Thinking Of Purchasing A Cockatoo?
Cockatoos are THE most sensitive, hyperactive and difficult of all the parrots to keep healthy and happy.
Often purchased on a whim because they look so cute and cuddly when babies. They are a warm, soft cuddly bunch of silky feathers with no vices.
Fast forward a couple of years and that lovely cuddly bunch of silky feathers might now have become a monster, so messy and destructive, a finger biter with an extremely LOUD voice. Hey not the fault of the bird at all, it never is.
The blame has to lie solely at your feet.
Cockatoos need CONSTANT attention, lots of freedom to fly - yes fly around your home, they also need a varied diet with a lot of fresh fruit and vegetables and other tit bits, clean water every day and their cage cleaned regularly.
If you go out to work for any length of time during the day and the bird will be left alone, a cockatoo IS NOT FOR YOU.
They need basic ground rules and routine, much the same as a child. Having a Cockatoo in your home is like having a 5 year old child which NEVER grows up and NEVER leaves home.
Are you still interested?
Please re-visit we are updating with various other aspects of keeping Cockatoos such as diet, feather plucking, disease, breeding and sadly rescue.
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