Diesel bird

[Denise1229]

I have a black head caique who is very head strong but keeps us laughing. He is 6 years old and loves my husband and me. He hates our son and will chase him. His favorite thing to say is “what”. He calls my husband”hey buddy” and he calls me a sound that sounds like squirting spit sound. Lol…

 

[clark_conure]

So I dunno what your asking but I'd say Lock your son and bird togother in a room I dunno.....Otherwise sounds great.

 

[Vampiric_Conure]

There was a caique in our parrot club who said he was a hoot. He was! Nothing quite like sitting at a table and a caique goes **bounce bounce bounce** across from you, in order to steal another parrot's food!

 

[Fluffonia]

Wow! Does he bounce?

 

[Denise1229]

So I dunno what your asking but I'd say Lock your son and bird togother in a room I dunno.....Otherwise sounds great.

Diesel bird would definitly come out in better shape than my son

 

[Denise1229]

Wow! Does he bounce?

Diesel bird does bounce. Especially when his Daddy gives him a low tone beat and snaps his fingers. We call him dancing when he does that

 

[Denise1229]

Diesel bird does bounce. Especially when his Daddy gives him a low tone beat and snaps his fingers. We call him dancing when he does that

I will see if I can find a video of him

 

[wrench13]

Caiques - 98% of the time they have you laughing, the other 2%.......

 

[Denise1229]

Diesel bird dancing

 

[DonnaBudgie]

I have a black head caique who is very head strong but keeps us laughing. He is 6 years old and loves my husband and me. He hates our son and will chase him. His favorite thing to say is “what”. He calls my husband”hey buddy” and he calls me a sound that sounds like squirting spit sound. Lol…

Is that bouncing thing caiques do a natural behavior or do you need to teach them to do it?

 

[Denise1229]

Is that bouncing thing caiques do a natural behavior or do you need to teach them to do it?

Diesel just does it.

 

[Denise1229]

Diesel just does it.

 

[DonnaBudgie]

Such a strikingly beautiful bird! I love his black cap and orange fluffy pants! Certainly one of nature's best dressed parrots!

 

[Denise1229]

Such a strikingly beautiful bird! I love his black cap and orange fluffy pants! Certainly one of nature's best dressed parrots!

Yea his looks lets him get away with it. He is mischievous and very playful. Never a dull moment for sure.

 

[foxgloveparrot]

I. Love. Caiques. Diesel is SO adorable.

Is that bouncing thing caiques do a natural behavior or do you need to teach them to do it?

It's natural. My caique did this ALL the time-- same with rolling on their backs and flying/bouncing/running while holding things in their feet. Caiques are just silly like that.

 

[DonnaBudgie]

I. Love. Caiques. Diesel is SO adorable.

It's natural. My caique did this ALL the time-- same with rolling on their backs and flying/bouncing/running while holding things in their feet. Caiques are just silly like that.

I had a Goffin's cockatoo that would bounce around like she had springs in her feet.

I hear that Caiques can be pretty nippy but I think all parrots can, even if hand raised. Are they any nippier than a typical conure?

 

[foxgloveparrot]

I had a Goffin's cockatoo that would bounce around like she had springs in her feet.

I hear that Caiques can be pretty nippy but I think all parrots can, even if hand raised. Are they any nippier than a typical conure?

I've never had a conure so I don't have much experience, and you're right that it depends on how the bird was raised, but all of the conures I've interacted with have been pretty nippy-- almost as nippy as my caique was. The main difference is that my caique would bite a lot harder and ended up drawing blood the majority of the time.

 

[DonnaBudgie]

I've never had a conure so I don't have much experience, and you're right that it depends on how the bird was raised, but all of the conures I've interacted with have been pretty nippy-- almost as nippy as my caique was. The main difference is that my caique would bite a lot harder and ended up drawing blood the majority of the time.

Does he still bite a lot?

 

[foxgloveparrot]

Does he still bite a lot?

She unfortunately died from a respiratory infection in 2019, but yes-- she would bite often until the very end. I think it's just kinda part of owning a caique. I never thought of it as a behavioral issue that needed fixing. It's just a caique being a caique. Especially because her hard bites didn't just come out of nowhere-- usually something would set them off. She would nip for no reason but biting is usually not completely random.

 

[DonnaBudgie]

She unfortunately died from a respiratory infection in 2019, but yes-- she would bite often until the very end. I think it's just kinda part of owning a caique. I never thought of it as a behavioral issue that needed fixing. It's just a caique being a caique. Especially because her hard bites didn't just come out of nowhere-- usually something would set them off. She would nip for no reason but biting is usually not completely random.

Biting is one of the reasons I probably will not get a bird bigger than a cockatiel. It's something that parrot owner must accept. Parrots are not domesticated like cats and dogs and can be unpredictable. Plus they live such long lives. 30 to 50 years is a long time to own a high maintenance creature that bites hard enough to draw blood.