Pajarita wrote:Oh, my... Well, under a human light schedule, free-fed protein, getting only two hours out-of-cage and, most likely no real one-on-one time for 15 years, you have a bird that is in constant pain and extremely [EXTREMELY!] sexually frustrated. The bird screeches all the time because the bird is suffering - BIG TIME!!! You can't free-feed protein, keep them at a breeding light schedule all the bird's life and ignore the bird almost all day long and have a healthy and happy bird. It's impossible. Parrots are highly social and need to have company 24/7/365 - some of them resign themselves to living all their lives lonely but most of them don't. Plus, no bird was created by nature to be hormonal all year round, year after year after year after year [this poor thing's sexual organs must be so big by now that his other internal organs are been pushed aside by them -causing chronic pain]. Birds are not like mammals, they only produce sexual hormones when there are long days and rich food but, in nature, this doesn't happen all year round, only during breeding season and, when this period is over, the sexual organs stop producing sexual hormones, become dormant and shrink BUT, if you keep the long days and rich food all year round and year after year, the organs keep on growing and growing - this is what has been happening to this poor bird for 15 whole years and it's a miracle the bird is not peeing blood or self-mutilating...
These are the changes they need to make to fix things:
1. The bird should be kept at a strict solar schedule with full exposure to dawn and dusk [this means uncovering the cage when there is the first light on the sky with no artificial lights on before the sun is up in the sky in the morning or after the sun is halfway down to the horizon and complete darkness and quiet for the night to ensure quality sleep].
2. It should be fed only one tablespoon of protein food [pellets, seeds, nuts, avicakes, nutriberries] for dinner and chop/mash/gloop accompanied by raw produce for breakfast and all day picking.
3. It needs to fly, at the very least, 4 hours a day [this is the rule of thumb but, personally, I think it's not enough for them to be out-of-cage for only 4 hours a day].
4. It needs to have, at the very least, 2 hours of one-on-one with its chosen human [and this means the human paying attention to the bird all the time].
Now, they are not going to see a change in the bird for many months because the longer an endocrine system is out of whack, the longer it takes to get it back to where it's supposed to be so they need to patient, consistent and persistent but, if they are, the bird will, eventually, go back to a normal behavior. Another thing they need to take into consideration is that a screwed up endocrine system does not only cause 'behavioral' problems [not that an animal screaming in pain is a 'behavioral' problem], it has medical consequence, too, because it depresses the immune system, affects cell regeneration, mood, appetite, sleep, etc. And free-feeding protein food causes liver [fatty liver] and kidney [high uric acid] malfunction as well as cardio-vascular disease [enlarged heart, strokes, etc] so I suggest they also treat the bird with liver and kidney cleansers and tonics like milk thistle, dandelion root, methionine, theanine, etc.
I have to tell you and I hope neither you nor your friends take this the wrong way but your postings is gonna screw up my entire week and possibly even longer - I know myself and I know I am going to be thinking of this poor little bird suffering, stuck in a cage all alone... I don't know where your friends live but, if they are anywhere in the Northeast, I would offer to board the bird, completely free of charge, for some months until it's back to where it should be and then all they would have to do is continue the proper care. I would sign any papers they would want me to stating the bird is theirs and not mind to keep - it's not that I want the bird for myself but bringing back a bird that has been under the wrong care for so long is not easy or fast and it's hard on 'regular' people but I am used to it so, if they feel they would not be able to do it, I can help them get to a point they can manage.
Pajarita wrote:Oh, my... Well, under a human light schedule, free-fed protein, getting only two hours out-of-cage and, most likely no real one-on-one time for 15 years, you have a bird that is in constant pain and extremely [EXTREMELY!] sexually frustrated. The bird screeches all the time because the bird is suffering - BIG TIME!!! You can't free-feed protein, keep them at a breeding light schedule all the bird's life and ignore the bird almost all day long and have a healthy and happy bird. It's impossible. Parrots are highly social and need to have company 24/7/365 - some of them resign themselves to living all their lives lonely but most of them don't. Plus, no bird was created by nature to be hormonal all year round, year after year after year after year [this poor thing's sexual organs must be so big by now that his other internal organs are been pushed aside by them -causing chronic pain]. Birds are not like mammals, they only produce sexual hormones when there are long days and rich food but, in nature, this doesn't happen all year round, only during breeding season and, when this period is over, the sexual organs stop producing sexual hormones, become dormant and shrink BUT, if you keep the long days and rich food all year round and year after year, the organs keep on growing and growing - this is what has been happening to this poor bird for 15 whole years and it's a miracle the bird is not peeing blood or self-mutilating...
These are the changes they need to make to fix things:
1. The bird should be kept at a strict solar schedule with full exposure to dawn and dusk [this means uncovering the cage when there is the first light on the sky with no artificial lights on before the sun is up in the sky in the morning or after the sun is halfway down to the horizon and complete darkness and quiet for the night to ensure quality sleep].
2. It should be fed only one tablespoon of protein food [pellets, seeds, nuts, avicakes, nutriberries] for dinner and chop/mash/gloop accompanied by raw produce for breakfast and all day picking.
