Rose - 2012-05-27 The first time I met Bosco I was hooked on this bird! A few years later my friend needed to find a home for Bosco so now he is MY bird and I love every minute of his attention and antics! He barks like my mini poms, meows like the cat, clucks like a chicken even scratches on the bottom of his cage like a chicken, he too likes answering the phone when it rings and asks 'how are you doing'? Recently my 10 yr old grandson moved in with me and he calls him Bob which isn't his name but oh well, and is now learning to speak like a 10 yr old, whadda up, hey dude and his favorite song to sing is You Are My Sunshine. I'm so happy with the investment I made with Bosco!
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Charlie Roche - 2012-05-28 Amazing right. I would play a game with mine and hold her high in the air and say 'I'm an eagle I can fly' and then I'd bring her down and lay her in the palm of my hand and say 'I'm a bat, I lay down' and she would laugh. She liked games.
Christopher Gordon - 2007-06-14 Sammy is my male double yellow headed amazon parrot, and he was hatched in 1991. I got him when he was 7 years old, and as of the date of this comment, we've been together 9 years and he's currently 16 years old. He was rather overweight when I first got him (I don't know much about his past, and his hatch-year I got from tracing his leg band ID), but with a big change in diet and exercise, he slimmed down from about 600 grams to abou 460 grams. He has a King's cage model 306 (meant for macaws) with toys I rotate monthly. Sammy is fully-flighted and has been for most of the 9 years I've had him. He is getting better at coming when called (we have structured training sessions for this), and is a joy to me. However, he's very much a one-person bird, and can be rather aggressive toward anyone else who comes near him (or me, if he's out with me). This could be prevented if he was socialized better, but most of the people in my life aren't bird-people, so it's hard to get him to be friendly with others. He gets a home-made base diet that has about 2/3 China Prairie sprouts (a mix of various hulled seeds and legumes) and 1/3 veggie mash (a mix I make myself, including "frozen mixed veggies", various fruits, dark greens, and high beta carotene veggies, along with some diced tofu and ground hard-boiled eggs with shell, kept frozen in ziplock bags), mixed together in his food dish with a sprinkling of a green powder from China Prairie that has spirulina, kelp, alfalfa, chlorella, mineral clay, and lots of other good stuff. He gets other healthy treats and an in-shell walnut or two almonds each day as well. He's unusually snuggly (with me) for an amazon, plays well with his toys, and can be very entertainingly vocal. I haven't tried teaching him specific words or phrases, but he's picked up lots over the years on his own, including calling my name (Chris). All in all, he's been a joy in my life, and I look forward to a few more decades with him.
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julie wiggins - 2010-02-19 My dyh is 6 and I live alone so I very much wanted her to be social. So I have brought her to work on Fridays all these years and last year she got very aggressive with several people. I ran into the breeder and she said it sounds like you have a male. Where I bought her from the certificate said female but I took her to my vet and did another dna. Indeed she was a he. The advice I received was to not bring him to work anymore and to leave him home where he was happy and not stressed. It saddened me though because I adore him/her so I just wanted to share her and have her where if something ever happened to me that she would be easily adoptable.
I still refer to Gypsy as she because so much of her vocabulary is good girl, such a pretty girl etc. I have a Quaker (feather plucker) and an African Meyer but Gypsy is my favorite, she is really a companion
JP - 2005-10-28 I have a double yellow headed Amazon named Harley and she is almost 6 years old. She is the funniest bird i have ever seen in my life. She can imitate any sound she hears and can say just about anything. When she talks, she keeps me laughing for hours and she loves to show off. Whenever she see's someone she says, "I'm A Bird! I'm a Bird!" and then starts laughing. She is a bit wild at times, and although I raised her from the time she was 3 weeks old, she bites when she gets excited and wants to play with you. Dispite that, she has a great personality and she always keeps me entertained.
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Cheryl - 2011-06-06 We also have a double yellow named Harley. He is 8 and my boyfriend has had him since birth. "What up" is one of many things he says. He has recently taken to squaking and we aren't sure way. Any thoughts?
Janet - 2012-02-16 I have a 35 year old Double Yellowhead and he has always been a happy bird. He is with and around most of the day. The past 5 years or so I notice his tail feathers have turned yellow. They come in green but turn yellow. He has a great appitite and appears very healthy. What could be causing this? Thanks
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Charlie Roche - 2012-02-16 I don't know for sure but parrots do show their age and this might be one indication. Humans get grey and maybe their feathers change. I know some blue golds who got grey feathers and a bunch of parrots that got wrinkles on bare facial patches. It is odd to realize but they do show signs of aging. I just can't think of anything else.
meg - 2011-10-23 Hi - writing from Lower Mainland B.C. Canada...does anyone have a big L shaped breeding/nesting box suitable for Amazon parrots or a pattern so I can make one...or know where I can buy at reasonable price....thanks so much. Meg
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Charlie Roche - 2011-10-24 China Prarie Farms Nest Boxes has really great nest boxes and easy to clean, view eggs etc. They just don't wear out.
