![]() Its another year after that and he is still very social. He was waiting in a tree and so happy to see us! (I was afraid he’d be loving the freedom but he flew down to me to go home) When we got within earshot, he sure let us know where he was, he was the loudest bird on the block. After he landed (location unknown), my dog and I walked the neighbourhood in search of him, calling him. To my stupid mistake, one year after getting him, he escaped outside and flew the neighbourhood in circles for at least 15min. He loves every person who walks in the door and is strongly bonded with my dogs. Through caring and confidence, he’s become the most social bird I know. He was afraid of people and hands in particular. I got my cockatiel when he was around 4mths old, fully weaned, never hand fed or sociallized with people. They bond to the person they trust and who cares for them Proof that you can have a strong bond even if you were not united at a very early age. Wouldn’t a lot of parrot owners love to have that sort of happier companion? For instance, parent raised birds are known to almost never overpluck or self-mutilate. Money rules in business and until the pet trade consumer stops buying parent deprived pets the abuses and huge behavior problems after the birds mature won’t stop. Hardly the income they envision when compared to pulling eggs early and triple clutching every pair or pulling very young babies for hand feeding and getting almost that. Fledging is also vital in the young birds development!īreeders tend to ignore this well understood process because it cuts production to maybe a clutch per year per pair. Babies should stay with the parents and clutch till fledging if possible. The mother and father teach essential lessons (And food acceptances!) and humans interact during the process so we become Flock, not parents and potential mates. Mixed Parenting is the more educated way to raise parrots. NO hand feeding program gives the babies anywhere near the time and attention they are evolved to learn from during vital growing steps. Stating with sexually imprinting the babies on humans. Like not biting! And separating the babies from the natural socializtion the ‘Parent Deprivation’ (The real description of hand feeding) causes damages them severely as adults. The natural parents teach far too many things humans can’t. Sexual and social imprinting Has to happen in the nest for any animal that flies or the young die as soon as they gain flight. And Never done in any qualified exotic animal breeding program in the zoological field unless Absolutely necessary. The best animal experts and avian vets recognize that handfeeding by humans is a huge problem. After 20 yrs I am still learning from this site Thanks to All Please take this advice, and really get to know what can be fed to your birds, many loose them, sadly from something they innocently think the bird can eat!! Having their wings clipped and nails clipped are just as important!! Thanks to all of you for your input and advice. No matter what animals you have, raise,or breed, we all need to share our information with other owners, breeders, or friends so we don’t loose anymore animals needlessly. Thanks for the advice to newbies and even old hands with birds. A newly hatched bird has no idea when they are full! Mother Nature left that up to us, when there are no bird parents.The birds have to be fed a lot more often and you have to know when and how much, or we will sadly be reading another story similar to this one. Ppl don’t realize that they have approached a bigger challange than raising newborn kids. As a bird lover, I did it the lazy way~~~purchased eggs and went from there. ![]() Even the most experienced lose birds from time to time. It is SO much more than simply syringing food into a beak. You have to know when and how to begin weaning. You need to know how to monitor the baby’s weight gain. You may have never heard of some of these terms, which is reason enough for for you not to consider hand feeding.You have to know how to recognize that the crop is not emptying as it should and what to do in that event. ![]() Many inexperienced people are taking birds that are too young home to do a job that is not for the unqualified.There are MANY things that can go wrong during the hand feeding process: aspiration, crop burn, crop stasis and bacterial infection, to name a few. A bird will go on to have the closest of bonds with the human being who takes her home to love and care for her for the rest of her life. During hand feeding, a baby bird learns about trusting humans in general, not just a particular person. Many new owners-to-be seem to believe that the bonding process with a baby bird begins during hand feeding.People think that a bond with their new bird will be stronger if they do it themselves.This is not true.
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