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Noblods taken first step is nutrition and flees/mites as i work as a tree surgeon its a possibility

Any Light Experts here need advice? Been told by vet that we need to get our Rio some UV lights, been looking around and found some GROW lights :D seem to be a cheaper alternative if it suits, my question is would that work for a parrot or is that not the same thing. Omega CFL 300W Bulb Euro Shade Reflector Grow Light Kit Hydroponics Literally half price and from what I understand kind of same thing? if not stronger?

Got him to the VET :) Emotionally vet says he's all good happy birdie. Recommended some nutritious food, uv lamp and gave me some drops to rule out mites... drops seems to help he's got down feathers growing on spots after applying drops so fingers crossed.

Unfortunately we have NO avian vet arround. Literaly nothing within 60 miles radius. thats why im here poking for anything that can help him

Help I think our african grey Rio is starting to mutilate himself. He started to nibble his feathers and now looks like this. Is this depression related mutilation or nutrient deficiency. He also stopped eating all vegetables we give him he just drops them. Before he would fly to us if he sees us peeling potato and eat it all. Would also eat bananas grenadines carrots pretty much any fruit and veg we would give him. Mid summer he stopped eating them we just thought it was a phase. He also became verry uninterested with anything we try and do with him Nothing changed except Corona lockdown thst now is over but he still is like that. What can we do to encourage him to bw interested in toys and other things? HELP

He hates getting sprayed on. Big no no with him 😂 Usually he just has a shower where he can go on and off the stream of water. Sometimes gets to exited and too wet to the point of not being able to fly VID_46760723_213929_318.mp4

Shower 1 to 4 times a week depending on him. What is spritzer bath

Hello All We have a almost 6year old Grey named Rio. He talk he squawks and makes all kinds of sounds. Usually a happy fellow except for this new scruffy feathers he got. Maybe its just a big moult... but for some reason I feel its something else. Basically he has got feathers that look half bitten off. He also started kinda being more aggressive with his cleaning. I have attached a video and some pics to show the feathers. https://youtu.be/CHSRrPBaIbI Any help would be appreciated

Thanks for the info will work on it and he will be all right

Hello so we went for a holiday for 3 weeks and left Rio in care of two of our friends that he is familiar with. Everything went OK ( as in the biggest fear of plucking did not happen ) |But from day one after us coming back Rio has picked me? as a bonded person? and every time I take him he does this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ii57hZ88mok He pants,wheezes makes weird noises and keeps trying to regurgitate something but never does ( usually just eats it himself :D ) Before he was ok with both of us taking him petting him etc. now only I can take him and my wife cannot he bites her straight away. Also when he is just out and about he sits somewhere and stares at me for 20-30 mins without moving (kinda creepy) so what have changed ? what to do? if this is sexual maturity hitting him how long will it last? what to do? how to react>? yeh ? and what about my wife she cant even touch him now although before we both had equal rights to take him play with him he would sit on both of our laps etc... He is about 14-16 months old. Any advice/info/suggestions would be appreciated

Hello Again Lucy is still with us for now and... We got a question What does this mean? Are they fighting or are they in love or is it their way of getting to know each other.? They would do this sometimes and then one of them would just fly off... However they do eat together... as in from the same perch from two different bowls... Can someone Translate? Thanks in advance

The decision has been made... well sort of... we have told the owners to try and sell Lucy and find her a right home... as we cannot afford her at the moment and the 200% of attention, well if we ever have children it will be very difficult on the parrots ... but we are leaving it up to fate as if they will not sell her we will buy her within a few months when we can afford her. (at the mean time she is staying with us by the way ) and here is the video of RIO Don't judge

Oh no no no no no I don't get offended I meant "ouch" (my ears are in pain) And regarding to this screeching well previous to the new parrot Rio used to call us and use his FULL vocabulary of mimicking sounds to get our attention. Especially in the mornings when he would be hungry. Now I suppose because of the new parrot he has got a reason to his his own language Well I did hear a lot of good advice , now the decisions time we will think about it and most likely keep the second parrot LUCY with us

Here is the video of rio shrieking And yes he did started doing that after we got the other parrot and he also learner to mimic her. And rhis is not the loudest he can go Rio screeching: http://youtu.be/l0hJlNdT4So

