Puberty or switching favorite human?

[LoveMyConlan]

My female GCC is 2 years old. She's the sassiest thing I've ever met and we sometimes have our moments of 'not getting along'.

Over the last 2 months she's been a witch to me. Won't come out of the cage, biting every time I ask for a step up, and just being completely standoff-ish when I'm with her. She still enjoys her head scratches outside the cage, but usually she gets a good morning scratch through the bars while I'm getting dressed. Lately she just snaps at me. She still has a fit when I leave the room or an getting ready to leave. Other than my 1 Conure becoming possessive of me, mind you none of them are out together, nothing has changed. Food, schedule, sleep.... It's the same.

What's funny is she seems like she's taken her relationship with me and gave it to my mother. She steps up, comes out of the cage, never bites....

I'm heartbroken and have no idea if this is temporary or if my second in command left me hanging. She's been my co pilot since I got her after weaning, and thigh we have had our 'she thinks she's top diva' moments she always bounced back to being my girl.

Im not sure if I've been replaced or if this is something that will pass?

And to top it all off my normally docile Jenday has been a blood sucking nightmare with everyone but me for 2 months. Can his behavior be affecting my Gcc?

 

[plumsmum2005]

I think your babies are growing up and have changed into teenagers ha ha. Be prepared for some unpredictable behaviour but otherwise carry one the same. Ensure their diet is a good one.

 

[Flboy]

This is hard! They can be buggers! I do believe you are dealing with puberty!
Study and study this thread.
http://www.parrotforums.com/training/57935-brainstorming-biting-parrots.html

Also good
http://www.parrotforums.com/behavioral/24245-realization.html

http://www.parrotforums.com/behavioral/36419-dealing-aggression-parrots.html

Instead of me posting all of the links, just do a search on, "hormonal+MonicaMC" leave off the quotes!
Type it in just like that you'll find quite a bit of useful information on exactly what you're going through!

 

[EllenD]

Yep, green cheek puberty is a *****! Pardon my language, but that's me being accurate...I have a boy that is going on a year and 5 months, and he just went through this. I live alone, so I have no "competition" for his affection, but he treated me the same as your bird is treating you in spurts. It only lasted a month and he's back to being himself, but it was very much like he changed overnight...I had already been through this so I knew what it was, and I knew it would pass, but it still does hurt your feelings, I understand that.

I would get her on a solar schedule immediately, this will help a lot. She needs 12-14 hours of sleep during this, so what this means is putting her cage near a window where she can see the sun come up and go down. She will need to go to sleep as the sun goes down, so whatever time the sun goes down where you are at, let her see that happen with natural light through the window, then as soon as it's dark cover her cage and let her sleep. Then she needs to get up at dawn, so uncover her as the sun is coming up. Keep her on this schedule, and combine this with a healthy diet of her pellets plus fresh veggies every day, fruit twice a week or so, with some whole grains...After a few days on the solar schedule you'll see her calm down quite a bit and get back to being herself. Her hormones are essentially making her want to mate with you, which you're not doing, so she's upset with you...That's the simple way of explaining it...Give it a try, it should work. You just have to ride it out...

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[Birdman666]

YEP. Agreed. Just puberty blues...

Don't take it personally. It will pass. Give it time.