HAND FEEDING GOFFIN COCKATOO HOW TO
Nika is an outlier I believe, in that she has re-learned how to fly moderately well after being clipped for years. She's more aggressive towards other people and can have a difficult time focusing when all she wants to do is make babies with me. No matter what I do she still gets all hormonal and excited by me sometimes, even just getting near her. I have to say having Nika bonded with me is a little problematic. Why would this be conflicting?Īlso in my opinion having a parent raised parrot seems like it would reduce the sexual frustration if they realize they are parrots and therefore won't mate-bond with people. I have only read cursory information regarding breeding so I'm not an expert but it seems like you could still handle the parrot babies and allow them to continue to be fed and raised by the parents. And, quite often, the bird still has the potential to see the hand feeder as a mate, so I doubt they look at the human as a parent for very long. This is most certainly not always the case. Someone mentioned that it is bad because it's normal for the baby to leave the parents. Everyone deserves the chance to have a positive start! And I agree, I don't want to be selling shy babies to new owners.
I am going to be breeding Vos eclectus' soon and I even considered letting the babes be parent raised, but was advised against it. In the bird community in my state, I have not heard a single negative comment in regards to hand feeding. other than hand feeding done by unexperienced owners resulting in death, all of my birds have been hand fed and none of them have any feathering issues or poor behaviors related to being weaned by people. More often than not, without the bird being hand fed you are going to start with a more wild bird.Īs for negative effects of hand feeding. IMO, the only benefit of hand feeding is to speed up the taming process. I assume it was re-sold to another unsuspecting person. And still to this day, I have no idea what happened to that sick quaker I bought. It is very apparent which breeder took more effort caring for their birds. He was sold to me at 12 weeks of age, DNA tested, with a whole package stuffed with information and a reference to a reliable avian vet. Now, I have a new Quaker parrot who was bought from a very reliable breeder.
HAND FEEDING GOFFIN COCKATOO FULL
The next day we returned the bird to the breeder, and got a full refund. Turns out the bird was starving, it had been regurgitating all food, it had some parasites and an infection. At the time I didn't know any better and I assumed all birds were sold at this young age.Ībout a week after purchase, I took it to the vet. The breeder was 100% happy with selling her birds at this young age. I had to had to handfeed the bird for a few days. I am living in Melbourne, and I have found heaps of Australian breeders similar to the one I'm about to tell you about! When buying my first parrot (blue quaker), I sadly brought it home at just 6 weeks of age. When I say breeder I'm not talking about someone who's birds happen to breed by pure luck. I just find it hard to believe actual breeders would sell you a bird that's not weaned. When we were looking for Conures, the youngest one I came across was 8 weeks old and the breeder was planning on holding on to the bird for another week.
no rushing.īmsweb wrote:I didn't think this was even a problem! I haven't come across any breeders who sell parrots that haven't been weaned yet (well not in Australia). obviously you want to try and gradually wean at an appropriate age, but if there are significant weight declines or the bird is not moving on to other foods, you need to keep hand feeding until the bird is ready to take the next step. bottom line: let the bird wean on its own when THEY are ready, not when you don't feel like hand feeding anymore or when you "feel" that they should be done.
there are also sometimes birds who are very stubborn and don't want to wean but give a hard time hand feeding as well. however there are the birds who want to be hand fed for a long time, sometimes as long as a year and you need to hand feed them until the bird is ready to move on, i know cockatoos who are in their teens and just like the taste of formula so they get a bowl of it with their regular food, which is completely normal. And to add to that, weaning is a difficult process for some birds (especially cockatoos/macaws), some birds will one day decide they want to eat pellet and will do that completely on their own and want nothing to do with hand feeding any more, and as long as they keep their weight up, great (my senegal did that).
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