Oh, been too long since I last checked this forum. Cher, if you sent me a friend request, I must've missed it, so sorry. Dunno if you wanna try again. I've probably changed my cover, but profile pic is same or at least very alike. But I'd welcome your friend request, if I receive it. I didn't find you, perhaps you can find me again.
Now, and update on Sally and her Suprelorin implant.
She was implanted on August 9, 2012. About a year ago. Still no egglaying. She has occasionally been mating with Tequila, who, if you remember, is not her love mate, but she tolerates him as part of the flock and probably in some recognition that he is the only one in our little flock of four, two lovies, to humans, who CAN fertilize her eggs
So she has allowed his attentions, so to speak, but no heart in it, obviously ;-)
So no eggs since the implant. 12 months, and counting.
When we first had her implanted - if you read this and you are new to my story, please look for my previous posts about Suprelorin - we were told that it could last anything between 6 months and two years. Our Vet had little experience with the implant in such a small bird, and we agreed to let her try it on Sally and report back to her continuously how it progresses, as she has other small parrots in her clinic for which the suprelorin implant may help with chronic egglaying.
We are delighted that Sally has been out of her nestbox for a full year. She is and has been the sweetest bird imaginable, the rather unpredicable biting behavior of before the implant is almost gone, she may push away my fingers with her beak if I do something she doesn't like, and do the threatening pose, head down, beak open, but only in extreme cases will she actually bite my fingers. Before her implant, I could barely get to touch her, as she was bonded with my husband alone, but after the implant, I'm fully accepted, EVEN as her snuggle-partner. She is happy to take long naps on my shoulder, leaning against my neck, her head tugged under the wing.
Now we're just waiting for signs that the implant is no longer working.
Her nestbox is on top of our kitchen cupboard and she flies up there to check on things regularly, bringing small pieces of paper or twigs or whatever she can get hold of, so I reckon she keeps it ready for when the time comes. For a while we didn't have the nestbox out for her, but around Christimas she started to build piles of twigs and shredded paper here and there, so we figured it was best to let her have her nest to tend to and that solved the problem.
That's it for now