by InsanityShard » Mon Jun 13, 2016 5:38 pm
Maybe I will just get a princess parrot alone to begin with and get the one you recommended later- maybe it will learn a bit better by mimicking the other parrot rather than neither being able to focus and learn by me talking. I'll get the Princess first because maybe it'll be like cats or fighter fish- the new bird might not be so jealous if the other bird is there from the start. As to how that relates to fighter fish, putting a snail in the tank, it gets attacked, putting a fighter in a snails tank, it's less likely. Found that out the hard way. Still, when it comes to training them, I have no job since I can't figure out one I can do, and I understand it could take up to 3 years or longer to fully train the princess parrot, let alone a second one, which I would get after the Princess is settled and has started being trained, maybe after only 4 or 5 months. Do you think that could work?
Also, yes, she was talking strictly from her experience, and she has only worked with small birds like canaries and budgies. She was very very good with those, and I'll have her helping me the whole time. She already taught me the start of training a budgie to sit on my shoulder, where it's on the perch and you put your finger lightly under its toes and press up until it goes onto your finger. That was back when I had a Budgie.