3. It needs to fly, at the very least, 4 hours a day [this is the rule of thumb but, personally, I think it's not enough for them to be out-of-cage for only 4 hours a day].
4. It needs to have, at the very least, 2 hours of one-on-one with its chosen human [and this means the human paying attention to the bird all the time].
Now, they are not going to see a change in the bird for many months because the longer an endocrine system is out of whack, the longer it takes to get it back to where it's supposed to be so they need to patient, consistent and persistent but, if they are, the bird will, eventually, go back to a normal behavior. Another thing they need to take into consideration is that a screwed up endocrine system does not only cause 'behavioral' problems [not that an animal screaming in pain is a 'behavioral' problem], it has medical consequence, too, because it depresses the immune system, affects cell regeneration, mood, appetite, sleep, etc. And free-feeding protein food causes liver [fatty liver] and kidney [high uric acid] malfunction as well as cardio-vascular disease [enlarged heart, strokes, etc] so I suggest they also treat the bird with liver and kidney cleansers and tonics like milk thistle, dandelion root, methionine, theanine, etc.
I have to tell you and I hope neither you nor your friends take this the wrong way but your postings is gonna screw up my entire week and possibly even longer - I know myself and I know I am going to be thinking of this poor little bird suffering, stuck in a cage all alone... I don't know where your friends live but, if they are anywhere in the Northeast, I would offer to board the bird, completely free of charge, for some months until it's back to where it should be and then all they would have to do is continue the proper care. I would sign any papers they would want me to stating the bird is theirs and not mind to keep - it's not that I want the bird for myself but bringing back a bird that has been under the wrong care for so long is not easy or fast and it's hard on 'regular' people but I am used to it so, if they feel they would not be able to do it, I can help them get to a point they can manage.
Pajarita wrote:Oh, my... Well, under a human light schedule, free-fed protein, getting only two hours out-of-cage and, most likely no real one-on-one time for 15 years, you have a bird that is in constant pain and extremely [EXTREMELY!] sexually frustrated. The bird screeches all the time because the bird is suffering - BIG TIME!!! You can't free-feed protein, keep them at a breeding light schedule all the bird's life and ignore the bird almost all day long and have a healthy and happy bird. It's impossible. Parrots are highly social and need to have company 24/7/365 - some of them resign themselves to living all their lives lonely but most of them don't. Plus, no bird was created by nature to be hormonal all year round, year after year after year after year [this poor thing's sexual organs must be so big by now that his other internal organs are been pushed aside by them -causing chronic pain]. Birds are not like mammals, they only produce sexual hormones when there are long days and rich food but, in nature, this doesn't happen all year round, only during breeding season and, when this period is over, the sexual organs stop producing sexual hormones, become dormant and shrink BUT, if you keep the long days and rich food all year round and year after year, the organs keep on growing and growing - this is what has been happening to this poor bird for 15 whole years and it's a miracle the bird is not peeing blood or self-mutilating...
These are the changes they need to make to fix things:
1. The bird should be kept at a strict solar schedule with full exposure to dawn and dusk [this means uncovering the cage when there is the first light on the sky with no artificial lights on before the sun is up in the sky in the morning or after the sun is halfway down to the horizon and complete darkness and quiet for the night to ensure quality sleep].
2. It should be fed only one tablespoon of protein food [pellets, seeds, nuts, avicakes, nutriberries] for dinner and chop/mash/gloop accompanied by raw produce for breakfast and all day picking.
3. It needs to fly, at the very least, 4 hours a day [this is the rule of thumb but, personally, I think it's not enough for them to be out-of-cage for only 4 hours a day].
4. It needs to have, at the very least, 2 hours of one-on-one with its chosen human [and this means the human paying attention to the bird all the time].
Now, they are not going to see a change in the bird for many months because the longer an endocrine system is out of whack, the longer it takes to get it back to where it's supposed to be so they need to patient, consistent and persistent but, if they are, the bird will, eventually, go back to a normal behavior. Another thing they need to take into consideration is that a screwed up endocrine system does not only cause 'behavioral' problems [not that an animal screaming in pain is a 'behavioral' problem], it has medical consequence, too, because it depresses the immune system, affects cell regeneration, mood, appetite, sleep, etc. And free-feeding protein food causes liver [fatty liver] and kidney [high uric acid] malfunction as well as cardio-vascular disease [enlarged heart, strokes, etc] so I suggest they also treat the bird with liver and kidney cleansers and tonics like milk thistle, dandelion root, methionine, theanine, etc.
I have to tell you and I hope neither you nor your friends take this the wrong way but your postings is gonna screw up my entire week and possibly even longer - I know myself and I know I am going to be thinking of this poor little bird suffering, stuck in a cage all alone... I don't know where your friends live but, if they are anywhere in the Northeast, I would offer to board the bird, completely free of charge, for some months until it's back to where it should be and then all they would have to do is continue the proper care. I would sign any papers they would want me to stating the bird is theirs and not mind to keep - it's not that I want the bird for myself but bringing back a bird that has been under the wrong care for so long is not easy or fast and it's hard on 'regular' people but I am used to it so, if they feel they would not be able to do it, I can help them get to a point they can manage.
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