biting

Hello everyone, I am new to the forum, and yet I am also fairly inexperienced in the art of keeping parrots, which is why i've never contributed to it before. However, I am in the need of some fairly serious help. I have just adopted a green cheek conure, from a local family here. Just so you...

ive had my bf amazon for about 4 months now he is only 7 months old all in all. he has settled in nicely .loves to scream and whistle .he is tame comes to my hand and does a few tricks . sometimes when i get him out the cage he tends to bite my fingers not extremly hard but enough to feel it ...

I have a one year old quaker parrot. I just took her to the vet a few days ago and they did blood work on her they found nothing, she has a big distructable toy, gets bathes, all that. The vet had me use a soothing spray on her that just seem to make it worst so im stoping use. Is there anyone...

Hey everyone! I just got my green cheeked conure today from his old owner who could no longer care for him anymore. He's one and a half years old and we were told because his former owner had no time and left him in the cage, he has become somewhat irritable and nippy. We brought him home and...

I am a new member here; I have a working knowledge of parrot-keeping and do a lot of research, but I want to get to know other keepers and get help in this special case. This past Friday, a friend of mine asked me if I could take her African grey parrot. It had originally been her mother's...

Hi, I'm new here, I had to register because I can't handle my parrot's behaviour anymore. Also, english is not my native language and I'm sorry for all my mistakes. So, I have two conures, one is 3 years old, second about 1 year old. They're together a year, both of them are hand-feeded, but...

Hello everyone, I am in serious need of some help here... I feel like I might get scolded also, and that's fine too... I just need help in any way I can. So my housemate and I were home one day about 3 weeks ago. We got a knock at the door, and a woman asked us if we were missing a bird. We...

Hi, My name is Matt. My housemates and I "have" a maroon-bellied conure. His name is Mason, and he is slowly but surely becoming a terror bird... I'm gonna need a lot of advice.:confused:

Hi, i have a 4 or 5 month old tiel named kelly! lately he has been quite nippy with me,and the bites are getting harder. usually its just nibbles arround my hand but lately he will find a spot and bite, not nibble. i do not like bieng bitten and want to train this out of him, but im not...

I have a blue and gold who is 10 yrs old, hand fed him from 10 days old. He is a sweetheart to most people, has a thing about wanting to go after little kids feet but other than that, a pure joy. I rescued an umbrella about 3 years ago, she is awesome. Biggest fault she has is chasing the dog...

Hey Everyone, So I recently posted about my Green Cheek Conure (Yoshi) who was going through a very nippy phase usually getting aggressive when she didn't get what she wanted. Now unfortunately for me it has turned into straight up attacking me! It's gotten to the point where I can't pick her...

Hey everyone! I am hoping someone here has some advice for me. I have a beautiful green cheek conure, I have had her for a few weeks now. Her name is Yoshi and she is a little over four months old. She is a very sweet bird, and she was already hand trained when we got her... but lately she she...

Hi, I have a 6 year old Senegal that I adopted from a family 3 years ago. He's quite a character and although can be very loving, has an awful temper and can be extremely violent. My hands are in agony from the horrendous attacks that I get. So I'm trying to start from scratch with training him...

Hey, I am new to these forums but not to birds. I work at a pet shop and I fell madly in love with this green cheek conure. One associate and I bonded with him a lot since October 2011. I finally bought him this month, a few weeks ago. In other words, we are familiar with each other. When he...

I found an Australian Cinnamon, with a lame right foot, in back yard, a little over two weeks ago. I could not find the owners. I decided - maybe unwisely - to keep her. Between the cage, the vet, groomer, and so on, I'm sure I've spent over $400. I have also spent a lot of time. I have been...

As you might know one day I want a Green Cheek Conure. But probably the two things that are holding me back are biting and the fact that they go through a bad, bity stage and get all protective and stuff. Is this true? I dont want a bird that will only be sweet for the first little while...

Hi all, so I got my patigonian conure Thursday as some of you may know. he is a real sweet heart, he cuddled with me and preened me for a half an hour today :D. I have some questions though. I was under the impresion he was 7 monthsold, turns out he is at least 3 years old, so I got a little...

Hiiiiiii! I have just received a Yellow Headed Amazon from a coworker that could no longer take care of it. I also got it for free! ahhhhh! I have a few questions but the first one is that she will step up onto my fingers (when she wants to of course) and recently while on my fingers she seems...

I have a 5month old eclectus male I purchased from a breeder. Ive target trained him. But he wants nothing to do with me. He bites me, he lunges at me, he only syeps up when hes hungry and I have treats. If he's not hungry or is over the treats he wont let me near him. He's mean to me and to my...

Hi in October of 2010 I adopted a Nanday Conure named Yago. At that point in time they guessed he was about 8 or so. Anyway Yago has had a couple of homes before mine and was probably abused. (He says 'stop screaming' to himself sometimes) He’s terrified of towels, the vacuum, and pretty much...

