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I've got one lovebird, she's called Burd. she was a he, but now she's a she
she's a hybrid, mum was a peach face, and dad was an albino black mask. I read hybridised lovies can be more aggressive and skittish etc... how much of this is true and how much is snobbery? as surely without hybridisation there'd be no new colour forms beyond the wild colours...?
anyway, not fussed, she's a cool little bird now we've worked through her hormonal teens she became super aggressive frm about 13 months old. but it got so bad by the time she was 2, that I went and learned what to do. got a new cage, all new toys/perches/etc and started over. the transformation was within 24 hrs from attacking the bars when i came into the room... to being handleable again without gloves and coming on in leaps and bounds with physical contact and good behaviour... ie. not ripping a pound of flesh off at every chance!!
here she is anyway, some pics
when brand new... 8 weeks old
about 14 weeks
8 month
aaaaand lastnight now she's tame again! 2.5 years old
I've got one lovebird, she's called Burd. she was a he, but now she's a she
she's a hybrid, mum was a peach face, and dad was an albino black mask. I read hybridised lovies can be more aggressive and skittish etc... how much of this is true and how much is snobbery? as surely without hybridisation there'd be no new colour forms beyond the wild colours...?
anyway, not fussed, she's a cool little bird now we've worked through her hormonal teens
she became super aggressive frm about 13 months old. but it got so bad by the time she was 2, that I went and learned what to do. got a new cage, all new toys/perches/etc and started over. the transformation was within 24 hrs from attacking the bars when i came into the room... to being handleable again without gloves and coming on in leaps and bounds with physical contact and good behaviour... ie. not ripping a pound of flesh off at every chance!!here she is anyway, some pics
when brand new... 8 weeks old
about 14 weeks
8 month
aaaaand lastnight now she's tame again! 2.5 years old
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She is gorgeous 
