I don’t know if this is the right place to get advice for a BCC… but I recently adopted “Claira” renamed Bluebelle. My son liked blue, I liked belle… and boom. Anyways… I went into a parrot store for a meet and greet 3 times. Put down a deposit. I could tell she was scared, anxious and unsure but eventually she would let my touch her beak, then her head during our 45-90 minute meetings. I just chose to stay that long and let her get comfortable with my presence. I found out that she was hand fed raised at this store, but when she started eating on her own, she just basically stayed in the cage for 3 years because no one wanted to pay her adoption fee. I’m a bleeding heart to say the least so I dropped the $2700 and brought her home as soon as I got my tax return. Her fear of course has heightened! New people, new home, new toys, new cage! I’m aware that this must all be very scary for her… so she has bitten me 3 out of the 4 days I’ve had her and oh my gosh it smarts! She broke skin the first two times. I’m actually, against better judgement and knowledge… wary of her now. And I feel bad but she really knows how to surprise me, and get a unexpected pain response. That’s not what I need help with though, I know on that I need to work on my response to the bite and really enforce positive training. The problem is, I’ll leave her cage door open and she won’t come out willingly at all. She’s barely sleeping. She will stay in the exact same spot for hours (not like 3-5, more like 12-24). She’s barely eating. I reached out to the shop owner and she just suggested I give her some of her favorite treats I was sent home with, problem is… I had multiple of those treats on top of her pellets. Completely untouched. I basically starting cutting up every fresh fruit and veggie in the house for her and offer it to her by hand where she will take
A couple of nibbles then turn away. If I put it in her bowl she won’t touch it. I have tried cooking rice, scrambled egg, protein pasta, I have offered her string cheese, raw walnuts, almonds, Brazil nuts… she took some nibbles of the pasta, cheese and egg… but won’t eat the other things. She isn’t drinking her water, I even bought that expensive parrot calming powder and mixed a little in water in a syringe and… I don’t know if it’s even working. I finally got her to eat 2 nutriberrie balls tonight. She nibbled then dropped 2 more. But I keep having to syringe feed her water because she’s not drinking. I can tell from her droppings that she’s basically only passing bile, the like dark green poop that when I clean up, the napkin is dark neon green. Her urate is still white which is relieving, but her liquid bits went from clear to now a light yellow… She’s starting to get dehydrated(which is why I just kept bringing her multiple different things to nibble tonight, I was basically just determined to get her to eat a decent amount) and tonight a little progress on the food was made. I even got a little thing of water and in front of her, crushed a small mandarin slice into it, trying to sweeten it with a flavor she likes and get her to drink it.. nothing. She just kept biting the small water bowl when I put it near her. And she’s not clipped, thank goodness. I hated that my GCC was clipped when I adopter her….. but I can tell Bluebelle isn’t used to flying at all. She tires quickly, I’ve never seen her fly more than a whole minute without having to land and panting hard. So I just… how do I get her to drink water and eat more food? I give a pellet mixture to my GCC… a combination of normal and soft pellets with a mix of dried egg crumble, shelled hemp, and ground flax. I have PLENTY of different raw mixed nuts. She came with her own mix of different bird foods I was told she likes… and she’s not eating that either. Basically, the nutriberry thing tonight was a huge success, but she’s also only nibbling at the fresh stuff. The picture is of her on my lap under a makeshift “tent” bit with my blanket. She seems relaxed when under cover, so I wanted to see if relaxing under cover on my lap would help get her used to me. She’s not socialized at all. Shes
Just scared, aggressive and like… just boycotting survival.
A couple of nibbles then turn away. If I put it in her bowl she won’t touch it. I have tried cooking rice, scrambled egg, protein pasta, I have offered her string cheese, raw walnuts, almonds, Brazil nuts… she took some nibbles of the pasta, cheese and egg… but won’t eat the other things. She isn’t drinking her water, I even bought that expensive parrot calming powder and mixed a little in water in a syringe and… I don’t know if it’s even working. I finally got her to eat 2 nutriberrie balls tonight. She nibbled then dropped 2 more. But I keep having to syringe feed her water because she’s not drinking. I can tell from her droppings that she’s basically only passing bile, the like dark green poop that when I clean up, the napkin is dark neon green. Her urate is still white which is relieving, but her liquid bits went from clear to now a light yellow… She’s starting to get dehydrated(which is why I just kept bringing her multiple different things to nibble tonight, I was basically just determined to get her to eat a decent amount) and tonight a little progress on the food was made. I even got a little thing of water and in front of her, crushed a small mandarin slice into it, trying to sweeten it with a flavor she likes and get her to drink it.. nothing. She just kept biting the small water bowl when I put it near her. And she’s not clipped, thank goodness. I hated that my GCC was clipped when I adopter her….. but I can tell Bluebelle isn’t used to flying at all. She tires quickly, I’ve never seen her fly more than a whole minute without having to land and panting hard. So I just… how do I get her to drink water and eat more food? I give a pellet mixture to my GCC… a combination of normal and soft pellets with a mix of dried egg crumble, shelled hemp, and ground flax. I have PLENTY of different raw mixed nuts. She came with her own mix of different bird foods I was told she likes… and she’s not eating that either. Basically, the nutriberry thing tonight was a huge success, but she’s also only nibbling at the fresh stuff. The picture is of her on my lap under a makeshift “tent” bit with my blanket. She seems relaxed when under cover, so I wanted to see if relaxing under cover on my lap would help get her used to me. She’s not socialized at all. Shes
Just scared, aggressive and like… just boycotting survival.
