Birdbrain is Adopted

[Nyboy]

The wife and daughter of one of the guys here, come in today. The wife saw birdbrain, and it was love. I told her I would supply food for life, if she adopted him ( $4 bag last months). No more animals needing homes!!!!!!

 

[Jared77]

Well done!

 

[so lucky]

Yea! Just wondering, is the little bird trained to sit on your finger?

 

[Nyboy]

Nope not tame at all, would fly around in panic changing water or food bowls.

 

[so lucky]

Could you tell if it was young? The young ones have eyes that seem larger and blacker. I am just musing , wondering if it can be trained and tamed down.

 

[Nyboy]

Not sure of age, does have a leg band. Was never able to read it. Does it have year born like pigeon bands do?

 

[Nyboy]

Was told babies have bars across forehead, but because he was all yellow, they don't have bars.

 

[Chickie'sMomaInNH]

probably young and raised in an aviary with many others. if they were hand raised they are much better with training. not many people do that and sell to pet shops. explains why my last parakeet was so tame, she was hand raised by an older lady who had lots of birds but took her time to socialize them while young. previous birds came from pet shop back when they were still allowed to take from wild. took longer time with the 'wild' ones to tame them. kept radio on with those and made sure to keep bedroom door closed when working with them.

also learned to whistle to them and that may have helped calm them some.

 

[MontyJ]

Odds are the leg band was from an import station. It would have a code on it identifying the station and a few other things, but not the age. Imported birds are often caught in the wild so it's nearly impossible to determine their age with any accuracy.

 

[Nyboy]

To bad about bands, with pigeons lifetime Id for age. I once bought a pigeon on line, when I checked it's band it was 12 years old.