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Re: just adopted amazon ,need words of advice
Posted by Fred on 4/28/09

On 3/25/09, bob wrote:
> hello everybody.finally it is a dream come tru,we just
> adopted green amazon,he is friendly but screeches and make
> funny noise when u try to touch him,although he just
> nibbles u.i know some of u are experienced bird owners,so
> ur word of advice and experiece will make it easy to raise
> our new babby.thanks

Hi Bob,

I ended up adopting a 25 year old Yellow Nape. When my GF
got divorced, her ex hubby took the dog and gave her the
bird. In the three years since Zeus has become far more
social. I just helped him along but didn't push, expanding
slowly what areas were ok for petting and rubbing. Always
treating him gently with understanding. He seems to have
fallen in love with me right off. He wants what we are
having. So he always gets some tastes of whatever we are
having. His base bowl gets a mix of fresh veggies; bok choy
(mostly leaves some stems), napa cabage mostly leaves some
stems), romaine and red leaf lettace (darker leaves the
better), parsely, as well as 2 - 4 fruits, inseason and
edamame and some cooked chicken or beef or lamb or pork. If
we don't have anything suitable I keep a little cubed lean
beef on hand in the freezer that I sautee for him. Add a
little brown rice or potato or spanish rice (brown) etc and
he is usually happy. He has come to prefer the fresh food
to the seeds which he eats occasionally when he doesn't see
anything he likes. Scrambled eggs with greep pepper and
sauteed onion he likes too. Carrot sticks and celary sticks
he eats hand fed when we are having same. He has an entire
room of his own and is never locked in the cage. He likes
to join us for veggies munching with the evening news.

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Posts on this thread, including this one

• just adopted amazon ,need words of advice, 3/25/09, by bob.
• Re: just adopted amazon ,need words of advice, 4/28/09, by Fred.
• Re: just adopted amazon ,need words of advice, 7/17/09, by Amazon Fan.
• Re: just adopted amazon ,need words of advice, 9/07/09, by Keith .
• Re: just adopted amazon ,need words of advice, 7/20/10, by amy.