The Indian Ringneck Parakeet has been referred to as the "Noble Parakeet"! The species, Psittacula krameri, is also called the Rose-ringed Parakeet and contains four subspecies.
Milica - 2012-03-11 Hello, I have a 6 year old female. She wasn,t hand fed, but, now she is very tame and likes to play with me. I have an offer for a 3 years old male but he is wild. How difficult would it be to tame him? And more importantly, would she change her behavior? Is it wise to buy this bird to be her companion? Thank you Milica
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Charlie Roche - 2012-03-11 It isn't terribly difficult to - tame them and you have already done it once. However, now you are going to have a male and a female and most likely they will pair bond so unlikely they will be tame and if they are to some extent - probably won'g be during mating season at all. Doubtful you would be able to play with either of them.
Angie - 2012-02-16 I have a pair of Indian Ring Necks that had a clutch of 5 eggs, only 1 was fertile and hatched, but died because the mom didn't feed it. Now I have 3 fertile eggs and I am afraid that the mom won't feed them again. I bought them from a lady that said she didn't want any babies, so when the pair would have eggs she would take them out and throw them away(cruel). Do you think the female will feed them this time, or should I plan on taking them out? How do I take them out if they hatch every other day? As they hatch? Will she hurt the others if I do pull them one by one? I have never done this before, but I don't want the babies to die. Please help. Thanks.
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Charlie Roche - 2012-02-16 They say and I have found the first couple of clutches are free. It takes a clutch or two for mom to learn to incubate (actually sit the eggs) and it takes time for mom torealize that she has to feed them. With that women throwing the eggs out, mom never learned. They are not in the wild where they see other memembers of the flock, breeding, incubating andfeeding. If you see mom is not feeding the babies and it is day 1, I would just use a pipette and give the baby a drop of Pedialyte (warmed from grocery store) You can do this by placing the Pedialyte water on the top of their beark (toward the end) and they will catch it as it falls. Day two - if she still isn't feeding them - do the same thing but use Pedialyte and mix it will formula for birds per instructions on back. Day 3 = if still not feeding you followinstructions and by this time the second egg (if fertile will be hatched). If you don't let mom learn to fee, she never will. Pull the babies if she harms one and feed them but give her another chance with the next litter. Shorter version - if she doesn't attempt to feed them, you are going to try and show her to feed them. OK? Good luck love birds are tiny.
Angie - 2012-02-16 I understand what you are saying about putting it on the babyies beak so it will have something, but how am I gonna show mom how to feed? If I stick my hand in there where she can see me or get a hold of me, she will tear me up..?
Charlie Roche - 2012-02-16 WOW not tame huh? Sorry about that, I just in error assumed they were tame as my bird parents always were. You can't then. If you can close off the entrance to the nest box to prevent mom from ripping you up, you can try and just feed them in the box. If not then, yes, you would have to pull them as they hatch and place them in a brooder or start them at a 95 degree temperature somehow. Feeding Indian Ringnecks from day 1 - is no way going to be an easy task. Maybe that is why the woman threw the eggs out. I have hand fed from the egg for many years with many different parrots and no way would I be enthusiastic about this task. I would do everything I could to have mom feed the eggs. I don't think you'd be able to close off the nest box and actually help to the extent the babies would live. I don't think - unless you are a really experienced hand feeder that you would be able to feed these guys and have them live. Best chance is with mom and letting her learn. Hopefully that works. I wouldn't want to feed Indian Ring Necks before the age of about 10 days - so the oldest would be about 15 days and the youngest 10 days. I'd pull them all at one time.
i was given a breeding pair of stunning ring neck birds but they are totally wild dont think they where ever handled how can i train them both to allow my family to touch and play with them pls pls help me >>>>.
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Clarice Brough - 2012-01-20 Taming mature birds that are wild is a long process of patience and love. In your case that is coupled with the fact that you have a breeding pair. They are bonded to each other, and perfectly content with that. Success in taming is much easier with a single bird that is looking for a friend. It will take a lot of time, a lot of patience, and may never be totally interested close companionship with humans. It's great that you are giving them a good home, but your best bet may be to pursue breeding them, and then handrearing the babies for pets.
cheryl broach - 2012-02-06 I have a ringneck and he is a pain in the ass half the time, but he does talk and is friendly only when he wants to be. when he flys and lands close to the floor, he will let ya pick him up but thats about it, I've had him for about 7 years now. about how old do ya think the are, and are you sure of there sex? good luck!! cheryl
abid - 2011-10-14 Hi I have baby yellow ring neck. His stomach is so hard. His digestive system not working well?