Anonymous - 2012-01-22 Doctor Foster and Smith 18008267206 they might have some for sale
Bright - 2011-09-27 Why does my 23 year old Amazon parrot sleep so much? She seems healthy.
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Charlie Roche - 2011-09-27 I don't know what you man by 'sleep so much?' Given their own regular schedule (in the wild), they would normally go to sleep when the sun goes down and wake when the sun comes up. However, if you have to get up at 6 am - so before the sun comes up, they wake up. If you have them watch TV with you at night - they normally stay up. In the wild, they take rest periods during the day - just sorta sit around but they would be up if you were playing, talking to them or activity around the home. So is your little guy sleeping way more than this? Not active? Not playing or talking or interacting? If he is lethargic and not playing or active or his behavior has changed recently, you should take him to the vet. 23 is pretty young.
Natali - 2011-09-24 I have a male double yellow headed amazon parrot that I would like to sell as my husband and I work all the time and just don't have enough time to spend with him.
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Charlie Roche - 2011-09-24 Hi, how about you give people some additional information. Sex, age, speaks, friendly, feisty - they usually are -
linda cordry - 2010-10-11 I recently inherited a female doubleheaded amazon named hailee I have known her all her life. After first owner died she plucked all her feathers we got her over that now I have had her a month but she continues to pluck feathers in the same spot. She was doing good till this past weekend when I could not be here all day. She starts twitching and some shaking then plucks feathers she seem very agitated when this happens. I have to work so she is alone but with freedom and music. I don't know what to do for her.
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Estry Hiltz - 2010-10-19 What is her diet? Mine is on Harrisons Organic food. I thought I had her on good food before but after a plucking issue I changed it this is better. Also does she have regular showers? Change her cage around every day and give her foraging toys so she has to work for her food. Sounds to me she is bored when you are gone. Lots of toys especially foraging toys work well. Just google foraging toys they are easily made it may take a while before she uses them but it worked for my little plucked chicken cost me lots of $$ to figure this out hope it works for you!
Lisa - 2011-09-06 My Goffins cockatoo loves to chew.If you let him he will take big chunks out of your wood window trim or your wood mantle as he did mine. I buy him a box of popcicle stix --you can get them at any craft store like A.C. Moore or Michaels.I also buy wood shapes sold in the bird catalogs like Foster and Smith (make your own toys) parts and put them all in abig bowl in his cage, he drops some and chews some and I put them in the bowl again. He makes match stix size wood or chunks out of the pop stix and the good on the bottom of the cage get put back into the bowl again. A box of stix cost about $4 for a thousand I think--lasts about 2-3 months.
johnsolobird - 2011-07-06 My Amazon Casey used to be the best pet in the world. He would sit on you for hours watching tv with his head tucked under your ear and then one day he just attacked me. It was like overnight he hates humans. I have tried on several occasions to let him out but as soon as I do he will fly at me or anyone else and viciously attack them. He will keep taking huge hunks out of you until you get him back in the cage. I really miss the way he was. Does anybody else have any idea why ?
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Charlie Roche - 2011-07-07 Sometimes amazons or any bird can get way too hormonal and it's like Jekyll and Hyde. I had Merlin and he was a lover (macaw). 2 years old and breeding season and overnight he has no (none) feathers and is the creature from below. Can't get near him. Couple months go by and Merlin says from his play top "love you". It was like the dawning of a new bird. I suspect that is what is going on with yours. He is hormonal. He is also getting new feathers (time of year) and probably going into puberty (hey a teenager). That's a lot. Second guess (as they are just guesses) he needs a firm hand. Actual bird trainer told me if bird attacks put the bird in the bath tub (no water), yell "jail" and turn off the light and leave the bathroom count to 60. First time zip. Second time bird goes on attack mode I yell "JAIL" and put the bird in the tub. Third time I yelled "jail" the little guy shook and just stopped. Whenever he (hawkhead) went to attack, I would "yell" jail and he would just revert to his cuddly self. Weird. Laughed. It worked. After a couple of weeks, I didn't have to yell "jail" anymore and it never happened again. It sounds laughable but true.
Isabelle - 2011-08-24 How old is your bird??? It might be that it has reached sexual maturity!! Mine is a male and just recently went thru all that but he didnt get mean, he got depressed and chewed off a toe!!! We are still dealing with a totaly different bird. I dont know If he will ever be the same!
