green cheek conure

Hi! I have posted here before about my female 3 year old GCC Haru, and it seems nothing i try helps. She screams, all day everyday, which is something i can live with, but the biting.. She bites me every chance she gets! I tried saying no in a stern voice, I tried walking away, ive tried...

Hello All, I have a Green Cheek Conure (Alex), who I have had for about a year and a half. He is just about 2 and a half years old, so I've had him for most of his life. He has always been a super-sweet boy to me, though he isn't a fan of other people. A few weeks ago, he stopped letting me...

so we all know green cheeks are nippy, i expect that from him and was able to limit his habbits by receiving helpful information on here. my green cheek is a male and has just turned one year old. he is nippy like most green cheeks but for some reason he has just started to lash out like crazy...

Hi guys, I'm just curious about something I noticed on my green cheek conure and wanted a few opinions. Some of the feathers around the upper part of her wings are looking a little ratty and not complete and some of them look like they have little bits of black around some of the edges. I...

Foggy is a green-cheek conure and he's been our buddy for three months now. He comes from PetCo so we don't know his age for sure, but they said he was hand-fed and had just arrived that week when we got him. My girlfriend is allergic to just about anything furry, and we live in an apartment...

Just recently we switched our green cheek conure Foggy over to mostly-pellets from a fortified seed diet. He seemed to take to it right away, and maybe even prefers crunching on the pellets to a lot of the things in the seed mixture. (Except for sunflower seeds.) However, after about a week...

Ever since I was a little girl, probably grade school aged, I have always wanted a bird as a pet. I spent most of my high school and college years dreaming of the day I could finally get a parrot. About a year ago when I was 23, I started getting serious about looking for one to adopt because...

Last night my little Green Cheek Conure passed away suddenly with no warning at all. He was less than 3 years old. I spent the day playing with him, he did his usual chirping, biting, playing, and eating. Nothing abnormal at all. In the evening when he was in his cage resting I was in my...

I have narrowed it down to Linnie, Parrotlet, or Quaker Parrot and would like to hear peoples experiences with those and which would fit in best with my family. I only looked into birds I always already interested in, but if someone thinks of another bird that would fit in with my family better...

Hello! I am new to parrot forums and to conure ownership, and would love some advice about raising a happy, healthy feathered friend. My boyfriend and I purchased JoJo, a very young green Cheek conure (max 10 weeks old) from a breeder 2 days ago. Long story, but this was not a conure breeder...

hello all! so Ive had my turquoise gcc for a while now and hes really cute and playful but a total like brat lol, but i want to know if its natural if he doesnt let me preen him still. he likes to wrestle and play hard, but he is also very cuddly and like to play under the blankets and what...

Pickle is a male green cheek. He hatched in the last week of September 2014. So is he trying to mate with me? He presses his bum up against my hand when I'm on the computer and started rubbing it on me lol. So I just ignore this behaviour right? I thought it would be a bit early for him to be...

Hello all! i just took my green cheeck conure to the vet today for disease testing and dna sexing and well i had the appointment at 330pm and its about 5 hours passed during the vet visit they said they could not get good blood sample due to the fact that he wasnt giving much blood (he/she is...

I just joined ParrotForums and am looking forward to getting to know folks as well as get some answers to a few questions I have, but more of that later. We (my wife and I) have three birds, two of which "technically" belong to children. My wife got a Green-cheeked Conure, Cricket, ten years...

I've got a baby gc conure 3 days ago, and he's fully adjusted to his new home. Problem is that he kind of acts like he's on crack. He sleeps like 5 hours per day, and the rest he spends running around everywhere, climbing everything, and fluttering around (he came with his wings clipped). I...

Hello everyone! I just got my first parrot, ever, yesterday. He is a 1.5 year old GCC, very cute and fun. His name is Atai :3 He is a bit shy; in the store he would walk all over me and talk to me but now that he's here in his new cage he likes to hide in the back - which I'm sure is nothing...

I bought a baby gc conure two days ago; he is supposed to be hand fed. There seems to be partial truth to this, because he wasn't fully mature when I got him, and I still have to spoon feed him once or twice per day. (he readily accepts it) What I don't understand is his fear of me, and his...

so I kind of don't want to screw this up. I bought him yesterday, and he had a tough trip on the way home. Pretty much a 1.5 hour bus ride in a tiny box, because I've never been there and I had no idea it was going to take so long. Although he seems unusually quiet (I've yet to hear him make...

I purchased a 7 week old green cheek conure, and I'm just wondering if his behaviours are normal. I brought him home yesterday; he's still on formula twice each day. He seems pretty energetic inside his cage (he kind of hangs upside down from its top and walks around upside down, and chews on...

I put a deposit on a baby pineapple GCC at a local pet store before he was even a month old and have visited him every day since! His name is Kiva and he is a brat, but he is my brat <3. I am so excited for him to be weaned soon so that I can play with my little feathered nugget all day long...

my greencheek conure might have to go in for an x ray. I am very worried about putting her under anesthesia. Does anyone know if this is a safe procedure?

