Hello, I'm new to this forum and recently added a young Jenday Conure to my family. He's (don't know if it's a boy for sure but I just always say he for some reason) only a little over 4 months old, and I absolutely love him aside form my nasty behavior issues. I know Jenday's can be noisy and nippy (which he's proven the noisy part, though it's usually only when he wakes up for when I come into the room) but he's starting to bite a bit too hard. He's leaving me with some pretty good marks, some of them by accident, some of them on purpose. I think it's because he's bored, he's really smart and energetic, and is on the opposite side of the spectrum in terms of personality when compared to my 4 year old cockatiel. some of the nipping doesn't bother me since I know it's all in good fun and he's just trying to explore, but I'm worried that he's going to really hurt someone else. He spends a good portion of the day out of the cage both with me and my cockatiel (who he also tries to nip though she finally smacked him for it and he quit) and in his cage he has plenty of toys that I change frequently.
Both my cockatiel and conure (Duchess and Baron) have their wings clipped because I moved to a new apartment and didn't want them flying right off the bat, and I think with him that may be part of the issue. He doesn't just nip me, he nips EVERYTHING and I think it's out of complete boredom. He's a total sweet heart aside from his nipping and I love him to death, but I need to get him to tone done the hard nips to just the normal nipping he did when I fist got him. I don't think it's aggression, it seems really playful to me, and he's never drawn blood before, all the hard nips have been on accident (today it was my hairband was on my wrist and he went to bite it and got me instead!) Do you guys have any ideas on how I can entertain him? I've found peanuts work well, he loves tearing them apart but I don't want to give him a peanut every time he starts nipping cause i don't want him to associate the two. Are there any toys or tricks that I can do to help him stop? If i go Owe! really loud he'll usually stop for a second or two then find something else to nibble on. I think when he can fly again and burn some energy he'll be a lot better off, he was great at flying when I first got him but with him being so new I went ahead and clipped him (which he took like a champ, didn't trip nipping me at all, just let me take his wings and clip them, he's so gentle sometimes!).
Sorry If I rambled a lot, I've got a strange mixture of being absolute in love with this bird and wanting to smack him in the beak. Could you please give me some ideas on how to help him not be so bored and how to get him to stop nipping?
Both my cockatiel and conure (Duchess and Baron) have their wings clipped because I moved to a new apartment and didn't want them flying right off the bat, and I think with him that may be part of the issue. He doesn't just nip me, he nips EVERYTHING and I think it's out of complete boredom. He's a total sweet heart aside from his nipping and I love him to death, but I need to get him to tone done the hard nips to just the normal nipping he did when I fist got him. I don't think it's aggression, it seems really playful to me, and he's never drawn blood before, all the hard nips have been on accident (today it was my hairband was on my wrist and he went to bite it and got me instead!) Do you guys have any ideas on how I can entertain him? I've found peanuts work well, he loves tearing them apart but I don't want to give him a peanut every time he starts nipping cause i don't want him to associate the two. Are there any toys or tricks that I can do to help him stop? If i go Owe! really loud he'll usually stop for a second or two then find something else to nibble on. I think when he can fly again and burn some energy he'll be a lot better off, he was great at flying when I first got him but with him being so new I went ahead and clipped him (which he took like a champ, didn't trip nipping me at all, just let me take his wings and clip them, he's so gentle sometimes!).
Sorry If I rambled a lot, I've got a strange mixture of being absolute in love with this bird and wanting to smack him in the beak. Could you please give me some ideas on how to help him not be so bored and how to get him to stop nipping?
