We purchased a lovely green cheek conure 6 months ago and she has been our baby. She was very cuddly, talkative, and attentive - she would love snuggles on our shoulders, head, and would come immediately to be picked up when we put our finger out. In the morning she would climb on our hand to come out of the cage.
However we decided to get another conure for a friend for her. We introduced them slowly, the second conure is a sun conure we called lou lou, we are not sure if lou lou is a male or female. This bird is only a baby and was just coming off the weaning stage. "she" was very bitey but she is learning and we don't allow "her" to get on our shoulders just yet.
Her and the other bird are best friends and love each other, however, my first green cheek has changed. Now in the morning when we go to let her out of the cage she flies away from us in fear. We leave the cage door open and she comes out. The new bird happily climbs on our hand, but the green cheek comes out on her own.
When she comes out she will not let us pick her up at all, in fact she flies away from us as if she is scared. We have to leave her alone. Before we would say "scratch" and she would come up to you but now she just flies away.
Before we go to work we put both birds away. The new one is fine to go away (after some biting of cause!) but Cheeky (the green cheek) refuses and runs away from us. We cant even pick her up anymore. If she flies on the floor we have to leave her there because she gets so worked up we don't want to scare her anymore.
She is a lovely bird but she is constantly scared of us now. This has only happened about one week after we got the new bird. Is this normal? Is this nesting behaviour? She likes being out but she does not allow us to interact with her at all. To get her back in the cage we either have to catch her or entice her with food, wait until she climbs in, and then close the door.
PLEASE HELP, WE WANT OUR BABY BACK!!!!
However we decided to get another conure for a friend for her. We introduced them slowly, the second conure is a sun conure we called lou lou, we are not sure if lou lou is a male or female. This bird is only a baby and was just coming off the weaning stage. "she" was very bitey but she is learning and we don't allow "her" to get on our shoulders just yet.
Her and the other bird are best friends and love each other, however, my first green cheek has changed. Now in the morning when we go to let her out of the cage she flies away from us in fear. We leave the cage door open and she comes out. The new bird happily climbs on our hand, but the green cheek comes out on her own.
When she comes out she will not let us pick her up at all, in fact she flies away from us as if she is scared. We have to leave her alone. Before we would say "scratch" and she would come up to you but now she just flies away.
Before we go to work we put both birds away. The new one is fine to go away (after some biting of cause!) but Cheeky (the green cheek) refuses and runs away from us. We cant even pick her up anymore. If she flies on the floor we have to leave her there because she gets so worked up we don't want to scare her anymore.
She is a lovely bird but she is constantly scared of us now. This has only happened about one week after we got the new bird. Is this normal? Is this nesting behaviour? She likes being out but she does not allow us to interact with her at all. To get her back in the cage we either have to catch her or entice her with food, wait until she climbs in, and then close the door.
PLEASE HELP, WE WANT OUR BABY BACK!!!!