Protective love bird?

[Mashed_Potato2021]

Hello! I have a love bird that is about 6 months old, I don’t know the gender so I’m just gonna say he. So he loves to play around and sit with me but around two months it was like he almost didn’t know my hands where apart of me, I know that’s sounds weird but he would like attack my hands and bite me almost guarding but it’s been two month and he will just randomly bite my hands REALLY hard like just when he’s sitting on my finger. It’s gotten to the point where I’m alittle afraid to hold him in my hand, I didn’t know if it was just an age thing or if there was something I could do to get him to stop

 

[HeatherG]

Bump…

 

[Mashed_Potato2021]

sorry I get it now

 

[HeatherG]

I think a six month old lovebird is going through puberty and is about at his naughtiest. I would try getting him to stand in a stick or other perch when you get him out of his cage. Also maybe you can watch to see if he only bites after he’s been out 10-15 minutes? I had a small parrot who could only be on me for 10-15 min because after that he was so wound up he would bite and bite and bite. I thought it was kind of like having a yappy little dog. They just get so excited they could explode if they don’t BITE someone.

Here is a basket I made for another bird to perch and play on. It only cost a few dollars and he really likes it. He’d rather be on the basket than on my shoulder.

 

[Mashed_Potato2021]

Ok thanks! I’ll try that!