Hi this post may seem silly to some but please belive me i really do need some help and genuin advice here !
after much reading up on cockatiles i bought a baby one three days ago from "pets at home" i was told this bird was three months old at least , i brought it home and it sat huddled in the bottom of the cage in a corner,so i put it down to stress change in enviroment n so on i coverd the cage and kept an eye on things after approx 2hrs the little bird stil hadnt attempted to climb up to the perch to reach its food or water so i brought the dishes down to ground leaval and the poor little thing had a good drink then eat as if he had never seen food before!
he has been jumping from perch to perch today "quiet few misses" but i need help HOW do i make a room safe for his first flight ? i saw him fly once in the avria on the day i bougt him and he crashed into the wall on landing :( im scared he will hurt himself, apart from removing everthing from one room "which i cant do"???
2006-11-17 11:56:58 · 16 answers · asked by ami_boverd 2 in Pets ➔ Birds
leave him in his cage for now. bring the cage close to where you sit and talk gently to him. he needs to form a bond to you. if he spends a lot of time near you and you talk to him, this bond will form quickly. when he trusts you, introduce your hand into the cage and rest it there while you speak to him. do this several times each day. when he is relaxed with your hand, slowly move a finger to his chest and exert a little upward movement, he will probably step onto your finger. little by little he will come to trust you and to sit on your finger. it's about this time that you can let him out of his cage.
2006-11-17 12:08:11 · answer #1 · answered by Sam 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
For your birds safety make sure his wings are clipped by someone that knows what they are doing. They can still fly somewhat when clipped. But its more like a flutter so they don't hurt themselves. Ditto on covering windows and mirrors as well as making sure there are no hot lights or other dangers they can land on. Don't try to encourage flight by throwing them in the air. Let him get comfortable with you before letting him loose in a room. They will do it on their own if they feel the need. My Quaker only flys when he senses danger or is startled. He also does this to scare the cat. I give him lots of climbing toys and hes quite happy.
2006-11-18 23:41:53 · answer #2 · answered by seekingwidow 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, you should close the windows and make sure that it can't get in the kitchen and make sure that the toilet bowl is down ect.(better safe than sorry) you could have its wings clipped. The bird can still fly but it wont gain the speed or height to hurt itself (that happened to my budgie before its wings got clipped), Don't worry it wont hurt the bird at all. Remember to give it time the bird might be scared its in an unfamiliar place that's it's never been to before.
2006-11-18 05:01:10 · answer #3 · answered by kelsey 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Close your blinds and cover ANY mirrors with a sheet or your bird may fly into them. If you have trouble getting your bird back into the cage try turning off the lights. My birds will not fly in the dark and that makes it really easy to catch them when they aren't feeling cooperative. As far as your bird missing landings, it's learning. Babies fall all the time. Let him enjoy himself. He has to learn somehow. Also my bird (sadly) has flown into a mirror once without getting hurt.
2006-11-17 18:29:57 · answer #4 · answered by michelle 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the secure practices would be tighter than a drum contained in the united states of america that day, so i'm specific she would be secure! She might spend a brilliant sort of time in queues yet that's extraordinarily commonplace in US airports. i'm flying that day and that i'm no longer giving it a 2nd thought. so which you're precise she would be safer on 9/11 than probably anyother day..
2016-10-04 02:18:44 · answer #5 · answered by vishvanath 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
we used to clip our birds wings so they could fly real long or high id say this is the best thing to do so you wont have an incedent like us once near christmas when our doves wings wernt clipped she got out during a cage cleaning and flew EVERYWHERE on the tree behind the entertainment center and everything, it was so scary cause we thought she was gonna electracut eherself
2006-11-17 14:14:45 · answer #6 · answered by Skittles 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
he or she will sever learn till they know what walls are try holding him or her next to the wall and put something soft below the bird so the bird will be safe if he or she falls so put bird next to wall and be shure so put something up over the windows and anny thing glass or see trough but if he is still scared try holding him and gently petting his head featers my cocckateal loves that i hope u find a more helpfull answer(cuz this 1 sucks)
2006-11-17 13:18:21 · answer #7 · answered by fote 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
hello, congratulations on your cockatiel! they are great fun. i'm thinking that maybe your little bird has his wings clipped. this is very common with pet birds, the wing feathers do grow back. this can actually help keep them from getting hurt-flying into a ceiling fan/the stove/out an open door. maybe you can ask where you got him from if his wings are clipped. good luck, enjoy!
2006-11-17 12:20:50 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
The biggest thing is close the blinds. You don't want him flying into the window. He will eventually learn to land properly. And not run into everything.
2006-11-17 13:54:40 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think he'll be OK. Put him on the floor (on a carpet if you have slippery floors) for the first few times and let him hop around and stuff. As he gets older (and braver), he'll be able to fly and land like a pro.
2006-11-17 11:59:08 · answer #10 · answered by Munya Says: DUH! 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