Are you thinking about adopting a pet bird such as an electus parrot, especially a female electus parrot? As a person who has three electus parrots in my family, I have something to say before you make your decision.
Four types of person that are better for having female electus parrots:
1. Married and have kids
Here I particularly mean you are living with all the person you want to live with.
Why is that? Electus parrots are extremely smart animals with complex and deep emotions. They will deeply bond with you and become very loyal to you soon after you get them. The female ones can be surprisingly aggressive to anybody besides you. So anybody you bring home are considered a big threat in their eyes. Electus parrots are relatively big birds with very strong and powerful beaks. If you don't want your female bird to chase and bite your loved ones like crazy, I suggest you have all your loved ones living with you already before you get a female electus parrot. So the bird can accept everybody in your family more easily.
2. Willing to spend time to train them
Like dogs and cats, electus parrots can destroy a lot of things in your house if you let them do whatever they want. They like to chew on things. From books to bookshelves, plastic bags to blinds, from black wires to colorful rubber handles. They chew on everything that is interesting to them and they are curious about almost everything. So spending time to teach them about proper behavior really saves your life. Plus, they are able to learn a lot of impressive tricks by proper training. But one more thing, do not over train them. They are as intelligent as human child and have all the emotions we have. They are easily stressed out by overly strict owners.
Here I particularly mean you are living with all the person you want to live with.
Why is that? Electus parrots are extremely smart animals with complex and deep emotions. They will deeply bond with you and become very loyal to you soon after you get them. The female ones can be surprisingly aggressive to anybody besides you. So anybody you bring home are considered a big threat in their eyes. Electus parrots are relatively big birds with very strong and powerful beaks. If you don't want your female bird to chase and bite your loved ones like crazy, I suggest you have all your loved ones living with you already before you get a female electus parrot. So the bird can accept everybody in your family more easily.
2. Willing to spend time to train them
Like dogs and cats, electus parrots can destroy a lot of things in your house if you let them do whatever they want. They like to chew on things. From books to bookshelves, plastic bags to blinds, from black wires to colorful rubber handles. They chew on everything that is interesting to them and they are curious about almost everything. So spending time to teach them about proper behavior really saves your life. Plus, they are able to learn a lot of impressive tricks by proper training. But one more thing, do not over train them. They are as intelligent as human child and have all the emotions we have. They are easily stressed out by overly strict owners.
3. Me or my families are able to live with them for over 50 years
Electus parrots can live over 50 years. As we know, they are very loyal and deeply bond to the owner so it is more ideal if you and your family are prepared to take care of them for their entire life.
4. Providing fresh fruits and veggies to them everyday
Almost every pet stores have seeds and grains mixture food for electus parrots. But it is not the best food for them. Seeds and nuts are considered too oily for their digestion systems. Electus parrots that eat only seeds and grains are more likely to develop kidney or liver problems. Fresh fruits like kiwi, mango, apple, peach, etc and fresh veggies are the best food for them.
If you are an electus parrot breeder, please consider these as well when choosing a new owner for your parrots. If we are more responsible, the animals will be happier.
P.S. The reason why I talk about female electus parrots is that they seem to have stronger personalities and attitude. Male electus parrots are mostly more tame than female ones. Most of the male electus parrot owners do not have as many troubles as those who have female ones. I hope my writing does not scare you about getting an electus parrot. They can be very very sweet pets with proper training.
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