Rocky

Rocky is doing very well, he’s is eating well, playing well, and screaming extremely well. He still hates the hubby and I, but we don’t mind. He seems very settled and happy

He shares his cage with my OWA who is very timid around other birds, but other the past few weeks she has learned to realised that Rocky is a friendly boy who won’t cause her any harm. She has become more confident with Rocky and has even started preening him!!! It’s soooooooooooooooo lovely to watch

Poor Rocky was a little unsure of what my OWAs intentions were at first, after all he’s spent the last few months being growled at and being bitten by her because she was so scared of him, but he’s slowly starting to relax when she approaches him, and thoroughly enjoyed being preened by her yesterday

I’m so glad I put them together, because my gut instinct told me they would get along eventually, and my gut was right

I think this is the start of something beautiful

Rocky is coming along in leaps and bounds, he’s been eating well for almost 2 months now, and has put on some much needed weight!!
He was first weighed shortly after his arrival, and weighed 475g, which is very low considering his such a big boy, now he weighs 550g, which is fantastic but still under a healthy weight range for his size, the aim now is to get him up to 600g or more. Hopefully this wont be too difficult as he’s eating is increasing slowly but surely

Rocky shares a cage with my other Amazon, and he seems to enjoy her company, they do bicker a little bit, but he adores her, and they both get noisy and loud together when they decide to kick off!! He has also realised that he has some stiff competition for her affections too……… My hubby!!!
I’ve recently had an operation which has meant that my hubby has had to become the birds main carer, and whenever my hubby is around my other Amazon, she comes alive, and is very flirty with him. Of course Rocky has clocked on to this, and now charges and tries to bite the hubby at every opportunity!!

Rocky seems to dislike both my hubby and I (the hubby more so), and whenever I try to get him to step-up, he will pretend to grab my finger with his foot, then STRIKE FOR A BITE!!! However, this does not phase me in the slightest, and I now make a little game of this, as soon a he attempts to step-up, with my other hand I will tickle the back of his legs, I will also offer him a toy to bite into as a distraction tactic
Although he gets frustrated because he can’t catch me quick enough to bite me, he does enjoy it, and as a result, I’ve been able to give a lot more tickles to him. There are times where I do actually need him to step-up, and on those occasions I simply take the bite because so far in my experience of the birds I have, there’s no bite harder or more painful than a Cockatoos!!!
SORRY ROCKY, YOU’RE JUST GOING TO HAVE TO TRY HARDER!!

Rocky, is now a well established member of our family and flock and I adore him, he’s so gorgeous, and I’m over the moon with his progress!!

Well, Rocky has well and truly settled in, and is now one very noisy boy

He is quite aggressive at the moment but I am putting it down to hormones as it breeding season, which may also explain the noise too.

Thankfully I have no neighbours where Rocky is, so his noise is not a problem, and it doesn’t bother me.
He is madly in love with my other Amazon, but because he is soooo noisy he makes her even more scared of him, but he won’t hurt her and hopefully in time she’ll realise that, and he’ll quieten down a little

Next week he is getting his own Java Tree, which I’m hoping will help him build his muscles, as he will be climbing more, and have branches of different thickness to climb, grip, and balance on.

He is quite a character, and at the moment he is determined to rip my face off at every opportunity, but again, this does not bother me in the slightest. He doesn’t like the other birds apart from my other Amazon, and even chased my male Grey off his cage, and rightly so too!!

He seems quite happy, and is even happier when my other Amazon is by him, so once the spring hormonal period is over it will be interesting to see how he’s character changes.

Like my other Amazon, Rocky loves his showers, he dances and gets silly, which is lovely to watch

He seems to be eating more too, but I haven’t been able to weigh him, as my scales need a new battery, so once I get a new one, I’ll weigh him.

I think he is great, and I love him to bits, even if he doesn’t feel the same