So, I already own a Senegal and today bought a Sun Conure, but I think is a Jenday. Anyway, I bought it from a lady who said she was moving and could not take them with her (she had 3). He is so beautiful, but quite different from my experience with my Senegal.
Java (my Sennie) has not bitten me once with me handling her (other than when other people come around me that she does not like). I can pull her wings out, turn her upside down, hang her upside down, cut her nails, doing her in the beak, pull her hair up like I am spiking it, really do anything, and she loves me to death and literally I can do anything to her and she wants more.
The new bird, she says is sweet. I get him home and right away go to touch him and he goes to bite me. I just figure he needs time, so I sit by his cage with the door open and on his own he comes out. I was talking to him, singing to him, etc., and he comes on my shoulder. So, now he will step up to my hand and sit on my shoulder, but I CANNOT GET HIM OFF TO GO BACK INTO HIS CAGE. He is afraid of sticks, so cannot use a stick for him to step up to. I tried leaning back to the cage so he can just walk off, cause he will step up to my hand off the top of the cage to put him beck in the cage, but if I go to take him off my shoulder, to put him back in his cage, he will bite me. Do I just take the bite and take him off my shoulder or what? A few times today in the hours I have had him, I could put my finger out for him to step up to from my shoulder, but he is refusing currently. He is happy to sleep up there. I tried a glove but he don't like gloves more than he don't like the stick. I know it will take some time, and he had other owners, where as my Sennie I bought from PET shop and was never owned by a person so we bonded immediately.
To PET the Sun, whereas I could PET my Sennie anywhere, anytime, any day, I have to show him my finger and then he will let me touch his head, but he will sit on my shoulder for hours. It does not make sense to me.
When I find batteries for my camera, I will take a picture, but the lady said she was calling him peaches, but I cannot make that name stick, I keep forgetting it, so have been calling him Jenday. I know not really original, but it seems to be sticking. Oh, too, I went to cover him for a nap before, and as soon as I put the blanket over the cage, he starts yelling "silly birdie, silly birdie" over and over again. I was dumbfounded. He talks already. My Sennie says very few things here and there, but nothing clearly. I just know what she is saying because of our bond, and I have had her over a year.
The only other thing is, I am keeping them away from each other for a few days to make sure the new one is not sick, but if I hold my Sennie near the cage of the new one, she looks like she wants to kill it. Do you think they will ever get along to have playtime together. Sennie is only my bird. Nobody is allowed to touch her, look at her funny, talk to her, or come near me. She lunges at everything and anything, cats, kids, even when hubby comes to kiss me before leaving for work, I have to put her down to kiss him or he will get bit or I will lose an ear. This is the only time she will bite me ever. She is starting to fly onto people that come too close to me, land on their chest, arm, etc., and bite them. I am afraid she is going to do that to the new bird.
Edited: I just got him off finally, by moving to the other side near the cage with other shoulder which made him adjust himself, then offering my finger to step up on and he did, so that I could then put him in his cage without issue.
So far, his noise has not been loud at all. He has let out a few shrieks, but mostly he makes these adorable duck-like quacking sounds.
Any ideas or experiences similar?
Thanks!!!
Java (my Sennie) has not bitten me once with me handling her (other than when other people come around me that she does not like). I can pull her wings out, turn her upside down, hang her upside down, cut her nails, doing her in the beak, pull her hair up like I am spiking it, really do anything, and she loves me to death and literally I can do anything to her and she wants more.
The new bird, she says is sweet. I get him home and right away go to touch him and he goes to bite me. I just figure he needs time, so I sit by his cage with the door open and on his own he comes out. I was talking to him, singing to him, etc., and he comes on my shoulder. So, now he will step up to my hand and sit on my shoulder, but I CANNOT GET HIM OFF TO GO BACK INTO HIS CAGE. He is afraid of sticks, so cannot use a stick for him to step up to. I tried leaning back to the cage so he can just walk off, cause he will step up to my hand off the top of the cage to put him beck in the cage, but if I go to take him off my shoulder, to put him back in his cage, he will bite me. Do I just take the bite and take him off my shoulder or what? A few times today in the hours I have had him, I could put my finger out for him to step up to from my shoulder, but he is refusing currently. He is happy to sleep up there. I tried a glove but he don't like gloves more than he don't like the stick. I know it will take some time, and he had other owners, where as my Sennie I bought from PET shop and was never owned by a person so we bonded immediately.
To PET the Sun, whereas I could PET my Sennie anywhere, anytime, any day, I have to show him my finger and then he will let me touch his head, but he will sit on my shoulder for hours. It does not make sense to me.
When I find batteries for my camera, I will take a picture, but the lady said she was calling him peaches, but I cannot make that name stick, I keep forgetting it, so have been calling him Jenday. I know not really original, but it seems to be sticking. Oh, too, I went to cover him for a nap before, and as soon as I put the blanket over the cage, he starts yelling "silly birdie, silly birdie" over and over again. I was dumbfounded. He talks already. My Sennie says very few things here and there, but nothing clearly. I just know what she is saying because of our bond, and I have had her over a year.
The only other thing is, I am keeping them away from each other for a few days to make sure the new one is not sick, but if I hold my Sennie near the cage of the new one, she looks like she wants to kill it. Do you think they will ever get along to have playtime together. Sennie is only my bird. Nobody is allowed to touch her, look at her funny, talk to her, or come near me. She lunges at everything and anything, cats, kids, even when hubby comes to kiss me before leaving for work, I have to put her down to kiss him or he will get bit or I will lose an ear. This is the only time she will bite me ever. She is starting to fly onto people that come too close to me, land on their chest, arm, etc., and bite them. I am afraid she is going to do that to the new bird.
Edited: I just got him off finally, by moving to the other side near the cage with other shoulder which made him adjust himself, then offering my finger to step up on and he did, so that I could then put him in his cage without issue.
So far, his noise has not been loud at all. He has let out a few shrieks, but mostly he makes these adorable duck-like quacking sounds.
Any ideas or experiences similar?
Thanks!!!