Hey, new to the forum and just wanting some advice for my Quakers.
About 2 weeks ago I adopted a 3 month old blue male Quaker called Apollo and a 4 month old green female Quaker called Aurora. They are brother and sister and came from a home where they weren't trained or had much human interaction apart from feeding and been let out of the cage. Aurora has settled in the best and is slowly getting more confident with me, but I'm having issues with Apollo.
He's screaming almost all of the time (like if the wind is moving a bush outside the window, or construction is happening outside the house) and in the past day has started to pull out his flight feathers. I get the feeling that he's stressed, but I'm not sure what to do about it so it doesn't get worse. As he's started to get aggressive with Aurora and chase her along one of their perches when he's in a screaming fit and I don't want the plucking to lead to mutilation.
I've ordered some foraging toys to see if that can help while I'm out during the day and have been trying to tech them to step up (not been successful but still trying). Was also planning on letting them out of the cage at the weekend, but I'm just worried Apollo will hurt himself.
Any ideas?
About 2 weeks ago I adopted a 3 month old blue male Quaker called Apollo and a 4 month old green female Quaker called Aurora. They are brother and sister and came from a home where they weren't trained or had much human interaction apart from feeding and been let out of the cage. Aurora has settled in the best and is slowly getting more confident with me, but I'm having issues with Apollo.
He's screaming almost all of the time (like if the wind is moving a bush outside the window, or construction is happening outside the house) and in the past day has started to pull out his flight feathers. I get the feeling that he's stressed, but I'm not sure what to do about it so it doesn't get worse. As he's started to get aggressive with Aurora and chase her along one of their perches when he's in a screaming fit and I don't want the plucking to lead to mutilation.
I've ordered some foraging toys to see if that can help while I'm out during the day and have been trying to tech them to step up (not been successful but still trying). Was also planning on letting them out of the cage at the weekend, but I'm just worried Apollo will hurt himself.
Any ideas?