Got new African Grey Approx 1 year old

[mustafarangoon]

I am out whole day and because of that no body is there to clear waste of my Grey and then when i come back at 6pm i clean things. Now i am thinking to buy mosquito repellent can you please suggest me a good one or what do you do in this case?
I have found out this which is herbal here http://www.amazon.in/Aromakrafts-Natura ... Citronella Will this work.

[Wolf]

Perhaps someone else can help you with this issue. I do not use any repellents near my birds as most of them give of fumes that are not good for my birds. Their respiratory systems are about 20 times more sensitive than ours and it takes them exhaling 2 times to clear out the air from their first inhale. This sensitivity to airbourne particles and fumes is why they used to use canaries in coal minds to protect the workers.

[Pajarita]

No, you can't spray anything on them besides water with a small splash of aloe vera juice from the inner filet - and most especially you can't put anything oily on their feathers -you can end up with a bird that plucks from it!

[mustafarangoon]

My grey takes huge bite buy eats only 10% of it ?

[Wolf]

This is nothing new, or unusual, parrots are messy eaters and waste as much as they eat.

[Navre]

This is nothing new, or unusual, parrots are messy eaters and waste as much as they eat.

Throwing and dropping food helps ensure that the seeds are distributed and the food crow continues to grow, and spread.

[mustafarangoon]

I have bought toys for him and I play infront of him but he doesn't give any attention? Should I should him videos about parrot playing with toys?

[Wolf]

Toys are an interesting thing as in their natural state there is not much evidence of parrots playing with toys or doing much of what we would call play. Most of the time what we would call play is actually the bird learning to defend itself if it can't escape. Other than that mostly they chew things up. Now just like some crows and other birds use tools, some of our parrots will also use tools, which leads me to believe that there is some playing going on in the wild, even if we have not observed it. In the wild these birds have to hunt and forage for food and watch for predators and so on, so there is plenty for them to do to keep them occupied both mentally and physically. In captivity they do not have the same level of mental or physical activity, so I think that providing them with a variety of toys and teaching them how to use them is a great thing to do as it will at the very least provide them with some mental stimulation.

Toys come in a variety of sizes and shapes and colors as well as different materials and purposes. Some parrots such as Greys may prefer toys that they can take apart rather than just destroying them. They may like preening toys, or foraging type toys or whatever, it depends on the parrot and their individual preferences, but in any case we usually have to teach them how to play with them. Many birds are happiest with simple toys that we can make at home, or ones that are easy for us to obtain, things such as a wadded up piece of paper or cardboard boxes or even just a wooden stick to chew up.

My Grey likes cardboard boxes best and spends many hours tearing it into little pieces. I have a really nice foraging to that she can't tear up, but she is rarely interested in the nut that I place in it, she loves to take it apart and she can take it apart as fast as I can put it back together. She also has a thing for bells, but needs a strong well put together bell as she loves to attack it. You would think that it was her worst enemy and that she is intent on killing it an sending it to (w)ell. She also like to play ball with me. I have a 2 inch ball made of woven vines that is light weight and she will throw it at me and I toss it back as close as I can without hitting her so she very often catches it and then throws it back at me.

When introducing her to a new toy, I first let her watch me from a safe distance while I toss it up in the air and catch it and once I have her attention than she watches me play with it for a while. Then I place it as close to her as she will allow without stepping back away from it and leave it there until either I play with it again or she goes to it and starts playing with it herself.

[Pajarita]

If this bird is, as I suspect, an adult wild-caught bird, I seriously doubt he will ever play with toys... But he will chew stuff so provide him with natural materials for him to do that (branches, cardboard, wood, etc)

[mustafarangoon]

I went to store for exchange of my African Grey, I fought with them about the scenario. They gave me Wild Caught one, They told me that how can we give you wild caught African grey in India? It is an farm breed. Then after half an hour of fight they gave me another African grey which they showed me that it is tamed and doesn't bite unnecessary. I took it on my hand and he was slightly afraid, They said that you are new one for him so he is hesitating.

Thanks alot Pajarita to help me identify, They were not even agree to accept the fact that they have cheated me but at last they exchanged it.