Hi All, new in town and I am thinking about purchasing a Senegal Parrot. I will be a first time parrot owner and I am looking for some advice.
Primarily I want to know two things
1 Are they readily available?
2 Will a non-hand reared Senegal still make a good pet parrot?
The reason I am looking at Senegals is because they are a nice size and are quite compared to others, but if you have any other suggestions then feel fee to let me know
Yes Senegals are often available and no, you need a hand reared one if you want a tame one.
Have you thought to join the Parrot Society UK (you can google them) if you join you will receive a monthly mag full of good information and folk who breed and advertise their birds.
Many member on here keep Conures, they seem perhaps to be in some ways a better and not so 'schizo' bird that many Sennies turn out to be!
hi and welcome to the forum! well as you can see by the name above Di's avatar she is the sennie slave and used to breed them what she doesn't know isn't worth knowing! well having an untame Senegal I to can also say with confidence no get a hand reared bird! lol mine hates me and my partner but him a little less but she bites and attacks and trust me a sennie bite is painful they have an amazing beak for such a little bird and hold on, so hand reared all the way, have you looked into caiques? these are a similar size and completely nuts, so much fun and smashing little birds, having said that if its a sennie you want they to are smashing birds
Hello and welcome I love the Senegal parrot but they can give a nip at times when unexpected. They are lovely bird that thrive on interaction and training I like the term skits so bird as most of the time that are wonderful but just as quickly fright I have three and each at a time has given me a bite and even now I have the marks where my sparky bit into my finger the other day. I call them clingons as they do not let go too quickly. The beak of them is powerful to a point that they have no problem opening a walnut. Saying that I love them and that are great companions the y can get quite bonded to one person and even build them a nest that they will protect from others going near it. My Terry has been staying with an elderly lady and has made a nest in the back of her new setee and will even stop me getting too close to it. Away from his nest he is my sweet little sennie no let is a great bird but when he got frights end once he gave me a nip whilst trying to get away but not bad and he lets me do any thing with him sparky he is extra lay cage protective and I have to be carful when going in it or cleaning it out side his cage he is lovely I have to say that with these birds no matter what you will at some stage get bitten I have two cuts into my finger from his top beak and one from the bottom beak. I have herd them being called as Dracula and vampire birds but they are also very intelligent and love learning tricks. I woul have to say do not get a sennie that has not been hand reared I prefer part parent reared and give them a lot of one to one time.
As I have just watched my BF Amazon, Alfie, remove the top of the door frame in temper at it being bedtime when he didn't want to go.....errrr get a bird with a less powerful beak than an ammie if you still want your house to be standing :shock: is the best advice i can at this second in time give you....either that or have a carpenter and a builder on speed dial!! :scare:
Conures a lovely birdies .... hmmm as are all parrots really but we're all parrot addicts on here be it a budgie or a tiel (personally i think they are both under rated and are super little birdies) all the way through to the bigger peeps like the macaws and Too's but i personally wouldn't recommend anybody inexperienced had either of those two species as a pet.... parrots are very very intelligent and are companions not pets.
You have looked at the species that interests you which is great now you have to work out what you as they say "can bring to the party" what can you offer and give to a bird as intelligent as these are? Then do some more research as you already are, how many hours out time you can offer, research their dietary requirements, cage wise the bigger the better, insurance, avian vet availability in your area etc etc.... its a never ending learning curve .... but its an amazing life style change living with these precious companions...even if you no longer have a door frame top!!!
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