Wingedavocado
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- Mar 12, 2025
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Hi, I'm new in this forum, nice to meet everyone!
I'm hoping to find some experienced amazon owned people that can maybe help me a bit. I have ended up with a baby yellow naped (I was unaware that selling babies still on formula was not good, the breeder also basically said to take it now or miss out because everyone just takes them this way and well, there were only a couple, so please, please no judgment, I'm here for help in order to provide the best for the baby) I have hand fed baby quakers before (same breeder) as well as an Indian Ringneck (those belong to my parents who now live in their own separate homes with their birds (2-4yo) but those birds were never this young looking, they already had all their feathers. This baby's hatch cert says Jan 20 which makes her (DNA fem) around 8 wks? Breeder instructed me to have her in a bin with bedding pellets and a warm light which I did, shes been here for 1.5 weeks and she's on 3 feeds a day (30-40ml). I was also told not to handle her too much yet and that 'in no time she'll have her feathers and then i can take her out and introduce her cage and stuff as well as offer veggies and pellets just so that she can start getting familiar to them (I know she'll be weaned on her own time and I've no intentions or desire to rush anything at all, I'm happy feeding her)
With all this info, here are my questions:
1)Tho I've never had an amazon of my own, I've trained and worked with a couple adult ones and I am well aware that they need to be well socialized, how early can I start this since she's so little I'm kinda lost
2) When do these babies really get all their feathers? (If i google 8wk old YNA, a completely different baby shows up ans they have all their feathers (was I lied to? I do have the hatch cert)
3) Does she really need to stay in that bin with that light all the time (breeder said until she starts getting out but thats a bin, its not a shoe box)
4) When should I really start putting tiny plates of chop around her even if she just plays with it, I wan her to be familiar with veggies
Sorry about the long post and in advance, thank you for your kindness and answers
Picture for reference (3d ago)
I'm hoping to find some experienced amazon owned people that can maybe help me a bit. I have ended up with a baby yellow naped (I was unaware that selling babies still on formula was not good, the breeder also basically said to take it now or miss out because everyone just takes them this way and well, there were only a couple, so please, please no judgment, I'm here for help in order to provide the best for the baby) I have hand fed baby quakers before (same breeder) as well as an Indian Ringneck (those belong to my parents who now live in their own separate homes with their birds (2-4yo) but those birds were never this young looking, they already had all their feathers. This baby's hatch cert says Jan 20 which makes her (DNA fem) around 8 wks? Breeder instructed me to have her in a bin with bedding pellets and a warm light which I did, shes been here for 1.5 weeks and she's on 3 feeds a day (30-40ml). I was also told not to handle her too much yet and that 'in no time she'll have her feathers and then i can take her out and introduce her cage and stuff as well as offer veggies and pellets just so that she can start getting familiar to them (I know she'll be weaned on her own time and I've no intentions or desire to rush anything at all, I'm happy feeding her)
With all this info, here are my questions:
1)Tho I've never had an amazon of my own, I've trained and worked with a couple adult ones and I am well aware that they need to be well socialized, how early can I start this since she's so little I'm kinda lost
2) When do these babies really get all their feathers? (If i google 8wk old YNA, a completely different baby shows up ans they have all their feathers (was I lied to? I do have the hatch cert)
3) Does she really need to stay in that bin with that light all the time (breeder said until she starts getting out but thats a bin, its not a shoe box)
4) When should I really start putting tiny plates of chop around her even if she just plays with it, I wan her to be familiar with veggies
Sorry about the long post and in advance, thank you for your kindness and answers
Picture for reference (3d ago)
