Hello here!
I'm a new caique owner, Michelangelo is 3 months old and me and my boyfriend brought him home a week ago.
Please forgive me if I'll be really long and not super accurate, I'm Italian and my English is getting a little rusty!
This is my first baby parrot, and ours is is already his (or her? We don't know yet) second home as his previous owner gave him up because their CAG that tried to attack him. He was alone pretty much all the time in this big cage, with dogs and other animals all around.
Let me tell you, he's just a wonderful little fella. He flies incredibly well and he can cross the house to come to us from another room. ATM, he likes my bf the most, but he just trusts the both of us equally like family. We already had a couple of guests and he was perfectly fine with them in a matter of minutes.
We play sometimes, I can have him on his back and gently tickle his little toes.. it seems he doesn't mind. He's out about 3/4 hours per day and I work from home, so he stays alone only a few hours everyday.
My question is: I'd like to train him someday and spend some good time together, do some foraging activities and make sure he won't be overly dependent on us for his own well being. However, I know I need some good rewards to make it work.
He takes the syringe 3x day, and he was fed with egg dry only and a few seeds in it. He's very healthy and very energetic tho. Since it's been a week only I didn't change his diet drastically, so I'm just adding seeds and pellet on the egg dry to have him taste something new, and he spends about 2 hrs per day on his bowl to eat. He struggles with the pellet as it's pretty hard for him but he tries to break the pieces, and he apparently doesn't like it anymore when it's soaked. He doesn't accept any food from our hands, which I find quite strange. He tastes it a little but he doesn't really care, regardless what he's offered.
I know a week it's probably a very little time, and I see him eats eagerly in his cage (we don't have him out all the time because he'd just forget to feed himself to stay with us and play). Am I doing something wrong? Will he find the food eventually more interesting than us?
Thanks in advance!
I'm a new caique owner, Michelangelo is 3 months old and me and my boyfriend brought him home a week ago.
Please forgive me if I'll be really long and not super accurate, I'm Italian and my English is getting a little rusty!
This is my first baby parrot, and ours is is already his (or her? We don't know yet) second home as his previous owner gave him up because their CAG that tried to attack him. He was alone pretty much all the time in this big cage, with dogs and other animals all around.
Let me tell you, he's just a wonderful little fella. He flies incredibly well and he can cross the house to come to us from another room. ATM, he likes my bf the most, but he just trusts the both of us equally like family. We already had a couple of guests and he was perfectly fine with them in a matter of minutes.
We play sometimes, I can have him on his back and gently tickle his little toes.. it seems he doesn't mind. He's out about 3/4 hours per day and I work from home, so he stays alone only a few hours everyday.
My question is: I'd like to train him someday and spend some good time together, do some foraging activities and make sure he won't be overly dependent on us for his own well being. However, I know I need some good rewards to make it work.
He takes the syringe 3x day, and he was fed with egg dry only and a few seeds in it. He's very healthy and very energetic tho. Since it's been a week only I didn't change his diet drastically, so I'm just adding seeds and pellet on the egg dry to have him taste something new, and he spends about 2 hrs per day on his bowl to eat. He struggles with the pellet as it's pretty hard for him but he tries to break the pieces, and he apparently doesn't like it anymore when it's soaked. He doesn't accept any food from our hands, which I find quite strange. He tastes it a little but he doesn't really care, regardless what he's offered.
I know a week it's probably a very little time, and I see him eats eagerly in his cage (we don't have him out all the time because he'd just forget to feed himself to stay with us and play). Am I doing something wrong? Will he find the food eventually more interesting than us?
Thanks in advance!