Ahmed Mohamed Hassan - 2011-05-19 I want to buy 2 chicks for double yellow headed amazon. I want to know if you sell and for how much does it cost including a cage and the shipment?
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Charlie Roche - 2011-05-19 I don't understand what you mean. Do you mean you want to purchase two baby double yellow head amazons? That is probably easy enough, however, where do you live? Most breeders do not sell cages so you would be on your own their and shipping two birds would be based on where you are shipping them from and to.
Double Yellow-Headed Amazons are excellent talkers and frequently sing very well too!
The first time I met Bosco I was hooked on this bird! A few years later my friend needed to find a home for Bosco so now he is MY bird and I love every minute of his attention and antics! He barks like my mini poms, meows like the cat, clucks like a chicken even scratches on the bottom of his cage like a chicken, he too likes answering the phone when it rings and asks 'how are you doing'? Recently my 10 yr old grandson moved in with me and he calls him Bob which isn't his name but oh well, and is now learning to speak like a 10 yr old, whadda up, hey dude and his favorite song to sing is You Are My Sunshine. I'm so happy with the investment I made with Bosco!
Amazing right. I would play a game with mine and hold her high in the air and say 'I'm an eagle I can fly' and then I'd bring her down and lay her in the palm of my hand and say 'I'm a bat, I lay down' and she would laugh. She liked games.
Sammy is my male double yellow headed amazon parrot, and he was hatched in 1991. I got him when he was 7 years old, and as of the date of this comment, we've been together 9 years and he's currently 16 years old. He was rather overweight when I first got him (I don't know much about his past, and his hatch-year I got from tracing his leg band ID), but with a big change in diet and exercise, he slimmed down from about 600 grams to abou 460 grams. He has a King's cage model 306 (meant for macaws) with toys I rotate monthly. Sammy is fully-flighted and has been for most of the 9 years I've had him. He is getting better at coming when called (we have structured training sessions for this), and is a joy to me. However, he's very much a one-person bird, and can be rather aggressive toward anyone else who comes near him (or me, if he's out with me). This could be prevented if he was socialized better, but most of the people in my life aren't bird-people, so it's hard to get him to be friendly with others. He gets a home-made base diet that has about 2/3 China Prairie sprouts (a mix of various hulled seeds and legumes) and 1/3 veggie mash (a mix I make myself, including "frozen mixed veggies", various fruits, dark greens, and high beta carotene veggies, along with some diced tofu and ground hard-boiled eggs with shell, kept frozen in ziplock bags), mixed together in his food dish with a sprinkling of a green powder from China Prairie that has spirulina, kelp, alfalfa, chlorella, mineral clay, and lots of other good stuff. He gets other healthy treats and an in-shell walnut or two almonds each day as well. He's unusually snuggly (with me) for an amazon, plays well with his toys, and can be very entertainingly vocal. I haven't tried teaching him specific words or phrases, but he's picked up lots over the years on his own, including calling my name (Chris). All in all, he's been a joy in my life, and I look forward to a few more decades with him.
My dyh is 6 and I live alone so I very much wanted her to be social. So I have brought her to work on Fridays all these years and last year she got very aggressive with several people. I ran into the breeder and she said it sounds like you have a male. Where I bought her from the certificate said female but I took her to my vet and did another dna. Indeed she was a he. The advice I received was to not bring him to work anymore and to leave him home where he was happy and not stressed. It saddened me though because I adore him/her so I just wanted to share her and have her where if something ever happened to me that she would be easily adoptable.
I still refer to Gypsy as she because so much of her vocabulary is good girl, such a pretty girl etc.
I have a Quaker (feather plucker) and an African Meyer but Gypsy is my favorite, she is really a companion
I have a double yellow headed Amazon named Harley and she is almost 6 years old. She is the funniest bird i have ever seen in my life. She can imitate any sound she hears and can say just about anything. When she talks, she keeps me laughing for hours and she loves to show off. Whenever she see's someone she says, "I'm A Bird! I'm a Bird!" and then starts laughing. She is a bit wild at times, and although I raised her from the time she was 3 weeks old, she bites when she gets excited and wants to play with you. Dispite that, she has a great personality and she always keeps me entertained.
We also have a double yellow named Harley. He is 8 and my boyfriend has had him since birth. "What up" is one of many things he says. He has recently taken to squaking and we aren't sure way. Any thoughts?
I have a 35 year old Double Yellowhead and he has always been a happy bird. He is with and around most of the day. The past 5 years or so I notice his tail feathers have turned yellow. They come in green but turn yellow. He has a great appitite and appears very healthy. What could be causing this? Thanks
I don't know for sure but parrots do show their age and this might be one indication. Humans get grey and maybe their feathers change. I know some blue golds who got grey feathers and a bunch of parrots that got wrinkles on bare facial patches. It is odd to realize but they do show signs of aging. I just can't think of anything else.
