Taming lovebirds

ChocolateChipCookiez · Aug 18, 2019

So, a friend of mine recently got 2 lovebirds. I believe she only had the lovebirds for 2 days now and she has gotten bitten on 2 occasions now. Both of the lovebirds live together and according to my friend, they sometimes attack each other (I did tell her to separate them).

She asked me for help to tame them and I'm not quite sure what to tell her.

Could any of you help me with this?

wrench13 · Aug 18, 2019

Lovebids ( and almost any parrot) are much harder to tame when there are 2 of them , raised together. They will naturally be more comfortable with each other ( the're birds afterall) than you. Common practice isto separate them in 2 cages, and take the timeto give each the needed out of cage time, one on one time, needed to get them tame. Not a lot of people have that much free time on their hands. 2-3 hours a day, every day is about right, more is better.

Owning parrots means you will at some point get bit, unless you're an expert at reading body lanfuage of your bird -that takes time to establish it. Even then parrots can get nippy during puberty andduring mating season.

Have your friend visit ushere, become a member - I am sure that they will find a lot of good info and even better friends here.

AlexJ · Oct 29, 2019

Yeah im in the same situation

I heard that talking calmly and approaching slowly helps, ive just started doing it so im not sure, but if you keep gaining their trust and slowly get closer every time im sure you will acheive your goal:01:

Thanks this fourum helped

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18WheelsOfSteel · Oct 29, 2019

wrench13 said:
Lovebids ( and almost any parrot) are much harder to tame when there are 2 of them , raised together. They will naturally be more comfortable with each other ( the're birds afterall) than you. Common practice isto separate them in 2 cages, and take the timeto give each the needed out of cage time, one on one time, needed to get them tame. Not a lot of people have that much free time on their hands. 2-3 hours a day, every day is about right, more is better.

Owning parrots means you will at some point get bit, unless you're an expert at reading body lanfuage of your bird -that takes time to establish it. Even then parrots can get nippy during puberty andduring mating season.

Have your friend visit ushere, become a member - I am sure that they will find a lot of good info and even better friends here.

Even those with the best sense of bird body language are going to get bit sooner or later, just a part of it, the only way I know of to avoid it is to never ever interact with them, and how boring would that be?

Laurasea · Oct 29, 2019

This article might be helpful, not love bird specific, but the approach is sound advice.
https://blogpamelaclarkonline.com/2018/06/19/teaching-a-fearful-parrot-to-step-up/

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