How to calm an Indian Ringneck Parrot
Added 2019-09-09 13:00:04 +0000 UTCTouché's zen mood since he's been living with us.
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Hi, I’m just catching up after being really poorly. I would LOVE any help with our blue lacewing IRN (buddy). He’s nearly 2, his ring is just coming in and we’ve had him since he was 3mths. Unfortunately he got out of the house about 2 months ago. He always had freedom to fly round the house. He would come for his supper and then go to bed and would greet you in the morning with a “morning!” His speech was coming on a treat and he was a regular funny lil IRN. Then the accident, he had quite a severe head injury. He had brain swelling, one eye was a giant haematoma. The other was bulging out of his head due to brain swelling. His feathers were broken and missing BUT not a broken bone (except his skull). He walked leaning over with his head to the side. All his speech is gone and he had forgotten all his tricks (and there were many). BUT.... he’s alive and still here. His haematoma went down but the sight is still dodgy (doesn’t stop him flying) and the other eye I’m not sure there’s actually much sight at all. And he’ll often sit with it shut. I suppose I’m hoping that you have just a few nuggets of wisdom to help me understand how to train Buddy the blue flat top IRN who played chicken with a car and very nearly lost. Many Many thanks in advance xxx
Kate Steward
2019-10-02 13:53:40 +0000 UTCOur two blue and golds are housed separately as they are definitely not besties lol it's funny because I don't think they hate each other, I just think they get jealous of each other. Woodrow always wants to be doing what Tango is doing and vice versa. Since Tango flies and Woodrow cannot, sometimes I will leave them in the house by themselves loose if I need to take a phone call in my room or step outside for a moment. They've never had any major altercations since Tango will fly away rather than engage, but I walked in one time and cracked up as Tango had flown over and crawled into Woodrow's cage to, I guess, check out her space and Woodrow had climbed down to the floor and walked over to Tango's room to figure out where the heck he goes everyday. Embrace Your Pace has also been so true with both of them, but especially Tango. Tango is a different free flyer than most - he doesn't do these big exploratories or 5 minute long flights. He does a lot of really tiny flights between my husband and myself. At first I was annoyed and thought maybe he wasn't enjoying it, maybe we were doing something wrong, but then we figured out the harder we made those short flights, the more excited he got. Barriers (David behind the house and me out front), height changes (David on the roof me on the ground), distance (recall up to 0.2 miles apart!) - anything that was mentally challenging he found so much fun!! And we noticed it was the same with his toys - he doesn't care about breaking them apart, he wants to untie the knots, unhook the hooks, figure out the puzzles. He has fun thinking and enjoys that aspect more than the big open flights. So now we've just embraced it and enjoy coming up with new challenges rather than being frustrated that he isn't "like all the other birds". Great message, great video 💕💕
Ashlyn Barnes
2019-09-12 13:33:34 +0000 UTC“Go at your birds pace” never a truer word spoken. Arlo is a lot happier now that we’re letting him dictate the pace. IRN’s just seem like really nervy, much slower birds.
Bree Therese
2019-09-09 20:52:10 +0000 UTCI house my two green cheeks together, Rick and Morty. They have always been housed together, when we tried to seperate them there was a lot of yelling and flock calls even though the cages were side by side. Theres two food and two water dishes so they dont fight over food, but have occasionally fought over toys so I'm careful to put two of every type of toy.
Felicity Franklin
2019-09-09 15:44:42 +0000 UTCIt’s amazing how Lefty and Touché have improved so much. I recall when you were first learning about them from the rescue, Lefty appeared to be the one with more behavioral problems with aggressiveness and Touché only had flying difficulties after a horrible clipping. Thank you for discovering their true issues and therefore, helping them truly blossom ❤️❤️❤️
Karyn Meyer
2019-09-09 14:04:59 +0000 UTC
