Dragooness
Sitting on the front steps
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- 8/18/19
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I have a rescued quaker. Here is my best guess at his story. I use male pronouns, but Robbin has yet to be DNA sexed
He was likely hand raised, and negelced and ingnored by his owner. My best guess is he was fed a seed diet. He got weak and got dumped on the next owner.
Second owner. A person that claims to rescue birds. They really resell birds given to them, if they are sick they are given away like the African grey female the next owner fostered. The grey in question has slayed legs her nutrition was so poor. They dumped Robbin with a bag of Walmart seed.
Third owner. A friend of mine that recues dogs. She has a good heart, and lives animals but little time with all she has. She had the bird less than a day before she called me. Her dogs where scaring Robbin so I came and got him.
And now his last owner. Me. I never wanted a quaker, I had been saving up for a hand fed love bird. A blue one. I took in Robbin and spent my savings on him, at first buying the wrong food. (Roudybush Cali blend medium).
Realizing my mistake I ordered from avian organics. I bought Harrison's Fine High Potency, Myan mash, and a soak seed mix for sprouting.
When I got him he was unable to bite hard enough to break skin. He also lacks the strength to fly. He has plucked his breast to the bare grey fluff. He is a sad looking bird.
His daily feed varies. In the morning he gets some mix of veggies, mash and pellets. This may or may not have pepper flakes, cyanne or cinnamon. I like to keep this feed varied so he dosent get bored. I will incorporate sprouts soon as I get them going.
Before I go to work I swap for straight pellets, when I get home he gets one or two nutriberries if he takes them from my hand.
His cage was nasty when I got it. A small 2x2x3.5 feet "parrot cage". It came with two perches; a round short dowl and the top perch is one of those rough pumice perches worn nearly smooth. The pumice perch I thought was brown, after I washed it it was red.
The toys in the cage where nasty and falling apart. J replaced it with one bright toy that he dismantled mostly, the wood is still mostly intact but he refuses to touch any of the other toys I got him. I bought him a boing he refuses to use. I also added a plastic chain he likes taking down. I had a happy hut in his cage but he decided to try and dismantled it so I took that out.
I don't know if I should start stick training or wait, I have had him about a month now. His bites are getting more painfully as he gets stronger. It seems wrong to be so happy about being bit!
Is there anyone you would do different?
He is not photogenic
Fork it over human!
One cage pic
Another
Failed attempt at a frontal picture. Stink eye detected.
He was likely hand raised, and negelced and ingnored by his owner. My best guess is he was fed a seed diet. He got weak and got dumped on the next owner.
Second owner. A person that claims to rescue birds. They really resell birds given to them, if they are sick they are given away like the African grey female the next owner fostered. The grey in question has slayed legs her nutrition was so poor. They dumped Robbin with a bag of Walmart seed.
Third owner. A friend of mine that recues dogs. She has a good heart, and lives animals but little time with all she has. She had the bird less than a day before she called me. Her dogs where scaring Robbin so I came and got him.
And now his last owner. Me. I never wanted a quaker, I had been saving up for a hand fed love bird. A blue one. I took in Robbin and spent my savings on him, at first buying the wrong food. (Roudybush Cali blend medium).
Realizing my mistake I ordered from avian organics. I bought Harrison's Fine High Potency, Myan mash, and a soak seed mix for sprouting.
When I got him he was unable to bite hard enough to break skin. He also lacks the strength to fly. He has plucked his breast to the bare grey fluff. He is a sad looking bird.
His daily feed varies. In the morning he gets some mix of veggies, mash and pellets. This may or may not have pepper flakes, cyanne or cinnamon. I like to keep this feed varied so he dosent get bored. I will incorporate sprouts soon as I get them going.
Before I go to work I swap for straight pellets, when I get home he gets one or two nutriberries if he takes them from my hand.
His cage was nasty when I got it. A small 2x2x3.5 feet "parrot cage". It came with two perches; a round short dowl and the top perch is one of those rough pumice perches worn nearly smooth. The pumice perch I thought was brown, after I washed it it was red.
The toys in the cage where nasty and falling apart. J replaced it with one bright toy that he dismantled mostly, the wood is still mostly intact but he refuses to touch any of the other toys I got him. I bought him a boing he refuses to use. I also added a plastic chain he likes taking down. I had a happy hut in his cage but he decided to try and dismantled it so I took that out.
I don't know if I should start stick training or wait, I have had him about a month now. His bites are getting more painfully as he gets stronger. It seems wrong to be so happy about being bit!
Is there anyone you would do different?
He is not photogenic
Fork it over human!
One cage pic
Another
Failed attempt at a frontal picture. Stink eye detected.