mine rarely bathe

[henry0reilly]

Should I be concerned about that? BabyBird will stand in the water dish on top on Max's cage and get pretty damp maybe once a week. I've only ever seen Max do it once and he used the dish in his cage.

I tried putting out a larger pie dish half full of water but they weren't interested in that.

 

[Ira7]

Do you ever spray Max? My YNA loves it.

 

[saxguy64]

Any possibility they're sneaking in a bath when you're not there? My first "big bird" Cuckoo, a BFA, as it turned out, bathed almost every day in his water dish while we were at work. We didn't know for the longest time, as everything was dry by the time we got home. Otherwise, he would dive into the dish every time we ran the vacuum, without fail. Our nearest refuge, where my current two came from, has to sweep and mop the bird room, because vacuuming turns into a bathing free for all, and soaks the entire room.

 

[plumsmum2005]

Have you tried a good soaking using a misting spray perhaps when he's on a tree or stand and can extend his wings to take full advantage?

 

[henry0reilly]

maybe when we're not looking

His water is always pretty nasty and I always thought it was just food he was making soup with. Could be he is bathing.

 

[saxguy64]

Re: maybe when we're not looking

His water is always pretty nasty and I always thought it was just food he was making soup with. Could be he is bathing.

Hahaha! Could be either. Mine love to dump stuff in the water. I make it standard practice to wash and change the bowls at least twice a day, otherwise it's pretty nasty. My current two don't bathe in the dishes though. They take turns in the shower with me. Tucker, my Ekkie, throws temper tantrums if I try to shower without him, and Heaven forbid I take Baxter my YNA in. He's crazy jealous and, boy, does he let me know!

 

[SailBoat]

Kind of like kids, some love it and others, well not so much!

NOTE: Misting is a great tool as long as you do it correctly. First you need a plant misting bottle that creates a very fine mist!!! The goal is to create a falling mist above your Parrot, kind of like creating a falling mist, like rain but in a mist form.

It is important to remember: Never mist a Parrot directly in the face. This is commonly used by stupid humans as a punishment!

Far too many people will provide a heavy glass pie dish and make the major error of it just showing up. It is much better to introduce things over time, starting from a distance and working its way into their world. Add water only after the pie dish is accepted.

 

[texsize]

All my Amazons love water. My YNA likes to take showers with me.

My two RCA aka Green cheek Amazon's so far only take mist baths.
They have been scared of the shower in the bathroom and have not tried to hard with them.

Most of my showers I am required to take my CAG Bella. She would not easily forgive me taking a Red Butt Shower without her.

 

[wrench13]

I think some birds don't because they don't know how too (parrots often learn from seeing other parrots doing something), or they don't like the presentation of the water, and some, like my Salty, are species from an arid native range. Salty is a yellow shoulder Amazon and his species is from a very narrow section of Venezuela's coast line and 1 small island that are mostly desert scrub, lots of cactus'. He bathes on his own, in his water dish, maybe once every 2-3 weeks, so I try to give him a spray bottle bath anticipating that. If he is ready, he opens up, like a true Amazon, but if he is not ready, he just kinda sits there and just hunkers down and takes it.

Parrots take baths in many ways in the wild, besides in small pools of standing water, including rolling around in wet leaves. Same as like getting a parrot to eat new foods, its all in the presentation.

To divert this a bit, we had a family of starlings that used to take baths in an old charcoal barBcue that had rainwater and charcoal ashes in it, absolutely filthy water, but they loved it!

 

[henry0reilly]

re: misting

My wife (it was her idea to "rescue" these birds) uses the spray bottle I got to mist them as a punishment when the 'too is screaming but I just learned it's not the right kind. I'll get a plant misting bottle.

 

[AmyMyBlueFront]

I don't bathe my kids as much as I should My bad. My Amazon loves a good bath! In the summer I take him out to the deck on his X perch and use a misting bottle. He ends up with his arms stretched out,shaking his head and I can go thru two bottles worth of water. In cooler weather he showers with me,hangs upside down from a perch stick and repeats the above. BB the cockatiel thinks he is allergic to water and runs from the mister or teies to get out of the kitchen sink,since he is super bonded to me he now goes in the shower with me,even though he hates it he allows me to open his arms and let me wash his belly. I make sure he gets a good soaking then wrap him in a towel and dry him off..he tolerates it lol.



Jim

 

[Inger]

Re: misting

My wife (it was her idea to "rescue" these birds) uses the spray bottle I got to mist them as a punishment when the 'too is screaming but I just learned it's not the right kind. I'll get a plant misting bottle.

And maybe try to get your wife to try another tactic? Squirting them isn’t really nice and you’ve probably noticed also has no long-term effects. There are threads here on working with screamers.


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[Inger]

Bumble prefers to bathe in the sink. I hold her and she barely dips her head in the running tap water and then I grab the mister bottle and she usually wants a good soaking. She flies up to my head when she’s done.

I’ve only seen her bathe in her water dish once. I took her on vacation with me and because of a miscalculation of the size of her smaller cage (I thought it would fit in my suitcase folded up), wound up having to order one from Amazon to arrive just before we did. It was horribly small and if it had been anything other than for a couple of weeks, I would never have put any bird in it. It had tiny little water dishes - about 1” square. Even little Bumble couldn’t fit in those but she sure did try! What a laugh we had over that!


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[Scott]

Kind of like kids, some love it and others, well not so much!

NOTE: Misting is a great tool as long as you do it correctly. First you need a plant misting bottle that creates a very fine mist!!! The goal is to create a falling mist above your Parrot, kind of like creating a falling mist, like rain but in a mist form.

It is important to remember: Never mist a Parrot directly in the face. This is commonly used by stupid humans as a punishment!

Far too many people will provide a heavy glass pie dish and make the major error of it just showing up. It is much better to introduce things over time, starting from a distance and working its way into their world. Add water only after the pie dish is accepted.

Plant misting bottles an excellent technique! I use clean, unused "Dollar Store" bottles with adjustable nozzle. Begin with the finest of mist as Sailboat describes, work your way up to a more fluid spray as desired and accepted.