These are really to teach me how to care for these sorts of birds before i move up to what i call a proper parrot ie an african grey ,an amazon,maxmillion,cockatoo etc. I think i will go african grey/amazon when i do eventualy get one.
regardless what bird u get and it's size, if u do get another one, get one straight from a breeder rather than a shop and straight after it has been fully weaned (usually about 3 months old) ....i don't know where u got the ones u have now from but from what i'm picking up, i don't think they were straight from a breeder. Birds that won't have any human contact is usually due to being stuck in their cage all the time or not treated veer well...although i'm not saying this is the case with urs, but it's usually something like this.
The reason why i say this is because, when they are fully weaned (can feed them selfs) they haven't been no where else that someone else has owned, who has left them in the cage all the time without interacting with other people. The breeder would of handle the bird ever day and more then likely interacted with other members of their family. So u know this bird is used to human contact and will not be frightened of anyone....it's when u get them from someone else or pet shops u never know their history. If u do get an african grey/macaw etc.... alway make sure the ring on it's foot is sealed and not open. The ring identiy tells u the breeders reg number, the year the bird was born, the size of the ring put on and the birds own reg number.
This ring can only be put onto a birds foot up until the bird is about 2 weeks old, after that it won't fit.....if the ring isn't sealed as it should be and has a split in it, this ring could of been put on at any time so u will never really no the true identiy of this bird. So many birds of this type have been imported and are wild caught. just one last thing, get a few books on the bird u do decide to get, there are so much u need to know about the do's and don'ts about these birds the little tips will help u so much u'll be amazed...lol
Just one thing to remember though, their cage is their terrority, hollie is bonded to my fella and he was just playing around with the hanging toys in her cage and she went for him so fast he didn't have time to react and she drew blood from him big time.
They say they usually bond to the oposite sex, like with hollie she bonded to my fella, although this isn't excactly true, it's around 90% if there are male and female looking after it. When hollie arrived at my flat (i had her delivered) she took to my fella straight off. and he doesn't even live with me...lol she would let him do anything to her...lol although now, she more half and half with us both but that as only been in the last year and i've had her 4 and half years...lol
anyway from what i read the way u talk u sound like u've listened to my advised before when u asked and u sound like u done some reading, but there was just one thing i had to really laugh at when u said..........u toweled her,
....u toweled a bird with a weany little dinky beak that size....lol a bite from that size beak hun is just a little tickle and a scratch.....lol just a little tip, always make sure u have a rough perch in their for them to sit on, This helps to keep their nails trimmed and they also clean their beak on them too which keeps it trimmed, that way as well, it's so piecing when they do bite.
any further info give me a shout.
here's a few pics when i first got her...so in love with her daddy...lol
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