We've had Jasmine (U2) & Jengo (CAG) for 22 years. Got Jengo at 6 months of age, Jasmine at & months of age. JaJaBinks (B&G Macaw, passed last August), got her at 2 years of age & had her for almost 20 years. JaKhu (B&G Macaw), got her last August at 4 months of age. She is now 1 year & 3 months old. My birds are in my living room & dining room (big open archway), so they can see us & each other. They each have their own window to see outside. My birds are pretty quiet during the day & make most of their noises in the evening hours.
Jengo stays on her cage. Otherwise she likes to walk around on the floor. She doesn't like play gyms, but she does like the outside aviary & digging holes in the dirt. We call back & forth a lot especially in the evening. She likes foot toys & ripping up paper.
My birds are greeted every morning & drapes opened to let in the light. Drapes closed at dark & Jasmine gets covered. They get breakfast & taken outside late morning/early afternoon during spring/summer. In winter they spend more time in their cages, depending on what we are doing, but they all get time out of cage more so in the evening hours.
Jasmine will stay on her cage as long as you are in the room watching her. Otherwise she will climb off & destroy something like my sofa, drapes, etc. She used to come sit with me on my chair, ride on my shoulder, etc, but once her hormones kicked in she quit doing that. She likes the play gym & being outside in the aviary. She plays with all types of toys.
JaJaBinks would stay on her cage or go back in & swing on her swing. She was not destructive, so we could let her cage door open. She'd put herself to bed. She loved to swing & her tail would go in & out of the cage bars, while she yelled WEEEE. Other times she'd come into the kitchen, climb up the dog gate & sit & watch me while I prepared a meal. She would also walk into the living room, climb up on my chair & watch TV with me. She loved the aviary & going places. We used to take her to the Harley Club & she loved the motorcycles. She loved Halloween & screaming at the kids, then laughing at them. She loved Christamas & opening gifts. She was not big on toys, as she had none the first 2 years of her life. She'd beat them up, but not destroy them. Swings & boings were her favorite things.
JaKhu is a whole other story. OMG this bird is a feathered wrecking ball. Her main goal is to destroy as much as she can every day. I could give her a big box of toys & by the end of the day most would be in pieces. She is high energy all day long. She hardly stops. She loves foot toys, hanging toys & swinging. She plays on her back a lot & hangs upsided down a lot. She's on her back or upsoide down more than upright on her feet. She is pretty quiet & doesn't make much sound during the day. She is talking some, but not very loud. She eats her breakfast & then it's play, play, play with all her toys. She's very destructive. She loves being outside in the aviary & she keeps moving pretty much the whole time. They usually get a good 4 hours outside. I've done some training & she's learned Wings-Up/Big bird, Roll over. She almost has Summersalt, but not quite yet. Tried to teach her to hop, but she does a skip & then this swagger step. She will roll off the top of her cage, a high perch, etc., onto my hand. She was nippy from day one & we've been working on teaching her not to nip. So far she refuses to stay on her cage & can not be left alone for a second. She's super fast & can take a bite out of something in the blink of an eye. So I hope she calms down a bit in a few years. She had outside time on our big front porch when I first got her, because they had clipped her, but since then she's become fully flighted & flat out refuses to wear a harness. Every evening she plays on the parrot tower/gym for a good 3 hours before bed. We do some on her back, on my lap, play too. She will be in ongoing training, not so much for tricks, but lifestyle so she can be trusted not to eat my house if we have to leave the room. She's only flown across a room once on her own. I keep trying to toss her off my hand, but she won't go. So I think I need to set up a perch station & get her to fly back & forth, so she learns how to fly & land.
So how much quality time we spend with our birds depends on what we are doing that day.
) and she’ll destroy a piece of wood or ball that i give her. i say all this because i’d love to know what everyone thinks is enriching quality time + it would be nice not to stress myself out about having the perfect care 24/7
