New Conure Love

[jagrooten5]

Hello everyone! My name is Jocelynn and this is my bird Lily.

She is about 5 years old and I adopted her from a guy in my neighborhood. When I got her she was very skittish and mean as you can expect from a creature who has been uprooted and forced to live with strangers but she has gotten nicer as the days have gone by (ive had her for about a week)
I still cant get her to step up onto my finger from her cage but she will step up onto my shoulder and my finger if she is away from her cage.
I have switched her to fresh fruits and zupreem from her previous diet of seeds and she has already started growing new feathers!
I have been training her to be my friend by associating my presence with treats and tonight when I was trying to get her to step up onto my finger, instead of biting me like usual, she turned her head upside down and set it on my finger like she wanted to be pet my heart melted a little.
So far things have been great! She has been a little noisy and I know that will take a long time to train her out of but other than that just peachy!
If any of you bird lovers have any advice feel free to share!

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[Flboy]

Beautiful baby! Welcome! You are making great progress too!

 

[snowflake311]

Only reason I dont have a sun or jenday is because they are loud. They are great birds i just love them.

Sounds like you are doing things right just keep it up. With a bit more time you will have a bff for life. So excitinga

 

[jagrooten5]

Haha she is so loud! Buy I can tell she is screaming for attention and I really think I can train her out of it by only rewarding her when she is quiet.

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[jagrooten5]

I've had some success with treating her for being quiet. When I am walking to her cage and she screams I turn around and go back until she is quiet! I won't go give her any treats until she allows me to walk to her cage without her screaming.

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[wrench13]

Welcome and be welcomed.. That is a beautiful Sunny. Sounds like your training is progressing, that's the important thing. That and BE CONSISTENT in your training.

 

[Rival_of_the_Rickeybird]

Welcome, congratulations. If anybody wants to feel better about their birds' noise, I will volunteer my wife to Skype along with the Patagonian Fire Engine! Very pretty little girl you have there.

 

[shellaves]

Birds love baths and/or showers!


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[jagrooten5]

Thank you for the advice and I am trying to be as consistent as possible! But she's a smart one and she tries to trick me
Lily lives baths in her water dish! She doesn't want to bathe in any designated bird bath dish but she'll have a nice soak in her water dish
Thank you for your welcome and advice!

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[Dorene]

She's beautiful!

 

[GaleriaGila]

Oh, what a beauty!
Hey, what's loudness when there's love in the air?

I have to tell myself that, of course! But I BELIEVE it!

 

[jenphilly]

She is a beautiful Jenday!! I love the conures, I give them full credit for converting me to being a bird lover

Jendays and Suns get bad raps as being loud and screamers, but reality, with all the experience thru the shelter, they are no more screamers then most any other bird - they are taught to be that way.

You have a great attitude towards working with her and earning her friendship and trust One thing you can do to help with the screaming for attention or when she wants to come out is to teach her a noise or such to make and you respond everytime with a treat or if in cage, she comes out. I taught a screaming cockatoo to say hello or make kissing sound for attention. It can work!! I work with the conures at the shelter (Jeanne and John, the shelter owners are the macaw wranglers, I am a conure person). you can also teach her to ring a toy with a bell (be sure its a safe bell), anything other then screaming. But your first step is just positive interaction and earning her trust and friendship. Sounds like she is really a sweet bird, just needs to adjust, we tell adopters to give a bird at least 3 months to settle in and feel confident in their new home and place in their flock before you may see the true personality. So keep heart, some of what you may be seeing is just defensive and being angry that she was uprooted, even if she was unhappy in her previous home.

Lots of just hanging out. If you have a playstand, put it close to where you sit at night for TV or when you are working on the laptop. Also think about bringing her to the dinner table, all birds eat with their flock. Parrots love sharing a meal with their human flock too and its a wonderful bonding activity.

Best of luck and big hugs for giving an adult bird a chance at a loving lifetime home

 

[jagrooten5]

Thank you! She is quite a looker! And I think she knows it too
She is quiet when she is out of her cage and I am in the room but if she is in her cage or I step out she will get loud to try to get me back.
Her cage is right beside our couch so when I open her door she sits on her cage and eats and tinkers and plays and she is always close to us when we are home. I built her a simple perch but it's kind of boring and she prefers just to hang out on her cage. It seems to be her safe place and I think that's okay.

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[CherylCali]

I loooove Jendays...I love all conures really. Big parrots, small bodies. She's beautiful, it sounds like you have already done some research and are utilizing it well. She looks great, vibrant feathers.

CherylCali