hertzchasi
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Hey everyone!
So, rescued a young senni recently and had no luck finding the owner, which is probably for the best, I will explain why in this message further down. I have had her about 2 weeks now, but bonded by day 3. My dad was a falconer when he was young and I always showed an interest in it, had a few rescues of my own, predator and prey birds all short term. After bonding with this senni basically immediately I started reading hours on do's an don'ts. Learn't alot...lol... It really is like having a 5 yr old.. first mistake before I read it was cuddles mistakes. She skirt dances, etc. Now but curbing it. I haven't touched her it her "let's get it on zones" since, but she still starts morning greet with " hey baby, u like my skirt dance? How about some throw up?...lol. she demands a hard snuggle just before bed. Her schedule is like clock work... Get me up same time everyday, eats breakfast with me then has a hour nap.. then play time with dad. That cycle continues till evening. Wants to be with me 24/7. Only noises she makes is her flock call/location scream, it's not bad and I try not to run to the room "my landlord lives upstairs and said I can have her in my place as I have a pitty and paid large pet deposit, yes pitty and birb are chill together.. ok, without getting to long here's my issues.
-i believe she was fed people food, fats salt sugar, etc.. I was cooking and she turned into a lunatic trying to get to our dinner " cabbage rolls and mash spuds..lol..won't eat much veggies. Green beans and odd carrot. Apples that's it. She throws any others at me. Trying different greens but it's slow. Only thing she would eat when I got her was fatty sunflower seeds, yes changing that. She's finally eating zoopreme pellets green bean and tiny sliver of apple and fatty seed are for training. she won't touch cuttlefish so I scrapped it into powder and I dust her apple with it on occasion. Pretty much work in progress.
- she won't use a perch! I have tried different ones, no dice. Only thing she will perch on is a wood chair. I have tried swapping it and moving a wood perch a little closer day by day but she knows..
Doesn't want to be in a cage, no way..
Won't play with toys. Only plays tug o war with me. Made her a mellow forage toy scared to death of it.
Scared of the dark, I started her with a night light, now down to some soft blue LEDs.
Biggest issue is feather plucking, it's not molting. Guessing from sritching the "get it on spots"
getting her worked up and or diet and sleep schedule. So working on all three. I don't want her to wreck herself, plan is to work towards free flight. Any insight or help would be great, want her to be the best birb she
can be... Thanks everyone!!!
So, rescued a young senni recently and had no luck finding the owner, which is probably for the best, I will explain why in this message further down. I have had her about 2 weeks now, but bonded by day 3. My dad was a falconer when he was young and I always showed an interest in it, had a few rescues of my own, predator and prey birds all short term. After bonding with this senni basically immediately I started reading hours on do's an don'ts. Learn't alot...lol... It really is like having a 5 yr old.. first mistake before I read it was cuddles mistakes. She skirt dances, etc. Now but curbing it. I haven't touched her it her "let's get it on zones" since, but she still starts morning greet with " hey baby, u like my skirt dance? How about some throw up?...lol. she demands a hard snuggle just before bed. Her schedule is like clock work... Get me up same time everyday, eats breakfast with me then has a hour nap.. then play time with dad. That cycle continues till evening. Wants to be with me 24/7. Only noises she makes is her flock call/location scream, it's not bad and I try not to run to the room "my landlord lives upstairs and said I can have her in my place as I have a pitty and paid large pet deposit, yes pitty and birb are chill together.. ok, without getting to long here's my issues.
-i believe she was fed people food, fats salt sugar, etc.. I was cooking and she turned into a lunatic trying to get to our dinner " cabbage rolls and mash spuds..lol..won't eat much veggies. Green beans and odd carrot. Apples that's it. She throws any others at me. Trying different greens but it's slow. Only thing she would eat when I got her was fatty sunflower seeds, yes changing that. She's finally eating zoopreme pellets green bean and tiny sliver of apple and fatty seed are for training. she won't touch cuttlefish so I scrapped it into powder and I dust her apple with it on occasion. Pretty much work in progress.
- she won't use a perch! I have tried different ones, no dice. Only thing she will perch on is a wood chair. I have tried swapping it and moving a wood perch a little closer day by day but she knows..
Doesn't want to be in a cage, no way..
Won't play with toys. Only plays tug o war with me. Made her a mellow forage toy scared to death of it.
Scared of the dark, I started her with a night light, now down to some soft blue LEDs.
Biggest issue is feather plucking, it's not molting. Guessing from sritching the "get it on spots"
getting her worked up and or diet and sleep schedule. So working on all three. I don't want her to wreck herself, plan is to work towards free flight. Any insight or help would be great, want her to be the best birb she
can be... Thanks everyone!!!
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your bird seems to have a interesting past we may never know, I'm glad this birdie found you, you have some tough questions, maybe 
slowly slowly slowly...lol.. another thing that I don't understand, if I cut her cuddles short " don't want to fall asleep with her on me" I will put her on her perch and she freezes for about a half hour, pupils dont follow movement, you can nudge her, nothing, like a statue... Do you think this is her sulking? I find it scary..lol.. she is behaving like a fear/predator responses... U know the " if I don't move, I may not get noticed...
