jce2005
Member
Hi Everyone,
I am new to this forum and I got a question about Green Cheeked Conures.
I got a 23 month old GCC, named Pico. He is a really lovely bird, plays a lot, speaks very clearly, does some tricks and usually does not bit very much.
However, sometimes when we play ( he also lays a lot on his back and loves to crawl into my shirt, as usual GCC do... LOL ), out of the blue, without doing anything special, he just decides to bite and I mean BITE, even drawing blood..... Why is he doing that and how can this be stopped ? As I said, it's like flipping a switch, he bites, but than he's lovely again and wants to cuddle..... strange..... I deal with many bigger birds, like Macaws, other parrots, Hawks, Eagles, Falcons, etc. and non of them shows any bahavior like my little GCC.... or like the Macaws can easily be teached NOT to bite.... but so far, my GCC bites sometimes and I can't do anything about it. I tried the usual "time-out thing, tipping on his beak, etc. ", but since he doe the biting totally randomly, it's hard to figure out what to do.
Any ideas ?
Thanks,
Tom & Pico
I am new to this forum and I got a question about Green Cheeked Conures.
I got a 23 month old GCC, named Pico. He is a really lovely bird, plays a lot, speaks very clearly, does some tricks and usually does not bit very much.
However, sometimes when we play ( he also lays a lot on his back and loves to crawl into my shirt, as usual GCC do... LOL ), out of the blue, without doing anything special, he just decides to bite and I mean BITE, even drawing blood..... Why is he doing that and how can this be stopped ? As I said, it's like flipping a switch, he bites, but than he's lovely again and wants to cuddle..... strange..... I deal with many bigger birds, like Macaws, other parrots, Hawks, Eagles, Falcons, etc. and non of them shows any bahavior like my little GCC.... or like the Macaws can easily be teached NOT to bite.... but so far, my GCC bites sometimes and I can't do anything about it. I tried the usual "time-out thing, tipping on his beak, etc. ", but since he doe the biting totally randomly, it's hard to figure out what to do.
Any ideas ?
Thanks,
Tom & Pico