Is flooding necessarily bad?

[Pajarita]

I no longer do, I had two, both older adults, but both were pretty much hands-off birds although they were actually quite sweet-tempered. I only do the 'on your back' trick with my female Senegal and then VERY seldom at that as I don't think it's something that actually benefits her -I am more of a more birdy lifestyle for the birds instead of a pet lifestyle but my grandkids like it because I sing to her the same lullaby I used to sing to them when babies (and rock her a bit) so they ask me to do the 'Arrorro baby' to her -the Spanish song refrain goes "Arrorró mi niño, arrorró mi sol, arrorró pedazo de mi corazón" (lullaby my child, lullaby my sun, lullaby piece of my heart).

[cml]

Aha! That makes sense. I guess the Pionus chicks don't lay on their backs much in the wild, compared to a Senegal or Green Cheek?? I've gotten the impression that Pi's aren't as fond of this as adults as some other species, nor of a lot of touch besides the head. I've seen very few videos of Pi's laying on their backs, but from what I've read about them it doesn't come as natural to them as to some other species.. You have Pi's Pajarita, right? What's your experience from this?

Leroy hates anything that is even remotely close to being on his back. Stitch on the other hand I can lift and flip over easily.