ParrotGenie
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- Jan 10, 2019
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- 2 umbrella Cockatoos One male named Cooper and female named Baby 1 Little Corella male named Frankie and have 5 Cockatiels three named Male named Pepper, Fiesco for the female and female named Wylie.
She one of the birds that I am training and working out aggression issues, she not mines. She was named Randy due to they thought she was a boy and a year later lay a egg and found out she was a female. They kept the name as she is use to it. She is around 18 years old. She had a rough past as owner before current owners didn't really care for her as she was past down from from their grandmother. They pretty much left her in a cage most the time and at times roam the house, but didn't feed her a proper diet, or give her the exercise she needed, plus cage was way to small for her to even spread her wings, no toys, or ETC. So one day they they decided to dump her for quick cash and store owners felt sorry for her and bought her off of them.
The issues is new owners are afraid to handle her often due to behavior issues and she very aggressive at times and bite very hard. She won't step up and attack anyone that came near. Even feeding her was a was a chore as she even block you from changing her food as she in a walk in enclosure custom built for her, as she has bad cage aggression, plus she higher then eye level. Cage aggression is cause by not being let out the hours she needs a day and only let out every once in a while and not enough toys, they did fix that issues already. So working with her to get her more social and working with owners on what needed, care and attention they need. She does eat better at least as they do feed her pellets and fresh vegetables and other food that the vet told them to when she first received her. They are listening as they since did a few upgrades, the lady really does love her, it just she can't take the hard bites at time and is somewhat bonded to her, but still bites at times, but been working with them and her. They were use to smaller birds like quaker parrot and cockatiels which they had the cockatiel for over 20 years. Yes cockatiels live that long when taken care off correctly.
She was check out by a vet already and has a clean bill of health on blood tests and etc. Her wings are like and can't hold them in due to being cramped up in small cage and lack of good diet before, so her muscles deteriorated over time. She can fly short distances.
I do have to take her a much needed shower as she hasn't had a good bath in months and only gets sprayed once in a while. Thankfully my umbrellas cockatoos know her. She is quite the talker and even curses likely taught from last immature owners.
The issues is new owners are afraid to handle her often due to behavior issues and she very aggressive at times and bite very hard. She won't step up and attack anyone that came near. Even feeding her was a was a chore as she even block you from changing her food as she in a walk in enclosure custom built for her, as she has bad cage aggression, plus she higher then eye level. Cage aggression is cause by not being let out the hours she needs a day and only let out every once in a while and not enough toys, they did fix that issues already. So working with her to get her more social and working with owners on what needed, care and attention they need. She does eat better at least as they do feed her pellets and fresh vegetables and other food that the vet told them to when she first received her. They are listening as they since did a few upgrades, the lady really does love her, it just she can't take the hard bites at time and is somewhat bonded to her, but still bites at times, but been working with them and her. They were use to smaller birds like quaker parrot and cockatiels which they had the cockatiel for over 20 years. Yes cockatiels live that long when taken care off correctly.
She was check out by a vet already and has a clean bill of health on blood tests and etc. Her wings are like and can't hold them in due to being cramped up in small cage and lack of good diet before, so her muscles deteriorated over time. She can fly short distances.
I do have to take her a much needed shower as she hasn't had a good bath in months and only gets sprayed once in a while. Thankfully my umbrellas cockatoos know her. She is quite the talker and even curses likely taught from last immature owners.
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