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Well said. My grey had stress bars on her tail too but when they molted out the new ones didn't have them. It did take a long time though.

Has she molted all those tail feathers out already?

Oh no problem, I should have explained myself better in my first post. I have noticed the last few days that when I come over to his cage he will rush over for a tickle but if I try to take him out he crawls up and hangs from the top of his cage. His cage is downstairs and I have playstands and baskets on our mainfloor for him to be out on during the day when I am home. I am going to bring his cage home from the lake and have him live upstairs in it for awhile. Hopefully that will help. At least then I won't have to run downstairs 50 times a day to interact with him

Sorry, this is not my first grey. I should have explained better. He steps up fine outside of his cage its just getting him to come out. I know not to chase him around but sometimes I have to because we bring all of our birds to our lake cabin. Just needed some other suggestion on getting him to want to ome out. Food does not work. I probably just need to give him some more time.

he will after I chase him around a bit which i don't want to do. He steps up outside of his cage no problem and will go to anyone.

Scout is only 10 months old. I have tried all the things that you have suggested and haven't had any luck yet. I know it hasn't been long at all and I just need to be patient. i don't want to force him to come out but there are times I have to as we have a lake house and the birds go with us on the weekends. He is very sweet when he is out and will let anyone hold him.

I've had Scout for just a little over two months and I know that's not a long time but I can't seem to get him to want to come out of his cage. He's a sweet bird and seems to like me on the rare occasion he does come out. I don't want to force him to come out but I don't want a cage bound bird either. What should I do? He's not food motivated so I'm sort of at a loss. How am I supposed to form a unhealthy bond with my parrot if he won't come out!?!

Do they live outside all the time? Is so they are lucky little guys

Just wanted to share a photo of Rocco

You're welcome. He does sometimes climb down and chew on the side so I stuck some of those willow ball lollipop sticks down there. I like the baskets because it's nice to just pick it up and move him to wherever I am in the house. So much easier than rolling his big playstand all over. I hope it works for you

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I finally figured out how to post pictures so here I am. Sorry it's so huge, I don't know how to make them smaller. Hope I don't scare anyone

There he is! Thanks!

Well that didn't work. Clearly I'm an idiot

Thanks! I will try it.