Update on Kiwi

This is a wonderful success story, Mark! I'm happy for you and your new flock member. She sounds like a treasure in every way!
 
This is a wonderful success story, Mark! I'm happy for you and your new flock member. She sounds like a treasure in every way!

I am taking ZERO credit for this. She came to me like this.

IT'S JUST WHO SHE IS!

YOU CAN ALWAYS TELL WHEN A BIRD HAS BEEN WELL LOVED...

It's my job to keep her this way, and not let anyone ruin her.
 
You're absolutely right! Isn't it a sweet experience to work with a parrot that hasn't been damaged, only loved and well cared for?
 
I really am happy for you and Kiwi. So nice that you can just enjoy her, instead of having to bring out your bag of rehab skills first!
 
You're absolutely right! Isn't it a sweet experience to work with a parrot that hasn't been damaged, only loved and well cared for?

Unfortuantely, most of my experience has involved having to undo the damage, although now half my flock has been raised from a young age, and was undamaged...
 
I really am happy for you and Kiwi. So nice that you can just enjoy her, instead of having to bring out your bag of rehab skills first!

The thing is, I can do all the advanced training with her, and I only have to show her something once or twice...

She is such a happy go lucky little bird! She just bounces up to you, and plays...

Out and about training backfired to this extent. Like all my other out and about birds, I start to leave the house, and that little foot comes up... she thinks she's always coming with.

IT'S DEFINITELY A NICE PROBLEM TO HAVE...
 
I'm glad to hear she's doing well. One of the things we used to do is take turns going to bed with my two kids for the first 10-15 minutes they laid in bed. She would just lay there with her head tucked under their neck. It sounds like she's found a more exciting home than she had with our busy schedule.

I could never get her to like water or a shower. Hopefully you teach her to be a bird in the water.
 
I'm glad to hear she's doing well. One of the things we used to do is take turns going to bed with my two kids for the first 10-15 minutes they laid in bed. She would just lay there with her head tucked under their neck. It sounds like she's found a more exciting home than she had with our busy schedule.

I could never get her to like water or a shower. Hopefully you teach her to be a bird in the water.

She gets weekly showers... whether she likes it or not.

She tends to put herself to bed about an hour earlier than the rest of the flock. She has a favorite corner perch, that she goes to on her own, and that's her "I'm tired" spot. I turn the lights off for her, and give her a good head scratch. (She nearly falls over getting her head scratched.) She really does tend to play herself into a state of exhaustion on the living room playstand...

She's definitely an "UNDER THE CHIN" bird! SHE SUCKS THAT UP NO MATTER WHO IS GIVING THAT TO HER... I've taken her out almost every day. She loves to be loved.

She and Tusk and Lila are becoming the three musketeers... They hang out together during the day. I've come home to find the three of them hanging out together more often than not.

As you know, I don't close cage doors around here, nor do I cover cages. She's doing just fine with that.
 
Was the same as my house. I never closed the door during the day or covered the cage at night. She rarely wandered off the playtop. I did close the door at night because I thought it might make her feel safer.
 
Was the same as my house. I never closed the door during the day or covered the cage at night. She rarely wandered off the playtop. I did close the door at night because I thought it might make her feel safer.

She wanders off the playtop here, I can tell you that for sure. She came looking for me at the dinner table the other night. And they play "musical cages" during the day... And she waddles over to the living room playstand, which is kind of her spot now. I put a little rope ladder on it, so she can get up there on her own, and come and go as she pleases during the day.

Someone's been using it, cuz there's dropped seed and bird poop to be cleaned up when I get home. I assume it's her, but it could be any of them, possibly even a "group waddle." Tusk and Lila tend to waddle around the bird room a lot. And she's been doing more and more with them, so it would logically follow...

She really is a love!
 
Confirmed it last night. Got home from work. Tusk is sitting inside Kiwi's cage. Lila is in Tusk's cage... Okay, figured the usual game of musical cages. Ordinarily, Kiwi is one of the first ones to greet me. Not today... so now I'm getting nervous. I check under cages, not there. Move from the little bird room, to the big bird room. Still no Kiwi... I start calling for her, no answer... Now I'm beginning to panic.
Check the coffee table playstand. There she is! "NOT NOW, I'M EATING!" (I just couldn't see her from where I was standing.)

I suspect she spends a large portion of her day on that coffee table playstand based on the progress on chewing some of the wood and shredder toys. It appears to be a favorite spot. (I'm glad someone likes it!)

Had them all out in the tree for about two hours last night as well, though Kiwi wasn't really interested in the tree, and spent most of that time pressed up against the side of my face. Sweepea ended up on my lap after about an hour as well, but the rest had fun...
 
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Kiwi sounds like an absolute DELIGHT, Mark!! Happy-go-lucky-snuggle-under-the-chin birdy. :D

And ya, I would have been totally panicked had I been in your shoes when you didn't immediately locate her. :11:
 
So Tusk and Lila have stopped eating the moldings? (I ask because they're no longer locked up while you're at work.)
 
Kiwi sounds like an absolute DELIGHT, Mark!! Happy-go-lucky-snuggle-under-the-chin birdy. :D

And ya, I would have been totally panicked had I been in your shoes when you didn't immediately locate her. :11:

Well, they've been wandering around a lot lately, so I figured as much... but yes, I was starting to panic because I looked over at that playstand, and couldn't see the front half of it, just the back half. I figured she would be there, and it appeared that she wasn't.

USUALLY SHE'S ONE OF THE MOST VOCAL. BUT THIS PARTICULAR DAY SHE WAS BUSY STUFFING HER FACE.

I think we can say she has officially settled in... "Oh, are you back?! Don't bother taking me to my favorite spot. Did it myself."

So far, every single person who has met Kiwi has been absolutely charmed by her... she is an amazing little bird.
 
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So Tusk and Lila have stopped eating the moldings? (I ask because they're no longer locked up while you're at work.)

Yeah. We cured them of that after about a three week battle.

There was blood (Mine!) involved...

Tusk nailed me BUT GOOD the other day. I was holding Tusk, but Kiwi was talking to me and interrupted what was supposed to be HIS time. Jealous bird issue. He doesn't take it out on Kiwi. He took it out on my thumb.
Kiwi, Lila and Tusk have been hanging out together. They appear to be buddy birds now. Not to the extent that Tusk and Lila are (Don't take one without the other.) But to the extent where they hang out together, and entertain each other.
 
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It's so great to hear that Kiwi is blending in with the flock so quickly! I still laugh at "musical cages"!
 
Yeah, well, my flock...

Today when I got home, I got the greeting from Kiwi, still in her cage, but wanting to be picked up and go to the playstand.

Lila was in Tusk's cage.

Tusk was in Sally's cage.

Sally was in Sweepea's cage.

Sweepea was on the big playstand.

The only one who hadn't wandered off was Maggie.

As long as they don't argue about it, I see no reason to interfere...
 
So last night we did our usual two hours in the tree time...

KIWI REFUSED TO GO IN THE TREE. WOULD NOT LEAVE ME... She spent the entire time perched on the back of my chair preening my hair.

The macaws didn't stay in the tree all that long either. I ended up with one on my lap, one on my arm, and Kiwi on the back of my chair for at least the last half hour or so.

SO HALF THE FLOCK IN THE TREE, THE OTHER HALF ON THEIR HUMAN PLAYSTAND...
 
Awww, come on Mark! Your killing me here!!! There has to be at least a shred of bad bird in Kiwi!!!

*As I kick myself!!
 
Mark, you're really making me want an amazon with these updates :3 congrats on little Kiwi!!
 

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