Birds

United States
March 9, 2007 7:47am CST
Anyone here on myLot have any type of birds as pets? If so what kind do you have... I currently have a Sun Conure and I love it.. It's a very colorful bird and smart.
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• Sri Lanka
9 Mar 07
I have a green parrot, i brought it home thinking i d train it to talk, i bought it on the 14 th of feb, still no luck with the talking, infact i cant get close to it, it keeps jumpin from side to side, maybe its still not used to its new environment
• United States
9 Mar 07
Well, it takes time to get an adult parrot to trust you. You may want to try feeding a treat every so often by hand to have him/her get use to you. Once you have the trust, then you can begin training.. I have had a relationship with my Sun "Malibu" since he/she was 3 weeks old. So, it's been easier for me to develop trust. Best of Luck, and keep me posted...
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@Taskr36 (13963)
• United States
16 Apr 07
He's right. Many parrots bond to one gender or even to one person. It can take a while to get them comfortable with a new person. One of my cockatiels was 3 years old when we got him. It took almost three months before he really started to like my wife and I. Now he talks all the time and will follow me all over the house. He even wants to sleep under our bed at night.
• Canada
9 Mar 07
My sister had a pair of mated finches. They were very cute and I had a friend who owned a gigantic cage with over 12 finches in it. That was something to see. For me I've never owned any birds.
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• United States
9 Mar 07
Finches are cute, but they are not the choice bird for me. Cause I like to be able to hold my bird and train it. Finches are too "skittish" for me. But, when they are whitling it's cool to listen to.. Best of Luck with you new members of your family.
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• United States
15 Apr 07
I have a beautiful Sun Conure named Tucker! I have a huge aviary full of Cockatiels, 1 dove and 1 pigeon that was hurt and I nursed back to health. We have other pets as well 2 dogs, 2 cats and 2 lizards.
• United States
15 Apr 07
i have had suns, gendays, cockateils, parakeets, grey, amazons, queens, macaws, finches, doves, pigeon, you name it i am sure we had it lol. i miss them so much. we moved and werent able to have them now we can have them and cant afford them and we use to do rescue but here there is no need for it so we just dont have any. i would love to have them all again. i miss training them and watching them grow and learn. your pic makes me miss my sunny boy so much. he was my baby all teh way. he slept in between me and hubby, took bathes with me, ate dinner with me, loved to go to the store. there isnt a day that goes by i dont think of him.
• Philippines
10 Mar 07
I currently have a pair of Breeding Shaft-tail finches, they are a joy to watch in their long flight cage, while the male sings its coutship song while bobbing its head and dance for the female. I also have parakeets (budgerigars), always love the sounds they make every morning, especially the warbling song of the male courting the female.
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• United States
25 Aug 07
I have a sun conure named Boo Boo. Have you gotten yours to talk yet? Boo Boo is less than a year old. I can only get him to mock a whistle when i am not in the room. I also have a double yellow headed amazon parrot that talks. Well, my fiance has that bird, it don't like me. I can't get mine to talk.
@miryam (6505)
• Italy
10 Mar 07
parrot - parrot speek photo
I dislike disappointing you, not everyone has birds, I have a dog and a Russian hamster. I have never been loving of birds closed in cage, but I would like to have an Indian blackbird or a parrot, of whats speak ...
@applsofgld (2506)
• United States
10 Mar 07
I don't currently have any birds. But several years ago I owned 2 Cockatiels. They were my first experience with birds. My mother in law gave them to us as she was allergic to them. They were already grown and had been trained a little. But we worked with them a lot and they were so fun to watch and to spend time with. Their names were Bill & Barbara. Bill was a common grey cockatiel, and Barbara was almost solid yellow with some white. She was a beauty. They loved each other, and Bill could whistle so loud and pretty, he'd say "pretty girl Barbara" and "I love you Barbara". So sweet. They laid a box full of eggs once with no results. Then later they hatched out 3 babies but they didn't make it. My son later developed allergies and asthma so we had to give them to another friend. But we missed them terribly. Birds are a lot of work and responsibility, but oh so much fun. Very rewarding.