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Charlie Roche - 2011-10-15 I don't know if something similar but a little white belly caique we had, his stomach was like he ate a rock. My human panicked - of course and took it to the vet. The little guy had somehow swallowed a whole almond - shell and all. The vet said it would pass and it did. One time I just decided that I wanted a whole bunch of nuts and ate the bowl and the same thing happened. My human said it felt like I had eaten the stones from the planter but I didn't. Could your little guy have eaten something or just too much? If it lasts longer than a day or two - you might think about a vet.
Victoria - 2011-11-05 The mother of my 50 day old Indian ringneck chick is sick and won't feed her baby. Will the father ringneck feed and care for the baby without her helping. Or will I have to take over the job until the baby is weaned. They live in a large aviary, There are no other birds in there with them.
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Charlie Roche - 2011-11-05 Doubtful the dad would feed the baby. Baby at 50 days old is close to being weaned and you can hand feed but also offer the baby food - cheerios, cracked walnuts, vegetables etc. There is formula at pet store and you can feed with a spoon just follow directions on the formula bag. Good luck and at 50 days old the baby is about ready to leave the nest anyway. They usually leave 6 - 7 weeks.
Steve and Fran - 2006-09-12 Our lutino male ringneck "Cheech" thinks that he is a human being. He is subservient only to my husband (also Steve, perhaps it is the curse of the Steve!) and the rest of the family have to bare his ire! He doesn't talk, screams whenever he wants to be let out, hates our budgie and african lovebird even though they try to be friendly, does the white eyed thing pretty much constantly and refuses to play with toys, eat anything but fruit and peanuts in the shell and has a terrible death wish to eat an avocado (we know, they are deadly to parrots but he REALLY wants one!) as he knows that we wont let him have one (they must be good!) he has been caught sitting on a packet of frozen pork mince chewing through the wrapper and will sit on hands and shoulders under sufferance however HATES his head being touched let alone scratched (we have never managed to scratch his head) and is very suspicious of humans in general and would rather that they just got him lots of fruit in an endless stream than go anywhere near him. All in all he is a bit of a handful! We wish that he would talk but I think he is probably too old for that now and wouldn't do it anyway if he thought that he wanted us to! Thats about all now as we have to go and get him some more fruit! Steve, Fran and family
rashed - 2011-09-15 How to know if my lovebird is a girl or a boy please tell me? And please tell me what a lovebird eats and what a indian rose ringed parrakeet eats
Leila - 2011-08-10 Wow! You've got an amazing story behind your birds! Way back then, handfeeding was really your thing! And what a large number of chicks you fed! I wouldn't be able to do that! Really! That is why your birds have really bonded with you. You were really confident at your skills - that is truly wonderful to hear. Wishing you many happy years with your pets. As for your outdoor birds, do they winter outdoors?
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Charlie Roche - 2011-08-10 I hand fed them all - and as they got older they paired. At least some did. I set them up in an aviary and they could go inside or outside - lived in Florida at the time so really never cold. They could be indoors or they could be outside in the flight cages. They then had babies and I hand fed them too. I just loved it.
Leila - 2011-08-10 Oh I see, so the weather was just good for the birds, which made it all the more easier for you I guess. Are any of your birds talking? Tell us more of their antics!
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Charlie Roche - 2011-08-11 My absolute favorite funny thing to tell was Peppy (Panama Amazon) loved to watch Ninja Turtles. He would laugh and make their sounds and fight etc. Company was coming over and they came to the front door and husband, wife and two teenagers came in. Peppy - whose cage door I never closed said very clearly "Drop your drawers, I have a pistol"
Peppy did not like just one person - my mother - and I don't really blame him. His cage door was always open and when he wanted to rest or sleep, he would go in his cage and close the door. He had a perch on top of the cage and a perch haning from the ceiling. If you wanted him to go in his cage all you had to say is "Grandma is coming over" and he would make this horrific growl and go like the dickens to get in his cage and close the door.
