pacoparrot

Thank you Here's some pictures.

Not much you can do besides ignore it completely. Sometimes they give up if it's not getting a rise out of anyone. But they seldomly forget anything, haha. That is except the cute things that we can never get them to say like "I love you!"

Hi everyone! My name is Jacob. I'm a fairly experienced parrot person. I have an dyh amazon named Paco, hence the username. But he's more of my mom's now a days. I got him in 2008 from the rescue I work for. But he likes my mom much better than me for some reason, haha. I foster for the rescue too. I have an umbrella cockatoo named Sydney that I'm trying to find an experienced home for. She's sweet and actually the quietest cockatoo I've ever fostered. I also have a retired pair of cockatiels and a pair of proven green cheeks that just laid an egg. I have been considering adding a grey to my family. Congo's are expensive around here. Most people want $1500 for a Congo baby but Timmy's are only like $700-$900. I think Timneh's are neat. I don't really care if the tail is maroon or they are a tad smaller. I fostered an older Timneh Grey named Smokey. He wasn't tame but boy did he talk up a storm. He would imitate all sorts of stuff. He was old but I could swear he was still learning. I'm developing my clicker training skills with parrots. As you may know, in order to train a bird they have to take treats. I have been having difficulty finding a bird to train. Every bird I've managed to teach a few tricks to ends up turning into a wonderful pet. It's like you form a language that you can both understand and benefit from. Once they understand how to ask for treats and attention their behavior improves. Like I had a sun conure that I was fostering a while back and he loved apple slivers. I training him targeting to teach him the concept and then retrieve. After that if he wanted attention he'd just get one of his foot toys and try to give it to me. I think a baby would be perfect for me. I just recently lost one of my birds and it's been really hard on me and my mom. She was an elcectus parrot. We used to sit on my porch on sunny days. One day someone drove by and their exhaust backfired and she spooked and flew off. Mine you her wings were perfectly clipped and I was holding her feet but not tight enough. Luckily we had a contact call developed incase something like this ever happened. So I found her pretty quickly but she was 50 feet up in a tree. I coaxed her down a few branches but then some squirrels spooked her again and she went flying. The poor girl flew right into a parked car and died on impact. It was really traumatizing. But I learned from it. The next baby I get is being trained to an aviator flight harness. I have a giant flight cage with a playtop that would be perfect for a Timmy. I'd really like to hear from everyone about their pet african greys. I hear people saying their aren't really cuddly but I've seen pages of youtube video of people with some pretty cuddly greys. I'd like to think it has to do with how they were raised. Oh and I hope I get a talker. My dyh amazon parrot is supposed to be "one of the best talking parrot species in the world". Would you believe he hasn't said one word in the 5 years I've had him, haha! Thank you everyone! Have a good morning!