3 mo old handfed CAG has arrived home

[Echos_Peeps]

Hi everyone! We recently adopted a beautiful baby girl CAG and have named her Echo. We are complete noobies regarding parrots and are handling her as gently as we can but feel like new parents with a newborn.

 

She seems to be a bit afraid of us, growling and shrieking when we approach or try to pet her, but she is eating, has passed her wellness check at the vet, and even plays alittle with her toys, tho mostly she just eyes us from the cage or her perch.

 

She was stepping up the first few days we had her, but this morning is refusing any interaction.

my feeling is to just leave her be for today. Feed her, talk to her but shes had a trying four days and my daughter says she isn't sleeping much at night, but she can hear her playing with toys and munching on pellets.

 

Any suggestions on how to make her feel more comfortable? is it ok to just let her be for a day? Let her do what she wants and limit our contact with her?

 

Thanks to all for any comments!

 

BTW, We were told that Echo was completely weaned. My vet, an exotic pet and bird vet only, said to make her a batch of birdie bread and let her eat that along with pellets because she may revert alittle due to the stress. She is eating the bread like a madgirl. She attempts the pellets and has nibbled broccoli and a couple of grapes.

Edited June 13, 2011 by Echos_Peeps
addition of info

[judygram]

Hello Echo_Peeps and welcome to our family.

If you have only had her for a few days she is not settled into her new home yet, please allow her some time to feel comfortable as she is in all new surrounding with new cage, new home and people, greys can be cautious creatures and you have to be patient with her.

She is not comfortable with you wanting to pet her at this time so back off until she is more receptive of that, some greys do not like much touching and you have to respect her wishes, a grey's trust has to be earned and sometimes we have to bend over backwards to achieve that, she doesn't know what is going on in your head so your actions speak volumes to her. You will learn to read her body language and that will tell you a lot about what she may be ready to do.

In the meantime please read thru as many of the threads here for lots of useful information that will be very helpful to you as new to greys and don't hesitate to ask questions as we will help you in any way we can.

Was she weaned before you brought her home?

Now all we need is a few pictures of Echo so we can admire her, we love looking at the young ones.

[Echos_Peeps]

Thank you for the quick reply, Judygram!

 

Yes, we were told she was weaned and I am reading thru the threads. I actually joined the forum and have been reading two days before she came home. She is loving her bird bread right now and i think i am going to fix her some oatmeal. she is offered her pellets and other foods, but just nibbles at those. Yes she is very upset with being petted and we have backed off. We should of immediately, i know, but thought not interacting with her would actually cause her to not ever want to interact. I hope we didn't push her to far. Today she just wants to be left alone and screams when my daughter leaves the room. She has been doing most of the interacting with her and has spent the last two evenings with her on her lap watching TV. Echo even cuddled up under the blankets for awhile, hiding from us. We put her to bed after that, thinking she was tired. She seemed to be getting used to us, but today shes like a baby whos been overstimulated..Shes having a FIT!! lol..

I told my daughter to just let Echo do what she wants to do today and spend her time talking to her instead of trying to get her to walk with her, cuddling her or moving her from cage to perch.

I will keep reading and so will my daughter. My husband is helping out alot too.

Thx again.