ShaunaR
Supporting Member
Hi everyone,
I posted our mishap under cages but thought I would post a general update here. We ended up changing this little soul's name from Kiki to Pixie. It just seemed to fit her fearless tiny demeanor. You will see in the pics that she has a small bruise to her beak from a fall from one of the perches in her cage. I was busy making changes in there and she tried to fly to my head, missed and somehow hurt her beak. I nearly had a fit and cried but after a call to the Vet and close monitoring she will be ok. Needless to say she hasn't been back in the cage. We just use her carrier at night and when I can't hold her. She has been awesome in terms of eating! She accepts whatever I offer and at least tastes it. She still relies on a pablum-type mixture with softened Harrison's crumbles for the bulk of her feeding (I just make it luke warm and she eats it from a dish). She certainly eats a bunch of different foods as well. I noticed she liked to poop on a paper towel the first time I fed her so I have used this to teach her. I would say that 80% of the time when I put here there and say, "Go Poop" she just wiggles her butt and goes!
So we are trying to figure out how to revamp her cage so as to block the top half. Any advice on how to safely do that is much appreciated. We are expecting her Pac o Bird to arrive any day so will use that at night until we either get a smaller cage or block this one. The trouble with the cage is that she insists on climbing the bars instead of the perches and immediately heads for the very top. Then she screetches at me to come and help her down! She tries to use the perches to get down but isn't coordinated enough yet. They are the small diameter rope perches and I have plenty of them connected all over the place and mixed with natural wood ones so there is no shortage.
Here she is!
I posted our mishap under cages but thought I would post a general update here. We ended up changing this little soul's name from Kiki to Pixie. It just seemed to fit her fearless tiny demeanor. You will see in the pics that she has a small bruise to her beak from a fall from one of the perches in her cage. I was busy making changes in there and she tried to fly to my head, missed and somehow hurt her beak. I nearly had a fit and cried but after a call to the Vet and close monitoring she will be ok. Needless to say she hasn't been back in the cage. We just use her carrier at night and when I can't hold her. She has been awesome in terms of eating! She accepts whatever I offer and at least tastes it. She still relies on a pablum-type mixture with softened Harrison's crumbles for the bulk of her feeding (I just make it luke warm and she eats it from a dish). She certainly eats a bunch of different foods as well. I noticed she liked to poop on a paper towel the first time I fed her so I have used this to teach her. I would say that 80% of the time when I put here there and say, "Go Poop" she just wiggles her butt and goes!
So we are trying to figure out how to revamp her cage so as to block the top half. Any advice on how to safely do that is much appreciated. We are expecting her Pac o Bird to arrive any day so will use that at night until we either get a smaller cage or block this one. The trouble with the cage is that she insists on climbing the bars instead of the perches and immediately heads for the very top. Then she screetches at me to come and help her down! She tries to use the perches to get down but isn't coordinated enough yet. They are the small diameter rope perches and I have plenty of them connected all over the place and mixed with natural wood ones so there is no shortage.
Here she is!
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