For this reason I am willing to take on an older GG2 that has already been doing a number on herself. I've had many years experience with cockatoos ( and I love my ditzy little RB2s) plus have dealt with working with some feather pluckers. I'm lucky being in Australia that I have access to many of the local wild foods that gang gangs eat. We have a tendency to fail our birds by pushing too quickly for what we want rather then what is right for them. I do think with these guys we need to investigate more on the aviary level before bringing it into the single companion parrot area. We're getting better with some of the fabulous foraging stuff that is coming out with a number of our other notorious plucker species and I know there's a few things on my list before the old girl gets here. Hey what's a bit of sharing and caring to reduce the boredom and/or stress.(cited)Īt this stage I think we need to work out how we can keep these active little stress heads occupied in an artificial environment. Quite simply if stressed (and you can work out the stressor) or unoccupied for a time and these guys (with no underlying medical condition) are likely to go at themselves or even better, drum roll.each other. Neighbours dog comes to visit, out with those feathers, kids mates drop in with that rotten soccer ball, oops there go a few more. Simply being next door to an annoying neighbour is enough to make one want to pull their hair, err.feathers out. These guys are little stress heads and you'll know something is out of kilt when those feathers start coming out. I will be citing more from this book so if you see cited that's the publication. (cited A Guide to.Black cockatoos as Pet and Aviary Birds 2005). Not just pellets and a few fruit and veg but a variety of nuts, hawthorn and pyracantha berries, seed laden casuarina and wattle branches, other native Australian foods and flowers like banksia, grevillea, hakea and eucalypt. Thoughts on why these little guys are so prone comes down to their need to be busy busy busy all the time.īeing able to forage through a variety of foods. If my comments and knowledge make someone think then I'm a happy little vegemite.Īnyways.one of the main things we were commenting on with gang gangs is the plucking. I'm too old, been around the bird "game" too long and quite frankly when it comes down to it I don't care what others do. Now please keep in mind this is my view and I'm not going to judge anyone or carry on. Just because one can have them (a particular species) doesn't always mean one should. I'll be honest, I have very strong views on certain species of parrots as pets. Thanks for bringing this over Jen so the other thread wasn't getting quite so hi-jacked. If every parrot who picked was deemed bad parrot material, we'd have a lot less birds to pick from wouldn't we? No pun intended. There are a lot of thoughts on why they pick in captivity and just because they have picking issues doesn't mean they don't make good pets otherwise. Do Gang Gangs in general almost always pick in captivity? For now? Yes, it does seem to be the general issue but we don't know enough about their diet and other things to know why this happens and the only way to figure this out is to keep trying. There is more to a pet parrot than whether or not it picks. Absolutely no bird is immune to picking issues. Every single one of them can end up with picking issues. All of these birds are no longer as *rare* in the US as they once were and aren't as expensive as they once were and all make great pets for the right person. In the last several decades, we have breeders to thank for the Black Palm, the Major Mitchell, the Rose Breasted, the Ducorps', the Slender Bill, and the Bare Eyed here in this country and that's just the Cockatoos. We learn about rare species by breeding them and that's truly the bottom line, so I'm not against this. Since importation of birds is no longer possible outside of co-ops, these birds don't tend to be sold as pets here in the US and most breeders will highly suggest that they stay in breeding programs until we have sustainable populations. I'm in the US, so we have very few pairs here and yes, they are very expensive. From what I understand there is a lot we still need to understand about these little birds, especially about their diet. This was brought over from another thread and the biggest question was whether or not these birds make good pets.
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