Few Questions About Indian Ringneck Pair

Hello! I have a few questions about my pair of Indian Ringnecks. They have been a pair for about 8 months and they both love each other A LOT! They will scream extremely LOUD if I only take one and not both. The male's name is "Sky" and is 2 years old. The girl's name is "Angel" and she is around 1 year and a 1 month. She was given to me because her owner had left for important reasons for some time. They both love me until a few months ago. The female has become aggressive and very loud after 3 months when she was give to me. She really loves to be pet but doesn't like to be held. The male stills loves being held and petted. My questions are the following:

1.) What are somethings to help her become less aggressive?

2.) What are somethings that can help them both become less loud? They have some toys but I am planning on buying more in the future.

3.) Will they able to breed? Or should I wait until she matures a little more and then introduce a nest?

4.) What are some good nutritional and tasty foods that I can give them instead of seeds and fruits/vegetables?

Thank you all for the help!

By pairing her up with a male, it's not easy to work with her as you would do better working with her alone. It can be done, your male can help her through the process to a certain extent. Monkey see Monkey do, when one see the other do something, the others follow.

Indian ring necks are loud birds to begin with, good luck with that....

Unless you understand the process of breeding, have time to devote to them, understand the process of hand feeding, etc. Otherwise, don't do it!!! It's a lot of work and not a simple process. Cause the thing with parent birds, they will abandon them at times, especially handfed tamed parrots, they don't really make good parents at times.

There's LOTS of tasty and nutritious foods you can make for them! Pellets would be something you want to look into feeding. Please do a "Search" within the forum as there's been postings on it many times. There's a few posts that was put into sticky such as this one here.----> http://www.parrotforums.com/parrot-food-recipes-diet/24213-bird-safe-fresh-foods-toxic-food-lists-sprouts.html

I will just go straight to the breeding: Don't. As a breeder not only would you need to know a lot about their genetics, mutations, mating patterns, nutrition, housing concerns, how to feed a baby, and how to keep a baby alive under crazy circumstances, you would also need to already know the answers to all the questions you just asked. Why? Because as a breeder you need to know how the PET you are breeding thinks, and how to deal with their behavior problems. YOU would be the person getting ASKED these questions by the bird's new owners, and you clearly don't have the answers. These are not even the tip of the iceberg though, in reality. Also, you would need to know the breeding ages of these birds and be an independent learner who can seek out information on their own.

Why do I say this instead of answering your questions? because I want you to search out these answers on your own. When you wade into the waters of tackling this problem, hopefully you will realize how much there is to learn, and how many HUNDREDS of hours you have of research ahead of you before you are able to take this task on in a moral, responsible way. I am not saying you can never do it, I am saying you are not READY yet, and by the sounds of it won't be for quite some time.

Side note, do you know how much money it costs to breed right? It costs thousands of dollars. I am not making this up to be cranky, but getting set up to breed is EXPENSIVE. You can do it "for cheap" but not while giving your birds the care they deserve. Also, when a pair is nesting they most likely would be VERY aggressive toward you, not less. People who have pets and breed them are often heartbroken when their pets begin to "hate" them.

All that said, I was in your shoes once, with pets I wanted to breed hearing everyone tell me I was not ready, and I ignored them. Birds died because of this. You don't think it will happen to you, but it will.

No let me give you a place to start; start by researching IRN bluffing. Why? because it is a species-specific issue to the birds you have. Don't stop there, keep going, it is just a possible place to start. Don't start by researching "breeding" instead research how they act in the wild, problems they commonly have as pets, their SPECIFIC nutrition requirements, training techniques, etc. It is literally a sea of information! Dive in and swim for a few years

Just my two cents here. Breeder birds do not make pet birds, and vice versa. If you leave the pair together, most likely they will never be tame. As for the the screaming, she is doing that because she already bonded strongly with the male. Breeding birds is completely different from dogs and cats because a pair must bond for an extended period of time before mating even starts. Personally, I would separate the pair and work with them individually. Ring necks make engaging and wonderful companions for someone who likes a bit of a challenge (which is why I have two). Do your homework . There are lots of behaviorists out there that can help you. If you're not successful, then you can always pair them back up. You just have to decide what you really want out of these birds.