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Whoever told you don’t open the cage is just making the adjustment worse, it will reinforce his fear of humans, if he can’t fly, open the cage while you are around to supervise, he may sit for weeks with the door open, in time he’s going to get curios and may sit on the door. That’s a high first step. i understand the fear and thrashing he probably does of cleaning his cage...but it has to be done...even slow gentle movements by you, soft singing while you do it. And do just the bare necessities, clean the bottom grate and change the paper...let the other stuff go..as he learns that you won’t harm him, you will be able to do his perches. Patience, kindness, gentle humming or singing, and very slow movements so he can see you are not a threat. It will take time, but will work.

Greetings Erfan, Ray is right on....Try this for me and as Ray said, keep trying.....Green Leafy Veggies: Kale, no lettuce, mustard greens, corn on the cobb, (once a week) spinach, dandelion greens, collard greens. Carrots, cauliflower with peanut butter (just a dab), snap peas, a good quality seed with no sunflowers such as Top's or Volkman's (on Amazon), raw spaghetti. some cooked pasta, The whole trick is to give them two or three things for six to seven days, they won't starve. Leave the seeds 24/7.....Don't let the fresh food sit in cage more than 2-3 hours. You can try a spoonful of plain low-fat yogurt or cottage cheese daily I promise they won't starve.. Again, this can take days or months You are doing great!

My friend you have to clean the cage at the minimum every other day....Yes you have to work with him..Does he fly? Is he clipped? Will he come out of his cage by himself and go back in?

I have heard of stories of changing hair stiles that upset a Grey and moving their cage to a new location that would upset them. Corky my grey has lived with change all her life. She has traveled all over the U.S. with us in our motor home and has stayed in hotels, motels, at friends homes and the homes of relatives. She has traveled in our, cars, trucks and SUV`s from the time she was 5 months old; I believe that if they live with change from a young age they know how to roll with punches. We bought Corky a new large travel cage for one of our trips because she found out how to open the doors of all her other cages. She watched me put it together. On a trip in our motor home on the way to see my wife brother In W.V.we were getting off the PA Pike and coming up to the toll both I heard this flap, flap flap and she landed on my shoulder leaned forward looked at the man in the toll both and said HAY DORK.. I pulled over to see how she got out and found that she had dismantled the top of her cage, slid the top over to one side and flew to my shoulder That was the last time I let her watch me put anything of hers together.. If they grow up with change they can be fearless.

Could you please explain more that why I should towel him ? Do You mean when I open his cage if he doesn’t come back to his cage i use toweling or ..?

Erfan I'm sorry, your grey must be terribly confused moving from room to room, food being changed with not enough time to adjust to whether he likes it or not, changing light and activity levels from room to room, taking a possible ally and companion away just when he was starting to adjust and get a more normal sense of being...waiting until you move in before opening the cage door? How does that help? If he can't fly and he shouldn't right now, read a post on the forum about toweling. We had two beautiful rescue birds for over ten years that we rescued from a drug house. One was fragile and one was huge but were inseparable against the world. You could not get near them, they would fling themselves against the cage and bleed. Maggie used distraction by using a towel on one hand while cleaning the cage with the other. They lived a loving life...we could never hold one of them but they stopped trying to attack eventually. Keeping a Grey in your room where you sleep is extremely unhealthy for you because of the dust factor. It is possible to develop breathing or allergic reactions later on. You have to make goals, set them, and follow them through. https://www.itsagreysworld.com/articles/toweling.htm

Thank you 🙏 , i will open his cage after we move in I’m sure I will be very excited when I open his cage , i believe, that if we give freedom to a bird he will get along easily, but i was very cautious about my parrot because I hadn’t had a parrot before , but i have a canary he was afraid of me , i keep his cage open and now he lives with us and goes to his cage at night , when i brought my parrot to my house for the first time my canary was very curious and spent hours on top of his cage and was looking at my parrot :)) sometimes they sang together but now they are not together because my canary is in living room and my parrot is my room ( because i read a article and they said parrots get along with other parrots but not with other kinds of birds , so I separated them because canaries are very small and feeble but brave , so I started to worry when I’m not in my room mybe they fight and my parrot hurts him because his beak is strong and looks the same size of my canary.

So I should start again , but if i give him these foods a lot he makes his cage dirty. “ Don’t let fresh food sit in cage more than 2-3 hours” , well as you know he is still wild and really hurt him self when i clean his cage so i just give him food and he is improving but I can’t clean his cage the last time I cleaned his cage was 1 month ago 🤒 and he was terrified

Keep giving them their fruits and veg`s and in time they will try them.

Thank you , that was a interesting story:))

By the way my parrots doesn’t like vegetables , i tried tomato , lettuce, pepper , squash but he doesn’t like them for fruits just some piece and then he throws them around, but for the nuts he really eats them carefully how can I convince him to eat vegetables and fruits more than nuts ?? Because of that he forces me to give nuts to him by not eating fruits and vegetables