yuko
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- Jun 18, 2018
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- I have one green cheeked conure, and her name is Yuko! She is about 7 - 8 years of age!
My brother, my bird, and I all live in the same household but today i noticed something. I'm the one who takes care of my birds food and water, fixes things in his cage like when his toy falls down, I clean up after my bird, and spend all my time with him. I started feeding him fruit and veggies when I joined this site because I read all about it, so I treat him with his favorites all the time. Although, he's bonded to my brother not me. We've had him most of his life, but since he was my brothers he bonded to him. But today when my brother picked him up, he puffed out all his feathers and tried biting my brother and becoming all aggressive and defensive. But within a matter of seconds my brother calmed him down. He spent less than a minute with yuko. My brother really only spends time with him when forced to and keeps it pretty minimal. (<< most of the time) Yuko lets my brother pick him up anytime but the situation usually goes as I just described. Yuko rarely lets me pick him up so i don't force it because i want to have trust between us... and i was petting him today on top of his head and kissing his wings and he rubbed his face onto mine sometimes. With all this, is it possible that my birds bond can switch from my brother to me? (sorry for any grammar mistakes i wrote alot and was too lazy to look over it)