A little issue between my birdies.

Theone

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Its been 2 months since I got a pair of small baby Alexandrines and now they have grown up. I have raised them very patiently and with all the love they need. Both of them love to snuggle and always flies around me when I come back from office. I feed them everyday play with them and keep them outside the cage most of the time when I am home. Here are recent pics I would love to share with you guys.

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This is Rupee the cute female. She always flies over my shoulder and would sit there until I move her away from me.

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This is Euro the adorable male. Euro loves to sleep on me literally whenever I come from office. He sleeps for like half an hour and I have to wake him up or else he would sleep even longer.

The problem I am facing recently is that they have started to fight with each other. When I put them back in the cage Euro becomes aggressive and runs behind Rupee to bite her. Both of my parrots are very lovely and are never aggressive to anyone. They have never bitten anyone. So since two days I have started to keep Euro inside the cage when I see them fighting. I think Euro is being dominant on Rupee and is trying to show her who is the boss here. Whenever I see them fighting I always stop them before it becomes a larger problem and I have even told my family members that if they see them fighting they should separate them immediately when I am not at home.

Can someone give me suggestions about what should I do in order to control the situation and stop them fighting with each other.
 

Jottlebot

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Hello, beautiful birds!

Perhaps they need to be in separate cages? I guess naturally siblings wouldn't be together by this age? If they are fine out of the cage together and the problem is only in the cage different cages would solve the problem without them having to stop the behaviour, because presumably it is a natural behaviour?

Good luck
 
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Theone

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They are not siblings actually but maybe your idea might work. Putting them separately is always an option but I want to try out some other ideas if that can solve the problem.
 

maverickbull

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so you have IRNs... not Alexes :)

IRN hens are the aggressive ones. But you have the opposite case.

It could be that Rupee sees her as competition (for you).

You can try to ease off for sometime so that they spend more time with each other (outside the cage)
You can try & add a toy which Rupee hates... so that he can work out his aggression on that toy & not on Euro.
Food can also influence aggression sometime - just recheck their food & reduce protein & fat a little bit & see if there is a change.

Like Jottlebot said... separate them for the time being.
 

SilverSage

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Both sexes of Ringnecks can be aggressive especially when forced to live together when they don't want to. Please separate them right away.


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They are living peacefully again now :D this was a problem before 1 month. By the way I wanted to know about the harness which you are using and can you link them here please. And your ring necks are amazing xD
 

SilverSage

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Thank you. I like the Aviator harness and the FlightSuit but we are not allowed to link sales pages. A quick Google will show you :)


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AmyMyBlueFront

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I just love the picture of the little one sleeping on you! Head on your chest,eyes closed...now that's what I called bonded and content...Beautiful birdies BTW ;)




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Hey everyone thank you for your wonderful comments. My birds have grown bigger and beautiful now :D. I will post recent pics tomorrow as these are almost 2 months old. Thank you again everyone.
 

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