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Well, we are a couple months down the road. We've visited the vet and the groomer. We made the decision to change Zoe's diet from pellets to a mix especially for parrots. Despite pellets being total nutrtion, I liked that our local pet store had an all natural option that more closely followed what birds would find in nature. I also found a frozen home-made mix that supplements twice weekly, though Zoe isn't quite sure what she thinks of that quite yet. It contains pasta, beans, probiotics and other good stuff for birds.
I had Zoe genetically tested, primarily to ensure we would know for sure whether we ran the risk of having an egg bound bird on our hands, and would prepare to know how to deal with it. Well...Zoe is now Zoe, the boy bird!
Pierre, our local pet store owner helped me with a few things to ensure we were the flock leader of Zoe. He agreed, Zoe's biggest problem was that he was a-social and lacked manners. He was also curious, seemed to want to be friendly and just wanted to learn. I made the decision to purchase Zoe a new cage, and sooner rather than later. This allowed Zoe to remit his territory for a much nicer set of digs. He slowly transferred himself over to the new cage over the course of a weekend on his own, and then I moved his old cage away. It is bigger, has a playground on top and I only have one wooden perch in there. The other perches are natural wood and adjustable rope perches. We have given him a 'hut' at the top of his primary vertical perch. He is allowed to be territorial of his hut, but nothing else. He is adapting to this well.
Now that his wings are clipped, we play games like flying. I take him to the kitchen (a straight shot to his cage) and he flies to his cage). He ducks down and assumes the position and lands very beautiully. He gets exercise and is very happy playing like this.
He loves to snuggle! He loves petting! He is a very affectionate bird when you are holding him. If he thinks you may stop petting him, he nudges your finger, going under it and will even pet himself!
I have started giving him showers with me once a week. He had never had a shower before. He wasn't dirty or anything, but he had...an odor. After the first two showers, that all but disappeared. I just allow him to get in the water at his discretion. He really soaks himself! He hasn't quite started to open his wings regularly, but he has started to try. He still has what I would consider the odor of a bird, but it is very mild. He is etremely soft. We do think he was in the tail end of a molt when we got him. His feathers have gotten much thicker, way more iridescent (green and blue) and he just looks healthier.
Zoe was pretty noisy before. I expected I would have a noisy bird...that is what parrotts do. He has gotten a lot quieter once some of the changes took place. We quickly identified his stress/anxiety type squawk. We hear that and his 'pay attention to me!' squawk very rarely. Now, he is pretty content and mostly what we hear from him are his attempts to communicate. We'll do something and he'll copy, or he'll throw out something he know's we'll copy. So, we still have a bird who sings and makes noise, but I wouldn't say we have a noisy bird.
Zoe is kind of nervous about new things. Not unusual for Quakers. He is funny though. If he is on my shoulder or on his play area perch and sees me eating it and I offer him some, he'll generally try it. We know what are good foods for birds, so I'll often get an apple or piee of fruit. I notice he likes savory foods and meats best though.
All in all, Zoe is doing great and I'd say this rehoming is proving successful. Even if we have had a HUGE learning curve!!
He is and will be happier, you have and will have a great companion to train (and that will train YOU 
A happy ending for Zoe!
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