8 Weeks old baby Amazon?

[rheashard2]

She is too cute! Looks like she's saying 'look at me'. Too cute!

 

[DonnaBudgie]

It's amazing how much better birds look with feathers! I love baby birds so much I wish I could always have a baby to raise but I've got too many birds already.

 

[DonnaBudgie]

Her cage looks like a bird toy shop! She won't be bored that's for sure, but sometimes it takes a while for babies to learn how to play with toys so don't be surprised if she ignores them at first.

 

[Wingedavocado]

I might have a bit of a problem. I got her a cheaper but same size cage for sleeping later on when she's ready and a cover that will be placed in my room so she can get enough rest. Do you take your babies outside for bath time/sun etc?

 

[Wingedavocado]

It's amazing how much better birds look with feathers! I love baby birds so much I wish I could always have a baby to raise but I've got too many birds already.

How many do you have? I can't even imagine 2 at a time honestly and the baby stage (not because I don't love it but because I just can't wait to see her all put and about) is feeling like an eternity with Stormy, quakers seemed to grow so fast

 

[rheashard2]

My CAG gets bathtime out of cage. She's contray or picky. She throws in cage bathing dishes on floor. She may tolerate a misting. Sometimes she'll use a heavy shallow ceramic pie plate on table or counter. She hates being in shower. For reasons unknown to me her preference is to use her water bottle as a shower. It's funny watching her bathing that way. She'll scream at me if I try to mist her. As long as she's happy, I'm happy. I do get upset when she decides to bath right before lights out. I have to double check for drafts and turh heat up.

 

[DonnaBudgie]

My budgies bathe at the kitchen sink. I set a 10 inch plastic plant pot drip tray on a few tall objects in the sink to raise it to edge of sink height and turn the faucet on spray with room temperature water. They fly over (some wait not so patiently while I set it up) and take a group bath/shower. Loads of fun! Some of my budgies prefer to bathe in their six inch water bowl. I don't take them outside even in good weather because I don't have an outdoor cage set up for them and won't risk any fly aways.

 

[Wingedavocado]

My CAG gets bathtime out of cage. She's contray or picky. She throws in cage bathing dishes on floor. She may tolerate a misting. Sometimes she'll use a heavy shallow ceramic pie plate on table or counter. She hates being in shower. For reasons unknown to me her preference is to use her water bottle as a shower. It's funny watching her bathing that way. She'll scream at me if I try to mist her. As long as she's happy, I'm happy. I do get upset when she decides to bath right before lights out. I have to double check for drafts and turh heat up.

The water bottle part got me! CAG are my favorite it's something about their color that resembles a Storm (I might be obsessed with rain, that's why my baby is named Stormy) and they have the sweetest eyes ever!

 

[Wingedavocado]

My budgies bathe at the kitchen sink. I set a 10 inch plastic plant pot drip tray on a few tall objects in the sink to raise it to edge of sink height and turn the faucet on spray with room temperature water. They fly over (some wait not so patiently while I set it up) and take a group bath/shower. Loads of fun! Some of my budgies prefer to bathe in their six inch water bowl. I don't take them outside even in good weather because I don't have an outdoor cage set up for them and won't risk any fly aways.

That makes sense! The two quakers I weaned for my parents both can't hear the sink water because it's shower time regardless if it isn't haha. Do you have pictures of your babies?
Has anyone harness trained their babies?

 

[Wingedavocado]

Can anyone please help with this? Tops pellets has 2 sizes, the med/large parrot and the one for small ones. They're the same just different size. When I start introducing pellets, do I start with the small ones or go straight to the large?

 

[DonnaBudgie]

I'd say smaller so less effort is required to crush them up in their beaks. They crush hard food between the inside of the upper beak and the outside of the lower beak manipulating with their tongue and then swallow.

 

[rheashard2]

If she's eating solids, I'd go with large. They can be crumbled leaving a few whole ones. The crushed can be sprinkled on her soft foods. You can increase the number of uncrushed or broken pellets.

 

[texsize]

I would go large but you might want to soak them at first to make them soft.
I used unsweetened apple juice to get my adult Amazon parrots to start eating pellets.