Here is Jingle ...
(Sorry - the picture is so dark.)
The bird store that I frequent - almost weekly - had a sale on birds yesterday and I fell in love with the bird.
The story - Saturday night a couple walked into the store with a cockatoo (don't remember what kind) and this severe macaw. The couple was moving and couldn't take the birds with them. They had the birds for 10-12 years. That's all we know about their ages.
The owner of the store and one of the workers had to give them a bath/shower before they could even put them in the store.
When I saw him yesterday his head was covered in feather shafts.
His left eye is red and could be either an infection or could be irritated by the bath/shower. The pads of his feet are a little red and we think its from the perches he was on. So I put rope perches mostly in his cage but he has a couple of other perches too. He is still dirty - I could tell from the stuff left on his perch from where he was preening. Yuk!!
I feel like I got a deal on him/her. He doesn't like to step up from inside his cage but does step up and likes to be on your shoulder...at your head...preening you. Last night while I was wiping down his cage and putting in his new perches and toys he was talking to me. I can't tell you what he says right now but some of it is - hello, hi, what cha doing?, You cleaning?, put that right there, night night, going to work? (his reply to me when I told him I had to go to work this morning).
I gave him a bowl full last night of all kinds of seeds, dried corn, nuts (he doesn't like brazil nuts or pine nuts), coconut, and pellets. He ate the pellets. He likes to dunk his pellets.
I will take him to the vet tomorrow.
He is not near my other birds.
(Sorry - the picture is so dark.)
The bird store that I frequent - almost weekly - had a sale on birds yesterday and I fell in love with the bird.
The story - Saturday night a couple walked into the store with a cockatoo (don't remember what kind) and this severe macaw. The couple was moving and couldn't take the birds with them. They had the birds for 10-12 years. That's all we know about their ages.
The owner of the store and one of the workers had to give them a bath/shower before they could even put them in the store.
When I saw him yesterday his head was covered in feather shafts.
His left eye is red and could be either an infection or could be irritated by the bath/shower. The pads of his feet are a little red and we think its from the perches he was on. So I put rope perches mostly in his cage but he has a couple of other perches too. He is still dirty - I could tell from the stuff left on his perch from where he was preening. Yuk!!
I feel like I got a deal on him/her. He doesn't like to step up from inside his cage but does step up and likes to be on your shoulder...at your head...preening you. Last night while I was wiping down his cage and putting in his new perches and toys he was talking to me. I can't tell you what he says right now but some of it is - hello, hi, what cha doing?, You cleaning?, put that right there, night night, going to work? (his reply to me when I told him I had to go to work this morning).
I gave him a bowl full last night of all kinds of seeds, dried corn, nuts (he doesn't like brazil nuts or pine nuts), coconut, and pellets. He ate the pellets. He likes to dunk his pellets.
I will take him to the vet tomorrow.
He is not near my other birds.
