him in oil! Then we realized he lived in Nigeria, and oh wow, how creative!

FYI, I did try the salt/tail thing, several times-didn't work!

 

[Betrisher]

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What? What? You mean the salt thing doesn't work?

I've been chasing sparrows for fifty-odd years with a salt shaker and... and... now you tell me I was never going to catch one?

O! I am bereft! I guess this means I'll just have to get the biggest cannon-net in the land and learn how to fire it. All that time... all that salt... not a sparrow... not a single little sparrow... sigh...

 

[SilverSage]

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Lol trish, I used the box propped up on a stick method as a kid: turn a box upside down and prop it up on a stick, tie a string to the stick and go hide the the bushes. The plan is to yank on the string thus causing the box to drop down and catch the sparrow. Never worked for me either lol.

 

[Betrisher]

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Oh, I do hate to disagree, but I have caught many pigeons with the old box-on-a-stick trick! LOL! Actually, I've even caught a horse with a variant of that trick. It all started when I first taught myself to crochet.

See, I had only learned one stitch: the chain stitch. Waiting for the next issue of 'The Womens' Weekly' to come out wiht instructions for a new stitch, I just kept on chaining away and made a piece of bottle green string about a hundred feet long. During the same period, a beeoootiful red chequer racing *male pigeon came to rest on our roof. He was starving, so I put out a bit of food for him. After a day or two, I began thinking of ways and means of catching him. Dad suggested the old box-on-a-stick and so I tried that. Mr Pigeon came down from the roof, marched straight up to the food, I pulled on my sterling bottle green chain crochet string and *<<BOOM>>* he was mine!

Having done that once, I and my associates just kept doing it. Whenever a hungry pigeon looked interested in a handful of birdseed placed on our shed roof, out would come the box-on-a-stick and *<<BOOM>>* our phloque increased by one. This worked really well and improved our bloodlines no end.

Then, one day a bloke came knocking at our door and asked if I'd been trapping racing pigeons. I went all colours of the rainbow and said 'Yes'. With that, he presented my Dad with a bill for all his missing birds! There was a bit of a loud argument between the bloke and my Dad (who was larger than the bloke, thank Heaven) and some money did change hands, but it wasn't anywhere near as much as the bloke wanted. After he'd left, I received an extremely stern tongue-lashing from my father about the evils of stealing Other People's Pigeons and told never to do it again.

These days, I use an old cocky cage, which is lighter and easier to operate. Of course, I no longer keep the birds I catch, having learned my lesson on that far-off day: now, I'll search for an owner and make sure my 'victims' go home. Still, it's useful to know how to snare a bird if you have to.

 

[SilverSage]

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lol! That is fantastic! I used to get most of my wild birds from the ground. We had a local park with a lot of fir trees which are great for black bird and robin nests, and even a few mourning doves here and there. The sad thing was that the grass was cut every three days, and so were any baby birds unfortunate enough to be on the ground! So the day before the mowing, I would scour the ground for birds in the evening, get any I found, keep them for a day, and return them (to the actual nest if I could find it, which I sometimes could) and keep an eye on them until they fledged and were strong enough to evade lawn mowers. My dad got upset,her was SURE we were going to get west nile virus. I explained to him that if a bird had west nile we were safer keeping it AWAY from the park where we played and AWAY from mosquitoes, but I dont think he ever truly understood my reasoning.

 

[Sunset_Chaser]

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I wanted a rabbit really bad when I was younger so decided to "catch" one by taking a bushel and flipping it upside down, tying a piece of twine to 1 handle, propping a stick under the other handle and wrapping the twine around the stick and then tying it to the handle in back again. I placed a carrot or 2 in the middle ( so when the unsuspecting bunny came hopping along he'd go in there to eat the carrots, trip the stick and BOOM! I'd have my sweet cuddly little rabbit

Trust me, this ALL worked IN THEORY! I must've been off in lala land or something

It had a happy ending though, when I was 10 my grandparents gave me one!

We rescued our fair share of sparrows and pigeons too..........

Reading Trish and Dani's posts made me feel better, lol I wasn't the only crazy kid................

