Comments on: Taking Care Of A Sun Conure

By: Internet Schafkopf

Internet Schafkopf — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 13:50:20 +0000

grande rarins mi damos te tincluro trolevos coitamo. radera te ssendo rapuv nos eritides o duspespa trinha traerenia bien.

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--------- — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 03:08:17 +0000

im getting a new conure but i have to resurch them

By: Rhonda

Rhonda — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 14:53:10 +0000

We have had our 6 month old sun conure for over a week now. I love him or her already. He is not a very noisy bird. Only when we first walk in the room or walk out. He loves to dance. Walks side to side on his perch. and he loves to be scratched.” When you scratch his head, he rolls his head all around and closes his eyes. Havent really let him out of his cage yet, as we have dogs. I have attempted to kiss him. He kisses back. luckily he hasnt bit me, as i have been bitten by many animals in the past. However, i learned to not wear my wedding ring when i am reaching in to pat him. He loves jewelry. He really goes down hard on rings.

By: mark

mark — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 08:46:21 +0000

I got my first parrot a sun conure 6 months ago he is a funny bird and is a joy when me and my partner are near . as soon as you leave the room for any period he screams . or if he hears us in another room he screams . how do i train him to stop i dont want to have to sell him please help.

By: Mindy

Mindy — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 03:23:56 +0000

I first met my sun conure at a friends house(her bird). I liked him then. to simplify story, i ended up recuing him(from them, he was in desparate need of a loving home. He has one large problem, HE SCREAMS. I think i have learned to tune it out and i love the little guy but my husband is going crazy. the bird is about 1yr old. he loves to shower with me and eat what i am eating. Since sun conures are a noisy bird, is there a way to train him to not scream? Do they understand words? And a lot of what you have weitten is true to him. My husband loves to build him a bigger and bigger play area on top of his cage. He is always adding challenging toys.

By: anthony

anthony — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 02:04:55 +0000

i recently bought a sun conure from a bird store it is missing a toe and due to help tame him to my hand he lost his tail feathers jumping around but i love him anyway and i know the tail will grow back he is on my shoulder as we speak trying to learn to talk

By: Robyn

Robyn — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 11:55:12 +0000

We recently purchased a baby Sun Conure seven days ago and I started to fear that the little bird was unwell. There wasn’t much to go on and didn’t suspect any thing was wrong except that on the sixth day I felt it should have eaten more of the bird rearing mix we had been provided with. From previous experience with handraising baby parrots (from 4 weeks old using a seringe) I knew that when the bird is starting to ween itself it doesn’t eat quite as much. Sunny was usually eating about two seringes three times a day and we were told that she was about 6 weeks old when we purchased her) but on this particular day she only had one and a quarter for breakfast and a similar amount for lunch and she wasn’t flapping her wing during the lunch time feed. She only ever flapped one wing but continuously bobbed her head throughout the feeding process. Throughout the sixth day when she woke up she would climb the side of the bird cage I kept her in when I was at work and I started to think that she was looking for attention. I frequently got her out of the cage and held her and she would continuously move up my arm to snuggle in the crook of my elbow. This made me a little concerned as I felt she was trying to keep warm but as we live in Queensland and at this time of the year, it was quite hot. From the day that we brought her home Sunny was a snuggler and would make her way up onto the shoulder of my son and rest at the base of his neck. She seemed to do some funny (we thought, cute) things as she would fall asleep on his tummy and then roll down to his lap. She often laid down – flat out. Sunny died on the morning of the seventh day that we had her. When I woke up at 6.00am in the morning I took the cover off her cage and noticed that she was perched on the lowest perch with her head drooping / hanging down. I quickly took her out of her cage and noticed that she felt coolish. Alarmed, I called my son in and got him to sit Sunny on his chest in the sunshine hoping this would help but after about 15minutes we decided to make a dash to the vets. Sunny died shortly after arriving. We are getting a new little bird this weekend from the same person who sold us Sunny (we believe it is her sibling) and I would like to know if anything that I have described was unusual for a baby Sun conure. We are a little scared that the same thing might happen and would like some advice from anyone who could help us. We will be paying a visit to the Bird Vet within the first week to assure ourselves that the little bird has no health problems but any advice would be welcome.
Please help us to successfully raise this new little baby.
Thanks, Robyn

By: Toni

Toni — Sun, 11 May 2008 14:00:25 +0000

I bought a Sun Conure when she was three months old. She use to like all of us when she was young, but now she only likes my husband and if I want time with her, I have to wait until he leaves then she will be my companion. Sun Conures for some reason like male gender better. For my two kids, once the bird was about a year old, she started attacking the kids and tries to bite them and she also is that way if we leave her out of the cage and we have company, she will fly and try to bite them too. We can only let her out of the cage if it is just my husband & I at home. I don’t know how to break her of her bad habit. I was told that Sun Conures usually have one person that they bond with (unfortunately for us, it is the male of the household).

By: Joyce Whitaker

Joyce Whitaker — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 17:35:50 +0000

I just bought a Sun Conure and it seems she likes my husband better than it does myself. He had her out of her cage the other night and it was like she flew off of him and flew on me. She went for my hair and he had to take her off. Explain to me why she would do that. This is my first parrot and I really want to be friends with her.