Hello, I am a new member to this forum -as well as a first time Macaw owner. We acquired a four year old female Military almost two weeks ago. After talking at length with some breeders/macaw trainers at an exotic bird fair, we were confident in our handling and care of our beautiful new family...

Hi, This is my first post on a forum, but i'm not finding any information from just searching. I recently got a green cheek conure. This is the second conure i've had, so i have some experience already. My first bird was incredibly easy to train, but the methods i used on her are just not...

Hi Any help would be greatly appreciated! I have a female Green Cheek that is just about to turn 2 years old. She was hand raised in by a family (that are breeders). She has been great up until about 6 weeks ago, she has suddenly decided she HATES my hands. I will try not to get long winded...

I have a sun conure named Louie that's about 2 1/2 years old. Up until about 6 months ago, he was always very friendly with anybody that came over, males, females, strangers and all. Sometimes he would get territorial if one of my female friend's boyfriends was also over, he would puff up and do...

I had a previous flightless red front macaw. Well, he has been passed for almost a whole year now (vet put him under for blood work and he regurgitated), so my husband and I bought a new one, but a female. She is over a year old now and was greatly bonded to her sister. We met her last fall...

I have no idea if it's male/female, we call it a he. He's about a year old now. We got him from a local pet store that is really particular about who they give their pets to. They make sure you have all the right things for the pets and even want you to bring the cages in before you take them...

hello! My boy is a little spoiled. He's got a very nice big cage with 3-4 toys on it all the time. If I see he doesnt pay attention to a certain toy I will change it for a new one. he also has a 5 feet high "tree" with ropes and branches to climb, with 4 toys in it at all times. and if i am in...

Hi there! This place was actually recommended to me by someone on LiveJournal, but sadly I do not know their username on this forum. I care for a Bare-Faced Cockatoo named "Baby". Whether or not he's "mine" is somewhat fuzzy, but he's my responsibility. As far as I know I'm his third living...

I'm at my wits end with my Sun! I'm so mad right now so please forgive me if I seem, well, mad. What the hell am I to do with this bird? ANYTHING that resembles a stick we get attacked over. I was sweeping the kitchen and my Sun was sitting on my shoulder making her typical double "bark" squawk...

I have a new Senegal parrot that we just got yesterday. She was previously owned by a very sweet lady who said she is very tame and has never bitten anyone. We got her all set up in her cage yesterday and I took her out today and she bit me really hard and broke the skin in four places. She bit...

:green2: I have had my alexandrine for about 3 weeks now, and up until i clipped his wings one week ago he was fine, now he has started biting and wont accept food from our hands anymore or let my partner or me near his cage now. Yoshi has bitten my partner a few times but we havent reacted to...

I have a Poicephalus parrot, a Brown-headed Parrot named Frank. We just got back from a 15 day vacation, and he was boarded at the breeder's house. The breeder is VERY trustworthy, and Frankie had a ton of social time with him. He handles him extreemly well. Frank is not yet a year old, but is a...

My Green cheek conure Turbo HATES it when I try to put him back in his cage and will have a deathgrip on my finger and start biting me! how can I make his cage a "happy" place?

Kermit, our Chestnut-Fronted Macaw, has a biting issue... we were going to sell her partially due to this issue, but we love her too much to let her go. She is 19 years old and we have had her for about 2 years now. She belonged to an elderly lady for most of her life and when the woman died...

Ozzy has started to become pretty vocal now. She loves to sing along with music on the radio. But here lately the last few weeks she has been doing something new and not sure what it means. She is just now 10 months and boy does she have a personality of her own.........She has a game she likes...

Recently, I adopted a 7 year old male Senegal Parrot from a couple who were unable to care for all of their birds. He is in great health and I've had him for going on 2 months now. The lady told us he was kind of picky with who he trusts and likes to interact with. When I was at their house...

I have had my AG (congo) for about a month now. At first he was pretty calm and let us tickle him but the last week or so he has taken to biting. He tastes a lot so i know the difference. He is actually breaking skin now. Its mostly when taking him back to his cage. We are having HUGE problems...

Hi, I recently bought a 10.5 week old male parrotlet. He was hand fed and seemed very tame when I went to pick him up. He sits as close as he can to me in his cage, and if I open the door he comes right up to me and steps-up. However, he went from lightly mouthing my hand to just clamping on...

I really hope this is the right place to put this; I joined this forum because my family needs some serious help with our bird, and I haven't looked around the forum excessively much, but this seemed to be the right place. So, I just finished yet another argument (Of the "raised voices"...

hello all , i'm from manchester england , just recently got a conour parrot and he's great fun , very tame , jumps on to my hand just trying to start to speak, But i do have a problem with him , he love's biting fingers does anyone have, have any idears , on how to stop him doing this many...