One day Grandma is over and she decides that Peppy should like her. She goes to the cage and Peppy says clearly "Peppy be bad bird" She went closer and Peppy said "Peppy be bad bird" I told my mother to leave Peppy alone but then he had never bitten anyone and kids running around the house etc. My mother went closer and Peppy flew off his perch, dive bombed my mother and bit her really good through the arm. He flew back and said "Peppy be bad bird" The kids and I ran in my room and laughed like crazy. They didn't like grandma either but Peppy let her know. It is so funny what they know or how. Peppy was my hero on that one.
Birds can speak or some just are quite vocal and expressive but they understand so much.
Leila Peters - 2011-08-11 Wow! That bird is really clever! And he is no "bird-brain"! What an interesting story to tell! Grandma must have been put off birds forever! So you are saying he's as clever as a child, hey! Amazing! And you mean to say he closes the cage door himself!?!
Charlie Roche - 2011-08-11 I don't know about grandma being put off by birds but Peppy sure didn't like her. I got Peppy when my two girls were two years old and Peppy was 2 days. Peppy pretty much kept up with the girls until about kindegarten. Movies, jokes, attitude was pretty much the same. So yes, I think birds are quite intelligent. I really never closed the cage doors on most of my birds. They could go in and out as they choose. They did close the door themselves at night or during the ay if they didn't want to be bothered. I had a couple that would manage to get into trouble and I did close their door at night after I learned. Nothing terrible - one would break out of the house though and it took me awhile to figure out it was going out the doogy door. Little things. Have fun with yours and enjoy.
Leila - 2011-08-09 Thats very interesting! You've really bonded with your pets and they to you! A home without pets is so boring - they might be a lot of work but it is a real life enriching experience! Gosh, I would think to handrear baby birds is really difficult, but it seems I'm wrong!
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Charlie Roche - 2011-08-10 Yep, some of my pets were/are a litle crazy and lots of fun. I went to purchase my first had fed baby - 30 years ago and I drove about 3 hours to this flea market - where you should probably never buy a bird. My daughter had to take speech classes and I though an amazon would make it more fun for her. I went to the bird booth (2 guys that had been breeding for years) and here were all these baby amazons - no feathers - sitting in fish tanks with sawdust. I told them what I wanted and they told me to pick one out and they marked it and said to come back in 8 weks. I said "NO" I want to take it home now. They said I didn't know how to hand feed and I told them to show me. The two guys were about 6'6 and 6'8 - huge and I am 5 feet. They laughed and said OK - hand feed these guys and then come back and do it again in 4 hours. I hand fed about 60 parrots right then (they showed me how and watched me). Then I went around and browsed. Then I went back and hand fed all 60 again. I took Prince home (a yellow nape that picked me out). Never bought a bird with feathers after that. I had a few before that had been fed out but Prince stole my heart.
The Indian Ringneck Parakeet has been referred to as the "Noble Parakeet"! The species, Psittacula krameri, is also called the Rose-ringed Parakeet and contains four subspecies.
Hello, I have a 6 year old female. She wasn,t hand fed, but, now she is very tame and likes to play with me. I have an offer for a 3 years old male but he is wild. How difficult would it be to tame him? And more importantly, would she change her behavior? Is it wise to buy this bird to be her companion?
Thank you
Milica
It isn't terribly difficult to - tame them and you have already done it once. However, now you are going to have a male and a female and most likely they will pair bond so unlikely they will be tame and if they are to some extent - probably won'g be during mating season at all. Doubtful you would be able to play with either of them.
I have a pair of Indian Ring Necks that had a clutch of 5 eggs, only 1 was fertile and hatched, but died because the mom didn't feed it. Now I have 3 fertile eggs and I am afraid that the mom won't feed them again. I bought them from a lady that said she didn't want any babies, so when the pair would have eggs she would take them out and throw them away(cruel). Do you think the female will feed them this time, or should I plan on taking them out? How do I take them out if they hatch every other day? As they hatch? Will she hurt the others if I do pull them one by one? I have never done this before, but I don't want the babies to die. Please help. Thanks.
They say and I have found the first couple of clutches are free. It takes a clutch or two for mom to learn to incubate (actually sit the eggs) and it takes time for mom torealize that she has to feed them. With that women throwing the eggs out, mom never learned. They are not in the wild where they see other memembers of the flock, breeding, incubating andfeeding. If you see mom is not feeding the babies and it is day 1, I would just use a pipette and give the baby a drop of Pedialyte (warmed from grocery store) You can do this by placing the Pedialyte water on the top of their beark (toward the end) and they will catch it as it falls. Day two - if she still isn't feeding them - do the same thing but use Pedialyte and mix it will formula for birds per instructions on back. Day 3 = if still not feeding you followinstructions and by this time the second egg (if fertile will be hatched). If you don't let mom learn to fee, she never will. Pull the babies if she harms one and feed them but give her another chance with the next litter. Shorter version - if she doesn't attempt to feed them, you are going to try and show her to feed them. OK? Good luck love birds are tiny.
