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Greetings: (Maggie typing for Jay)...To be polite, Bird tricks and I have not agreed with each other for over a decade, it seems. I personally don't believe in their techniques. Okay, on with the good stuff...Timbersmom is right on... Veggies: Green leafy (kale, mustard greens, dandelion greens, (not too much spinach because it has salt), etc., broccoli, cauliflower, (our Salsa loves cooked cauliflower with peanut butter mixed in ) carrots (slightly boiled because the cooking process brings out the nutrients), sweet potatoes/yams, red/orange/yellow bell peppers, zucchini, squash, peas, lentils, and split peas, etc. Nuts: Almonds, (crack the shell at the tip so your Grey can dig out the nut), walnuts (a total of three a day is great), and pistachios (No salt). Fruits: A couple times a week...red, seeded grapes, papaya, apple, and mango, etc. Legumes: Great for parrots, cooked organic no-salt garbanzo beans 2-3 times a week...too many and they bond and remove other nutrients. Chicken and turkey (white meat), leg bones, tuna (albacore no-salt), can be served a couple times a week. Scrambled or hard boiled egg, cut in half and served with the shell intact is good a couple times a week. No salt peanut butter, (my brain is dead right now...I am sure I have forgotten stuff, but this is what we feed our parrots and what we have fed them for the last 100 years.... Pellets: As much as they are advertised, I have yet to find a pellet tree...Pellets are mostly meal, cooked at high heat which destroys a large amount of nutrients and are man-made. SO...keep a small bowl of pellets if you wish 24/7 in the cage. (No fruit or colored pellets). The main diet we use is Volkman's Large Hookbill Safflower formula (Amazon)...this is the diet we have used since the 70's with all of our fids. It is not necessary for mashes or elaborate meals...everything here can be eaten or shared off of a dinner table. They also like cooked oatmeal out of your bowl with raisins...low or non-fat yogurt, or cottage cheese. A treat: Birdie Bread...Jiffy Cornbread mix with two eggs (shells and all), two jr sized baby food (your choice-I used sweet potato/apple mix for example), mixed veggies (really, whatever you want to throw in there...), bake per instructions as muffins or pan and cut for snack...can be frozen for later too...

I didn’t know about whistling back, I will do it tnx a lot 🙏🙏🙏🙏 And yes. I Think for prey animals, fear is their best way to stay alive in nature

Hello 👋 guys i have a question, do you guys recommend power pause technique? And can you say why ? Does this method bother grey parrots? And if you have used this technique could you plz tell me that it worked or not , and if it did can you explain how exactly you used this technique ? Btw i found out that my parrot really loves sun flower seeds and loves to play with unshelled almond but they aren’t healthy so i actually don’t refill his feeder with this almond and sunflower seeds and i give him fruits, but all the time im stressed that maybe He doesn’t like them and die due to starvation so i try to give him 5-8 sunflower seeds 4 or 5 times a day as a treat is it good? But also he still hates me😂😂 He is a conservative bird :)))

I'm not a vet... http://www.peteducation.com/article.cfm?c=15+1829&aid=2384 http://theworldofafricangreys.weebly.com/disease--illness.html

I bought a grey parrot 3 week ago and for this week i think my parrot is more comfortable than previous 2 weeks ,now he whistles in morning and wakes me up always about 8 A.M :)) , now when I approach him he growls less than previous weeks , but the sad thing about him is that my parrot doesn’t have a good past and my vet told me that you can’t tame him easily considering what he went through and just Give your parrot away and buy a tamed one , i disagreed and i told him i don’t care and i want to rescue him because I don’t want to send him back to pet-stores with bad condition and ... i think my parrot found out what I said to the vet and now he is more comfortable with me . 😂 this is my weekly update about BoBo ( his name ) :))))

You are the best ! Thanks a bunch

I'm glad you are willing to take the time an effort to keep Bobo out of a bad situation. It is terrible when they are shuffled back and forth between owners and pet stores. What a miserable life that would be, especially for a bird who was yanked out of his natural environment. It sounds like you are making progress and that's great! Do you whistle back? One of Timber's favorite things is to whistle back and forth with me. That is a natural form of communication for them. Sometimes he will mimic what I whistle, other times he does his own thing. You've probably noticed that your grey whistles a certain pattern in the mornings? If I understand correctly, that is their natural flock "call." He's letting you know his location and leading you too him. One thing I wanted to mention, though you may already know. A parrot is never "tame." Bobo will never be domesticated like a cat or dog. He will become attached to you with time, and you will be able to teach him things like stepping up etc., but he'll never be tame. Even parrots who are bred and born in captivity aren't considered to be domesticated. Remember when you get to the point of handling Bobo (it may be a long way down the road) that parrots are prey animals in the wild. Trust is hard to build, and they often react out of fear.

Thank you for answering. well , i didn’t pay attention about making eye contact with my parrot thanks for reminding. I always make eye contact with my parrot and i think that’s why he freaks out much more than I expect 😬 I won’t do it again 😬 P.S: I watched that videos and that macaw was very cute:)) Grey are so sensitive I think, and i owned a grey parrot about 3 week ago , and i wanto share my process and improvment every week , don’t miss it :))

I wasn't sure what the 'power pause technique' was so I looked it up. There's a youtube from birdtricks demonstrating the technique. It's just clicker training really from what I can tell. The first trainee, the cockatiel, is not what I would do. Never point at their face like that, it's always seen as threatening. I have a very tame grey and she does not tolerate pointing directly at her face - sometimes (sometimes she knows I'm playing with her and tolerates it). I do like the second girl who is training the macaw. I have always used a down turned hand with my wrist as the only exposed skin. This allows you to get the skin really tight and they can't grab and pinch/tear. I actually ball my hand into a fist to stretch the skin even tighter. It's still non-threatening and since you have confidence they can't hurt you, it will help lessen your fear and allow you to not over-react to a strike. Calm smooth movements go a long way with a scaredy-cat Grey. I'm no bird trainer but the technique, what I watched of it, looks ok. It's just conditioning them to your presence and touch.