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My Senegal Parrot Beanie
Ok, I have to be fair to the one other pet in our family and mention our Senegal Parrot, Beanie. We named him Beanie because he loves to eat beans, especially the mixture you use to make 15 bean soup. He stays in a big cage in my computer room that is decorated in a tropical parrot décor. I enjoy listening to him talk while I do my work and find myself talking back to him. As far as parrots go, Senegal Parrots are not that noisy. I can’t stand parrots that screech! He has quite a vocabulary, as well as some odd noises. We got Beanie when he was just a baby, but eating on his own. He was quite tame, as the breeder made sure to handle him a lot. My husband seems to be better with him than I am and doesn’t seem to mind the occasional bite, which they do when excited or don’t want to do something. One bite was enough for me! The Senegal Parrot is the most popular bird kept of the Poicephalus parrots. Beanie is a Nominate Senegal and has a yellow belly. There are three different varieties of Senegals, each one having a different belly color of either red, orange or yellow. Although they are know to originate in Senegal, they are also found in Southern Mauritania, southern Mali to Guinea, the Island of Los, the Ivory Coast, Ghana east to western Nigeria, Eastern and North-eastern Nigeria, northern Cameroon into south-western Chad. Beanie eats most anything! Most food is OK to feed your Senegal except for avocado and chocolate. Occasionally, I give him leftover pasta, rice, fruit, beans, broccoli, boiled chicken, and nuts. Be sure to feed your Senegal a good quality seed as well, with plenty of clean water. He loves to get wet also! He will go in and out of a shallow bowl of water flapping his wings and sticking his head under. My husband also lets him sit on his finger under a slight stream of water from the kitchen faucet. Here’s a few of the things Beanie can say: Hi! What’s ya doing? What’s that? I’m hungry! Time for bed! Rusty! Hey Sandy! Come on! Step Up! Don’t do it! Hey big guy! Beanie! Go lie down Meg If you'd like to train your parrot to talk all it takes is patience and repetition. Sometimes they pick up things you don't even teach them. He's picked up the sound that the answering machine makes when there is a message and sometimes I'll run over to the phone thinking there is one! It sounds so realistic. Here's a great site with info on training your Senegal to talk Bird Tricks
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