I understand what you are saying about putting it on the babyies beak so it will have something, but how am I gonna show mom how to feed? If I stick my hand in there where she can see me or get a hold of me, she will tear me up..?
WOW not tame huh? Sorry about that, I just in error assumed they were tame as my bird parents always were. You can't then. If you can close off the entrance to the nest box to prevent mom from ripping you up, you can try and just feed them in the box. If not then, yes, you would have to pull them as they hatch and place them in a brooder or start them at a 95 degree temperature somehow. Feeding Indian Ringnecks from day 1 - is no way going to be an easy task. Maybe that is why the woman threw the eggs out. I have hand fed from the egg for many years with many different parrots and no way would I be enthusiastic about this task. I would do everything I could to have mom feed the eggs. I don't think you'd be able to close off the nest box and actually help to the extent the babies would live. I don't think - unless you are a really experienced hand feeder that you would be able to feed these guys and have them live. Best chance is with mom and letting her learn. Hopefully that works. I wouldn't want to feed Indian Ring Necks before the age of about 10 days - so the oldest would be about 15 days and the youngest 10 days. I'd pull them all at one time.
hi all
i was given a breeding pair of stunning ring neck birds but they are totally wild dont think they where ever handled how can i train them both to allow my family to touch and play with them pls pls help me >>>>.
Taming mature birds that are wild is a long process of patience and love. In your case that is coupled with the fact that you have a breeding pair. They are bonded to each other, and perfectly content with that. Success in taming is much easier with a single bird that is looking for a friend. It will take a lot of time, a lot of patience, and may never be totally interested close companionship with humans. It's great that you are giving them a good home, but your best bet may be to pursue breeding them, and then handrearing the babies for pets.
I have a ringneck and he is a pain in the ass half the time, but he does talk and is friendly only when he wants to be. when he flys and lands close to the floor, he will let ya pick him up but thats about it, I've had him for about 7 years now. about how old do ya think the are, and are you sure of there sex? good luck!! cheryl
Hi I have baby yellow ring neck. His stomach is so hard. His digestive system not working well?
I don't know if something similar but a little white belly caique we had, his stomach was like he ate a rock. My human panicked - of course and took it to the vet. The little guy had somehow swallowed a whole almond - shell and all. The vet said it would pass and it did. One time I just decided that I wanted a whole bunch of nuts and ate the bowl and the same thing happened. My human said it felt like I had eaten the stones from the planter but I didn't. Could your little guy have eaten something or just too much? If it lasts longer than a day or two - you might think about a vet.
The mother of my 50 day old Indian ringneck chick is sick and won't feed her baby. Will the father ringneck feed and care for the baby without her helping. Or will I have to take over the job until the baby is weaned. They live in a large aviary, There are no other birds in there with them.
Doubtful the dad would feed the baby. Baby at 50 days old is close to being weaned and you can hand feed but also offer the baby food - cheerios, cracked walnuts, vegetables etc. There is formula at pet store and you can feed with a spoon just follow directions on the formula bag. Good luck and at 50 days old the baby is about ready to leave the nest anyway. They usually leave 6 - 7 weeks.
Our lutino male ringneck "Cheech" thinks that he is a human being. He is subservient only to my husband (also Steve, perhaps it is the curse of the Steve!) and the rest of the family have to bare his ire! He doesn't talk, screams whenever he wants to be let out, hates our budgie and african lovebird even though they try to be friendly, does the white eyed thing pretty much constantly and refuses to play with toys, eat anything but fruit and peanuts in the shell and has a terrible death wish to eat an avocado (we know, they are deadly to parrots but he REALLY wants one!) as he knows that we wont let him have one (they must be good!) he has been caught sitting on a packet of frozen pork mince chewing through the wrapper and will sit on hands and shoulders under sufferance however HATES his head being touched let alone scratched (we have never managed to scratch his head) and is very suspicious of humans in general and would rather that they just got him lots of fruit in an endless stream than go anywhere near him. All in all he is a bit of a handful! We wish that he would talk but I think he is probably too old for that now and wouldn't do it anyway if he thought that he wanted us to! Thats about all now as we have to go and get him some more fruit!
