What Does Your Conure's Day Look Like?

[Oiseau]

Hi Parrot-lovers,

It's been a few weeks with our little GCC, Nellie. We're slowly learning each other's rhythms and how to establish certain patterns throughout the day that are sustainable, cage-time vs non-cage time, interaction vs alone time out of the cage etc. It would be great to see what other Conures' days look like.

TIA

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Pearl
Nellie
Govi

 

[bonita]

Dear Oiseau, Paddy is a 8 yr.male,he follows me like a dog landing onmy left shoulder a lot. He is in the cage some, mostly with me.He goes outside in flight cage for sunshine enrichment.He eats pellets seed mix and fresh carrots chopped and fruit,peaches Strawberrys,Blueberries.Sometimes he watches videos of other birds,he seems to enjoy.
He is kind of my shaddow.

 

[Laurasea]

Son after I get up, I let her and the other birds out if the cage and serve a veggies mix on top of the cages, an hour or so later she comes and steals bites from my breakfast. Then she hangs out on her bungee rope over the breakfast bar and chews on stuff, does her feathers, maybe naps.

She comes fir snuggles late morning. I cage her around lunch time, she often takes a bath st that time, then chills till she is dry. When I let her out again she hangs out with me. Then I offer Vega and food and she and the others hang out on the cage tops

I put them in the cage for an hour in the afternoon, then they are very active when I let them out .

6-7 somewhere in there they are put up for the night
Then I have special one on one time with just Tadah around 830 pm until she is done snuggling. Ta-dah choose this time and demands it, if I don’t get her out she escapes the cage and comes to me, she has done this I three different cages types and I don’t know how!?! It’s tge only time she ever escapes the cage, but if I honor our mom and me time she doesn’t do this

I have no strict schedule except fir the bed time, and get up time

 

[Qckslvr]

My wife and I have had our Sun Conure Percival (Perci) for 3 days now, and he is about 9 weeks old.

We have a computer room where his sleeping cage is, and have blackout the window with card board.

At 10 Am my wife will remove the card board from the window and wake up Perci. He is normally already playing in his cage. She then opens the cage at which point he still plays with his favorite toy. She will remove his bowls and as she gets ready to leave the room he will fly out and sit on her shoulder.

He then comes downstairs. She will place him on his training perch after cleaning his bowls and start target training him with a clicker. He has already learned step up and step down After 5 minutes of training it is weighing time. He sits on our postal scale very well. 3.8 ozs . From there my wife will do some chores and what not and he we hang out either with her, or on his activity set. He has a main cage too that the door is open to. He gets put in there for guests, or when the wife needs to do something. For the most part though he is out. Perci will get random training sessions through the day. his favorites are sunflower seeds and chopped almonds.

I forgot to mention, after his first training session he gets breakfast. He loves ocra, string beans, and green bell pepper. He does NOT like broccoli or sweet potato, he is on the fence with cauliflower. For dinner he gets BirdTricks organic pellets. Which he loves. Didn’t even have to bribe him, he took them instantly.

Between 9 and 10 pm he goes back to his sleeper cage, we interact with him. Give him some play time, and put the cardboard back over the window. About 30 minutes after we leave the room the lights are turned off.(all our lights are controlled via app)

I took my security cam from outside and stuck it in his room the day we got him. Once the light is out he is normally out as well. Couple times at night he will roam, eat, drink, then back to sleep.

And so far that is Percival’s routine.

 

[T00tsyd]

Syd has his sleep cage in the spare room. He often calls at about 6 - 6.30am but that's too early for me. I usually get him up at about 7.30 - 8am and as soon as I open his cage he is out and on top. I open the curtains etc but he insists on a chat before he is ready to move to his day cage. He has his breakfast in his cage and is perfectly happy until I prep my breakfast. Once he has a bit of that again he is happy and I let him out after I have eaten, otherwise there is no peace.

He comes out with me by about 9 and then it's chores with him on my shoulder. By about 11 he is happy to hang out in his cage. Sometimes he comes out before lunch but once again once he has had a bite of something suitable that looks as though it has come from my plate he is happy to let me eat lunch on my own. He naps after lunch and is often quite quiet until about 4 then he is out again until bedtime at 7.30pm.

We tend not to have formal training sessions so much as regular moments during the day in different situations. We chat almost constantly and he will initiate games of saying a word to me until I copy then will immediately change the word and wait to see if I change with him. I often do the same to him. He is currently learning to stay still and let me handle his feet when I say 'foot'. In 2 days he has learned the ropes and now I will introduce the clippers with the plan of getting him confident enough to let me clip his nails single handed without holding him cupped in my hands while someone else does it. During lock down his nails have had to grow.

Sometimes he will have a bath, but not every day and will dry off in my hair very happily tucked in behind my head if he gets the chance. Bedtime is around 7.30-8pm. A treat as he goes in his cage - a sunflower seed - a song which he does his best to sing along with, then I cover him while he says 'goodnight baby' several times with always 'I'm sorry baby' as I close the door. I have no idea why the last words. It always makes me feel guilty. He is usually quiet then until the morning.

 

[Cagzo]

Connie gets uncovered at about 8.00am. She waits patiently for a tiny piece of toast (she wants what I have) Her cage gets wheeled out to the kitchen at about 10.00,when she comes out. We have a kiss for 3 sunflower hearts,she knows the routine! Then watches intently while her cage is cleaned and perches wiped down.
She then plays along the work tops,and is fascinated by washing up water,though doesnt want to get wet! We have more playtime on the kitchen table,where she plays with a foil ball,or a pen! I have her on my finger to learn words,face to face!
Then its time to make her a chop dish of grape,apple,pear,Shreddie nuts,with a sprinkling of ground pellets on it. (trying to get her to eat her pellets) She helps with this by stealing bits and running away!
Normally she goes back to her cage on her own for a little nap.

As I have cats she doesnt get complete freedom,but seems to be a happy little thing,quacking and grinding!

 

[Oiseau]

Thanks for all the detailed replies, they're great!

A question for those whose birds sit on your shoulder. How does that work with the nippy factor and getting them off? Currently only one of our birds has shoulder privileges. I've yet to allow Nellie up on my shoulder until she's polite about stepping onto my finger to come down. She's pretty good at stepping up from her cage, or the floor, or her perch hangout but then there are the random times she's not interested in stepping up at all and she nips.

Right now, after being let out earlier and eaten some apple and a bit of kale she's perched at the top of her cage on her colored stick perch enjoying the view and chattering away occasionally. She'll go back in her cage for an hour or so sometime in the early afternoon. She's usually not keen on this, runs back and forth in her cage and quacks. I have to close the door so she can't see me. When I peek in after five minutes or so she's usually exploring her cage or eating which makes me feel better about putting her in her cage. I've been researching what her different sounds mean but having found anything definitive.

I have to admit that Conure-care is a whole other level of bird care. They need so much more than cockatiels do and I'm having to readjust my expectations around what is realistic with her, as well as finding rhythms that are sustainable long-term for both of us.


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Pearl
Nellie
Govi