Hi - writing from Lower Mainland B.C. Canada...does anyone have a big L shaped breeding/nesting box suitable for Amazon parrots or a pattern so I can make one...or know where I can buy at reasonable price....thanks so much. Meg
China Prarie Farms Nest Boxes has really great nest boxes and easy to clean, view eggs etc. They just don't wear out.
Doctor Foster and Smith 18008267206 they might have some for sale
Why does my 23 year old Amazon parrot sleep so much? She seems healthy.
I don't know what you man by 'sleep so much?' Given their own regular schedule (in the wild), they would normally go to sleep when the sun goes down and wake when the sun comes up. However, if you have to get up at 6 am - so before the sun comes up, they wake up. If you have them watch TV with you at night - they normally stay up. In the wild, they take rest periods during the day - just sorta sit around but they would be up if you were playing, talking to them or activity around the home. So is your little guy sleeping way more than this? Not active? Not playing or talking or interacting? If he is lethargic and not playing or active or his behavior has changed recently, you should take him to the vet. 23 is pretty young.
I have a male double yellow headed amazon parrot that I would like to sell as my husband and I work all the time and just don't have enough time to spend with him.
Hi, how about you give people some additional information. Sex, age, speaks, friendly, feisty - they usually are -
I recently inherited a female doubleheaded amazon named hailee I have known her all her life. After first owner died she plucked all her feathers we got her over that now I have had her a month but she continues to pluck feathers in the same spot. She was doing good till this past weekend when I could not be here all day. She starts twitching and some shaking then plucks feathers she seem very agitated when this happens. I have to work so she is alone but with freedom and music. I don't know what to do for her.
What is her diet? Mine is on Harrisons Organic food. I thought I had her on good food before but after a plucking issue I changed it this is better. Also does she have regular showers? Change her cage around every day and give her foraging toys so she has to work for her food. Sounds to me she is bored when you are gone. Lots of toys especially foraging toys work well. Just google foraging toys they are easily made it may take a while before she uses them but it worked for my little plucked chicken cost me lots of $$ to figure this out hope it works for you!
My Goffins cockatoo loves to chew.If you let him he will take big chunks out of your wood window trim or your wood mantle as he did mine. I buy him a box of popcicle stix --you can get them at any craft store like A.C. Moore or Michaels.I also buy wood shapes sold in the bird catalogs like Foster and Smith (make your own toys) parts and put them all in abig bowl in his cage, he drops some and chews some and I put them in the bowl again. He makes match stix size wood or chunks out of the pop stix and the good on the bottom of the cage get put back into the bowl again. A box of stix cost about $4 for a thousand I think--lasts about 2-3 months.
My Amazon Casey used to be the best pet in the world. He would sit on you for hours watching tv with his head tucked under your ear and then one day he just attacked me. It was like overnight he hates humans. I have tried on several occasions to let him out but as soon as I do he will fly at me or anyone else and viciously attack them. He will keep taking huge hunks out of you until you get him back in the cage. I really miss the way he was. Does anybody else have any idea why ?
Sometimes amazons or any bird can get way too hormonal and it's like Jekyll and Hyde. I had Merlin and he was a lover (macaw). 2 years old and breeding season and overnight he has no (none) feathers and is the creature from below. Can't get near him. Couple months go by and Merlin says from his play top "love you". It was like the dawning of a new bird. I suspect that is what is going on with yours. He is hormonal. He is also getting new feathers (time of year) and probably going into puberty (hey a teenager). That's a lot.
Second guess (as they are just guesses) he needs a firm hand. Actual bird trainer told me if bird attacks put the bird in the bath tub (no water), yell "jail" and turn off the light and leave the bathroom count to 60. First time zip. Second time bird goes on attack mode I yell "JAIL" and put the bird in the tub. Third time I yelled "jail" the little guy shook and just stopped. Whenever he (hawkhead) went to attack, I would "yell" jail and he would just revert to his cuddly self. Weird. Laughed. It worked.
After a couple of weeks, I didn't have to yell "jail" anymore and it never happened again. It sounds laughable but true.
How old is your bird??? It might be that it has reached sexual maturity!! Mine is a male and just recently went thru all that but he didnt get mean, he got depressed and chewed off a toe!!! We are still dealing with a totaly different bird. I dont know If he will ever be the same!
I want to buy 2 chicks for double yellow headed amazon.
I want to know if you sell and for how much does it cost including a cage and the shipment?
I don't understand what you mean. Do you mean you want to purchase two baby double yellow head amazons? That is probably easy enough, however, where do you live? Most breeders do not sell cages so you would be on your own their and shipping two birds would be based on where you are shipping them from and to.