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Excellent home for Blue- beautiful Blue/Gold Macaw
Waltham Cross
4 hours
MacawsAge: 4 yearsFemale
£1,750
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Adv. ID
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Adv. Location
Waltham Cross
Advert Type
For sale
Age
4 years, 3 months
Breed
Macaws
Is Endangered Species
Sex
Female
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When we were looking to buy a macaw it was a trying experience with all sorts of dodgy sellers and we ended up buying her from a nice family with five young kids, the youngest of which it had soon transpired was allergic to her.
Unbeknown to us, until we had brought her home and tried contacting the original seller to get her papers (which they had not posted on to the family as promised after they were forgotten when they collected) it turns out Blue was from the sort of parrot seller that we had made a point of not dealing with (it turned out they had numerous birds for sale using numerous different phone numbers on a lot of free ads in the East Midlands area).
So we have had since Feb 24, a macaw of "indeterminate" gender, although we think she is a female (!) and we have accepted it as being quite trendy not knowing these days!!
She is fit and healthy (and ringed) and we believe about 3 or 4 years old, so you can make up a birthday for “her”.
She likes being sprayed, lets you stroke her and even tickle under her wings most days.
She loves destroying toys, cardboard tubes etc and also loves an empty plastic bottle to play with.
She loves to dance and show off and repeatedly nod (“head bang”) her head.
She craves company - always sitting in the nearest corner of her cage to us and always looks like she is going to take off and fly to us but she seems to ‘bottle it’.
Also she seems nervous of stepping up, unless you are ‘rescuing’ her from the top of the cupboard etc that she has landed on.
She can quite fly well although it seems something has been done to prohibit the regrowth of the 2nd or 3rd in from the outside of her flight feathers = when we first had her she used to take off and crash but now despite not full regrowth she has much better control indoors and we are yet to be brave enough to get a harness and take her outside.
She is an absolute pig - she gets excited when anyone goes into the kitchen, cooks toast or most food to be honest.
First night we had her we had pizza ******ed - she must have been given pizza before as just the smell got her excited. In fact she jumped off her cage onto the settee and climbed over my wife’s and two teenage foster kids’ closed pizza boxes on their laps to get to me and my open one.
Couldn’t say no to her even though it is against all the guidance but - in nutshell - she will eat fruit seed mix but scrounges carbs (pizza crust, dry toast, pastry, sponge cake, biscuits, crisps etc), likes chicken and is also partial to tiny amounts of ice cream - which we first found out when she stole a bit of my wife’s cornetto and now she loves a magnum stick upon which you leave her a tiny bit of ice cream for her to lick before shredding the clean stick.
She will eat some fruit - likes banana, blueberry, orange/satsuma, pear and apple - but a lot of other fruit and veg is just dropped.
We have a giant schnauzer dog and whenever we eat both of them are begging and watching each other jealously!
She says “hello” a lot - and in a great variety of amusing voices and volume - especially cute when she whispers.
“Hello Blue” now too and she laughs and also imitated sneezes, hiccups and even burps occasionally.
We were a little troubled before we purchased by the sleep requirements we read about as the cage is in a busy kitchen/lounge area but in the main typically she gets about six undisturbed hours a night and then often a couple of quiet hours during the day although she has the radio on (Sqwuark Sport channel)
And there we have it, reasons for reluctantly looking to rehome “her” - her squarking is piercing and goes right through my wife who typically sits nearest to her. Both of us have hayfever and although it is being reported as worse than normal pollen locally this year already my wife is not sure she isn’t delveloping an intolerance and finally, with us both nearing retirement and looking to split our time between uk and our place in Spain in the coming years, longer term Blue doesn’t really want I suspect to go on long road trips (and the occasional noise would I am sure not be tolerated in the neighbouring apartments either). Oh and our “lockdown” dog who is wonderful in every other way is also disturbed by her - not sure if he thinks he is protecting us or what but although he never attempted to harm her he is sort of agitated by her and always on alert when she is out of her cage?...... he will be the happy one when she has gone for sure!
We have absolutely loved having her and have agonised over whether to keep her, and if not how we find the right home for her.
“She” comes with not one but two large cages (the one she came with and a silver grey one we wanted for our colour scheme once she had settled in) and a stand which we bought before realising it overcrowded our lounge so is pretty much brand new. Also a small cage she travelled home with us in and a dog crate which is a better method of transport BUT you will need a van.
We are based in Cheshunt, Hertfordshire a few minutes from junction 25 on the north side of the M25 and collection any time within reason is possible as we “live above our work”.
We have spent a small fortune on buying her, collecting her from the West Country, buying new cage and stand - it is not about the money and if we thought she would be happy in a zoo we would happily gift her to one - but we have never seen a parrot served pizza crust at a zoo!!
The price is non-negotiable simply to recover probably less than half what we have spent (excluding toys and food) and payment only in cash or by transfer upon collection before loading your van.
You obviously could recoup some of that if you chose to sell on one of the cages and/or the substantial stand.
Looking for the right home with the right people who have experience of handling a macaw ideally, who don’t want messing around or to mess us around and for us to be as confident as possible that her move works best for her and she is happy.
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