3 and a half hours well spent with a hormonal bird

[Owlet]

Deep cleaned his cage, rearranged all the perches, rearranged all his acrylic foraging toys and switched around other toys. Then moved onto the pvc playstand. Took up all the vet tape and re did that, moved around the ladders too. Need to make some more toys to go on it though.

All whilst Lincoln was screaming if I left the room for .2 seconds to grab the vacuum, running around his cage, and trying to hump my hand.

Here's a video of his "let my mate your hand" dance
[ame="https://youtu.be/Y793pYwru1U"]November 8, 2018 - YouTube[/ame]

 

[Scott]

Interesting video, Lincoln seems to enjoy the dance!

 

[Anansi]

Lincoln: "Well, you're an oddly shaped hen, but I do reckon we can make this work. Just have to find... the right... angle." Hahahahaha!

So how is Lincoln enjoying his newly rearranged digs?

 

[Owlet]

He loves it, it took him a bit to realize he could move between the stand and his cage via the ladder bridge but now he's back and forth all the time, especially when I'm at my computer (the desk to the left) he likes to hang out as close as possible and watch me play my games xD yesterday I was playing something different than I had been and he wasn't happy, he clearly liked the other game more.

 

[Lentemorgen]

He's a gorgeous bird, and what an impressive beak!

My ekkie is almost a year and his beak isn't quite as large as Lincoln's beautiful beak.



The mating dance was very interesting to watch! Do you let him mate with your hand or do you avoid it?

 

[chris-md]

Oy vey. This is the reason I can’t have a blanket on my lap when holding Parker. He’ll try to go HAM on the blanket! Outside of this I don’t have much of this to deal with.

Of course I have the added salt-in-the-wound of having a hormonally aggressive parrot - a rarity for male ekkies - so there are trade offs.

 

[Owlet]

He's a gorgeous bird, and what an impressive beak!

My ekkie is almost a year and his beak isn't quite as large as Lincoln's beautiful beak.



The mating dance was very interesting to watch! Do you let him mate with your hand or do you avoid it?

I don't let him, if he looks like he's gonna attempt to do nasty things to my hand I set him down / put him in his cage. Video was just for the sake of having it recorded.

Lincoln has a really big beak, I think it just depends on the sub species. No idea what sub species he is though.

 

[Owlet]

Oy vey. This is the reason I can’t have a blanket on my lap when holding Parker. He’ll try to go HAM on the blanket! Outside of this I don’t have much of this to deal with.

Of course I have the added salt-in-the-wound of having a hormonally aggressive parrot - a rarity for male ekkies - so there are trade offs.

Everytime Lincoln gets hormonal it's different and it's driving my crazy because I have NO IDEA what to expect anymore. He actually tried to regurgitate on me today for the first time ever

 

[chris-md]

I feel you, I have the same reaction. If I’m being 100% honest, half the time he acts...off I attribute it to hormones. Acting more intense? Hormones! Far more energy than usual? Hormones! With parrots like ekkies who can be induced to hormones, it can be a bit of a mind... working through what may actually be hormonal and what is you just wishing away simply undesirable behavior.

 

[Owlet]

Yeah... I feel the same. I try to treat everything as a problem I caused rather than hormones which is good and bad. Because passing it off as hormones could be neglecting an actual problem that could have long term effects rather than situational effects. But at the same tome you're running yourself thin trying to fix everything When you might not be able to because HORMONES

 

[AmyMyBlueFront]

I know that "dance" all too well with BB





Jim