New here, my daughter has a blue throat Conure named Echo who is 7months old. She is a sweet, funny sassy, generally not bitey funny little bird. My daughter adores her and takes very good care of her.
Her cage lives in our living room across from my cockatiel. Echo gets pellets, fresh veggies, lots of outside her cage time. Goes to bed every night at 7 and is uncovered in the morning around 7-7:30 depending on the day. When my daughter isn’t at school or work Echo hangs out with her in her room where she has a jungle gym to play on. Echo loves my daughter, you can tell they have a great bond. When my daughter leaves her room she always says “you coming?” And Echo will fly over to her.
So, here is where we need advice. Yesterday my daughter was home. Woke up in the morning and like always went and let Echo out of her cage. They went to her room and hung out. My daughter said she was acting normal....kisses, chatting, playing around her gym. When my daughter went to leave her room to make lunch Echo wouldn’t follow her and ran away from her. My daughter is always very calm and never chases her (should add that she has applied to vet school, and wants to specialize in parrots....and volunteers at a parrot rescue so is familiar with these birds). Eventually Echo did follow her, but when she brought her to the cage she darted in. When I came home from work she had her out again, but told me there was something wrong. I went over to Echo and she stepped up, but allowed me to kiss her, and crawled into my hood and sat there. Echo NEVER allows this with me. She tolerates me, but I wouldn’t say has much affection for me. She stayed in my hood for quite some time, and when I went to her cage crawled out and went into her cage.
Since then she has been acting like she is scared. She is very skittish. She is eating, and drinking and moving around her cage like normal....but if anyone goes near her cage she will get up into the corner and just stare at you, where normally she is at her door clucking to be let out. If we do open her door she will come out, but stay on her cage or go over to the cockatiels cage....will not step up, or come to you.
Daughter emailed the vet who said as long as she was eating and drinking to keep an eye on her for a day or so and if nothing changes will see her this coming week. Obviously if things got worse or she stopped eating to bring her in to the emergency clinic.
So...she isn’t “worse”, but why is she suddenly afraid of us? My daughter is devastated that her bird “hates her”.
Her cage lives in our living room across from my cockatiel. Echo gets pellets, fresh veggies, lots of outside her cage time. Goes to bed every night at 7 and is uncovered in the morning around 7-7:30 depending on the day. When my daughter isn’t at school or work Echo hangs out with her in her room where she has a jungle gym to play on. Echo loves my daughter, you can tell they have a great bond. When my daughter leaves her room she always says “you coming?” And Echo will fly over to her.
So, here is where we need advice. Yesterday my daughter was home. Woke up in the morning and like always went and let Echo out of her cage. They went to her room and hung out. My daughter said she was acting normal....kisses, chatting, playing around her gym. When my daughter went to leave her room to make lunch Echo wouldn’t follow her and ran away from her. My daughter is always very calm and never chases her (should add that she has applied to vet school, and wants to specialize in parrots....and volunteers at a parrot rescue so is familiar with these birds). Eventually Echo did follow her, but when she brought her to the cage she darted in. When I came home from work she had her out again, but told me there was something wrong. I went over to Echo and she stepped up, but allowed me to kiss her, and crawled into my hood and sat there. Echo NEVER allows this with me. She tolerates me, but I wouldn’t say has much affection for me. She stayed in my hood for quite some time, and when I went to her cage crawled out and went into her cage.
Since then she has been acting like she is scared. She is very skittish. She is eating, and drinking and moving around her cage like normal....but if anyone goes near her cage she will get up into the corner and just stare at you, where normally she is at her door clucking to be let out. If we do open her door she will come out, but stay on her cage or go over to the cockatiels cage....will not step up, or come to you.
Daughter emailed the vet who said as long as she was eating and drinking to keep an eye on her for a day or so and if nothing changes will see her this coming week. Obviously if things got worse or she stopped eating to bring her in to the emergency clinic.
So...she isn’t “worse”, but why is she suddenly afraid of us? My daughter is devastated that her bird “hates her”.
