Good description.

Im sorry For Your loss. I never had parrots 🦜 but I'm considering getting two of the green back red tails shown in the video. Whorls you mind to tell me how long they live ? What is their best food ? How much time they need to be out of the cage ? Is there anything to make them healthy besides food and water, warm temperatures and light ? How soon can they be trained to speak? Thank you!

​​​@@gratitude5740they can live up to 30 years with proper care. Their best diet is 80% pellets like Zupreem and 20% fresh frozen / recently picked vegetables (all sweet potatoes MUST be cooked and should be limited, corn rarely, seeds as training supplies). They need several sources of fresh water once a day or a few changes of a few sources a few times a day or several changes of a single source constantly throughout the day. There is a HUGE amount of things that they can't eat either because it will kill them or make them extremely ill, and it is extremely easy to give them too many or too few nutrients which can cause not only behavior problems but quickly develop into health problems that will quickly shave years off their lives. They are healthiest between 65-75 GRAMS--about 1/10th of 2/3s of a box of paper clips WITHOUT the cardboard. VERY LITTLE of that is blood and tissue because they otherwise would be too heavy to fly--so it only takes a VERY, VERY LITTLE BIT to cause major problems. For perspective: 1 entire grape is too much sugar *for the day" much less anything that is concentrated artificial sugar. And just like alium-based plants are dangerous to cats and dogs because it makes them anemic with cumulative effects: a single piece of onion or garlic can be fatal to a conure, and recovery is extremely slow. Uneaten pellets need to be changed daily because mold developed quickly in the food. Even if you have a kicker bottle of water, it must be thoroughly cleaned with very mild, limited, non-commercial cleaners that do not corode the apparatus or the conures can get a nasty infection within days of use. They should never eat or drink after you or from your mouth because the amount of bacteria in your mouth has a higher living volume than the entire blood volume of their body--and even if they do not catch a deadly amount of infection at that time, it can sit and fester in their crops until that infection arises. They should be out of the cage as much as possible unless they have a large area to fly around in. A sleeping cage of 3-feet cubed is okay for a few hours a day if you need to step out but if they can't fly their hearts will suffer, they'll become overweight, and they'll start plucking their feathers (which will inevitably become dangerous). They are EXTREMELY communal birds but don't get them s companion just because you won't spend time with them. They are perpetual toddlers and they ABSOLUTELY REQUIRE YOUR ATTENTION HOURS A DAY. They *can* be the quietest parrot BUT the rule is: Sun's out, lungs out. They will greet the sun. They will get extremely loud when upset or happy. A quiet country is a depressed conure BUT a loud one isn't necessarily happy. They MUST bathe in fresh water once at least every few days, and each bird is different in how they like to do it--and doing it against their will can cause them extreme stress to the point they'd rather get an infection than bathe. These guys will love you like cats and all that that implies. They want to live and trust you but it's extremely fragile and it's 100% your commitment that makes the difference. Without that love and trust, they will become depressed and start plucking--or just die. They can and will starve themselves to death within 2 days in the worst circumstances. They do not like surprises. They do not like loud noises. They take discipline the way your typical toddler enjoys it-- they don't. If they do not have direct access to the actual sun--not through a window--you need to have a UV lightbulb above their cage that is only on *12 hours a day max*. Their room temperature shouldn't range more than 15° F throughout *the day* and they should NEVER be directly left in the summer sun more than a couple of minutes. They can die of heat strike within 20 minutes. They can get pneumonia from rapidly changing plunged into cold and die within 24 hours. You cannot use any heat source that emits gasses or has any Teflon/PFOAs/etc. Same as the above for cookware. And when cooking, too much grease or anything too aromatic can cause lung distress and long-term health problems. Teflon will kill them after a few seconds of exposure. Remember that all of your candle l, spray, and plugin scents are either some form of heated oils or chemicals designed to cost your nose--which will completely cost their lungs. Birdie lungs are extra efficient to keep them from suffocating when flying at high speeds--like what can happen to dogs when they stick their heads out of windows. That efficiency makes it extra easy and fast to develop problems. It's incredibly important to prevent all types of harm where possible. IF an avian vet is even available in your area--and outside of major port towns in the US is that rarely true--an initial check can run $200+, blood work can be $600+ for a single test (if they're willing to even do it), and a true emergency will never be less than $2,000 with little to no guarantees. There are no blood transfusions. There are no bird-specific medicines and the ones that work have to be in strictly controlled amounts or they become immediately fatal. Most areas only have exotic vets (where available) who charge the same rates and have even fewer options due to limited expertise, knowledge, and resources. I live in a major town in my State, where *both* of the available vets live...for the entire State. All things that require a vet to treat with any kind of quickness will take weeks to recover from *at the soonest* and could require you to live in extremely quiet conditions throughout treatment because extra stress could cause their hearts to literally stop where it doesn't already interfere with their ability to rebuild their immune systems, etc. They are the special needs kids that never grow up or out of needing your help. You have to be prepared for a life of cleaning up after someone who never appropriately toilets, can't convey why they're upset, can't tell you what they need, and can't help themselves. They're going to hide that they need help until it's too late. They're going to get into literally anything and the more you don't want them in there the more they're going to BE in there. They're amazing family members--but you need to be prepared for a life of rarely-changing routines or CPS will come for you. People genuinely do NOT understand the time or commitments involved every, single, day. They're not like dogs where you can peek in an hour a day to show you're alive. They're not like cats who will bolt out and find new owners. They're not like goldfish who will just dumb themselves down to extremely restrictive environments. They're extremely emotionally intelligent creatures who need constant care and support because their cognitive capacities do top out at human age 4. They're not going to understand your 20-hour-a-day internship, or you going away for school or work, or needing to get out of the house. You're their flock and they know you're missing, and unless you come back and be with them they learn not to trust in you. Not all of them ever learn to speak. And while conures train like dogs--food motivation and repetition, have to keep training the same thing with and without reward, etc.--they literally can only learn so much and not each "flavor" of conure has the physical capacity to speak. "Higher order' parrots like African Grays, Cockatoos, or Indian Ringnecks are typically leaps and bounds more intelligent than conures with larger repertoires and massive vocabularies (comparatively) because they're *higher order*. Green cheeked conures are the smallest of parrots and largest of parakeets and Trello is not the typical case. If the idea that your GCC may never speak would be a disappointment, you need to think about a different species. And if cost is the reason you're going for a GCC as opposed to another variety, you may not financially be in a place for them. I have 3. I spend about $30 a week on vegetables and $60 a month in pellets. They have a $600 "flight" cage to be safe/sleep in but they have an entire bedroom to themselves since I work about 10 hours a day when I go. This gives them the opportunity to exercise, forage, see the outside, play with their toys, get into/get away from the sun, and have fresh air. If I don't see them before I leave, they're safe to be out--but we get an hour *each* (albeit as s group) when I get home, but I try very hard to make sure I can see them before and after so they know they're getting fresh water and food from me so they can trust I didn't just disappear and take their resources with me. And because of this, they generally come when I call and they trust that when I need to put them away (so I can do something like play with my Cricut or run s quick errand) they're not going to be locked up forever and we'll see each other again. But if you're home more often you don't have to have as much dedicated space because the whole house is their oyster and where *the flock lives together*. They're very tender creatures whose hearts and trust can be broken forever in an instant so you have to be careful and love them the way they deserve to be.

