http://www.parrotforums.com/ en Wed, 08 Sep 2010 23:37:49 GMT vBulletin 60 http://www.parrotforums.com/images/misc/rss.jpg http://www.parrotforums.com/ http://www.parrotforums.com/behavioral/5946-parrot-nipping-fingers-skin-fingers.html Mon, 06 Sep 2010 00:22:25 GMT any tips or ideas on how to deter my parrotlet from nipping my skin and my fingers, i wiggle my fingers so he could stop but he doesnt:yellow2: any tips or ideas on how to deter my parrotlet from nipping my skin and my fingers, i wiggle my fingers so he could stop but he doesnt:yellow2: ]]> Behavioral parrotguy12 http://www.parrotforums.com/behavioral/5946-parrot-nipping-fingers-skin-fingers.html http://www.parrotforums.com/behavioral/5930-crazy-cockatoo-issues.html Sat, 04 Sep 2010 21:47:46 GMT okay.. so posted this in cockatoos, maybe this is a better place..., so i posted a few weeks ago about this and it hasn't changed... so want some more ideas... we got a cockatoo about a month ago, shes 13 years old, we had went to the peoples house (who were more like a rescue but had her a while) she would talk up a storm, do tricks, cuddle with us, just the best lil sweet bird... got her home, she was the same for about a week, then one day she'd run from me, like freak out and hide and run away litterally sometimes... then a few days later she has done the same from my wife... my friends and anyone else can be all over her and shes as sweet and cuddly and comes right to them like a dog, but the 2 of us can't barely open the cage b/c she acts scared... its been about a month of this now, i still slowly open her cage door everyday so she can get out if she wants, idk what to do, and its really starting to frustrate my wife.... at the moment shes cuddled w/ my dad, he said he thought she was jealous but she did come from a hoouse w/ other birds.. we have 2 others, we never clipped her wings or anything to her yet... anyone please give me ideas of what to do.. nothing has changed i try to keep my appearance the same and everything.. ]]> Behavioral johnandjessi http://www.parrotforums.com/behavioral/5930-crazy-cockatoo-issues.html http://www.parrotforums.com/behavioral/5915-birds-ever-lazy.html Fri, 03 Sep 2010 18:40:20 GMT My cockatiel Charlie always seems to be lazy, I've been trying to get him to talk, sing, or wistle, but nothing. I tried to teach him to dance to some R&B music, still nothing, although he is adorable, he just sits on my shoulder grooming himself and grinding his beak. ]]> Behavioral willwelsh816 http://www.parrotforums.com/behavioral/5915-birds-ever-lazy.html http://www.parrotforums.com/behavioral/5889-sigh-i-think-here-we-go-again.html Wed, 01 Sep 2010 19:04:51 GMT For the last 2 weeks, Leo has been wanting nothing but to be in the same room as me. 5:50 every morning he starts with the "good morning" until I get up and open this cage door. Then I usually hear him continue it and climb up to the top of his cage and I hear him flapping his wings. He'll keep saying good morning until I come back out and take him off his cage and walk down the hallway with him on my hand, with him flapping his wings like he's flying.

Well, about 2.5 hrs ago, something happened which made him fly off the gymset I have in my room where I work from home. I picked him up and went to put him back on his gymset, and he tried to bite me.. I've gotten in the habbit of using an old perch to get him on and off his gymset or house, cause he can be grumpy sometimes and bite at me if I use my hand. I can use the perch, then he'll step up onto my hand fine.

So today when I picked him up off the floor onto my hand I went to put him on his gymset and when he showed the signs of getting ready to bite, i made him step up on the perch. I then walked him out to his house on the perch telling him he was a bad bird, and he doesn't bite his daddy.

