broken beak

djwilkie · Member Joined: Feb 03, 2012 Posts: 10

Pics of Pollys Progress

djwilkie · Member Joined: Feb 03, 2012 Posts: 10

hi everyone its now march and polly is coming along great he is growing into a lovely kak he is eating good i am still grinding up his food and give him a parrot egg supliment that he loves and fruit i have a chilli plant which he loves pulling leaves off and chewing on the chillis so now i put one or two in his cage i also put a vitamin in his water he is out most of the day loves knocking things off table and into everything whenever he gets chance he flys up to our bathroom and sits on the shower he is now one of the family my grandsons love him and he seems to like them which is great he is learning fast and growing fast he seems to now use his lower beak for lots and upper beak has all healed up so now we hope it grows i will keep you all up to date im glad i gave him a chance and he seems to have adapted well to not having his top beak the one thing i would like to know can you toilet train kaks wife goes nuts with poop everywhere signlol

following him round with a cloth

Steptoe · Site Admin Joined: Oct 06, 2004 Posts: 4550

Thank ypu for the updates..Im really interested in following the beak issue , and pics of progess
If u cant load them...email them to me and I will....
Edit: pics uploaded above post by Admin

Yes parrots like all pets can be 'potty' trained.
U notice they do not poop everywhere in a cage or avairy....just 1 0r maybe 2 piles....
Most animals will only poo in places of some saftey and security, including humans..we will only do so at selected others homes..So it is a matter of taking advantage of the instinct...
To do so , and we have only done so with new birds introduced into a home...not birds already established in a home , so Im not sure in this case.
We leave the birds in their cage for a week or so, in a manner that they feel safe, and become terroritoial about the cage.. their bedroom so to speak....so much they get agreesive when it is cleaned out.
Any threat/danger they return to the cage
In the evenings or when lights turned down, they return to roost
And to poo they return...
We have a perch strapped to the cage door for comfort, which they also go back to to poo on a bit of paper on the floor.
They only place they tend to poo in the house is from the top of the backdoor ..when it is open, down onto the draft ledge thing at the bottom of the door.

Cleaning poo up...If the birds are heathy, good diet, the poo tends to be low moisture and dry into a solid lump, which lifts very easy with the vaccuum cleaner off cloth surfaces.
Other sufaces, a little dish wash macine powder disolved in water, couple drops on leave couple minutes , wipe off.

djwilkie · Member Joined: Feb 03, 2012 Posts: 10

It's good that they can be trained think polly
is mybe past that as he poos almost anywhere signlol

it's not a big prob tho as my wife just cleans it or I do if we catch him we give him a row and he tends to sulk for 10mins I will email u photos and hopefully u can tell me if I need to change name to Pollyanna if a girl signlol

think deffo a male tho with size

Steptoe · Site Admin Joined: Oct 06, 2004 Posts: 4550

Is polly a male name?
I have never really thought about before...I dont think I would call my son Polly Shocked

Second thought, If I knew what I now now and the 'stick ' they throw at me now they have grown up....Yep definately signlol

djwilkie · Member Joined: Feb 03, 2012 Posts: 10

was only jocking about the name as i think polly can be male or female but would still like to know what sex

Steptoe · Site Admin Joined: Oct 06, 2004 Posts: 4550

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