Hi every one!! We have an amazing parrot full of character!!! He is a male amazon parrot (amazona farinosa) with a split ring with the inscription NL13K3H 307. I do not know his age since I got him from a previous owner (I think had him a couple of years) who had decided to give him up for adoption due to extreme feather plucking (plucking until he blead...) and now he has been in the family for 13 years. He continuous to pluck himself allot and screams continuously although I have tried a number of things (collars, medication, change of environment, destructible toys, various trainings, examinations and blood samples, stopped feather clipping, different foods, jungle gym etc.). He doesn't like children's or a woman's voice (high pitch) just the sound of them sets him off and he screams as loud as he can without stopping (like an alarm), he is very affectionate and will allow my sons to feed him and stroke him and he bobs his head continuously when they do (they are only 5 and 2 my sons) but he will scream constantly when my sons are in the room.
We used to have him in a spare room on his own to quite down the screaming (wife and kids handled as much as they could), we use to have him in the living room but it didn't work out. Now due to lock down I moved him to my basement where I work from (telework), here he is calm and quiet with me (I think he likes the classical music I play while I work) but he doesn't like it when I'm on the phone or when he hears my boys, so I use a headset and close windows if needed. I don't think he will ever change in character, it just means I cant have him with the family as he prefers to be on his own. He isn't very aggressive and he allows you to pet him (he likes it allot) and will rarely bite (and when he does it isn't a strong bite). I have a doll inside his cage which he bites allot when my kids come to see him, I think he puts out his aggression on it. His cage is always open but he rarely comes out, only when I give him baths and put him on his jungle gym for some exercise but he will soon fly back to his cage and sit inside where he nibbles his toys, prunes himself or scratches his head with his feet .
Wife has suggested (numerous times to give him to a more appropriate owner since we don't seems to have an environment that suits his likes, with the kids and a busy noisy life (I use to travel allot for work so the parrot was alone a fair bit). But I cant really let him go!!!, sometimes I think maybe he needs some calming agents but never really liked the idea to medicate him and have always avoided it although the avian vet suggested it once, we tried for a week but the parrot was really drowsy so we stopped it (just wasn't himself). Don't know if we should of taken him in, but we did and have cared for him allot, probably will continue the way he does, otherwise he is heathy, cheerfull, talkative, affectionate, playfull and allot of fun to have!!!
We used to have him in a spare room on his own to quite down the screaming (wife and kids handled as much as they could), we use to have him in the living room but it didn't work out. Now due to lock down I moved him to my basement where I work from (telework), here he is calm and quiet with me (I think he likes the classical music I play while I work) but he doesn't like it when I'm on the phone or when he hears my boys, so I use a headset and close windows if needed. I don't think he will ever change in character, it just means I cant have him with the family as he prefers to be on his own. He isn't very aggressive and he allows you to pet him (he likes it allot) and will rarely bite (and when he does it isn't a strong bite). I have a doll inside his cage which he bites allot when my kids come to see him, I think he puts out his aggression on it. His cage is always open but he rarely comes out, only when I give him baths and put him on his jungle gym for some exercise but he will soon fly back to his cage and sit inside where he nibbles his toys, prunes himself or scratches his head with his feet .
Wife has suggested (numerous times to give him to a more appropriate owner since we don't seems to have an environment that suits his likes, with the kids and a busy noisy life (I use to travel allot for work so the parrot was alone a fair bit). But I cant really let him go!!!, sometimes I think maybe he needs some calming agents but never really liked the idea to medicate him and have always avoided it although the avian vet suggested it once, we tried for a week but the parrot was really drowsy so we stopped it (just wasn't himself). Don't know if we should of taken him in, but we did and have cared for him allot, probably will continue the way he does, otherwise he is heathy, cheerfull, talkative, affectionate, playfull and allot of fun to have!!!