Parrot Chat

[Quailobsessed]

I am trying to breed my princess pair but they haven't shown much interest yet. They are a three year old proven breeding pair. They are in a large(ish) aviary alone (except for a couple of quails at the bottom), I'm feeding them a veggie diet which I make in large batches and freeze as I don't have access to good pellets. I have also just started giving them soaked seeds. I have only recently taken all the other birds out and haven't put the nest box back in yet. I'm not sure how to mount it in the aviary. If anyone has ideas that would be helpful. I'm hoping once I put the nest box back in they will show interest and breed. Does anyone has any ideas on what else I should be doing? I have bred other birds like chickens, quails and finches but haven't bred parrots before so I'd love some advice. Thanks

 

[WVduckchick]

Finally finished my cage build. I used the front and both sides of the old cage as the front of the new cage, and the back became a side. Looks a bit ghetto, but they have a lot more room now.
Zipper has been accepted and everyone is getting along just fine. Thimble is molting and could barely fly when I let them out to take apart the old cage and finish setting up the new one. It worked out well because I was able to put him in by hand, and the others finally decided it was ok to go inside too. A few minor tweaks to make, but I hope they will be happy with it.

 

[FortCluck]

Finally finished my cage build. I used the front and both sides of the old cage as the front of the new cage, and the back became a side. Looks a bit ghetto, but they have a lot more room now.
Zipper has been accepted and everyone is getting along just fine. Thimble is molting and could barely fly when I let them out to take apart the old cage and finish setting up the new one. It worked out well because I was able to put him in by hand, and the others finally decided it was ok to go inside too. A few minor tweaks to make, but I hope they will be happy with it.
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I have a blue one that looks similar to yours.

 

[Pyxis]

Luna has converted to pellets She likes Harrison's. She still gets seeds, but only a little and she gets them when she goes back in her cage after out-of-cage time. And veggies too, of course.

Now to work on Cricket. I think I'm just going to take all seeds out of his cage for a day and leave in pellets only, and see if he will eat them. I have seen him pick them up and he appears to be munching on them, so hopefully without the option of seeds as well, he'll eat the pellets.

Speaking of Cricket, he accidentally got out of his cage the other day, and he stepped right up to let me put him back. Now that he's back in his cage, nope, he doesn't want to step up, thank you. So I'm thinking about just letting him come out on his own to explore around. Apparently I can pick him up to put him back with no issues, so I don't see why not.

 

[shawluvsbirds]

Finally finished my cage build. I used the front and both sides of the old cage as the front of the new cage, and the back became a side. Looks a bit ghetto, but they have a lot more room now.
Zipper has been accepted and everyone is getting along just fine. Thimble is molting and could barely fly when I let them out to take apart the old cage and finish setting up the new one. It worked out well because I was able to put him in by hand, and the others finally decided it was ok to go inside too. A few minor tweaks to make, but I hope they will be happy with it.
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That does not look ghetto at all!

Looks great! I love it. Awesome job Natalie!

 

[shawluvsbirds]

@Pyxis
Are you and the birds all better now??

 

[Pyxis]

@Pyxis
Are you and the birds all better now??

Yes, my nasty sinus infection has cleared up and Luna is all better too She has one more follow up vet appointment next week.

 

[Serin]

Oh, yeah. They'd be heaps cheeper... But are they safe for parrots?

Seems wrong to feed them chook food because it might not be safe, then stupid to think because they are just birds too.

I feed my cage birds gamebird crumble as a vitamin and mineral supplement. It is a good source if protein for chicks and vitamin d3 for birds that live indoors and the super low price helps. I feed parrot pellets too, several brands but it lowers costs to mix it into the diet when you have as many birds as me.

 

[memphis]

And Olive? She gets whatever she wants to eat? I still chuckle over her tomato soup bath!

 

[Serin]

And Olive? She gets whatever she wants to eat? I still chuckle over her tomato soup bath!

Olive is the most picky in the bunch! She likes safflower seeds and will begrudingly eat other seeds, no longer likes peas at all and will only eat them when it's all she has. She has decided she likes some of the parrot pellets I have, but I haven't given her gamebird crumble as it's too much protein for a non-breeding pigeon. Very occasionally she will eat a few bites of hard boiled egg or lettuce or broccoli. She always wants to try people food, whatever it is, but wont actually eat any of it. Sometimes she will just walk around with a chip or pretzel in her beak though.