One was booked long time ago. The new owner came to collect him early this month. I laid down 3 conditions before selling it to him. 1. No wings clipping 2. Fresh food must be fed on regular basis and 3. Must not be kept in a small cage.
He passed the interview. His daughter chose #2 baby or to be more precise #2 chose her and was named Treasure.m
I am teaching the other 2 outdoor recall. One of them is doing quite well.
That's wonderful, educating your prospective customers!
I remember on the video you showed of the babies learning recall in the house, one in particular seemed to be a natural. Do you happen to remember if this was one of the babies you're keeping?
That was #1. He started off fine but lately can't seem to get him to fly. #3 is doing better. I nearly lost #3. Before I started outdoor recall training, I had been taking the birds for outdoor walk regularly to let them familiarize with the surroundings. #3 wasn't bonded to me yet and hardly wanted to step up on me. And at one point he refused to wear the harness. I checked with my friends who had been using string to attach to their birds' foot when training outdoor recall before freefly. They said it was fine. I don't feel comfortable with using a string. I bought an elastic cord. I was afraid the jerk might dislocate his leg.
One day, on the way home after feeding the birds at my sis in law's house, #3 took off suddenly. The snap hook broke loose and he was up in a tree, about 5 storey high. I knew I couldn't get him down as he was never attached to anyone of us.
I quickly walked home and brought the other 2 babies along hoping he would come down to join his siblings. He climbed even higher. I had lost hope of getting him back. I payed their voice recording on my phone. The volume was too soft to be hear as the trees were along a main road.
I had to return home as I haven't fed the birds yet. It was 8 am then. After breakfast I returned to the scene. I transfered the voice recording to a portable mp3 radio player. I brought a baby out this time. When I played the player, he got excited. He flew back and forth between 2 trees but didn't want to come down. I really lost hope then. At 9.30am I had to leave for work. Before I left for work, I passed by at 10.30am, he was still in the tree.
I returned at 12.30pm with the 2 babies in a cage, a piece of spray millet and the radio player. This time he flew down but refused to fly to me when I got near him. My heart was pounding very fast, I was too excited. Since he didn't want to come to me, I stood away from the cage. After a few manuevering here and there he finally landed on the cage to greet his siblings. Then he climbed down from the cage to eat the millet. I slowly walked to him, talked to him softly and I slowly approached him with my hand commanding him to step up. I was too busy eating the millet and ignored me. This is the best time to grab hold of him and quickly took him in the car and put him in the cage.
Since then, I harnessed all the babies when I took them out. He is now doing very well on outdoor training since this incident. When I launched him, he always flew back to me and no more sudden take off now during our outdoor walk.
. Did you sell the other two conure babies and are keeping this one?
