RedDragon1288 wrote:The whole point is that doing the hand-feeding yourself will greater the relationship and bond with your parrot is a fallacy.
No two ways about it and depending on the age of the bird and the person feeding it, more harm can be done than good. I had a person who wanted her bird at 6 weeks because her dad was experienced with bringing up budgerigars! My suggestion was get a budgerigar from him lol there was no way she was getting her hand one of my little ones at 6 weeks, when they are just learning to fly! To cut a long story short she got her bird at 9 Weeks.
A few months later she tells me she was having some behavior issues with her bird and her non avian vet told her the best thing to do is clip the birds wings! So even your vet can be just as stupid as the owner! I had to bring her back to my home and show and explain to her where she went wrong and prove to her that my bird wouldn't exhibit any of those "Bad Habits". She couldn't believe Belle (My little Angel) will NEVER Bite and to this day has Never ever bitten hard enough to even come close to breaking skin let alone cause any bleeding.
In any case what I have concluded is my bird doesn't think I her mom and has no intention of wanting to fly away from me. Behavior issues, feather plucking etc are more to do with the owner of the bird and its upbringing .