Robbie!

Hey,

So... I got a message from Birdline saying that they needed me to pick up a bird that someone had found!! So, he'll probably be staying with me for a couple of weeks to make sure he's ok then hopefully he'll be rehomed!!

I dont know much about him other than he screams pretty loud and has a hell of a bite!! Just look at that beak!! lol He's also VERY badly plucked... He's got every feather he could get at and plucked himself til he's bleeding, poor little thing

Anyway, ive attached some pictures.. He's a Red Masked Conure and his name's Robbie... Anyone want him? Hes LOUD!lol

Jess

He's living in my half built kitchen btw... Poor Birdie...lol

Just look at that beak... it HURTS!!!!

Aw, look at him! The poor, bald lovely! It's really good that you take them in. My Symon still hates me and loves the pigs. Training is not going well but he's not hurt me at least.

Kisses for Robbie. xx

A budgie cant hurt you with that tiny little beak! lol How far have you got with the training anyway? Will he step up and stay on you yet? If not you need to take him to a room with no distractions (like guinea pigs! lol) cos he'll be more likely to do it if you're the most interesting thing in the room!!! Though budgies are particularly stubborn...

Robbie is in a bit of a state bless him.. He's going to need his wings clipped too as the people who "found" him have just let him fly around their house and he's pretty much wild!!! He does say "hello Robbie" though, very loudly...lol

I probably wont keep him but im sure he'll find a nice home eventually!!! Once his plucking is sorted and he's tamed down a bit at least

Jess

Jess said:

A budgie cant hurt you with that tiny little beak! lol How far have you got with the training anyway? Will he step up and stay on you yet? If not you need to take him to a room with no distractions (like guinea pigs! lol) cos he'll be more likely to do it if you're the most interesting thing in the room!!! Though budgies are particularly stubborn...

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lol, he has never bit me.

No, he won't sit on my finger or come anywhere near me. I am still not sure how to do it, I know how people say it's to be done but I don't seem to be getting very far. Although I am probably not spening the time trying that I should. He is a very interesting guy to have around nonetheless and makes guinea pig and telephone noises which is strange. In fact I think he thinks he is a guinea pig, he's in with them now eating hay.

Good luck with Robbie, I can tell he's gorgeous if a bit plucked!

Hmmm... well, ignore what the books say cos that never works!!! For me at least!! I found that just having them out (when you're on here? ) in the same room with you works. If you just ignore him and carry on with what your doing i can assure you that he will eventually come over just cos they're so inquisitive!!! It can take a long time to tame a bird and you've not had Symon that long so i wouldn't worry too much, but a couple of hours with him in the same room with you each night should help!

Of course, he could just have decided that he'd rather spend his time with the pigs!! lol

I shall try and get some better pictures of Robbie when i get him out tomorrow, he looks so bald in those pictures

Jess said:

Hmmm... well, ignore what the books say cos that never works!!! For me at least!! I found that just having them out (when you're on here? ) in the same room with you works. If you just ignore him and carry on with what your doing i can assure you that he will eventually come over just cos they're so inquisitive!!! It can take a long time to tame a bird and you've not had Symon that long so i wouldn't worry too much, but a couple of hours with him in the same room with you each night should help!

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Well, I am with him for hours everyday. I open his cage at about 10am (if I do it later he starts squalking and can hear him from bed (I sleep late )) and he's still out now. I just close it when he goes home and sits in his sleeping place. lol. He's with me for almost all that time as I spend all my time in the living room on the pc/working/etc unless I am at Uni.

I know that it can take a long time with animals, Oscar (middle pig) wouldn't let me stroke him for about a year and a half! Now he's grand.

I'll look forward to seeing more pics of Robbie. I like that he's noisy, Symon is vry noisey, he looks like such a dude!

Robbie is adorable! Are his feathers going to grow back?

the feathers will grow back, as long as whatever has caused him to pluck them out goes away (probably behavioural due to poor husbandry but there are many other causes).

Jess - you probably know this already, but for anyone else thinking of keeping a bird...

It is generally a very bad idea to keep birds in the kitchen. The fumes produced when using teflon (that's any non-stick covering on pans etc.) are extremely toxic to birds.

Yeah, very bad to keep birds in the kitchen!!lol He's being moved into my bedroom tonight but unfortunately it was a bit of a rush last night as obviously he had to go somewhere when we brought him home!! I shall be moving stuff around to make room for his cage (which is abought 5 times the size of the budgie cage he'd been in... ). I dont want to put him with my two birds until im sure that he hasn't got anything because, as im sure you know fraservet, birds can carry a LOT of diseases which they can pass onto each other! i dont want to risk my two

He's doing much better today, he's been with me all morning and is sat having his head scratched now - they love that! I was a bit worried yesterday that he was going to be a bit reluctant to be handled as he was biting but i think he just wants attention as he shouts when he's left alone and is very well behaved when he's with me!! He's actually a very sweet bird, and hopefully when the feathers grow back he should be very pretty too!!

Anyway, pics!

You can see he's made himself bleed from plucking again



He does have some feathers!!

hes gorgeous!

apart from the baldness

he'll be alright, give him time and seeing he is under great care he will be back to himself soon

Yeah, he should be fine with some time and attention! I wont be keeping him permenantly but hopefully if i can get some of the feathers to grow back he'll be able to go to a new home in the next couple of weeks

Nice one Jess

He's a great looking bird. Poor thing, still at least its only his breast that he's plucking. It could be worse. Get some Calcivet in him just in case
Wonder what his last owners did or didnt do for him to start plucking

Cheese, you'll find it very hard to train Symon while you let him have free reign, especially with him having the choice of going to and from his cage when he wants. I wouldnt let him have any time out for a week or two. After a week or more start training him from scratch and I bet within a couple of weeks he'll be hand tame
He has a decent sized cage so I wouldnt worry. None of my birds are allowed to leave their cages of their own accord, they have to leave via me.