Care tips

Parrots like habits. Decide on a schedule for your parrot that accommodates to your schedule. An example of that would be:

• 8am: Wash feeders. Provide fresh water and fresh pellets. Change the enrichment. An hour of outside time and playtime.

• 1pm: Provide fresh fruits and vegetables. You may want to change the water.

• 6pm: Two hours of outside time and playtime. 

• 9pm: Lights close. Sleep time.

• Basis of the diet be complete pellets, at least 75%. We recommend Psittacus products.

• Use fresh and safe water. In other words, the water that you drink. Do NOT use distilled water! Distilled water is not meant to be ingested.

• Fresh fruits and vegetables to enrich the stimuli of their diet with textures, colors...

• Use seeds as a reward only during training or playtime.

• Check what foods and non-edible elements are toxic!

We provide the necessary, detailed, and specific information for your parrot during the adoption. For general information on weaning, please click below:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1I1ldpPmYW44rVeB1J7KcEz_YVkCMrjHn/view?usp=share_link 

Here's the hand-feeding schedule: 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Th9cjz_lY7myIYVt0Rncpjlvx2wJpWEI/view?usp=share_link 

This is their space of comfort and security. It has to bring warmth, stability, and a certain novelty. 

Locate the cage in the family nucleus, where there is movement. This place is usually the living room. Parrots need to feel integrated into the family.

Our Cage additional recommendations are in this document: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1aRWRMIBvCXZWXTEW0_zVSsyWw2NDeoaw/view?usp=share_link 

Bird has to be able to move freely within the cage. The minimum size that we recommend for a conure sized-bird is 25.6 in width x 25.6 in depth x 33.4 in (65 cm x 65 cm x 100 cm).

Make the cage a useful space. Divide the cage into areas and place elements. Even if the cage is big, without elements it would be unused space. Some ideas:

• Upper exterior area: Hanging toys, hanging fruit, sleeping nest.

• High interior zone: Nail file perch, natural fiber liana, hanging toys.

• Middle interior zone: Wood perches, swing rope perches, natural fiber liana. 

• Down interior zone: Feeders, foraging tray, perches, handing toys.

Some bedding options: wood pellet, shavings, packaging paper sheets, corn cob.

If the bottom mesh of the cage is too wide for your parrot to move around easily, you can set up a layer of plastic wire tied with plastic cable ties. 

Set aside one day a week for cleaning.

It is very important that your bird has new things to do so that s/he doesn't get bored. Boredom always leads to behavioral problems that we want to avoid.

While it is true that foraging toys can be purchased, you can also keep everyday items that your parrot can use as safe toys and you can build your own toys. Examples of this include corks, bottle caps, empty toilet rolls. 

In nature, the elements with which they interact could be summarized as being of two types: those that hang and those that manipulate with their feet. Knowing this, be creative! At first you may feel insecure, but as you get to know your parrot, s/he will show you what s/he enjoys the most.