Iosevus
08-26-2014, 02:41 PM
Hello fellow followers of the Lovebird empire!
It's been just under 3 months since I acquired the most wonderful gift of a lovebird and I wish to share an update with people who can understand my joy.
So we've been getting along quite nicely, she gets a good 4-5 hours out of the cage on workdays and 10-12 on days I'm off and may be a bit spoiled. I bought her a bigger cage (Picture in the link in my sig) two weeks ago, and she took to it with no problems or fussing, I've removed using paper at the bottom cause I don't like the ink in newspaper. I instead use plain gravel which I soak weekly in very salty water to disinfect after some hydrogen peroxide rinsing. To discourage her from chewing on paper that might have ink, I have spring roll rice paper that she loves to chew on and I can also fill full of seed. I can get her to eat the pellets in her mix by hand feeding, but other than that she eats around them.. something I'll have to work on.
She is still wary of hands grabbing her or being enclosed, but she is tolerant of a few times I've had to pick her up that way. She will step up most of the time, even when it's the horrible time of day that she is getting put back in the cage, and when she is in the mood for some snuggles she now lets me rub her neck and head with a finger and looks to absolutely love it.
I'm currently drying a coconut to see if she would like a little coconut hut, especially with winter around the corner. All in all it's been everything I could have hoped for. I think my next step is some Lovebird safe plants near her cage so she can climb on them and possibly snack on them.. if anyone has some good suggestions I'm all ears.
Thanks for reading!
It's been just under 3 months since I acquired the most wonderful gift of a lovebird and I wish to share an update with people who can understand my joy.
So we've been getting along quite nicely, she gets a good 4-5 hours out of the cage on workdays and 10-12 on days I'm off and may be a bit spoiled. I bought her a bigger cage (Picture in the link in my sig) two weeks ago, and she took to it with no problems or fussing, I've removed using paper at the bottom cause I don't like the ink in newspaper. I instead use plain gravel which I soak weekly in very salty water to disinfect after some hydrogen peroxide rinsing. To discourage her from chewing on paper that might have ink, I have spring roll rice paper that she loves to chew on and I can also fill full of seed. I can get her to eat the pellets in her mix by hand feeding, but other than that she eats around them.. something I'll have to work on.
She is still wary of hands grabbing her or being enclosed, but she is tolerant of a few times I've had to pick her up that way. She will step up most of the time, even when it's the horrible time of day that she is getting put back in the cage, and when she is in the mood for some snuggles she now lets me rub her neck and head with a finger and looks to absolutely love it.
I'm currently drying a coconut to see if she would like a little coconut hut, especially with winter around the corner. All in all it's been everything I could have hoped for. I think my next step is some Lovebird safe plants near her cage so she can climb on them and possibly snack on them.. if anyone has some good suggestions I'm all ears.
Thanks for reading!