New from NS Canada

[Victory]

Greetings fellow feathered friend lovers,

I find I use this site a lot. So much so it made sense to join.

I have a 5 month old peach faced love bird. I've had her about 6 weeks. She was not handfed or tamed, rather lived among a flock of 40 in a breeder's aviary.

Zeianna loves healthy food I'm happy to say. I make her mash and freeze in small round ice cube trays. Her favorite is banana/apple/millet but she'll also eat kale/apple/carrot/cooked hamburg/millet. I discovered lately she LOVES sprouts. Not alfalfa but lentil, garbanzo bean, peas. She 'shells' the outer skin and eats and/or tosses the various bits into the air.

Zeianna loves her bath, many times a day. She loves chewing on paper and her favorite thing lately is chewing on an organic pumpkin stem.

She makes all sorts of interesting and ear splitting sounds. It sounds like she's saying 'pretty bird' sometimes but I don't think lovies talk do they?

So far I've been able to gradually get her used to my hand in the cage, though at times she will still squawk and jump away. I've gotten her to step up onto a stick when out of the cage. It's definitely slow going but she seems to enjoy me being near the cage which I am an hour or two a day, talking to her, making her new toys or cleaning the cage or feeding her.

I'm looking forward to tapping into the wealth of knowledge and experience here.I am interested in connecting with lovebird owners and breeders in Nova Scotia also.

Victory

 

[antoinette]

Welcome Victory
Glad you decided to join our awesome forum
Zeianna sounds awesome
Please share some pic's with us

 

[Tinker]

Hi Victory,

I also have Love birds and am a newbie on here. My love birds were from the pet shop and were only about a month or so old when I got them. They were not really tame at first but they are getting quite brave now and have been running up and down my leg chewing sticks from the park. Every time they jump on my arm I give them a seed or a treat as a reward. They really like dried sweetcorn which comes in the bigger parrot food.

I think it is really useful to hear what Zeianna likes eating and it is a great idea to use ice cube trays to store the food for her. My two like eating runner beans and kale that we have grown in the garden. They seam to prefer their fresh food in the shape of a bean pegged into the cage rather than in a food dish for example.

I think I am going to try them on some of the foods you have mentioned. When you say mash do you mean that you mash the banana and apple up together and then freeze?

 

[Sc0tt]

Welcome!

There is indeed a plethora of knowledge located in these forums. Also you will find the best/most supportive group of real parrot enthusiasts happy to answer ANY of your questions.

Also, we all love pictures :]

 

[TessieB]

Howdy! Glad to have you! Those lovebirds are something else, aren't they?