Parrot puberty?
I'm hand feeding an African Grey and he is already very loving and cuddly. he flies to me constantly. i mean ALL THE TIME he lands either on my head to preen me, or on my shoulder to kiss my lips. he is 4 months and already knows how to get my attention by whistling. he loves to have his head scratched and to have his beak kissed and scratched. about your bonding question, we have a young sun conure who was very bonded to my husband but now that the Grey is here, he is bonded to me. the Grey is only bonded to me, and my husband doesn't handle him much but the little sun bites everyone but me now which is crazy because he didn't use to like me . this has been my experience so far, I'm sorry i couldn't be more help.
Should a parrot be let go if it has spent 2-3 months in a cage?
Yes, but make sure the pectoral muscles has not suffered atrophy.Have flight practices at home, make sure the parrot can fly confidently.Whenever you hear him communicating to nearby flocks open the door, hopefully the bird can himself a flock and be a part of it.
My Conure Parrot Is Biting My Lip Hard, How Do I Get Him To Stop?
I have had two parrots of my own for 5 and 7 years now a Sun and a Green Cheeck Conure. I live with my BF who has a Congo African Grey and a Red Head Amazon, in which he has had for 8 and 9 years. He has own birds anywhere from breading Budgies to Conures, and now the two he currnetly has owned for 9 years. The bigger birds you defiently don't want to trust a kiss from. I occassionly trust kisses from the Amazon named Baby, although he is not nipping or biting, his kisses are sometimes a little too sharp, but not that bad. The African Grey I know better than to let him give a kiss, after a few times of drawing blood from my lip. So I have taught him to give a kiss by making the noise of a kiss. I so much would like to get the kiss, I still do not trust it. Either one of my Conures, no problem, I get kisses from them all the time and they both are very healthy. We have our birds vet checked regularly, and they are fine I had the Sun Conure first, her name's Chiquita, I never had any problems with her. Now my Green Cheeck, Buddy is a different story. He was a nipper when I first got him. In fact once in a great while he still does. For the most part he is pretty good. It just took time, a lot longer for him to get adjusted to his new home and to me. He was the tinniest of the four, therefore, feeling he has to protect himself. The way I was told to get him out of nipping is to either lightly tap his beak, or to lightly blow in his face. The blowing seems to worked the best and then point your finger and say no, not nice, be nice in a mild voice. I know it sounds dumb but it works. The light blowing works as a calming affect. Also, you can use a spritzer. My Sun Conure is sitting on eggs, and when I tried to clean her big cage in an area not even near her nest box, she had a fit and came out and was going to bite me. I just took the spritzer bottle, pointed it to her, but did not spray it and told her to get back and sit on your eggs and be a good mommy. She listened went in a sat on her eggs and let me clean her cage. Another thing that might make you have a calmer bird to handle is to have it's wings clipped if they are not already.
Parrot very unresponsive, help!?
Let's get to the basics, a month go my parrots vet said to put her on a people food diet. I fed her mostly Apples, peas, carrots, bananas, crackers etc. But today she's been looking very bad I didn't notice until an hour ago but I have a feeling that it's a stomach ache from over eating. She's about 25 years old.She's been sitting in the corner of her cage when she usually sits in her wooden ledge kinda thing. She ate some carrots and a cracker with some peanut butter on it. She usually is more responsive right now I just tried to give her a cracker and she tried to pick it up but failed (with her eyes closed?) and she usually tries to bite me when I pet her but now she just kinda squawks. She's so sad looking and her feathers are all poofed up!? I think she's dying I've had her since I was a little girl please is there anything I can do to help her. She's trying to go to sleep and this is just so sudden she just feels sick. I do have a maid and she might of sprayed something on her HELP PLEASE!!!
How do I pet my African grey parrot without getting bit? I’m really scared.
You haven’t said whether your Grey is young or old. I’m going to differ with Rick Klugman here, because we had a rescue Grey that was literally unhandleable and now my husband can take it out of the cage and cuddle it at will and I can scratch his head through the bars. We used two approaches.Larry’s was more direct. He let himself get bitten. He made a fist to lessen the amount of skin the bird could get in his mouth and just let him bite. He didn’t flinch, didn’t withdraw his hand and didn’t yell “ow.” He just let the bird bite. After a while the bird stopped, because he was not getting the reaction he expected. A few more sessions of this, and Larry began opening his hand and petting the bird.I didn’t want to get bitten—I need these hands for work!—so I started as falconers do to gentle their hawks. I began by petting him through the cage bars with one of his discarded wing feathers. I’d use the feathered part to stroke him and the quill end to give him gentle scratches. After a while he began to put his head down against the cage bars for the scratches. That was when I switched to my fingers. I have to watch him, because he will still try and nip me, but he reliably asks for scritches and no longer attacks me when I change food bowls.Now for a young bird, if you are afraid, you can also use the technique of starting with a feather, but do so with the bird on your arm outside the cage. He’ll soon understand you don’t mean harm and it feels good and he’ll start letting you use your hand.