Hello!

[OdeMX]

Hello everyone, my Name is Oscar, I live in Mexico, I own a female Mexican Parrotlet (Concha, 4 months old) and a male Amazon (Charly, 2 Months Old).

This is my 1st post, but I have been reading these forums since 3 days ago, I really have to thank many of you, with all the reading I have been doing im finally seeing some response from Charly, Concha still incredible scared, so I’m just going to start with Charly and learn together.

This is our progress so far:
-Day 1: Charly bites me so incredible hard that I named him Maldito Bastardo for a couple of days.

-Day 2 - Day 5: He flights all over the cage, screams and attacks me even when I put food on his bowl, I even had to wear a working leather glove for protection... I have to admit that I did all the "don’t do's..."that I have been reading lately.

-Night 5: I read until early in the morning every possible forum, news group, blog and youtube tutorial and came to the conclusion that this forum is the best one. I renamed Maldito Bastardo to Charly, to be honest the 1st name was horrible and I don’t want my daughter to say that, 2nd that 1st impression we had really reminded me of Harry and Charly youtube video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=he5fpsmH_2g&feature=fvsr)

-Day 6: I follow Michael's instructions (his post has been incredibly usefull for me http://theparrotforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=227), thanks Michael! ran to the store and buyed a Papaya, Mango, Oat, different peanuts, sunflower seed , corn and rice mixture, I found out that Charly likes sunflower seed most than any other seed/peanut and also really likes Apple slices.

-Day 7: I manage to get to cage distance!

-Day 8: Charly sometimes grabs apple slices from my hand (he still inside the cage)

-Day 9 (today): He is 1 meter from me, sleeping in a very strange position, instead of resting on his stick he is hanging by his beak and feet on the side of the cage, that’s new! Is it normal? (Found some one elses parrot do the same but still no answer to him (http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index ... 307AAenueH).

As additional information, after reading Michaels post again (This goes more for abused, rehomed, wild caught, or poorly raised parrots.) I went to find the parrot seller to find out more about my birds and this is their story:

“The seller is from the South of Mexico, Chiapas, allegedly he raises the amazon’s birds by himself and when he gets around 60, he then register the parrots and travels to Durango to pick up Mexican Parrotlets (Forpus cyanopygius), from that point he travels to Soto La Marina to get Green Cheeked parrots (amazona viridigenalis) and finally gets to my city, which is at the center of Coahuila state! Which means that these birds traveled all Mexico (length and wide) to get here… by bus! So now I understand why they are scare…

Anyway this post was longer than originally intended…
Cheers!

[Michael]

Hi, thanks for joining our forum. I think you'll find that we have the nicest and most dedicated crowd of the forums around.

You may also want to check out my recent topic about harness training my parrot. While you're not training the parrot to wear the harness, you are training it to be near your hands and you can follow many of the same steps (particularly from day 1) for ideas on how to get closer to your parrot. In the tutorial I start with a tame bird at a close interval. You have to interpolate this in reverse for earlier steps like approaching the cage, getting near the cage, touching the cage, getting your hands closer to the parrot, etc. However, the techniques and methods are much the same.

viewtopic.php?f=15&t=1329

I'm glad you are finding the forum helpful. Let me know if you have any specific questions.

[kimbo]

hi and welcome to the forum

[OdeMX]

Thank you guys!

[MandyG]

Welcome! Glad you're finding the forum to be useful! Sounds like you're on the right track with Charly. Good luck with your training, you're off to a good start .