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.

 

[Wingedavocado]

Thank you guys for all the great advice

 

[Wingedavocado]

Can anyone help? So, I've developed a routine with Stormy these last days now that she's pretty much all feathered, every morning around 9, I put her in her big bird cage for some chop play and I make he fresh mashed squash, sweet potato, spinach, carrots or whatever mix I feel like. According to my math, she is about 9wks old. Today though, she wasn't as crazy about the sweet potato as she usually is and she gently touched it but kinda said "ehh not now" and ignored it. Did I break my baby? I'm such a bad newbie, overthinker with this baby amazon and I'm probably annoying you guys, I'm sorry, I swear I was better with the adult one before

 

[DonnaBudgie]

Well, I don't like sweet potato either so I don't blame her! As long as she eats vegetables it doesn't matter. Try again in a couple days when she's very hungry and maybe she'll eat it.

 

[rheashard2]

Parrots have definite food preferences. They can love a food, something for years. Then turn their beaks up at it. Variety is the key. Don't worry about it. Alter her food combinations a bit. My CAG loves sweet potatoes, squash. She'll hang on her chop perch and dive in. Then there's straight to the bottom of cage days. Sounds like she's starting to develop her parrot personality!

 

[DonnaBudgie]

You really shouldn't need any heat source for Stormy anymore. She's fully feathered and parent birds don't brood their babies after their feathers come in. My budgie parents stopped brooding them when they were fully covered in down and the feathers were just beginning to come in. They would visit the nestbox to feed them but didn't spend much time in there with them otherwise. If Stormy can sit on a perch I would line her big bird cage with soft paper towels, install assorted low perches (a few inches up) and call it her "training cage". I'd put "toys" (any small safe objects she likes to play with) on the cage floor along with small bowls of food for her to nibble on. I would drape a blanket over the top, back, and one side of his cage to give her a sense of security.
You're doing a fabulous job raising Stormy!

 

[Wingedavocado]

He's this thing now guys, I have spoken to the breeder and asked and because babies are usually on pellet bedding and not paper like she is (for the time she spends in her cage) he can't really tell with the ones he has since pellets absorb liquid so that wasn't very useful.
Last night as I went to get her to take her to sleep in her bin, I noticed her tail was wet, actually wet and when I checked, there was very watery poo. Remember I told you she didn't want the mashed veggies no more? Even the chop (granted she never really ate* them but would at least nibble and take some in) and I'm aware lots of fruits and veggies can make poo more watery as well as stress in adults but unless she's stressed from being more in the cage, I'm not sure if this poo is normal or too watery, the color? I'm scared to death right now, just paid a $145 deposit for the vet tomorrow but if you have any experience you can share id appreciate it because I already love this girl with all my heart

Last pic is affected by the red light too, other one is natural light

 

[wrench13]

Try putting a non-absorbent something under her usual pooping spot, so the vet can see the proportion of solids to liquids, and colors. Using paper or similar lets the liquids absorb and its hard to see. But by all means see what your vet has to say.