Pineapple Green Cheek Behavior Questions

[kiwiS]

Imagine moving to a new apartment in a new city, away from your family for the first time. Your first night there, you are homesick, you are intimidated and a little frightened, you start to wail and cry really loudly. The neighbor upstairs gets annoyed and starts stomping all over your ceiling, possibly yelling at you to be quiet. The neighbor across the hall knocks on your door and leaves a tissue box and a bowl of soup and some cookies in an act of kindness. I'm sure you will know which neighbor you'd end up liking more when you are finally settled in and have stopped crying all night ^.^

So in conclusion, I'd like to say shaking the cage may have worked, but it is not a pleasant way for the bird to learn.

 

[SpotsandSally]

You have to make a vet appt. ASAP, not 'after Christmas'. Christmas Is in about 2 weeks, and birds can go down hill fast in 2 weeks, to the point of no return. Internal parasites isn't a force to be played with on a parrot, and can drain an animal fast.

Find an avian vet, and make an appt. ASAP,

Also, the cage shaking may have worked, but imagine you taking a toddler & yank around on the arm, shake and pulled, to learn to shut up,
Not fun.

Also, this is a toddler 1/1000 of your size,

 

[Echo]

I don't believe he would scream at night because of being scared of the dark. Conures are cavity dwellers and are comfortable sleeping in pitch black. However, being used to sleeping with 4 siblings and now being alone is more likely. They sleep all huddled together. So now he might miss the others. It is one of the reasons that cozy tents tend to be good for newly weaned babies. They can cuddle in them and feel warm and secure. For that purpose you want to buy the size that will get them snugly, not too big a tent. I get a size small.

It can always be something else of course and only a vet can tell you. I have seen birds bite their own leg in a displace aggression situation. When they want to bite you but can't reach you, they'll either bite whoever is next to them or by default, themselves.

 

[ChassyGirl]

You have to make a vet appt. ASAP, not 'after Christmas'. Christmas Is in about 2 weeks, and birds can go down hill fast in 2 weeks, to the point of no return. Internal parasites isn't a force to be played with on a parrot, and can drain an animal fast.

Find an avian vet, and make an appt. ASAP,

Also, the cage shaking may have worked, but imagine you taking a toddler & yank around on the arm, shake and pulled, to learn to shut up,
Not fun.

Also, this is a toddler 1/1000 of your size,

Can definitely do that, but you have to send the $$! Otherwise its after Christmas, :/

I do have a cozy tent, but I think I have a medium. He loves it though.

 

[andielane87]

Any update on your birdies behavior?

 

[SoCalWendy]

Hmmm I don't know if it is true for conures as it is for parrotlets., but somewhere between the 3-4th month parrotlets will go through a weird stage. The breeder of my parrotlet told me to wait it out, and not to give up and we didn't. She is a year old now. But kiwi is very temperamental and territorial. Yesterday she was crawling around on her cage, lost her footing and landed on the trash can. Well we have a sensor on our trash can. We were watching her when she was walking around on the can she moved to the sensor. Sure enough the cans lid came up and catapulted her back to her cage. She was so mad, she stomped around like a lil kid having a temper tantrum beep beep beep beep. Cussing the can out we all laughed.

Anyway, start doing some target training away from its cage. Offering treats for good behavior. Do not allow he bird on your shoulder at this stage. Also when holding him on your finger, when you see that he is going to bite you can roll your hand a lil to knock him off balance, and tell him no bite. If you are anticipating a bite you will be more alert to when it might happen. Also sine he is biting his leg or food, taking him to he vet is a very good idea to rule out mites. They are so small. I have seen them under a microscope, they look like lil monsters. Hope it all works out.

 

[osnyder]

My green cheek also meeps and chirps frantically when the lights go out. She only does this when we're in the same room with her (bedroom cage).

She was rather bitey and aggressive. The solution was to put her back in the cage and say "no," and then restrict her Netflix and social media use until she can act like a grown up bird.

At the moment she is suddenly terrified of me. This has been going on for 4 days, but it seems to be subsiding. Temperamental little creature, but a marvelous and nutty companion.

 

[Kyoto]

As someone going through it as well, it will get better with consistency and time. Hang in there, you've been given some great advice.

As for leg biting, Kyo will preen his legs while laying on his back during cuddle sessions, and sometimes it looks like he's biting when he's simply cleaning. Regardless, you should try to get him to a vet. I've taken Kyo twice since I've had him sometimes over nothing, but better safe than sorry. I'd rather spend $100 on a visit than lose the $1000 investment I've made in my lifelong companion.