Our flock has moved with us to our new house! Things have been rather busy lately, but Herki has really gotten settled in.

For a few weeks now, Herki has changed his mind about me. I don't really know why, but if Herki is out of his cage, he will try to jump off his cage and attack me. He will do this to my husband and myself. It could be because I spend some time with his best bud Ellis (who is not very interested in Herki) or maybe I pushed him too much in a training session or something. So, because of this unfortunate twist of events, I have not been able to allow Herki out of his cage very much. I do interact with him through the cage bars, but only if I have about an hour or so to spare I would then allow him some out-of-cage time and see if I can actually stay in the same room with him without having him attack me.

Since he is now in a room with 4 other birds, I am not able to just have him come out and wander about in the room (which he was able to do at the apartment). If I do allow him out-of-cage time now, I will have to remove all the other birds first. I may do this.

Herki will wave a foot at you for just about any nut. he does get bored of pumpkin seeds really quickly tho. i guess it is not as yummy as other nuts such as walnuts and almonds.

I do try to give Herki a shower every other week. I take him in the shower with me, where he is quite content at standing on a hand-held perch without trying to attack me. He doesn't like it very much (he doesn't get excited or tries to preen during the shower - he just sits there), but i think it is necessary for him to keep his feathers healthy and shiny.

One thing is good since moving to the new home, we finally got a bigger cage for Herki! It is MUCH bigger than his old cage and it has a dome top, so he can crawl all over that thing if he wants to get some exercise. Since he loves bells so much, I have also put in a boing that has a bell at the bottom of it. once Herki realized this, he went straight for it. I also put in more bells into his toy basket. Since moving into his new cage, he looks ALOT more calm and just plain happy. I don't know if that changes anything between himself and I, but we'll see. I'm taking it slow.