She love to step up and spend time with her favorite volunteers. She also loves to dance and "sing" (noises, not words!) to music. She is one of the most amazing wood chewers we have ever seen, chipping up incredible amounts of wood on a daily basis.
Since coming to CARE, Silkie's improved conditions have had the result of her producing three eggs over a 15 day period, so we're taking her in to the vet for a health check-up. Our thinking right now is that she might do better in a home with no male birds.Perhaps the reason we hadn't written about her before is that it's incredibly difficult to get a picture of her. Why? Because she's a natural ham! As soon as the camera is pointed at her, she starts dancing and showing off!
Like most greys, Silkie is incredibly intelligent. She needs a caretaker that will find new ways of challenging her. This might include foraging, teaching her tricks, a steady rotation of new and exciting toys, exercise, etc.
She will not be able to go home until after we get the results back from her latest vet visit, but if you'd like to meet her, please stop by!
2 comments:
We adopted Silkie back in November of 2010! She is doing really good except that she plucked a lot of her feathers off. Other than that she is a very happy talkative bird! She has a huge vocabulary! We allow her free range of our home her door is almost always open she is very well behaved! We recently bought her a big play stand she was afraid of it at first but has become very fond of it, so now she has two areas of the house to call her own! I am taking her to vet on Monday to have another checkup and to see if there is anything more we can do to help her with her plucking problem! We try to keep her very busy :) Thank you so much for allowing us to adopt her we love her very much! We are also hoping to make it up there with her this spring to visit! The Neal Family
Thanks for the update -- she was one of our favorites here, so we're glad to hear she's doing so well!
Feel free to e-mail Lori after the vet appointment if you'd like some ideas on things to keep her busy/maybe help reduce the plucking. (She is so smart -- I can imagine her really taking to clicker training, for example!)
Unfortunately, some parrots seem to react better to captivity than others, so she may always pluck but I'm sure we can brainstorm some things to help reduce it!
Thanks again for giving her such a great life. She is a treasure!
Post a Comment