Bonding and Band identification question

[Hailie]

How would i bond with a very fearful parakeet? I want to find out how old she is to but I dont know how her Id band says BBFC458 can anyone help me find how old she is? Thank you in advance!

 

[Tami2]

Hi Hailie,

Welcome to the Parrot Forums.
Start here for bonding.

http://www.parrotforums.com/general-parrot-information/49144-tips-bonding-building-trust.html

Good Luck.

 

[AutumnBreeze]

I can roughly tell the age of your parakeet if I can see a photo. also as for training I commented some info on this post here and it should work for fearful parakeets. http://www.parrotforums.com/new-members-welcome/79263-budgie-taming.html

also how long have you had them? and how many times have they molted?

 

[Laurasea]

I have never seen bands on parakeets. But bands are often difficult or impossible to trace, it's just meaningful to breeders. Congratulations on your new bird, abd welcome to the forum. Everything takes a lot of time and patience.

 

[Hailie]

I will get a pic soon. The vet reccomend lafeber parakeet pellets the parrot ones are the only ones we have locally. Can she eat the parrot ones and get the same nutrition or should I order the parakeet ones on Amazon?

 

[Hailie]

I have had her for 2 years and this sounds horrible but what's melting? I understand its "shedding" but what do birds look like while they're molting?

 

[noodles123]

Molting birds look shaggy or ragged. Their downy under-feathers (the fluff) is often visible. You may see pointy feather sheaths sticking out...like a coffee straw that lacks filing and contains a feather.

 

[Hailie]

Um yes I'm pretty sure she has molted

 

[Hailie]

This is her picture

 

[ChristaNL]

You "shed" skin/hair, but "molt" feathers


Where are you and bird living? Because every country / area if you in the States / had their own system when is comes to coding legbands. So indicating where on the planet you live (generally speaking, we do not need your home adress of course) the easier it is to search.


In NL they band the smaller birds in colours as wel as code, you just looking at the colour you know what year it was born.
(every 7 years they repeat the colourscheme, so you need to be able to tell if a bird is a younster or and oldtimer of course)


If you can take a picture of the head, esp the nares (nostril-area) some people here can tell you if you have a young bird (and if it is a grownup) whether it is a boy or a girl.
(oh...you already did! Now we wait for 'the experts' )

 

[Laurasea]

It looks like you have a pretty girl, but I'm no expert! Parakeets can only eat teeny tinny pellets, so it's usually best to get the ones made for them. You can crumble smash bigger pellets for them buts it's a frustrating process. I do offer crumbled tops pellets to mine, and other smashed pellets, but seeds are a big part of my parakeets diet. My parakeets do eat veggies very well though. I hang leafy stuff like romaine, bok choy, dandelion greens, celery greens, mustard greens. And offer chopped up veggies, and even let them nibble bigger chunks of carrots, broccoli, bell and chili peppers. Sometimes corn or apples. The dig right in.

 

[Hailie]

Is this normal poop?

 

[Laurasea]

This is her picture

I think this is a girl.

 

[Laurasea]

I think pretty normal. Except mine don't have the liquid green urine around the poop. It could be that the paper towels just make the fresh poop look like it has liquid around it. Mine poop on newspaper , it's not absorbent. If your girl does have extra liquid coming out with poops then that is not normal. It should be the dark ring with the white in the middle. Or wetter looking if eating veggies.

 

[Hailie]

Ok, Thank you��