Feeding Times

[Skyrider]

It seems Jack B Nimble would like for me to get an opinion on this important subject. Dog house rules apparently do not apply in this case. Or do they?

I tried the search block but I'm not clever enough to retrieve the answer I seek.
If you work odd hours is it cruel to show up and feed a guy dinner at 23:00? He doesn't seem to care what time it is as long as I place the right combination of grub in the trough (it's a bowl but he eats like a pig soooo)? After he finishes he climbs back up to his throne and goes to sleep. In other words first breakfast is around 08:30. Then second breakfast is about 10:30. Then lunch is around 12:30. After that I may be out of pocket for 10 hrs. Around 23:00 is the best I can do for supper time. I leave pellets and mix during the day. I guess I'm concerned about a more natural feeding cycle. I mean I've never seen a wild bird chow down at a feeder in the middle of the night. Don't seem natural. I would love to be able to run home and have supper with him at 18:00 but that's not logistically possible everyday.

I keep seeing the contraption Dr. Emmit Brown designed for his dog Einstein in Back to the Future. The auto dog can opener feeder:06:

When this baby hits 88 mph you're gonna see.........uh......how much a African grey can poop:05:

Arrivederci y'all

 

[SailBoat]

Odd hours are always an issue more because of what happens when the work schedule hits the non-work schedule!

If you can work at keeping the feeding time for your Parrot as near to the same regardless of whether its a Work Day or a Non-Work Day! Parrots will adjust and do fairly well. The problem comes when thing change the patterns. That is when problems really develop!

 

[GaleriaGila]

I'm about to ramble... apologies in advance!
My story...

I got the Rickeybird in 1984. I was in college and then grad school, so I spent LOTS of time with him. Then it was time to go to work!
There were were years (about 25 of them) when 5-6 days a week, I was gone at 7:30-ish and back at 6-ish.
Some did and will consider me wrong and think I should have re-homed him.
Anyway, here is what I think made it work.
I moved and got new jobs maybe 5 times or so. BUT...
Every morning, he had at least ten minutes, and every evening, he had 20 or so. I have always kept him on a natural light schedule, in a separate room, so sometimes those times together were in the dark. During the day, he had a big window looking out on something interesting, a television on one of his favorite channels (Music channels, CNN - he loves talking heads), a biggg cage, lots of fun foods, and a few toys that I changed out regularly).
He KNEW he could count on those two crummy sessions a day. Somehow we both made it.
I'm now retired and times are good again.
As far as changing schedules... I think LIGHT is very important. Ever since the Rickeybird hit sexual maturity at about 3-4 years of age, I've had to manage his hormones! If kept on too steady a long day, and too much light, he stayed "in the mood" (aggressive, even louder than usual, pleasuring himself on my neck ) year round. If I keep him on a natural light schedule... up with dawn, down with dusk, year around... THEN he's only a little monster rooster from July to September). He has his own room, so I can do that easily.
Good luck!