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Hi and welcome I am in UK west midlands and sadly we do not have too many places that supply much for our cags, I envy the US they really have great supply places but the internet has alot to offer Iv had some real good toys off e bay (new Ones) and look up making your own that works well and you dont spend £20.00 just to watch them chew it up, will try and get a couple of links up of one I like to use.

Hi and welcome, lovely pics, nice to have more from England on here, you will get some great advice and support on here, they are very helpful

great posts

My Alfie has pellets in his cage 24 hours a day, he has cereal for breakfast and tea time I do different kinds of mixed veg I find cooking it for a short time and then blending it into small bits helps i also then mix spoon full of his seed mix into it he trys to pick seed out but as veg is so small it sticks to seed so he has to eat both, he also likes corn on the cob hung in his cage, very messy!, he has very little fruit but i do offer apple, pear and grapes but dont think he eats it just plays with it but veg is important, the odd scrambled egg is also very much enjoyed by Alfie and I mix some veg into this, but only now and again, you will waist some food but just keep trying and he may start trying it when your not around.

welcome sounds like progress is being made well done

welcome,He looks lovely, maybe you could add more toys and different size perches, apple tree branches things like that, there is a forum on cages and toys take a look at that for idears, you will get loads of good advice on here the guys have been really helpful and suppotive to me, look forward to hearing more. I dont know much about wild caught birds but I'm sure others will be along with advice.

my heart goes out to you, sadly I cannot give advice but have had many problems with Alfie and lots of bites to go with it but the sun has started to shine on us the last couple of weeks and this has just been due to me taking a step back, when I'm busy he stays caged to avoid him flying at me once jobs are done I open cage he will step up to come out then i just sit and let him do his thing on playstand, I ask nothing of him we chat away and have now progressed with him flying to back of sofa for tickle tickle and onto my leg, like everyone has said this time thing seems to be the most important factor and these birds are step ahead, she prob knows shes got to you and watching you stress, yell out when that beak takes hold is all good fun to her and they can pick up on your feelings. Alfie will walk on hot coals for pumkin seeds as treat, the naughty bit I do is when things are really really good he will get what we call a small amount of good boy biscuit (plain human biscuit) but only very small bit. Just take a step back relax , I always find the support on here so help when feeling I am failing, and have been reduced to tears so your not on your own.

Happy hatch day Jake

Hi guys, I think Iv got it........at last!! Great week with Alfie! He is training me well now, have now took to letting him out with step up but at times I have nothing to do so I just sit on sofa and let him do what he wants.......within reason, but I'm asking nothing of him, had alot less bites and no blood has been shed! He will come to back of sofa next to me for tickle tickle when he wants to and today has even gone down onto the floor for ago at dog bones!!, he hasn't gone onto the floor since he was a baby, so I'm taking this as feeling more confident and relaxed, we are having lots of vocal contact chatting away to each other, and the tickle tickle is going great he moves his head in a way to get me to scratch where he wants it, under his beak, sides of face and top of head and its to the point the dust is left on the back of sofa, getting him back into cage is improving aswell still bit of a battle during the day but bed time is good now 9pm and he gets what we call his good boy treat, so guess I needed to step back a bit, plan to continue this way in the hope Alfie will move us forward with more contact when he is ready, think my problem was not being able to understand why he changed from a lovely baby to a devil bird. But feeling much more positive now

I cant give advice but I really know how you feel, we have many days like this this Alfie really is pushing me at the moment, but we love them and keep going and I'm sure as they teach us whats right and wrong it will all come together in the end

I dont think you can put a time scale on anything with CAG's they have a mind of their own but I had Alfie from a baby,his just one now, out of cage always happened getting him back in cage is another story some of the time. always eat treats from hand step up when he feels like it one day his great another day you would think I was speaking another language Landing on arm/hand without biting again each day is different also lands on shoulder/head which we dont allow due to bits so he gets shrugged off. Shower started great with spray bottol now have to cage him to stop him killing spray bottol and me, shower in bathroom have got as far as him sitting on top of shower screen. All the birds are different and from what I have learnt it all takes time, Alfies eyes are the light yellow colour you say about, but if miranda is older than you throught and you have only had her short time she is doing well.

so cute, I brought Alfie home at 11 weeks he had formula 3 times aday plus pellets available 24 hours a day and always offered veg he didn't eat much of veg then but now he loves it, with his formula I offfered it until he decided he didn't want it, always had cherrios for breakfast and soon prefered them to his formula then the lunch one slowed down the bed one carried on for a while he was nearly 5 months before he gave that one up, I never reduced or stopped formula just let Alfie decided

arrrrrh thank you you are all so suportive, have done treat thing at bedtime last couple of nights, today has been a little better.