 

[SilverSage]

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Melissa, I wanted a bunny as well, we ended up raising several due to lawn mower accidents and a not very smart mamma bunny putting her babies in the greenhouse where I worked. I saved them just before the manager drowned them in a bucket!

 

[Birdman666]

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OMG! It took me way to long to understand the "under the bridge" comment.

I need a nap!!!!

Now that's funny! Time for a Starbucks run, eh?!

 

[Birdman666]

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I must be missing something.... is there really a big difference between hand feeding a baby that's a few days old and a baby that's a few weeks old? As long as you're not force feeding them formula after they decide to wean?

But I've read they're fed combination of formula and weaning foods even after they've past the stages of being completely hand fed. Didn't I adequately establish in the thread?

I guess my initial reaction to the way this is phrased is I wasn't aware that Dr. Sheldon Cooper kept parrots... I thought his thing was kittens...

But yes, that is correct, when weaning I generally feed warm oatmeal on a bent spoon, in addition to formula.

 

[Birdman666]

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Will there be any consequences to the parents' or the chicks' psyche? (Like certain rule of chicks being always attached to their clutch or parents if they were parent fed until weaning stage.) Will their cognitive abilities be advanced to a point that they will recognize the difference between their own kind and humans, and refuse to eat hand feeding formula?

The consequences to the chicks' psyche tends to be force weaning them... Abundance weaning is a critical factor in a developing chick. Don't force wean!!!

Chicks refuse to eat hand feeding formula, generally because it is given to them at the incorrect temperature. Too hot, it burns their crop, and can kill them. Too cold, they spit it out. Absent parents have nothing to do with it. A hungry chick will eat if you do it right.

Cognitive abilities grow when the bird is kept in an environment where it receives stimulation, and interaction, whether that is other birds, or people, or activities, or some combination of all of the above. Who weans the bird has nothing to do with that. That is environmental.

 

[Birdman666]

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Your continued questions have me pondering bridges and what maybe living under them.

She's quick!

I'm late to the party. I usually don't get involved in hand feeding, but I have done it. I figured I'd throw my two cents in anyway, even though I, too, ponder what may be living beneath the bridge...

 

[labell]

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Your continued questions have me pondering bridges and what maybe living under them.

She's quick!

I'm late to the party. I usually don't get involved in hand feeding, but I have done it. I figured I'd throw my two cents in anyway, even though I, too, ponder what may be living beneath the bridge...

My husband always says I have an extra talent at being able to read people fast and accurately. It is one of the things that made me a better social worker when you can cut through the crap and get to the truth faster.

I called out "birdsforever" as a troll way before anyone else did.:54: Call me the dragon under the bridge, I smell TROLLS! There is that great sense of smell again!

 

[Betrisher]

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Snif! Me, on the other hand, I have no sense of smell to speak of. The few things I can smell are dog fart, dead lizard and, occasionally, burning toast. I cannot smell my roses or my beautiful violets collection or even strong perfume. Sigh. Why is it I can only smell nasty things? Seems unfair...

I took my mouse colony to the vet's once and was commenting that I couldn't smell them (mice are famously stinky). I was SO happy when the vet agreed that he had lost his sense of smell from too much formalin over the years and also couldn't smell my mice. I have a special bond with our vet.

 

[Anansi]

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Snif! Me, on the other hand, I have no sense of smell to speak of. The few things I can smell are dog fart, dead lizard and, occasionally, burning toast. I cannot smell my roses or my beautiful violets collection or even strong perfume. Sigh. Why is it I can only smell nasty things? Seems unfair...

I took my mouse colony to the vet's once and was commenting that I couldn't smell them (mice are famously stinky). I was SO happy when the vet agreed that he had lost his sense of smell from too much formalin over the years and also couldn't smell my mice. I have a special bond with our vet.

Hahahaha! Ah Trish, you make me laugh.

I take it then the famously flatulent Roxy is still pushing the boundaries of toxicity?

 

[SilverSage]

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I can smell with my nose, but when it comes to trolls I am famously gullible lol.

 

[Flboy]

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I know I shouldnt, but..