Our Senegal Opie

[SadennaAndFlock]

He is about 7 years old he was about 4 1/2-5 when he came to live with us..he was actually part of a small group of the birds the gal I work for got from a another breeder friend of hers who had found out her cancer had come back and had to down size her flock, the gal I work for took in 2 caiques and Opie the senegal well opied didn't like the gal i work for to much or anyone else but me, he would run back and forth in his cage wanting me to take him out, and I did he hung off the front of my shirt while I cleaned cages, he also decided I needed to be fed and would regurge for me..well after about a 2 months the gal I work for had watched my relationship with opie grow and told me to just take him home..well I was nice I talk to my hubby and told him that Opied needed to come home with me, so the next day hubby went up with me to meet opie well opie was great he stepped up for my hubby and let hubby scratch his head the works and hubby said Opie could come and live with us...

Well that was short lived the next day I get a phone call from my hubby telling me that Opie bit him and drew blood and it's been that way since Opie hates my hubby with a passion..he only sucked up to hubby to come with me ....lol to this day Opie still tries to feed me and during breeding season wants to mate with my hand..

He talks a little, when I clip his nails I towel him he laughs and talks all the while in the towel and will stand on the counter and let me lift one wing at a time for clipping...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v121/sadenna/Opies%20Photos/IMG_0123.jpg

[gary&chloe]

I have a female, Shirrah, that did the same thing. Nice as she could be, to me the night we went to look at her. She would stand on my wifes finger but she would keep leaning toward me, wanting to get back on me.

The next day she bit me and hates me now. I can't walk by her cage that she doesn't jump off and try to bite my ear.

Turns out she hated the men in her original family and spent most of the time riding around on the lady of the house, shoulder.

BUT, when my wifes son and family come to visit, they bring their male. Tito, and he loves me. More than Amy, the wife. He bites at her when she tries to get him off of me.

So, go figure.

I still think Senegals are pretty and great first birds. Any of the Poicephalus are great birds, I think. Very pretty, reasonably quiet and don't require a lot on one on one time.

Opie is very pretty. Obviously, he is very smart. His mommy didn't raise no fool. He's got a good home, good food and lots of love.