A month and a half since Billy came home- We couldn't be more pleased with Billy Jean. She loves to cuddle with me and play with my husband. Husband is now telling her he loves her. Something so cute about a 6ft 270lb man telling a 67gram bird "yes, daddy loves you too little girl" as she plays in his beard. She's sneaking into our plates now at dinner time on a regular basis and eats our vegetables. Dinner time has now become a bit chaotic as she tends to step in our other food too get to the veggies, even at times poohing in my plate. OIY!
Occasionally I cheat and give her a few bites of pizza or vanilla ice cream. Lol she's getting very good at step-up these days. This morning she had apple, Brussels sprouts, carrots, zucchini, sweet peppers, tomatoes, broccoli, a few nuts and some Ceylon cinnamon sprinkled on top of her chop. She loves cinnamon and paprika on her food and refuses to eat her veggies if I don't put a little fruit in her chop every morning. Lol The whole food diet seems to be going well. she is gaining weight and is now 67 grams. Is active, sassy and well mannered.. Well most of the time.
she bit me for the 1st time. We've been trying to teach her how much pressure is too much by telling her no bite and if she continues to be to rough put her off us somewhere safe. (We very rarely have to do this as she seems to respond to the sound of a lowered voice and stops). She's started to play with foot toys and rolled onto her back for the 1st time yesterday to to play with her ball with her feet. (A moment I've been secretly hoping for).
It was so cute made my heart hurt! She did it again this morning so I'll try to get a video to share with you all cause you guys haven't seen enough conures play on their back. No dancing yet though
I hope it happens soon because at the moment she sings along to the music.. Conures have terrible singing voices. My husband says she has her momma's singing voice.
She continues to make new vocalizations. She has this one she does now that sounds like my husbands big laugh.
At bedtime when she's cuddling I'll talk softly like Donald duck to her and she will look up at me so sweetly making soft little quacks, mumbles and trills back till she falls asleep.
We take her out regularly on walks in her back pack but I ordered her a harness from leathers4feathers this week. I did a lot of research and they look like the least traumatic to put on them. She loves it outside so much. I'd like to have my husband build her an aviary in the next couple years.
That's all I have folks! She's such a darling little bird.
She has stolen our hearts in such a short time so you'll probably keep getting these rambling posts! Lol Long story short we are spoiling her rotten!