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I'm not sure whether this is the right place to post about this, but I'm seeking advice with a Meyers Parrot! Her name is temple, she's around 6 months old and we've had her for a few weeks now. My dad is often at work an hour away for 7-8 hours of the day, however I'm at home most of the day because I only go to school for around three and a half hours. I have owned birds previously, such as a parrotlet, galah, and a grass parrot, though they were all very different to this gorgeous girl.
I've found she loves her sunflower seeds, but she doesn't seem to have much interest in any toys. We have a handmade perch thingy on a table next to the window, which she's now figured out she can land on (it has multiple perches, supported by a fairly heavy wooden block, so it is pretty stable and also has toys attached to it.) She likes sitting there and also on the top of her cage.
I haven't noticed much aggression from her towards me, though she's not the biggest fan of my dad. She does get pretty flighty sometimes, though she doesn't bite and she will step up, eat treats sometimes from our hands, and has sat on my shoulder while I've been doing stuff around the house.
Where I'm seeking advice is the flighty part and the lack of playing with her toys. She hasn't entirely figured out the house yet, so often when she "bolts", she ends up attaching herself to the wall, curtains, or just flying into the window or mirrors, which I'm aware is a risk. My last bird was hand reared by me, we got him at 2 weeks old and he learnt the house before he could fly, so I'm not entirely sure how to approach this. The other issue is that as I said she will step up, but if I move at more than a snail speed she bolts, and if my brother comes anywhere near her she either runs up my arm and gets tangled in my hair or launches herself to her cage and more often than not it isn't a graceful landing. As for the lack of her usage of her toys, we do have little weaved balls she can throw around and chew, and we have a large toy with wood and rope that she can climb on, along with some toys with bells and sticks she can shred + already shredded paper. I've tried to get her to play with these, but she doesn't generally do much more than sit on her seed dish or scream at me until I take her out of the cage, then she goes to land on the perch and continues screaming at me, which I do live in an apartment so you can imagine how that is going.
She does also spend quite a large time out of her cage, as I said we've had her for a few weeks now (so at least a month, and we also met her before we took her home), around 4 hours is spent outside of her cage at MINIMUM, she comes out with me usually for an hour or two and hangs around with me in the morning, she has her own pillow on my bed and everything, then I leave her for a little to eat and do her own thing (I do bring her seed into my room when she is with me, if she is hungry) and she later will let me know when she wants out again.
Again I am in the house with her majority of the time, as mentioned I am still in highschool so excuse my lack of experience with this kind of stuff. This is also a completely different environment for me to have birds in, as I've moved houses 3 times now, and I also don't live with the same parent anymore.
And my apologies if this was not the right place to post this! I'm just not entirely sure what is good or bad, as my other birds have all been very friendly
(grass parrot and parrotlet were hand raised/reared by me, the galah was rescued by me)
I've found she loves her sunflower seeds, but she doesn't seem to have much interest in any toys. We have a handmade perch thingy on a table next to the window, which she's now figured out she can land on (it has multiple perches, supported by a fairly heavy wooden block, so it is pretty stable and also has toys attached to it.) She likes sitting there and also on the top of her cage.
I haven't noticed much aggression from her towards me, though she's not the biggest fan of my dad. She does get pretty flighty sometimes, though she doesn't bite and she will step up, eat treats sometimes from our hands, and has sat on my shoulder while I've been doing stuff around the house.
Where I'm seeking advice is the flighty part and the lack of playing with her toys. She hasn't entirely figured out the house yet, so often when she "bolts", she ends up attaching herself to the wall, curtains, or just flying into the window or mirrors, which I'm aware is a risk. My last bird was hand reared by me, we got him at 2 weeks old and he learnt the house before he could fly, so I'm not entirely sure how to approach this. The other issue is that as I said she will step up, but if I move at more than a snail speed she bolts, and if my brother comes anywhere near her she either runs up my arm and gets tangled in my hair or launches herself to her cage and more often than not it isn't a graceful landing. As for the lack of her usage of her toys, we do have little weaved balls she can throw around and chew, and we have a large toy with wood and rope that she can climb on, along with some toys with bells and sticks she can shred + already shredded paper. I've tried to get her to play with these, but she doesn't generally do much more than sit on her seed dish or scream at me until I take her out of the cage, then she goes to land on the perch and continues screaming at me, which I do live in an apartment so you can imagine how that is going.
She does also spend quite a large time out of her cage, as I said we've had her for a few weeks now (so at least a month, and we also met her before we took her home), around 4 hours is spent outside of her cage at MINIMUM, she comes out with me usually for an hour or two and hangs around with me in the morning, she has her own pillow on my bed and everything, then I leave her for a little to eat and do her own thing (I do bring her seed into my room when she is with me, if she is hungry) and she later will let me know when she wants out again.
Again I am in the house with her majority of the time, as mentioned I am still in highschool so excuse my lack of experience with this kind of stuff. This is also a completely different environment for me to have birds in, as I've moved houses 3 times now, and I also don't live with the same parent anymore.
And my apologies if this was not the right place to post this! I'm just not entirely sure what is good or bad, as my other birds have all been very friendly
(grass parrot and parrotlet were hand raised/reared by me, the galah was rescued by me)
very fast flyer . Until he got his bearings we draped a net curtain over the mirror and window. I gradually took these off and let him touch the glass with his beak from my hand so he realised it was solid. He loved his fruit and veg and also had low sunflower seed mix. Very affectionate little boy. He would go asleep on my shoulder tucked up tight to my neck . I must say though he could be very reactive to loud noises. And I wasn't allowed to have a phone up to my ear...that was his place .
