Unpredictable

[trimblegirls]

My sweet Tillie bird is no more. She's gone hormonal. She's driving me nuts. She seems to have re-chosen her human and it's now my husband. I can only go near her if he's not around. Which is fine because when he's in the house, she's with him. Here's my problem. She'll pretend that she likes me. She calls me over, will jump on me to sit on my shoulder. She used to climb down to the front of my shirt to cuddle in and get petted/loved but now she climbs down to bite me in my face. She's on my shoulder, why the heck can't she bite my neck. NOPE, it's the face she wants. A few times she's gotten my lip and won't let go. This isn't every time we're together but it does make me hesitant to have her on me. Like right now, she was on her play gym next to me and asked to be on my shoulder. I'm just waiting to get bit. She's bitten me once today already. She never bites my husband. He doesn't believe us when we say she bites randomly.

 

[GaleriaGila]

You'll get lots of good advice here.
My solution has pretty much been to give up and let the Rb do whatever he wants, BUTTTT he is not interested in biting my face... only hands, ears, etc.
I will contribute this, though...
Ever since the Rickeybird hit sexual maturity at about 3-4 years of age, I've had to suffer with his hormones! If kept on too steady a long day, and too much light, he stayed "in the mood" (aggressive, even louder than usual, pleasuring himself on my neck ) year round. If I keep him on a natural light schedule... up with dawn, down with dusk, year around... THEN he's only a little monster rooster from July to September). He has his own room, so I can do that easily.
Good luck!

 

[snowflake311]

Is it a BITE or a NIP? My bird nips me it does not hurt much never draws blood but is really annoying. A bite is going for blood. My sprinkles gets overly excited at times and has gotten my lip but I just bite him back and say NO he lets go. He just loves to put his beak on me that just how he is.

If I were you I would take away shoulder time. Until she calms down. Did you DNA sex her and know she is a female? I did always think females were more unpredictable just like us women haha.

 

[ZephyrFly]

I don't know how you run but my suggestions are make sure she's getting between 12 and 14 hours of sleep a night, and try to reduce sugars and protein in her diets. If this is her hormones kicking in then things may be rough for awhile but with time her hormonal spells shouldn't hit her as hard. In the mean time if she isn't clicker trained then now would be a great time to learn, keep her busy and engaged in something like getting a treat I.e. not biting you.

 

[Flboy]

Please, don't let this ruin your relationship, it will pass it is just so difficult for both of you!

 

[trimblegirls]

Is it a BITE or a NIP?

It's not a nip. When she bites, it's not a single bite and be done. It's a full on attack and hold on. REPEATEDLY until I can get her off of me which is sometimes challenging because she doesn't want to let go. She is DNA'd female. She's still my girl. I just have to pay way more attention to any feather movement she makes She's not very tolerant of me. I can only handle her in certain ways and for a certain amount of time. That changes with her mood. My husband can do no wrong. Although, it was weird yesterday. She was with my husband and I walked by, she flew to me and wouldn't get off. AND SHE DIDN'T attack me. But I was going outside so I put her on her cage. But she had a good 45 seconds to attack and chose not to....