Indian ringneck parrot?would it be ok to go to school and it not have attention that long?

Question

i plan on getting a ringneck parrot or a quaker parrot.it will be during school time i got scool in a week and it should be not that long untile i get on of them.would it be okay to leave them for 6-7 hours a day everyones pretty much gone during 7am-3pm

Answer 1

Be careful. parrots are smart and active birds. It may learn to open your other pets cages. I wouldn't let it atay outside of its cage unless you are there. They can chew through wires and fry themselves!Play a radio or a favorite CD while your gone. Buy 2 birds but be prepared to be "the one left out"as they will bond to eachother not you.No mirrors unless you don't plan on getting much attention. They'll spend hours just prancing and talking to their reflection, very vain. Ha Ha Ha. Try placing thecage half infront of and half in the shade beside an active window. Leave a TV on, it'll watch it.Let it tell you what kind of toy it likes best by showing you it and buy 3 of 4 for its cage but none for out of its cage. Try a treat only when you leave. I bought a Machaw and a smaller flock of finches to keep it company. Watching these daring and playfull little guys helped a very sad very alone bird through some of its all alone days. Again watch it for sighns of strees due to being bored. Plucking feathers out. baldness. repeatative movements and pacing. Watch it every time you can and play with it whenevr you are in its room. They make fun and intelligent pets but you must be prepared for a life change. They life along time, add to your will. Don't just give it away when it gets too much for you to do, find a goos home, contact people who raise them. Good luck with it.

Answer 2

At different times i have had a nanday, sun conure, and quaker that had perches no cages during the day and never had a problem being gone, long as they had plenty of toys you need to rotate them because they have to keep their minds busy all the time. Right now i have a military and he has a tree perch, and a swing that hangs from the ceiling and plenty of wood toys to chew up and he never chews up anything in my house. It doesn't have to be how many hours, its how much fun you make it for the time you have with your bird a couple of hours is just fine,  long as he is already hand tame to begin with their shouldnt be any problem leaving him alone while in school..

Answer 3

As long as you still give the bird at least an hour or two of attention when you are home--having it out on your shoulder or letting it walk around on your desk/bed while you do homework is one way to spend "quality time" with your bird, and lets you get two things done at once--then it's okay if it's alone while you're at school. Just make sure it has toys and a mirror to give it something to do while you're gone--a bird that has nothing to do can easily become so frustrated that it develops bad or unhealthy habits, like screaming constantly or ripping its feathers out.

But I would recommend that you do not let your birds out of the cage while you aren't there: birds can get into all kinds of trouble, like getting started and flying into windows where they break their necks, chewing electric cords and getting electrocuted/starting a fire, etc.--you wouldn't believe how many ways a bird can find to put itself in danger, they need constant supervision when they're out of the cage. If no one is around and the bird gets injured, you could come home and find out that the worst has happened. :( Especially if you have other pets; if a bunny decides to visit the bird or the bird decides to visit the bunny, it's entirely possible that they could hurt each other. Rabbits can be quite aggressive toward other animals when they want to be, and birds can be aggressive for reasons we as humans can't fully understand. What makes this even more serious is the fact that mammals have bacteria in their saliva that can kill a bird: even if the bunny just licks the bird trying to be nice, and the bird preens itself later and gets bunny spit in its system, that could kill it. So for the bird's sake, only let it out of the cage when it can be supervised.

Answer 4

Hi,

Yeah they will be fine one thing which i do for my parrot is leave the radio on so it has some thing to listen to and it thinks that there are people in the house.