#Caique 

They are awesome and affectionate - I'm raising some babies, contact me if you want info 😃

Awesome! Yeah, I like feeling like people have a chance at bonding- by expecting it to take time. Glad things are going well with your shy girl 😀 Have you considered joining the membership? I think you’d like our discord group 😀

Yeahhh...I have two budgies that I got over a year ago, and even though I consistently work with them and don't push them to do things they don't want to do, they're still barely hand-tame. And I've watched a lot of those training videos you mentioned. I'm happy for people who are able to train their birds that fast, but a lot of it really is down to individual birds, too. I've had some birds that became comfortable with hands fairly quickly. Not these two though. 😂

LMK how it goes

That’s awesome! I live that you obviously work with your Amazon, makes all the difference. Is your Amazon loud?

@@ParrotBliss thank u :) Yes - we work with him a lot on appropriate behavior and he's learned what be gentle and don't break it mean 😊 We also do some training. And a funny thing we reinforce - he wants endless cuddles before going into his sleeping cage at night and we'll often cuddle him for quite a while. It's made him cuddlier in general 😁 He's not usually loud. His sounds are very pleasant and make our home feel happy :) We have music on for him when he's in the aviary or a cage and he likes to whistle or sing with the music 💞 If we don't have music on he's more likely to get bored and start being loud. Also, if he gets hungry in his aviary he'll start getting loud. (He doesn't like going in to eat in the cage we have inside the aviary to help reduce the food mess, although he's fine eating on the play top. Also, because of some of my kids' severe wheat allergies we feed our birds Harrison's allergy formula in the great room. We usually supplement by giving him chop and some grains on the playtop on the cage inside the aviary that he LOVES. We give him some chop and grains usually every few hours and a couple of almonds (that I put inside the smaller cage in the aviary) and that usually keeps him happy :) If he can hear us having fun elsewhere in the house when he's in the aviary or big cage in our great room he'll get really loud. Sometimes he and our pionus have fun yelling back and forth with each other, but it's maybe a few times a week for 20 min or something. Our Amazon (and pionus) is also quiet in the morning! We're so lucky 🍀 !!! (We can sleep in if we want!) We hand raised our Amazon from the time he was 2 months old, idk if that made a difference? And he was our only parrot at the time, so our house was pretty quiet. Our pionus probably talks more and is probably louder because he had an Amazon older brother, though 😆 They're about 6 months apart.

@@ks4893-m8v yes, raising the baby makes a huge difference- sounds like you have a great flock!

@@ParrotBliss👍 Thx! We think so, too!

Gracias Yesid

That is so funny! Parrots love hearing their same species! I'm glad you are doing so well weith Keetu. Spending a lot of time with them makes a huge difference. I'm guessing it's been 15 of the best years of your life!

@@ParrotBliss "best years of my life" errr let me think about that one, lol. He has certainty been my favourite pet, and probably the smartest, a higher IQ than myself for sure ! 🤔

Love Caiques!

Bit through your thumbnail? Ohhhhhh!

Yes. When he bit, Dean was in the room. It was unprovoked and without warning. His upper beak went through the nail and the lower beak sliced through the fleshy pad of my thumb. I probably should have gone to the ER but I dressed it myself. It took about a month to heal. Anyway, Ivar is still here and he’s a work in progress. He can’t help it. And, we love him even if he is a wacko.

@@1hawaii21 Rescue risk… he can’t help it, makes you wonder what happened in his past. On the other hand, he’s not allowed to do it again! Time heals wounds, but parrots need plenty of time for healing emotional wounds

Wow, Kate, sorry for your loss. Yes, parrots can be life-savers. One thing that happened is that you became more comfortable and confident with Bertie, which allowed him to relax too. For me, parrots can give me a deep, loving bond. It's different than a relationship, but it's amazing because they truly share life's journey with us. Most of life is such that when you go through the fire metaphorically speaking, like you have with Bertie, you change, evolve and grow. So glad you guys have each other. Thank you for posting.

Sorry about your dog- but it sounds like your Caique has bounced back! That's great! 21 years old, how fantastic!

No idea, is it down feathers?

@@ParrotBliss Not sure I just noticed some grey looking feather on the chest area so I thought you might no what it could be

@@streetfightervsxenoverse1832 make take a pic and post it in the Parrot Bliss Facebook group.

I’ve chosen quieter conures