I just adopted my first [green cheeked] conure yesterday! :green2: Its name is Guac (guacamole), and I already love him so much! I got lots of questions though, so if you know the answer to any of my questions, please help me out! :) 1. Guac seems to be grooming himself a lot... is that normal...

the past few days my gcc has been bobbing his head at me and my partner and also a few objects and toys and also his reflection (i covered the mirror now). he bobs his head and puffs up his feathers.. he taps his beak on a hard surface. these movements are weird, he bobs his head down every 2-3...

Hi there, I just made this account for the purposes of askin this question so apologies if I'm a bit clueless about what I'm doing. I have a female green cheek conure, she'd be around four months old now, and just this morning (at around 4:30am) she has started repeatedly simultaneously...

i have a male green cheek he is 4 months old, he just will NOT stop taring at the paint, i feel like ive tried everything. he has ALOT of chew toys and foot toys for tearing activity and he gets plenty of attention. no matter what i do he keeps biting the paint off, ive tried disracting him and...

I was planning on buying a 9 month old green cheek conure on craigslist. The lady that has him says shes going to be traveling a lot this year so she feels she has to re-home him. He comes with his cage and supplies, and has already been DNA tested. His price is $450 for everything, and I don't...

Hi! I`m having some serious problems with my 2 year old female GCC :( First thing, she bites. And yeah, i know they are nippy birds, but she`s on the attack all the time when she`s out of the cage. It`s getting to the point that she will fly straight at me, trying to bite my hands, my neck...

I just wanted to share a video of my two budgies preening Parry. Franky has been in love with him for a while (I posted about that here too), and now Cesar joined in! They compete and even fight for him. :D They both want to preen and feed him constantly, so I have to cage them both or at least...

Hi. My partner and I have a baby sun conure. He is almost one. We got him because out 18 month old Green Cheeck sadly died. When we got Fred, our sunny, he chose me and from then on has been my bird. He still loves his daddy but is very much a mummys boy. My partner really wants another green...

i did a few solid days of constant research on green cheeks before deciding to go ahead with my purchase. i felt lonely and i needed a feathered friend! this bird needed a home. but what i should have done and feel very foolish for not doing.. is looking up what can go wrong... to be honest...

Hello, My name is Nikki and last Saturday I welcomed a wonderful 1 year old Pineapple Green Cheek Conure into my home named Shado. I haven't had a DNA test done yet, so I don't know if Shado is a boy or girl, but I think he's a boy. At the pet store, Shado was very shy, but that is certainly...

I have a 3 year old male Green Cheek named Marley. He has always been super sweet and cuddly with me and friendly with the rest of my family. He snuggled with me and spent 80% of his time out of the cage, on my head or shoulders. Recently he has had a big change in his attitude towards me and...

We've had our bird for a couple of years now. Bought him as a hand-raised chick. To me he is very affectionate and will spend all day on me if he was allowed. He has always "hated" my husband, attacks him and latches firmly on his ears or fingers. He now "hates" my son (16) and will show signs...

ive had my male green cheek for about just over 2 months, he is almost 4 months old. i am trying so hard to teach him while he is a baby. but he just refuses to poo in his cage. usually i have to take him out and tell him "go poo" on the neswspaper on the table, sometimes he will or sometimes he...

I've owned budgies and cockatiels, and here are some common traits of them that I found intolerable: - budgie: easily scared - budgie: craps too often; like I need a towel in hand if I ever bring him out of cage - budgie: hates being touched, and perpetually afraid of hands - budgie: too...

I'm interested in the personalities of green cheek conure and love birds. I've owned hand-fed cockatiels, and I find them too stubborn and easily scared. Plus some of them seem to prefer being alone for the comfort of safety. From what I've read, green cheek conure and love bird are the bolder...

hi, im new to this site, i just made a profile today so im sorry if im setting up this convo wrong but i just need help badly! I have a 2 month old male yellow sided green cheek conure who is pretty quiet, until i leave the room, he starts screaming out for me. if he cant see where i am he...

I'm surprised there's so little of threads like these! I'm new here so I'm not quite sure where to post this, decided I'd just go with off-topic (though my drawing is of a bird!) I guess feel free to post your own drawings & artwork, if you'd like, as well? Drawing I've done of my new cinnamon...

Teeko's doing great in my household! I love him so much. He's silly, cuddly and such a wild child! Anyhow, today's the first day I can't smell any smoke residue on him! Hopefully his health will continue to climb from here, considering how much better I treat him than his last owner. Back to the...

Hello everyone! My name is Adrienne, and I have had my lil guy for 2 weeks now. He is 5 months old and I am a little concerned. I read that green cheek conures are very cuddly and playful. However "Stinker" isn't that much. Actually, he doesn't play that much. His favorite pass time is...