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You are from the Gold Coast, I am from the cold coast-England lol! It's blinking freezing here right now! Seems like only five minutes ago I was saying about a rare heat wave we got here a few months back. Everyone here is lovely so don't worry about asking questions, I would say post them in the relevant sections though or the more knowledgable members may not spot them and may go unanswered.I would highly recommend that you get the breeder to raise and fully wean the bird before you take it home. There are many benefits to the bird by being raised around its own kind, as well as less stress for you. That is disregarding the fact that it is not legal to sell unweaned baby parrots in qld.Kimma wrote:I'm curious about the really early milestones.
I'll be getting my bird when zie is almost 6 weeks old. Will zie be able to climb and perch by then? If not, when do they get strong enough/learn to do that? About when do they learn to fly?
Will I need to get a bed/box for hir?
I'm thinking now I better keep a baby book to record all this stuff
Thanks for the warm welcome. Zie is not hir name though. I'm just using neutral pronouns since I don't know zie is boy or a girl.Doodlebug wrote:Welcome Kimma and Zie
Ok, that is very good to know. It was making me a bit nervous the idea of weaning hir myself, so it's good to know I can wait and it won't make a difference.InTheAir wrote:
I would highly recommend that you get the breeder to raise and fully wean the bird before you take it home. There are many benefits to the bird by being raised around its own kind, as well as less stress for you. That is disregarding the fact that it is not legal to sell unweaned baby parrots in qld.
My personal experience with birds started with getting a 3 month old iRN for my boyfriend last year. Our bird (Nila) has accepted us very well and prefers us over anyone else. Hand raising them personally will not develop any more bond with your new bird than you will have after it has been weaned fully.
Oh yeah, I know it takes a long time to find out if they are a girl or a boy. I'll give hir a name before long. I'm leaning toward Madison (from the book Harry's Mad by **** King-Smith). But I don't want to call hir "it" as a pronoun so I'm using zie/hir.SCB 22 wrote:Hi Kimma,
If you planning on calling your baby Zie till you know the [gender], you going to be waiting a very very long time if you wait for a ring to appear, some males only get their ring as late as 3 years, and some as early as a year - 18 months.
