October | 2007 | Bryan's Angels

Mites Colonized on Kiki’s feathers
Saturday, October 27th, 2007

Kiki had been preening and scratching excessively lately. I can see quite a few small feathers at the bottom of the cage. It’s not a good sign and this made me real worried for her. I can feel her itch and I’m suspecting she suffering from mites attack. I placed a white sheet overnight and morning i can see tiny red dots moving around.

OMG! I can feel the itch! So gross and my having goose bumps everywhere. I guess that’s the psychological effect. *Haha*

I went to the nearby pet store to buy the mite spray and i got the 8-in-1 Mites and Lice Spray for Caged Birds. Since the shop owner recommends using the spray, why not giving it a try. I do think Kiki’s condition can’t be delay. I also don’t want the infestation starts to worsen. I think there’s reasons to Kiki having mites on her feathers. Recently she has not been taking bath frequently, like what she usually does, dunking herself into the bowl of water. I guess the rainy weather also stop Kiki from bathing too.

But to stop the infestation, I have to force Kiki for bath. Hope she doesn’t hate me for doing so. I doing that for her own good. After the bath, I left her on the T-Stand to allow self preening process. Seriously I do enjoy looking at Kiki preening herself. So cute. I captured a short video clip, when Kiki’s preening happily.

Kiki preening after bath…

I got mum to help me hold Kiki and getting a towel to cover her head. This is prevent from Kiki fidgeting and also to protect her from getting mite spray solution into her eyes. I made a few short bursts of mite spray on her back and tail wing. Let’s hope Kiki will recover soon!

Tags: Bath Bird

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Kiki performing the Turn-A-Round Trick
Sunday, October 21st, 2007

After a few lessons for Kiki, I’ve decided to post some of the tricks that she has mastered over the months. The Turn-A-Round trick was the second trick that i taught her after mastering the basic step up and down commands. This trick is consider as a basic trick, suppose to be possibly learned within a day, but unfortunately my dear, Kiki took nearly 12 days to learn. Remembering that 17th September 2007 was when i introduced this trick to her, and mastered on 27th September 2007 Oh gosh! I’m almost going to label her as slow learner. Haha.

Anyway as long she master the trick, who cares how long she took to learn. I must admit you sure have to be extremely patient with this feather friend. I’ve gotta treat her like 3 years old kid learning to walk and play. In fact, i pretty excited every time she did this trick whenever i cued for it.

Anyone can train your parrot, is a fairly simple trick. Most important you need a T-Stand and your parrot’s favourite treat (For Kiki, she adores millets. Millet is not in her daily diet, so she will be more motivated when doing tricks), before you can start training your parrot.

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