When I got to his cage, he wouldn't step off it. He then fluffed up and walked down the perch to my hand and promptly took the skin of my knuckle and proceeded to try and pull a piece off it. I used the perch to but between his chest and my hand to force him to step up which he did after about 5-6 seconds of biting down and pulling on my skin. I tried to put him in his cage by placing the perch on top of the big perch in his cage, to which he didn't like. He tried walking down the perch a gain and I had to pull it out of the cage and lightly shake it to try and distract him. He flew off the perch down to the ground, with his feathers up and started walking toward me.. I tried to guide him to his cage with the perch I was holding, but he just kept grabbing at the perch with his beak. I kept backing away, and he kept walking toward me. He eventually stepped up onto it, but soon as he did he was goin right for my hand again.

I twisted the perch around while putting the perch near the bottom of his cage, forcing him to flip upside down, and gently put him on his back on the bottom of his cage, and shut the door. He sat there on his back for few seconds, both feet clasping the perch, before he finally released it and rolled back to his feet.

After he finaly climbed up to the big cross cage perch, I went to clean the papers of his cage, and as I was putting the new papers in, he scrambled down as fast as he could, and just started tearing the papers up.

For the last 2 hrs or so, he's been out there just making these pining beep sound as loud as he can, and saying all sorts of phrases he never says when he's around me. I know he's just trying to get attention. I opened his cage door so he can sit outside it, but I'm not giving him that attention he wants today. If I have to go out and get something from the kitchen, he'll sit on his door looking at me with his feathers up. I tell him that bad birds dont' get to come to the bedroom and that he was a bad bird for biting me. I know he understands.

I'm just afraid that this is the same thing that happened last year almost to the day when he was so nice then he just snapped and no matter how I tried to handle him from Sept to nearly Nov, he would just tear at my skin to the point I couldn't pick him up anymore. I know he's loosing feathers.. He's lost 2 tail feathers a bunch of smaller ones, 2 of his coverlet feathers 1 flight feather and the shaft of an old clipped flight feather. Maybe once his feather loss is done, he'll get back to normal..

Any suggestions on anything else I can do? ]]> Behavioral WolfmoonCT http://www.parrotforums.com/behavioral/5889-sigh-i-think-here-we-go-again.html http://www.parrotforums.com/behavioral/5802-what-age-do-plets-go-hormonal.html Thu, 26 Aug 2010 00:45:38 GMT my P'let is a funny bird, but out of the blue he just started going my elbow and knee area and started biting. is this hormonal or what?,:( i need help, it really stings when he bites it. ]]> Behavioral parrotguy12 http://www.parrotforums.com/behavioral/5802-what-age-do-plets-go-hormonal.html http://www.parrotforums.com/behavioral/5732-help.html Fri, 20 Aug 2010 11:57:01 GMT Hi - i majorly could do with some advise!!! I say i rescued my yellow crested amazon as when i had her she was in a budgie cage (didnt discover her wings until a few months of having a nice new big cage!). She was dull in colour and starting to pluck from her chest. Anyways...... Over... Hi - i majorly could do with some advise!!!

I say i rescued my yellow crested amazon as when i had her she was in a budgie cage (didnt discover her wings until a few months of having a nice new big cage!). She was dull in colour and starting to pluck from her chest.

Anyways......

Over two years ago my boyfriend had to work away for 6 weeks. Initally they were best friends but i think she thought he abbandoned her cause ever since she has HATED him.
She generally dislikes him all the time, she sits on the floor guarding him whilst frowning, she will flap her wings and launch forward with a bite if he moves, she will fly across the room to attack him on occasions (she has bouts of this and its normally if i go out of the room!), as soon as he puts his trainers on to go out the back she is on him like a yorkshire terrier!!! She seems to shout when hes not in work as if to say 'that mans in the house again' . She will however sit on his lap and be stroked on the head (but like a guard dog as she will have him if he moves), she will take treats off him but he has to be very carefull as she is cunning and will get him as close as she can so she can get his fingers instead and she will also get him to stroke her head with his toes on the floor.
Its all very difficult as she wasnt tamed as youngster and she is about 30 years old now. We have tried letting her take her anger out on him whilst wearing a leather jacket and she wouldnt stop going round and round his arm biting. Shes not messing either - she puts all her feathers up, shows her red bits on her wings etc. and a lady who breads parrots said she is a parrot holding a major grudge!