It’s the cutest thing when they talk.

How long have you had them, and how many do you have?

@@petanything almost a year, they were given to us from someone who's daughter no longer played with yhem.. two of them

@@michaelperugini4199 that’s tough. Since they didn’t have human interaction, they likely bonded with each other, and now only want attention from each other. That will be hard to change, but is possible. Just be patient and keep trying, but safely. Don’t push too far too fast.

The Bird Tricks Channel has a lot of really good training videos! They are professional bird trainers.

Maybe aviary birds before

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@@petanything Thank you for your reply. I appreciate it!

I would say he is still young mine started about 5months and now he can say a good few things at 8months , let me know how he is 😊

He's good. Yeah, I've been giving more attention to one of my other channels lately that focuses more on 3D printing. I would love to have just one channel for everything that I do, but I'm afraid that my peeps on this channel will eventually get bored if all I ever do is 3D print stuff on it.

@@petanything what is your 3D channel I will subscribe. And tell Trello a fan said hello 👋. Trello is one of the main reasons I now have 2 green cheeks

@@kolin0919 it’s called This Printed Thing.

@@petanything I only see print that thing. Can you link it maybe

@@kolin0919 yeah, it’s still a small channel. Here’s a link to the video I uploaded last week: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/jr6hddqH3KyRfXU.html There will be another video coming out tomorrow.

That depends on your bird and what you’re trying to train it to do. It’s impossible to give a definite answer to that question here.

I live Trello! I have a 23 yr old green cheek & every time I pick up the phone he stops playing, talking, dancing etc. Drives me nuts! I wouldn't trade him for anything!!!