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anyone here own a rosey breasted cockatoo ?
8 years ago
I'm looking at potentially adopting one , down the line, and i'd love to ask some questions/talk with someone 1 on 1 who owns one.
before the inevitable "they're a lot to handle" or "not a good beginner bird" i've currently got a GCC and have had birds damn near my whole life, this is just the first large bird i've looked into that would work with my lifestyle. :>
before the inevitable "they're a lot to handle" or "not a good beginner bird" i've currently got a GCC and have had birds damn near my whole life, this is just the first large bird i've looked into that would work with my lifestyle. :>
What questions did you have?/ where would you want to talk about them?
our GCC bites like a fucking rottweiler compared to other GCC's we've handled/ive had in the past , so im not super scared of bad bites, but i dont wanna break a bone cause i read their body language wrong .
and compared to other mid sized birds what would you put their idol volume level at? from " you can have them in an apartment" to " you need ear plugs"
and i guess lastly would be independance and "readability"
out GCC loves to just chill on her stand and play with her toys, she isnt to fond of hands due to the neglect she suffered though in the first 2 years before coming to us, so she's very independent . But our last foster cockatiel was glued to us, and would scream if we stopped looking at him, it really didnt work for our life style / my work.
and body language? I know their crests give them an extra way to speak to us, but it can still be confusing, watching some videos im sitting here like "oh no dont touch him" but then they do and the bird just melts to a puddle of love. Ima assume thats more of a bird to bird basis and generalizing isnt good, but i'd still love to hear your personal experience
I personally have never been bitten by one, but seeing as how they're similar in size to my Quaker parrot (and his bites range from harmless pinches to "jesus christ he's out for blood" ) so it would be safe to assume that they can have quite a painful bite, though being smaller than say a Sulfer crested cockatoo/ salmon crested cockatoo which are much larger comparatively I don't think you have to worry about potentially losing any digits.
-- They tend to have a naturally friendly and sociable disposition since in the wild they live in flocks. And are (i think anyway) a good beginning to owning large birds as they aren't quite the size of a macaw or cockatoo, but are larger than conures/cockatiels etc.
As far as their crest goes, they tend to raise them with their moods! Like I know the one I met raised his when he was excited to see you, or upset in particular- but sometimes he would raise it for reasons I didn't know...but his owner always knew, and I think this is something that you'd learn in time if you adopted one.
e.e I really hope I helped in some way xD
we'd for sure need to get another larger stand , but yeah, tons of toys and places to go, this whole room is bird proof too so they'd have full roam here and though most of the house too. (ignore the lack of toys currently , i just had to go through and pull out a ton of her old "fully destroyed" toys and we're off to go toy shop tomorrow (along with meet a rosey the store currently has)
but that's all fair enough- im just one of those people who is a nervous nelly about getting new pets and REALLY wants to know literally everything i can before making a commitment to take care of them for all of their life.
it for sure did help tho <3
-Same my room is practically bird proof and I let my Quaker roam my room though he tends to stay on his cage.
And that's good though, since a lot of people just jump into getting a pet without really knowing what they're getting into...Especially parrots who usually get the short end of the stick when people realize they can live to be up to 40,50,-80 years.