My name is Joan I live in the U.K Leeds, West Yorkshire, married with 3 grown up children 30, 28 and 23 and a granddaughter.
We bought a pair of ringnecks 3 weeks ago Jo-Jo and Ki-Ki, from
"a lovely lady" who said they were coming upto breeding age but that wasn't the reason we bought them from her. We have always wanted talking parrots but the time was never right until 3 weeks ago.After sitting with them for a number of hours we noticed something very odd about them, I noticed Jo-Jo had a claw missing on both feet, but Ki-Ki is the worse she has only 1 claw left on both feet, also her tail feathers were really tatty and uneven as though they had been ripped out. I rang the lady and told her about it she said that they were like that when she bought them but she said she had them for a year.
Ki-Ki's feathers have grown back beautifully, she can fly but she has trouble landing. Jo-Jo on the other hand can fly and land with no trouble and he has started to talk which is excellent he has started to take fruit and nuts out of our hands which I think is brilliant. Ki-Ki needs alot of work she panics and flies off or if in her cade she moves to the otherside, although she is vocal and is slowly trusting us, we have the patience and love to give her, I hope she can forget what ever happened to her, time will tell.
I love them to bits and just so very happy we got them out of the place they were in before something bad had happened or worse.