She has good diet of pulses, mixed nuts, corn on the cob sticks, fresh fruit.

I think i have wrapped it up as short as possible - also im sure it was whilst he was away that the sick guinea pig i was looking after (that she became friends with and groomed as it was long haired) died.

Does anybody have any advice? i know we can get on with it at the moment but i dont think its very clever to leave her behaviour as she will be around for a long long time yet. i think she might of been abused by a man possibly when she was younger as she doesnt like them much especially if they have very short hair (ie when i shave my boyfriends hair to a short length she hates him even more!!!).

I really dont know what i can do anymore - would another parrot/budgie friend help? (not allowed to ger another fury friend:02:)

any advice would be greatly appreciated - im even thinking about the pet shame show as long as i dont have to take her to the clinic as that would be impossible!! ]]> Behavioral michelle_brown_uk http://www.parrotforums.com/behavioral/5732-help.html http://www.parrotforums.com/behavioral/5666-confusing-fingernails-nuts.html Mon, 16 Aug 2010 13:45:11 GMT Ok, Diego is a very mouthing bird and loves to lick and nibble my fingers. It's not done in an aggressive way he just seems to want to explore my strange moving finger branches. However, he has developed a slightly annoying and sometimes painful habit. At the end of my strange moving finger branches, I think Diego is thinking he has found some nuts. He is obsessed with my fingernails and latches right onto them with his beak trying to pry them off! Although he is not doing it in a nasty way, this can be painful and he seems to be getting more and more determined in removing them. I have been saying to him "no" and putting him back on his perch but now he seems to have pre-empted this and clings onto my hand with his feet and refuses to step up back onto his perch. He is so determined that he has even been hanging upside down from my hand refusing to budge before now.

I know that this sounds funny and even my husband laughed at it until he tried to do it to him, then he stopped laughing as it hurts!

I've even been putting my hand into a fist so that my fingers are tucked up but he is so sneaky and starts off on the thumb nail which is still exposed. When I try and get him to stop on that nail my hand becomes unclenched and then he moves onto my other nails.

Is this something normal? And how do I stop it from becoming a problem? Also should I not allow him to mouth my hand so much? ]]> Behavioral GoDieogo http://www.parrotforums.com/behavioral/5666-confusing-fingernails-nuts.html http://www.parrotforums.com/behavioral/5617-cody-lunging-my-sisters-face.html Thu, 12 Aug 2010 04:33:30 GMT Ok, I have an issue here. Cody has always been semi-temperamental, being a green cheek and all, lol, but now it's getting pretty bad. He is being very moody and stand offish, not really wanting much interaction with me. He keeps going to everyone else mind you (especially my brother who he's got this new obsession with. I'm serious, it gets creepy!), but he just doesn't want much to do with me, and will just keep biting me while making chattering noises if I try to give him any affection, or even just ask for a step up. About a week ago, my sister picked him up and he flew to her shoulder, and we both saw what we thought was him lunging at her face. We kind of brushed it off, as he could have been trying to preen and maybe fell or something. But just in case, I took him and he didn't go back to her. Well, tonight he flew on my sister, and again hopped on her shoulder, lunged, and bit her in the cheek! Why is he doing this? It's only my sister he's lunging at like this. And he won't bother any of part of her body, he's just after her face. :( I would absolutely hate to clip him, I'm really not a fan of it, and am thrilled that he loves to fly! But if he keeps doing this, then I don't see much of a choice, he can't be biting my family members in the face. :eek: Anything else I could try to try and stop this? ]]> Behavioral GreenCheek http://www.parrotforums.com/behavioral/5617-cody-lunging-my-sisters-face.html