Pajarita wrote:stevesjk wrote:I was sold an aviary bird from what i thought was a reputable uk breeder 'parrotcare'. I paid damn good money too for hand reared. After some research i found they done it to others too. Sometimes i dont feel enough for him but all i can do is my best.
No, no, senegals are not aviary, they are always companion but, if you were sold a parent-raised bird you do have trouble taming them because they are not imprinted to people so, although they can become your friends, they never develop the deep bond of the hand-fed ones. The other possibility is that the bird was, indeed, hand-fed but that they used gavage instead of syringe -and that messes them up something terrible!
I have a 2.5 years old Meyers who was not human tame and was bonded to parrots. I thought we would only be as close as we got after a year, which was not as close as I am with my Red Belly parrot who is super tame. It took a while but he is now as close to me as she is. if your Senegal is young they are more easily able to make that close bond to you, but it will take time. You have to build trust over time. Also a hand feed early tamed parrot is no 100 percent guarantee, it will end up to be a better parrot than a young one tamed and trained later.
My Meyers is only a month older than my daughters and hers was very tame and loved people. The personality of her Meyers is that he really has a mind of his own. he doesn't care about rewards, so she has a hard time with any kind of training that gives rewards....he just doesn't care. He like to make all his own decisions. He is very independent and wants to do everything himself. He is quite the character, and he is a parrot of many moods. Often he wont go back in his cage, because he doesnt feel like it. He can be nippy when moody. He cant be out at the same time as her female Senegal. They are constantly wanting to fight.
My Meyers, is so careful to never hurt me, he loves any kind of reward, from saying good bird to treats. His needs are simple. He likes to interact and touch things i have touched. he loves games that he has to move something from one place to another and spends hours trying to take things apart. He is extremely easy for me to put in the cage. He loves to please me and have me say good bird. There were many times when he was not tamed yet that he bit me, that he was to afraid to do things, but he turned out to be such a happy sweet parrot. He gets along with my Red Belly and so they can be out together and he sometimes feeds her.