I am thinking of taking the plunge again. We got Mickey a 5 year old male eclectus about a year ago. We were his forth and defiantly last owners, I have had a few nasty bites from him and like all birds he can be noisy at times, I am sure he has been abused in the past as he is terrified when you approach him with something in your hand. I adore him and have spent lots of time with him, he is out of his cage from when we get up until we go to bed and has the run of the house, I was so happy when he worked out how to get up to my home office, now whenever he cant find me he comes looking and is happy just sitting on his perch in my office.
Now to my problem, my daughter has just had our first grandchild, she also has a parrot a small Senegal Brown Head, but fell in love with a Blue and Gold Macaw (Oscar), and got him 6 days before the baby was born. She now realises that she can’t cope with him, she does not have the space or time to look after him. We had them all here over Christmas and I fell in love with Oscar, he is only 18 weeks old and is soft as putty, you can do anything with him, he just loves the attention. We have the space and time to look after him but I don’t want to upset Mickey as this is his home.
When we brought them up at Christmas we let Mickey through to see Oscar, he was inquisitive and the moment he became aggressive I took him through to the other room. Today we put Oscar in his cage, which is way too small for him, and let Mickey have another look, he was aggressive again but we let them have 5 minutes together as we were confident that they could not hurt each other. We plan to do the same, taking Oscar through to Mickey when he is in his cage, hopefully by doing this on a regular basis they will get used to each other.
Has anyone had this problem before? Would welcome any advice? I would hate for Oscar to be sold on as he is so soft and would hate to think of him being abused as Mickey was, they live a long time and eventually my daughter will have the time to look after him when we can no longer cope and he will be hers once again.
I should have said, we want them to be out together with both of them having the run of the house with us around, providing we can toilet train Oscar to be like Mickey.
