Harrybasford
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- Oct 8, 2011
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Hey, posting this while a bit confused.
My lovebird is very different to my cockatiel. My cockatiel is very expresive, with wings and crests and cheeck feathers and lots more. But the lovebirds only means of comunication seems to be through a nip.
I give her wood toys to play with and play gyms that she destroyes and any number of bamboo/pine sticks for her to destroy portably. The door of the cage she is in is both held open and closed by two plastic cloths pegs.
As I was getting her out this morning, she gave me a good bite as I was pinning the door open. So I put her back in her cage, my bird was on top(because it was on my shoulder when I got her out) and the lovebird lunged for its feet through the cage after traveling a cages distance to get to him. I covered him up as a punishment and spent some time with tiel. Opened him back up and the same thing happened, he nipped me as i was putting the pegs in. So I put her back away again.
The lovebird tends to take a dislike to quite a few things. He seems to show agression towards balls (like cat balls) and loves to play with them, but the game looks too aggresive, I dont leave her playing with it for long, and I purposely havent bought one since she broke it, because it seems to bring out aggressive play in her.
There is also a noisy bag, which I use quite frequently for a few things, and she doesnt like that atall. Will bite my hands, ears or chin that is closest to it (right ear/chin if in right hand.) I always discourage it and use some kind of negative reinfocement (putting her on the floor to the side of my sofa/sometimes the cage but usually for more disruptive things. Thing about the biteing is i can put the bag down and touch her straight away with no consequences.
She doesnt step up either like my other bird does and I am trying to train them this. He seems to live for love and hates being in its cage. I only feed him in his cage now despite him being out alot.
If you look at a lovebird they are almost all beak, so I can see why he is using it so much. Has anyone else come across this problem with lovebirds? The lovebird is my dad's (even though I train it and spend most of the day with it, so I cant be as strict with him as I was with my cockatiel. With my cockatiel i was VERY easy to show him what I wanted him to do and act like, and to this day he is soo low maintenance and is out all day long. Since then I've whistled more to him and tough him to be noisier now (but its a quiet call and not very often, i only whistle back to wolf whistles and puppy power whistles)
Its not like he is scared or anything, he will go on his back, sleep on his back, do bat impressions (upside down from feet). I extend his wings out, kiss his beak, he is very affectionate, its just this nipping thing.
Any help is much appreciated.
My lovebird is very different to my cockatiel. My cockatiel is very expresive, with wings and crests and cheeck feathers and lots more. But the lovebirds only means of comunication seems to be through a nip.
I give her wood toys to play with and play gyms that she destroyes and any number of bamboo/pine sticks for her to destroy portably. The door of the cage she is in is both held open and closed by two plastic cloths pegs.
As I was getting her out this morning, she gave me a good bite as I was pinning the door open. So I put her back in her cage, my bird was on top(because it was on my shoulder when I got her out) and the lovebird lunged for its feet through the cage after traveling a cages distance to get to him. I covered him up as a punishment and spent some time with tiel. Opened him back up and the same thing happened, he nipped me as i was putting the pegs in. So I put her back away again.
The lovebird tends to take a dislike to quite a few things. He seems to show agression towards balls (like cat balls) and loves to play with them, but the game looks too aggresive, I dont leave her playing with it for long, and I purposely havent bought one since she broke it, because it seems to bring out aggressive play in her.
There is also a noisy bag, which I use quite frequently for a few things, and she doesnt like that atall. Will bite my hands, ears or chin that is closest to it (right ear/chin if in right hand.) I always discourage it and use some kind of negative reinfocement (putting her on the floor to the side of my sofa/sometimes the cage but usually for more disruptive things. Thing about the biteing is i can put the bag down and touch her straight away with no consequences.
She doesnt step up either like my other bird does and I am trying to train them this. He seems to live for love and hates being in its cage. I only feed him in his cage now despite him being out alot.
If you look at a lovebird they are almost all beak, so I can see why he is using it so much. Has anyone else come across this problem with lovebirds? The lovebird is my dad's (even though I train it and spend most of the day with it, so I cant be as strict with him as I was with my cockatiel. With my cockatiel i was VERY easy to show him what I wanted him to do and act like, and to this day he is soo low maintenance and is out all day long. Since then I've whistled more to him and tough him to be noisier now (but its a quiet call and not very often, i only whistle back to wolf whistles and puppy power whistles)
Its not like he is scared or anything, he will go on his back, sleep on his back, do bat impressions (upside down from feet). I extend his wings out, kiss his beak, he is very affectionate, its just this nipping thing.
Any help is much appreciated.