Ouch... Another question since we brought other parrot to the house... Rio is driving us (and I suspect our neighbours) CRAZY... as all he does all day long in his cage or out is screams and shouts in high pitched noises. (instead of the usual blabing about in our human language) Is this directly affected by the new parrot and if we keep the other parrot will he eventually calm down? God my ears are bleeding Here is a video of them both sitting on my knees calmly watching each other... Rio is the one who is Stretching. The other parrots name is Lue but just recently We made a DNA test and its actually a girl so we thought of changing Lue to Luisa

Thank ypu for ypur replies. Is there a possibility that both greys eventualy be playfull and happy at least with us?? Rio at the moment have not bonded with either of us he likes us both equaly and flyes over to us If we call him. Will Rio keep learning mimicing us or will the additional parrot couse him to make sounds more like a parrot?

Hello I have an African grey Rio he is now almost a year old. We have been given a chance to get another african grey who is almost 2 year years old and is a female. We have got a chance to bring her to our house and to see how they both get along before we buy her. As the owners cannot keep her because of the dog they have and the parrot with her sounds makes the dog go crazy and he feels unwell. We have got them in separate cages... Now We have to make a decision to either leave her with us or return the poor parrot and leave it as it is. The problem we have got iss... Rio tries to play with her, scratch her nicely and even feed her, but she would reject any type of attention from him by biting him or flying away from him. She is allways shaking and looks afraid. ( I do understand her as she just moved from one owner and now we would be the third owner.) but as cruel as it sounds we need to decide what is best for us and our Rio as he started behaving differently around her. He is slowing down on talking to us and by that I mean in human language as before he was saying hello, give a kiss, come here etc. Now he would only talk like a parrot. ( I suspect he is interested in a girl and that is OK if we would see if they get allong we would keep them and even possibly breed them later on) But for now all we see is him going backwards and not having fun out of life. The girl does have some problems like she would not interact qith us or with any of the toys or with Rio. The last two previous owners did say that she would spend 95% of her time on or in the cage :-( Can anyone help and suggest what to do???

Where can I find this Gilbert thread I cant seem to find it

Oh and heres a shot funny video of Rio: http://youtu.be/zIb1j_xIZgY

Our baby Rio has grown and now he is 9months old. He is going through his first molt. We understand that it is stressful for him and we try to be as compassionate as possible. Problem is he keeps biting us and when he bites he drawes blood. Sometimes he goes into tantrum and flies about, bites, runs from us, shouts... Basically behaves bad. We want our bird to be friendly with everyone. But at the moment we we cant make him be friendly with us. He hasn't bonded with either of us and he likes/dislikes both of us equaly. Can someone tell what to do and not to do... We tried taping the bird on his beak as a sort of punishment (we have been told that by the breeder) but I have read somewhere that its verry bad to do so and we stopped. We try to punish him by putting him in his cage for a breather, but that only makes things worse as he understands he is being naughty and he is going to be put in the cage he does not like it, that makes him run away and bite even more What to do when he bites?????

But here is a short video ofus messing about on a good day Rio African Gray playing:

No video yet unfortunately as baby Rio is now becoming teen and biting and shouting especially my fionce. Anyone got advice how to react when he bites, we tried saying No and puting him back in the cage but that made things worse as he did not like the fact we put him in the cage and that resulted in more biting amd flying away... Advice is required :-D

Sorry havent updated for so long been busy, Rio is doing great we have Dna tested him and he is a boy. He allready says his name and funnily enough says Awwww... So cute... will post a video later.

Baby Rio is now 4 months old he is picking up all kinds of noises and he picked up our temporary pet cats noise. He is brilliant. Rio parrot meowing like a cat: Verry proud

hello New changes have come up with our baby Rio. We had him for a week and all of the time he was making crying noises and was very calm and tamed you woukd pick him up and pet him and he woukd fall asleep. Now all of a sudden he started to growl spread his wings out, shake his head, almost like bark and do more suden movements (like he would be crazy) and he wouldnt sit still now always trying to bite something ( and other thing I noticed he itching his head more whils he is angry. Not plucking feathers.) What is this suden change of behaviour??? Is it normal? Here is a video how he acts.