CAG is always flying onto caique's cage?!

[Dodoshwedo]

Hi everyone,
Whenever I take the CAG out of her cage, she always flies on top of my caique's cage, which taunts my caique into climbing up to bite her, and today she also dropped a poop in there twice! What's she trying to do?
Whenever she flies on top of the other's cage, I tell her no!, make her step up and put her back inside her own cage until she settles down. When I take her out later, she does it again. What do I do to make her understand that it's off-limits?
Thanks everyone!

 

[Dodoshwedo]

Oh and the African Grey is only 4.5 months old and the caique is the same age, we got them at the same time from the same breeder, both girls.

 

[Birdman666]

My CAG used to torment the conures from time to time, just for sport.

He also had a game he would play with the RFM. Sneak up behind you pull your tail and then run... (The chase me game.) Then double back and pull your tail again...

This was/is play. It isn't PLAYING NICE... but it is play. (Mine particularly does not play nice with cats!)

And CAGs are instigators... You just keep putting it back, but as stubborn as they are, don't count on them not sneaking back there the second you turn your back... In time, they get the message. But in the meantime, just calmly step them up and put them back with a stern "No"...

(Yeah, like telling a teenagers no parties when we go away for the weekend. They give you the same look. They assure you they won't. Then... )

And it's not a territorial thing, not gonna hurt the little thing... I just want to torment it - because I'm bigger, because I can, and because I find it amusing.

 

[Dodoshwedo]

Thanks for your reply Birdman! What we did was there's this manzanita perch that the CAG is scared of, so we installed it on top of the caique's cage, sticking up, and it works! the CAG avoids going on top of the cage and the caique climbs on the tip of it and feels empowered on top of her kingdom

 

[Dodoshwedo]

I didn't know CAGs were such instigators! hehe

 

[Birdman666]

I didn't know CAGs were such instigators! hehe

Mine certainly is!

It's funny the neurotic pluckers I worked with down at the rescue were not. They were nervous in perpetuity, and tended to be perch potatoes who didn't even play with toys.

Tusk will deliberately mess with people/other birds... he's got a wicked sense of humor.

 

[Birdman666]

thanks for your reply birdman! What we did was there's this manzanita perch that the cag is scared of, so we installed it on top of the caique's cage, sticking up, and it works! The cag avoids going on top of the cage and the caique climbs on the tip of it and feels empowered on top of her kingdom :d

that's an absolutely brilliant solution!

Cag kryptonite!

 

[veimar]

My birds do that all the time - but they are usually all out. It's probably just the dominance - he feels he is sitting ABOVE the caique and poops on him! LOL Try to see if he goes there if the caique is NOT in the cage.
There also could be just a simple reason that the other cage has more comfortable top that he likes. Leg biting is so common around my birds too - I can't leave any of them inside while the others are flying.

 

[Dodoshwedo]

Yeah he goes on it even if the caique's out of the cage. But lately he's been doing that way less or is better at stepping up right away. I guess it takes time for a bird to understand the rules.

 

[Hawk]

Ha ha ha,

Some birds go to other birds cages. My Senegal....Birdell (should have named him Houdini ) get into the canary's cage and sits on perch. He flys over, manages to somehow open the door ( which you have to lift) and climb in at same time.

Freaked me out the first time he did it. I looked every where, and not thinking to look at the canary cage. There the Lil' stinker sat. Didn't harm the canary. As it just sat there as well. Now the canary cage is locked....

 

[SoCalWendy]

My parrotlet and senegal share cages all the time, just not at the same time or one will definately hurt the other, and its usually the plet that always gets hurt. But they do like the change in sceanery from time to time. But I have to keep thier wings clipped otherwise I will find the two of them in a ball on the floor fighting. It's not a pretty sight. And pretty scarey, I hate getting bit breaking these two up. I am convince, sadly they will never be friends

One time Kiwi the parrotlet climed on the Senegals (Rio) cage and tried to get at her by sticking her beak through the bars and almost got her beak ripped off for doing that. Dumb bird, she didn't learn from it either. The experience just bruised her ego a little and bruised her beak ALOT! Slowed her down for about a week though. I don't know what else to do to keep them safe from each other, other than make sure one is in while one is out and to keep thier wings clipped. So if anyone one has any suggestions I'm open because I would love for the both of them to be flighted.

 

[SoCalWendy]

Ha ha ha,

Some birds go to other birds cages. My Senegal....Birdell (should have named him Houdini ) get into the canary's cage and sits on perch. He flys over, manages to somehow open the door ( which you have to lift) and climb in at same time.

Freaked me out the first time he did it. I looked every where, and not thinking to look at the canary cage. There the Lil' stinker sat. Didn't harm the canary. As it just sat there as well. Now the canary cage is locked....

That's hysterical... A senegal breaking in to a canarys cage!