How Long Do You Keep Your Bird out of Its Cage?

[GreenWing]

For the most part, Tiki is out of her cage whenever we're around, and since I'm working from home for the time being, she always wants to be with, and on, me. I really want her to be more independent, and as someone else mentioned what's helped for me are good toys for her to play with. When I leave the room for a long period of time I turn on classical music, which helps too

[Seyhang Uch]

Hi, my name is seyhang. How to raise my parrot without cage? When I put it stand a perch, it always fligh to me, so I want it to stand it perch forever. Could you help me? Thank you in advance.

[Pajarita]

Parrots need company and that means bodies touching, not looking from afar, so if you managed to train your bird to stay on his perch (I doubt it!), you will have a VERY unhappy and depressed bird.

[Wolf]

Hi, my name is seyhang. How to raise my parrot without cage? When I put it stand a perch, it always fligh to me, so I want it to stand it perch forever. Could you help me? Thank you in advance.

While I can understand that you want some time without your bird clinging to you, I would get it a cage to be in for a few hours. A parrot is a social creature and it needs a certain amount of physical contact every day in order to maintain its mental and emotional and perhaps its physical health. It is my opinion that wanting your bird to remain on a perch forever would be abuse and if that is what you truly want for it than I think that what you really want is a stuffed, plush parrot toy and not a living being especially one as intelligent and emotionally dependent as a real parrot.

I think that you may want to reconsider what it is that you are after, perhaps you have just stated it wrong?

[Seyhang Uch]

Thank you so much. How can I keep my parrot out of its cage?

[Wolf]

If you open the door of the cage the Parrot will come out on its own when it is ready. If you feed and water the parrot in its cage and do not use it as punishment the parrot will learn to return to its cage to relax (part of the time ) and to sleep. Put toys and things for it to destroy in the cage as well, Then place the bird in cage near its food at feeding time, leave door open and it will come back out when it is ready. Do this and give the bird time to figure it out and it will come and go to cage at will. To the bird the cage is its home and represents its safe place.

When bird is out of cage and flies to you, be nice and greet it like a long lost friend, after a brief period place bird on its cage and walk away telling bird to stay. The bird will either stay for a short time or not. If bird flies right back to you, acknowledge that it wants to be with you and calmly and gently return bird to top of cage and say stay, walk away. If you stay with this procedure the bird will learn to stay on cage for longer periods of time.

Your bird is a highly social animal and wants to be with you at all times so place perches in all rooms that parrot is allowed in so that you can use this same procedure with the perches instead of cage. Be gentle, calm and consistant and your bird will figure it out.

Do not use this to keep bird on perch forever as that is abuse and is wrong. Expect that the bird will always want to be with you and depending on the species needs a minimum of 2 to 4 hours of personal contact with you every day as well as lots of hanging out near you time, while it will learn to stay on perch/ cage for longer periods of time it will come to you frequently so be nice and treasure its attention and give it a little love and respect before returning it to perch.

[Seyhang Uch]

Thanks, My parrot is so young. It is 4 weeks old. Should can I follow you or not? It is not quiet on its perch, it always fly to anywhere that it want ,so if am difficult to manage it so much. Could you have solution to help me?

[Wolf]

Let's start this all over and try to get things straight. At 4 weeks of age your parrot is too young to be alone at any time. At this age your bird should not be weaned and to be honest should be with its parents.

Please tell us where you live and then tell us everything that you know about your bird and what and how often you are feeding it. If it is possible please include pictures of your bird as well as its living space. I am not being difficult, I am just trying to properly assess the situation so that you can receive the best information we can offer you for your birds benefit.

[Seyhang Uch]

I live in Phnom Penh,Cambodia. I never raise parrot before, and now I just raise it ,so I don't know how to raise it.Could you teach me how to raise and train it, please? And what can I do? I think that my parrot is bigger than before. Now it eats feed by itself. I raise it in a cage forever ,but I want to raise it out of cage the same thing that u told me before. It is learning to flight now ,so I am afraid my parrot flight to leave me. How can I sent it's photo to you? Thank you in advance.

[Pajarita]

At 4 weeks of age he is not weaned so you still have to handfeed it (at least, twice a day). He also should not be in a cage, it could get its foot or leg caught between the bars and break it. He should be kept very warm (85 degrees F) and given a soft surface to lay on. Forget about training it for now and concentrate on raising him. It's a little baby and he needs to grow up healthy first.