I decided I’m not breeding birds anymore because I just found it too hard to say bye to the baby. So I gave up all my breeding pairs except for the Indian Ringnecks as I never actually paired them and the blue parrotlets because I find them just too cute! Today as I sat here, I decided it’s time for me to start taming and training these little blue birdies because I want their time here to be enjoyable and not just stay in a Cage watching the other birds get love and attention while they get nothing…
Will I breed them? I still haven’t decided if eventually I might have to because they already had a clutch. I will let them decide what they want to do. I’m extremely excited about this journey because a lot of people say birds that have matured and have never been handled and are paired will never be tamed and friendly. We’ll see. I welcome the challenge.
My goal is to have all the birds that live with me to live a fulfilling, successful, full potential life. I feel like I’m far from that goal at the moment
but after listening to the audiobook of Irene Pepperberg’s “Alex and Me”, it gave me anew hope. I hope you will follow our Journey on this. I will post here every Tuesday – “Training Tuesday with Parrotlets” and every Tuesday my weekly work with them will be posted on our Youtube Channel.
My first goal is to eliminate their scare. They are completely afraid of humans even being near their cage. I moved their cage to my bedroom. I find the intimacy of a bird being in my room seems to make birds feel more at home or comfortable I guess because your in a relaxing setting of your house which they can sense (not sure). But anytime I feel I need more time with a parrot, this is what I do and it seems to make us have a stronger connection. Next step will be clicker training, target training and having them eat from my hand and of course the final beginning stage will be having them step up to me. They are both fully flighted. I have named them Bonnie and Clyde (not that they know their names but hopefully they will soon learn them.) I will be moving them back and forth between their cage and the aluminum travel cage I have just to get them out of the habit of “this is our territory”.
I’m not a professional this is just me thinking out my ass and trying to figure things out as I go along but I’m so hopeful and the task gives me a real “purpose”. Sometimes I feel my life lacks purpose. Maybe this is why I have so many parrots because my interactions with them fill me up ( I don’t know) but I’m so excited. I can’t contain myself. Today I’m transferring them to the aluminum travel cage so I can clean their cage completely out. I was also thinking of keeping them side by side but separating them during the day and putting them back together during the night as it might make it easier to connect with each one but I won’t jump the gun I will try it with both of them first and make a decision from there. Anyhow please like, comment and join our family of followers! Also subscribe to our Youtube channel! Can’t promise I will make a difference in your life but you never know what you might learn or ideas you might get along the way.
