African Parrot - A Good Pick for your Parrot Collection - Family - Pets

An African Parrot is beautiful and intelligent. Such characteristics make it an ideal option as a pet for a family that completely understands the African parrots' capabilities. For a start, the parrot must be in an environment that is interactive and stimulating. As a pet, you must treat African parrots with love and care.If you are interested to have an African Parrot pet, you must know that they are very intelligent. Given this fact, the bird gets easily bored and that kind of situation may lead to behavioral problems. Most pet owners notice that the bird would start to pick their feathers and they have the tendency to chew on things. In order to stop these kinds of behavior, it is advisable for pet owners to have their African parrots undergo consistent trainings to tame the bird. If you are a new owner, then you can consult anybody who has the experience to help you out. It will be helpful to know that African parrots are noted for their exceptional talking and thin king abilities. In some of the researches conducted in studying African parrots, it was stated that it is capable of word associations. The birds can also mimic voices and sounds accurately.In the training, you will discover that parrots will pass the stage of being a baby and would start chewing on the owner. This would be their way of disciplining their owners and they could get very naughty too. It is therefore important to understand them in order to avoid undesirable behavior to happen. Some untrained parrots chew on electrical wires which can cause house fire. They would treat everything in your house as their toys which they consider as 'chewable.' The bird can destroy your valuable things too. Consider that even the young birds needs guidance as well as the bird which came from rehabilitation.The diet of African parrot will be grains seeds, pellets, fruits and vegetables. It will also be good if the bird is given calcium because deficiency of the vitamins is one of their health problems. You can give your bird a scrape of soft food with grinded egg shells. Just be careful with iron overload disease that may happen if you overdo the feeding.In time, with the trainings and proper diet you will have a very faithful and lifelong friend. The lifespan of African parrot is 60 years. Proven that you have the capabilities to have a parrot, you have a good years together.

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