Surprisingly clever bug-tailed greens, capable of imitating human speech and various sounds, have long fallen in love with their masters. Their ability to distinguish colors, shapes, memorize and pronounce more than 200 words touches their owners. If you have acquired such a pet, be ready to listen to not always pleasant sounds, but innocent and cunning eyes will rouse anyone, and their tenderness to the masters will be enveloped in warmth and love. Parrots are very faithful and devoted friends and family members.
What to feed Jaco?
Jaco , like other parrots of his species, birds unpretentious. But a full and varied diet is simply necessary for their normal life. The main food should be a mixture of cereals, it is preferable: millet, wheat, canary and flaxseed, corn, oats, cedar and hazelnuts (except almonds). Very useful sprouted grain, up to green sprouts and boiled hard-boiled eggs. From fruits: apples, pears, peaches, plums, grapes, pineapples and others. And from vegetables: carrots, beets, pumpkin, corn on the cob. Jaco is very fond of blueberries, raspberries, strawberries, hawthorn, mountain ash, cherries and currants and soaked in water dates and figs. From the green, you must put the leaves of lettuce, dandelion, clover, lice. As they gnaw all that obeys their beaks, it is necessary to hang branches of willow, oak, birch or different fruit trees in a cage. And of course, from the human table the bird is not recommended for feeding.
Care and maintenance
An aviary for a gray pet should be spacious, so that it can freely spread and swing its wings. The cage, like the perches in it, should be strong for a powerful beak it is hot. Also, it should be set far away from drafts. In winter, when there is little sunlight, the aviary can be irradiated with fluorescent light. For skin integument, paws, beak and feathers, daily bathing of a brown-tailed parrot is hot, clearing from dust and dirt. To avoid hypothermia, the parrot should dry in a warm place. Outside the cage, you can arrange a walking arena out of thick and long branches with toys for birds.