FieryPhoenix
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- Jan 18, 2022
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- Parrots
- Quaker Parrot Sun Conure
My Sun conure started exhibiting behaviors associated with hormones in early March.
The first sign was increased biting
This was accompanied by her mating with my quaker parrot and regirgitating to her as well.
She molted in March.
I had a break of two weeks from her biting me.
I thought I was out of the woods but then around Easter time she started biting me again. It was around this time that I saw the increased appetite, constantly looking for food, increased chewing, sticking butt up in the air, spending more time at the bottom of the cage (nesting). This lasted a few weeks then boom!
She laid an egg.
It also looks like she may lay another. It seems she wasn't fooled this time by the fake eggs.
And now for my questions
1. Can a Sun Conure be hormonal for this long?
2. Can a bird be hormonal for two months and THEN lay eggs
The biting has calmed down some (although, sometimes she will lunge), but she is still spending time at the bottom of the daytime cage. Today I thought she was going to lay another egg.
She is 18, why is she so horny now? The last time she laid an egg was like in 2018.
The first sign was increased biting
This was accompanied by her mating with my quaker parrot and regirgitating to her as well.
She molted in March.
I had a break of two weeks from her biting me.
I thought I was out of the woods but then around Easter time she started biting me again. It was around this time that I saw the increased appetite, constantly looking for food, increased chewing, sticking butt up in the air, spending more time at the bottom of the cage (nesting). This lasted a few weeks then boom!
She laid an egg.
It also looks like she may lay another. It seems she wasn't fooled this time by the fake eggs.
And now for my questions
1. Can a Sun Conure be hormonal for this long?
2. Can a bird be hormonal for two months and THEN lay eggs
The biting has calmed down some (although, sometimes she will lunge), but she is still spending time at the bottom of the daytime cage. Today I thought she was going to lay another egg.
She is 18, why is she so horny now? The last time she laid an egg was like in 2018.