Happy Easter to you to, im in West Midlands UK

Hi he was 1 a week ago

Thanks guys, trancework I'm in UK and dont seem to be as much over here in the way of behavior consultants, if anyone does know of any please let me know, I will try anything, wingy thats a good point and I will give that some throught but I only work 28 hours a week normaly but its hours that are all over the place so routine has been different, have had Alfie out again he spent the time on play stand seemed happy enough until it was back to cage time, lights out four attempts using perch to avoid more bites, I do love him to bits and have waiting years for him to come into my life and knew it would be hard work but I cant work with him as he wont stay with me, yet months ago taught him to wave, turn around and shake hands which he will still do, any way as adviced off to bed with a hug to myself, thanks guys

had very bad day, lost count of the bites I have had today, sat the other side of the room with foot toys trying to get Alfie intrested, he came over asked for tickle tickle and gave me a right good bite, no warning at all, I have not gone to him have left him to come to me but each time he comes he bites, couple of times i went to kitchen he flew in landed on shoulder bit my neck, that was final straw he was put back into cage for my safety.......then dam me after tea opened cage door to which i can get a step up for him to come out every time, but tonight he didn't want to come out left door open but no stayed on his perch! There is somthing very wrong, I'v been off work all week spent so much time with Alfie, had him out of cage as much as possible, I have hardley been out as wanted to really try and get us on a no bite level, you all seem to get step ups, get them back into cage or they go them selves, thats all i want dont mind if his not a cuddley chap but just to be able to move him if needed and be able to cage him without a battle, is it possible that a bird and owner just can not get on, as it sure feels like that at the moment, his one had him since he was 10 weeks,

Thats a lovely outcome well done to you for your hard work and working out communication methods.

I live mostly on my own my son sort of pops in and just like yours Alfie asks for tickle tickle and when his in bad books he says 'now be good boy Alf' not got Alfie yet! his only just one so guess yes they can still pick up the meaning of things.

welcome, you will find lots of help and support on here the guys are great and give tips you dont find in books but things they have found that work, I can rememeber only just under a year ago feeling just as you do now waiting for my baby to come home.

Tonight for the first time my son my son spent some time with Alfie, now you must understand he is adult (son) pops in after work for tea then off to girl friends and away all wk ends so Alfie knows him but never really had much to do with each other, my son is also scared of getting bitten but tonight he came home from dog training and dogs always get small chunk of cheese for a treat while doing this he offered Alfie some who was on top of his cage this is a first for them, Alfie gladly took cheese then after flew to fish tank and my son got him to step up onto his lower arm offered Alfie a treat (pumkin seed) again alfie accepted and stayed on sons arm for short time, then a while after Alfie flew to my son who was sat in the chair landed on his knee and sat there for ages very relaxed. Is Alfie changing owners? He has not sat with me like that for ages, and any of you that read my posts will know I get lots of bites. Am I the bad person as I'm the one who puts him back into cage, stops him eatting TV ect? If alfie is about to favour my son how are we going to manage as my son has no intrest in alfie? Also I have read on another post that a bird should not be above you in height is this the case as this may be the answer to some of my problems, Alfie has home made play stand which is tall, also his cage is next to where I always sit in the lounge so he is above me in height, he has never gone onto the floor but thats mainly due to us having dogs, he used to perch on the arm of sofa but has stopped doing that, the more I have throught about it tonight the more I have realized he has not been near me really apart from flying onto head when I go to kitchen, which i dont allow, even calling him to me is hit and miss the odd time he will come take treat and fly straight off.

I put veg into blender then add small amount of seed mix, while Alfie trys to pick out seed he has no choice but to eat veg as it sticks to seed and beak! there are some good 'chop' idears on here, I always end up with empty dish, some gets onto cage bottom but he eats most of it also sweet corn on the cob hung in cage but only now and then........be warned its messy. I also boil a little bit of sweet potato and mash that in he loves it and again has no choice but to eat veg as its all mashed up together, a little of what they love mixed in with the stuff thats good for them seems to work for me.

Welcome you will find lots of good advice and great things to read on here.

I dont think I could repeat what Alfie gets called on bad days (just joking) His pet name is Alfie Moon which is a character off a british soap programme called Eastenders When we're being silly its Alfie babe, and mommy's baby, yes I know I wonder why he bites me! The most used one is Alfie No, I'm sure he thinks thats his name. My son always walks in and says 'Hello Alfred the Grey'.

ummmm thanks for that lol think I'm seeing true cag style already