MadIe
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- Madie
Hej bird friends,
INTRO ( questions below) :
I'm Madie, a bird in my passed life ;-) , just kidding , but as my husband puts it: I accidentally love birds
However, I have travelled intensively in my life and I only had a bird pet when I was a teenager ( 25 years ago ), it was Eddy the Canary.
Right now we have paused with the family.
First we got 6 hens. I have a great bond with 5/6 and they come and sit on my lap and "curve"their bodies to be petted. They also give me 4-6 eggs every day and help us stay waste and plastic free.
Now since a while our children would like to have a pet. We have therefore started studying birds ( in general) and we talk about geting a parrot.
We have done some reading but we are not sure if we narrowed it well.
QUESTIONS:
Here below is what we thing would fit and what we can offer the bird. I would Highly appreciate your kind opinions on how to get this as right as possible.
We are a family ( our children are young: 5, almost 7, almost 9), but the boys are World-Schooled and understand a lot about animal behaviour.
I work from home, meaning I can have the bird next to me all the day when my children and husband are not here.
I have trained my animals ( I had a Yorkshire, french bulldog and a Greate Dane at some point in my life) and though I'm not a pro at all, my dogs were super well behaved. I am very thorough and patient.
We would like to get a highly intelligent and easy going bird ( preferably parrot) . What I mean with "easy going" is characteristically least neurotic possible.
We have a big house and will get a big cage, but we are considering small to medium sized parrots, because of our kids' age ( though as said our kids would never disturb or touch the bird without us, so that's clear)
We don't mind some noise and count with some destruction, but a very agitated, agressive, teretorial bird might not be he match.
We narrowed the search to a few species, but every time I read up I get varied opinions ( i am fully aware that the bird shoudl chose us ( as did my amazing dogs) but I look for some good advise that doesn't come from a VENDOR first.
Pluses would be talk but not a must
Plus would be a bird that would accept us all , though it's clear I will have more time with him than the others
Plus would be a mild temper , but we would like a "friend pet"which we could interact with a lot, so that is perhaps difficult to marry?
We were thinking about birds of max 12 ' and smaller would be great too ( if they are intelligent and interactive)
Any advise is highly appreciated. ![Female sign :female_sign: ♀](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/joypixels/emoji-assets@5.0/png/64/2640.png)
Thank you in advance,
Madie and the boys
PS if this is the wrong place for this thread please help me move it?
INTRO ( questions below) :
I'm Madie, a bird in my passed life ;-) , just kidding , but as my husband puts it: I accidentally love birds
However, I have travelled intensively in my life and I only had a bird pet when I was a teenager ( 25 years ago ), it was Eddy the Canary.
Right now we have paused with the family.
First we got 6 hens. I have a great bond with 5/6 and they come and sit on my lap and "curve"their bodies to be petted. They also give me 4-6 eggs every day and help us stay waste and plastic free.
Now since a while our children would like to have a pet. We have therefore started studying birds ( in general) and we talk about geting a parrot.
We have done some reading but we are not sure if we narrowed it well.
QUESTIONS:
Here below is what we thing would fit and what we can offer the bird. I would Highly appreciate your kind opinions on how to get this as right as possible.
We are a family ( our children are young: 5, almost 7, almost 9), but the boys are World-Schooled and understand a lot about animal behaviour.
I work from home, meaning I can have the bird next to me all the day when my children and husband are not here.
I have trained my animals ( I had a Yorkshire, french bulldog and a Greate Dane at some point in my life) and though I'm not a pro at all, my dogs were super well behaved. I am very thorough and patient.
We would like to get a highly intelligent and easy going bird ( preferably parrot) . What I mean with "easy going" is characteristically least neurotic possible.
We have a big house and will get a big cage, but we are considering small to medium sized parrots, because of our kids' age ( though as said our kids would never disturb or touch the bird without us, so that's clear)
We don't mind some noise and count with some destruction, but a very agitated, agressive, teretorial bird might not be he match.
We narrowed the search to a few species, but every time I read up I get varied opinions ( i am fully aware that the bird shoudl chose us ( as did my amazing dogs) but I look for some good advise that doesn't come from a VENDOR first.
Pluses would be talk but not a must
Plus would be a bird that would accept us all , though it's clear I will have more time with him than the others
Plus would be a mild temper , but we would like a "friend pet"which we could interact with a lot, so that is perhaps difficult to marry?
We were thinking about birds of max 12 ' and smaller would be great too ( if they are intelligent and interactive)
Any advise is highly appreciated.
![Female sign :female_sign: ♀](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/joypixels/emoji-assets@5.0/png/64/2640.png)
Thank you in advance,
Madie and the boys
PS if this is the wrong place for this thread please help me move it?