Hello!
2 weeks ago we adopted a 12 week old hand reared baby green cheeked conure. We did our reading beforehand, so knew what we were getting ourselves into, but our little feathered friend will not stop screaming, and this is really taking its toll on us.
When we are in the room with him, he is normally OK, but as soon we leave the room and come upstairs, he will pretty much scream non-stop. We know we can't reinforce this behavior, and so never enter the room where he is (the living room) unless he is quiet. Sometimes we spend hours sat on the stairs waiting for him to quieten down so that we can reward him for being quiet.
He has a beautiful, large cage, plenty of toys and food and water. He will play with his toys with us, but as soon as we are gone he will simply go back to screaming. We've tried foraging toys too (he showed no interest). He also gets 10-12 hours sleep a night and he is learning his basic commands well - he will reliably come when called, step up and is now learning poop. My other half works from home, so he has plenty of human contact - both in and out of the cage, but this makes the screaming all the worse as it is harming his productivity.
Do you guys have any suggestions of anything else we can do to help our little guy stop screaming? It's been two weeks now and he is showing no signs of getting any better, if anything he is getting worse. We are worried he's not learning to be OK in his cage on his own and therefore he is unhappy. We are fully aware that parrots are not quiet pets, but this screaming is relentless.
Any help much appreciated. x
2 weeks ago we adopted a 12 week old hand reared baby green cheeked conure. We did our reading beforehand, so knew what we were getting ourselves into, but our little feathered friend will not stop screaming, and this is really taking its toll on us.
When we are in the room with him, he is normally OK, but as soon we leave the room and come upstairs, he will pretty much scream non-stop. We know we can't reinforce this behavior, and so never enter the room where he is (the living room) unless he is quiet. Sometimes we spend hours sat on the stairs waiting for him to quieten down so that we can reward him for being quiet.
He has a beautiful, large cage, plenty of toys and food and water. He will play with his toys with us, but as soon as we are gone he will simply go back to screaming. We've tried foraging toys too (he showed no interest). He also gets 10-12 hours sleep a night and he is learning his basic commands well - he will reliably come when called, step up and is now learning poop. My other half works from home, so he has plenty of human contact - both in and out of the cage, but this makes the screaming all the worse as it is harming his productivity.
Do you guys have any suggestions of anything else we can do to help our little guy stop screaming? It's been two weeks now and he is showing no signs of getting any better, if anything he is getting worse. We are worried he's not learning to be OK in his cage on his own and therefore he is unhappy. We are fully aware that parrots are not quiet pets, but this screaming is relentless.
Any help much appreciated. x