The
first thing of course everybody wants to do is play with the new pet
and cuddle it and give him/her his or her constant attention. This is
very important but please keep the following in mind. The first few
days are very stressful for your new bird. Your bird is scared, it has
been taken out of the only environment it ever knew, it is now in a new
cage, new surroundings without his/her siblings to cuddle up to.
Your bird is scared and frightened and does not know you. It is therefore much better, as hard as that is to do for a new pet owner, to leave it in its cage for a while and only take it out every so often the first few days for 10 minutes at a time. Give the bird a few hours to explore the new cage. There are new faces to get used to, perhaps other new pets, like dogs, cats, the noise of children. All these will frighten a young bird and stress him/her out and it will take a few days to get adjusted to.
Your bird is scared and frightened and does not know you. It is therefore much better, as hard as that is to do for a new pet owner, to leave it in its cage for a while and only take it out every so often the first few days for 10 minutes at a time. Give the bird a few hours to explore the new cage. There are new faces to get used to, perhaps other new pets, like dogs, cats, the noise of children. All these will frighten a young bird and stress him/her out and it will take a few days to get adjusted to.
Make Sure Your Bird Is Eating Right
Any
bird will be stressed going to a new home and this can affect your new
pets eating habits. Make sure to inquire what your birds have been fed
by your breeder. We try to give all new pet owners a bag of our pellet
mixture.
If you decide to feed your bird different pellets or a seed mixture,
please do not change from one day to the next to new feed. Mix the feed
given to you by the breeder with your new feed, first 75% breeder feed,
and 25 % new feed. Everyday change this ratio so bird gets slowly used
to new feed without upsetting him too much. Usually by the end of a
week the bird will be used to eating the new food without any problem.
What Should I Feed My Bird?
Our birds are fed a combination of pellets, seeds and fresh fruits and
vegetables. There are a number of good pellets on the market. These
pellets are designed with all the nutrition and protein balanced for a
healthy bird. Pellets come in "Maintenance" and "Breeder". You want to
purchase the "maintenance". It is formulated for your pet bird. The
seeds for the Conures should be a good parrot mix, vitamin enriched.
Your bird should have a cuttle bone available at all times for his/her
calcium needs. Better is a mineral suppletment such as Avimin, added to
their water daily. And of course your bird should always have fresh
water available at all times
They like apples (NO APPLE SEEDS, they are poisonous), grapes, oranges
& just about any fruit & nearly all vegetables. These can be
given raw or cooked. Also a good treat is an occasional peanut. Please
limit these, since they are very high in protein. Another treat is raw
or cooked pasta, they do like that.
DO NOT ever give your bird COFFEE, CHOCOLATE; the caffeine is very bad
for them, and no AVOCADOS. Other than that, your bird can eat pretty
well whatever you eat, but should have a low salt intake.
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