Parrot Lovers - Your thoughts on this Ebay auction

[PurpleChicken]

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I'm gonna check that out for my Conure. Her normal diet is a blend of bagged seeds
I get at the feed store. She doesn't eat sunflower seeds or most of the stuff in parrot
food so I give her a Cockatiel blend. She will also eat just about anything we do
and gets some apple, pear, or peach daily. She enjoys pizza.

 

[seriousbill]

kstaven wrote:
The seller and auction is a train wreck waiting to happen. IMHO

Best odds are the problem was dietary or environmentally induced. But please be aware it can be a matter of lineage. Pluckers exist in the wild. Most times they are run out of the flock because of the danger they pose and are naturally culled. But some survive to have chicks who also have a predisposition to plucking due to endrocrine issues that are genetically linked or the very real potential of learning the behavior from the parent.

PurpleChicken wrote: I didn't know that. It makes perfect sense.

It does make sense, but Moluccans are very problematic birds for most folks to keep, so I'm less surprised to see it in a Moluccan.

I'm gonna repost the link, for anybody who isn't familiar with large cockatoo keeping, this site is very informative:

http://www.mytoos.com/​

 

[texasreb]

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I'm gonna check that out for my Conure. Her normal diet is a blend of bagged seeds
I get at the feed store. She doesn't eat sunflower seeds or most of the stuff in parrot
food so I give her a Cockatiel blend. She will also eat just about anything we do
and gets some apple, pear, or peach daily. She enjoys pizza.

Harrison's is a great food and well worth the time it might take you to transition your conure to a pelleted formula. Some birds are most stubborn about switching foods. Yours might be ok especially since she's already eating fruits and pizza!. When you first start the transition go with 75% her regular diet and 25% pellets, over the course of several weeks decrease the seeds and increase the pellets until she is converted (it's easy on paper!).

 

[PurpleChicken]

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Oh My God. That site is amazing. I've had friends with Cockatoos so I know the noise
they make. I couldn't help but turn up the speakers and laugh at that intro, not because
it's funny (it's not) but because it is so true.

 

[seriousbill]

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Oh My God. That site is amazing. I've had friends with Cockatoos so I know the noise
they make. I couldn't help but turn up the speakers and laugh at that intro, not because
it's funny (it's not) but because it is so true.

Yes, isn't it something? I stumbled across it when I was researching 'toos because I thought I wanted a Goffin. Turns out I don't.

I think that intro is really effective and well designed. I love how the text comes up.

Edited to add: I do want to add that I don't fully agree with the agenda of the message board that's attached to that site (100% anti-parrot-breeding/buying), although I sure do understand why they feel the way they do. I'm not anti-parrot-keeping at all. I have a Hahn's Macaw and 2 parrotlets myself.

 

[austinhart123]

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probably cause it cant sit on its eggs

 

[kstaven]

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It does make sense, but Moluccans are very problematic birds for most folks to keep, so I'm less surprised to see it in a Moluccan.

I'm gonna repost the link, for anybody who isn't familiar with large cockatoo keeping, this site is very informative:

http://www.mytoos.com/

There are good reasons why people call m2's, cockanomas. I understand the anti owning and breeding edge, considering parrots are an impulse buy item and people don't realize they just purchased a 3 year old that may live as long as they do, and is just as demanding of their time and attention as any 3 year old child can be. When reality sets in they usually panic and dump. Few really take the time to learn what they are in for before buying a parrot.

Having said that I also have to say I wouldn't trade my Macaws or conures for anything.

 

[seriousbill]

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It does make sense, but Moluccans are very problematic birds for most folks to keep, so I'm less surprised to see it in a Moluccan.

I'm gonna repost the link, for anybody who isn't familiar with large cockatoo keeping, this site is very informative:

http://www.mytoos.com/

There are good reasons why people call m2's, cockanomas. I understand the anti owning and breeding edge, considering parrots are an impulse buy item and people don't realize they just purchased a 3 year old that may live as long as they do, and is just as demanding of their time and attention as any 3 year old child can be. When reality sets in they usually panic and dump. Few really take the time to learn what they are in for before buying a parrot.

Having said that I also have to say I wouldn't trade my Macaws or conures for anything.

That's about how I feel, kstaven. I understand the anti-breeding and anti-buying viewpoint, but I love my birds, which all came from breeders (there are no rescues near here or I would have considered adopting from one). Mine are pretty small and more easily managed than a lot of the larger birds though (although I know of a gal on another forum who owns large birds and says parrotlets make her nervous, with their pinchy lil beaks, lol). And yeah, I've heard the larger parrots compared to a "three year old with a sharp pair of pliers." So true. That's what's kept me from going larger so far; that, and the fact that I'd need more space and more time... What kinds of Macaws do you have?

 

[gypsy2621]

I work with a woman that does large parrot rescue.
I am sorry 99.9 % of Large Parrot issues are owner created.
Plucking does not come from JUST diet issues, it also comes from neglect, abuse, stress.

Edited to finish ( hit the wrong button)
Cockatoos are comuntiy birds, One lone Too is imediately under stress, it has no companions it has no early warning system in place. it has no bird socialization.
While Humans provide "some" of that,It cannot compare to having other birds in a flock.

We have taken in Cockatoos with out feathers that the minute you move your hand the bird all but passes out.
why> because it associates that hand with abuse.
we spent the better part of a year tryingto get a Citrine to associate hands with gentle touching. for a year we had to pull our hands up a sleeve to feed water and clean this bird.
And yet still every now and then you go to feed him and he sees yourhands it will result in a plucking session from you know where , then we have to start all over again.

cocatoos are not for people with small chidren nor for people who think the screetching while trying to call their flock mates is an annoyance.

 

[wegotchickens]

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