#bluetheparrotlet

Really love those dishes, it was waaaay too hard trying to find a small dish that didn’t hold excessive amounts of food that’d just get kicked around or collect too much pellet dust.  Also took a bit of time to find one that Zeeby could just rip off the wall, the last dish she had she’s just grab and thrash around until it fell off the wall of her cage but she hasn’t seemed to manage to toss either of these!

You can have a separate night cage, yes, many people tend to do that with large birds and nervous birds to help set a ritual and help the bird feel comfortable.  However it is not necessary to cover the cage, it can help birds who frequently have night frights or don’t sleep well otherwise but most birds are perfectly fine sleeping without a cover.  You may have troubles with him trying to interact with people who are in the living room at that time but often just dimming the lights and ignoring them is all it takes for them to settle down and realize they’re sleepy. So yep it is possible but not completely necessary most of the time!

No worries, things aren’t exactly much farther along, no change on his side of things, I picked up that temporary full time for a month that helps gain some funds and have had overwhelming support from everyone here so I’m hoping I’ll be able to hold up my end of things and get back in to university which, in theory, should force him back in to paying child support.  So it’s not good, things definitely aren’t great, but they’re seeming more manageable than they were a month ago which is something

11mm is perfect for the bar spacing and the cage size is also great as well, as I said it’s larger than the cage for one of my beans! plenty of space for birbly activities!

As long as the bar spacing is alright (no more than 1/2 inch for p’lets) that sounds like a wonderful amount of space (assuming the measurement is in inches)! If it’s in cm it’s still a pretty good size, a little larger than what my beans are in right now.

Same here, a lot more studies need to be done in parrots in general in my opinion. There’s so much more we need to learn about them, especially if we plan on taking care of them!

In general I’ve found that this behaviour can be trained out, slowly, so I don’t think it is related to the seizure thing but I really don’t know and wish there was more information on the subject.  Zeeby was really bad with the crinkly things (mia never cared), so with her I found that getting something she responds like this to and crinkling it quietly or from a distance so it’s barely audible as to not produce the aggressive response and rewarding for the calm behaviour encouraged her to stay calm around these sounds.  Over time I did it more frequently and louder, stopping if the aggression started, being sure to reinforce any calm responses to it and not triggering the aggressive response. Eventually she learned that being calm near those sounds meant she would earn a treat and the aggression stopped.

sorry it’s currently 1:30am, that tag goes over how to keep beebs safe and comfortable when loud noises and things are happening.  If you have more questions that aren’t answered there feel free to send them, but I won’t get to them until morning!