Steve, Fran and family
That is very funny :)
How to know if my lovebird is a girl or a boy please tell me? And please tell me what a lovebird eats and what a indian rose ringed parrakeet eats
Wow! You've got an amazing story behind your birds! Way back then, handfeeding was really your thing! And what a large number of chicks you fed! I wouldn't be able to do that! Really! That is why your birds have really bonded with you. You were really confident at your skills - that is truly wonderful to hear. Wishing you many happy years with your pets. As for your outdoor birds, do they winter outdoors?
I hand fed them all - and as they got older they paired. At least some did. I set them up in an aviary and they could go inside or outside - lived in Florida at the time so really never cold. They could be indoors or they could be outside in the flight cages. They then had babies and I hand fed them too. I just loved it.
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Oh I see, so the weather was just good for the birds, which made it all the more easier for you I guess. Are any of your birds talking? Tell us more of their antics!
My absolute favorite funny thing to tell was Peppy (Panama Amazon) loved to watch Ninja Turtles.
He would laugh and make their sounds and fight etc. Company was coming over and they came to the front door and husband, wife and two teenagers came in. Peppy - whose cage door I never closed said very clearly "Drop your drawers, I have a pistol"
Peppy did not like just one person - my mother - and I don't really blame him. His cage door was always open and when he wanted to rest or sleep, he would go in his cage and close the door. He had a perch on top of the cage and a perch haning from the ceiling. If you wanted him to go in his cage all you had to say is "Grandma is coming over" and he would make this horrific growl and go like the dickens to get in his cage and close the door.
One day Grandma is over and she decides that Peppy should like her. She goes to the cage and Peppy says clearly "Peppy be bad bird" She went closer and Peppy said "Peppy be bad bird" I told my mother to leave Peppy alone but then he had never bitten anyone and kids running around the house etc. My mother went closer and Peppy flew off his perch, dive bombed my mother and bit her really good through the arm. He flew back and said "Peppy be bad bird" The kids and I ran in my room and laughed like crazy. They didn't like grandma either but Peppy let her know. It is so funny what they know or how. Peppy was my hero on that one.
Birds can speak or some just are quite vocal and expressive but they understand so much.
Wow! That bird is really clever! And he is no "bird-brain"! What an interesting story to tell! Grandma must have been put off birds forever! So you are saying he's as clever as a child, hey! Amazing! And you mean to say he closes the cage door himself!?!
I don't know about grandma being put off by birds but Peppy sure didn't like her. I got Peppy when my two girls were two years old and Peppy was 2 days. Peppy pretty much kept up with the girls until about kindegarten. Movies, jokes, attitude was pretty much the same. So yes, I think birds are quite intelligent. I really never closed the cage doors on most of my birds. They could go in and out as they choose. They did close the door themselves at night or during the ay if they didn't want to be bothered. I had a couple that would manage to get into trouble and I did close their door at night after I learned. Nothing terrible - one would break out of the house though and it took me awhile to figure out it was going out the doogy door. Little things. Have fun with yours and enjoy.
Thats very interesting! You've really bonded with your pets and they to you! A home without pets is so boring - they might be a lot of work but it is a real life enriching experience! Gosh, I would think to handrear baby birds is really difficult, but it seems I'm wrong!
Yep, some of my pets were/are a litle crazy and lots of fun. I went to purchase my first had fed baby - 30 years ago and I drove about 3 hours to this flea market - where you should probably never buy a bird. My daughter had to take speech classes and I though an amazon would make it more fun for her. I went to the bird booth (2 guys that had been breeding for years) and here were all these baby amazons - no feathers - sitting in fish tanks with sawdust. I told them what I wanted and they told me to pick one out and they marked it and said to come back in 8 weks. I said "NO" I want to take it home now. They said I didn't know how to hand feed and I told them to show me. The two guys were about 6'6 and 6'8 - huge and I am 5 feet. They laughed and said OK - hand feed these guys and then come back and do it again in 4 hours. I hand fed about 60 parrots right then (they showed me how and watched me). Then I went around and browsed. Then I went back and hand fed all 60 again. I took Prince home (a yellow nape that picked me out). Never bought a bird with feathers after that. I had a few before that had been fed out but Prince stole my heart.