junglenutcracker
New member
- Apr 25, 2015
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- Parrots
- GW Macaw, CAG, eclectus (Kiwi- RIP)
Iāve been making very good progress with our GW, especially in the last three weeks. After our daily session of ball fetching, itās always a looooonng āscratch my head and neck pleaseā session, then she usually grabs and holds on to one of my fingers and begins exploring my fingers with her beak and tongue.
After making sure everything is ok she usually steps up on to my arm and starts nibbling gently at first but it soon turns into painful āmicro nippingā the skin...hard enough to draw a little bit of blood.
Probably some kind of preening behaviour but when she starts itās hard to make her stop. I tried the ābeak grabā trick as suggested by Birdman but that just makes her more intent on continuing her work! Gotta find a way to discourage this behaviour...
All in all, Iām quite happy about the progress weāve been making as the aggressive behaviour seems to have almost completely vanished. She is full of personality and I just canāt imagine how anyone could have put her up for sale...but hey, weāre GLAD they did!![Smile :) :)](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7)
After making sure everything is ok she usually steps up on to my arm and starts nibbling gently at first but it soon turns into painful āmicro nippingā the skin...hard enough to draw a little bit of blood.
Probably some kind of preening behaviour but when she starts itās hard to make her stop. I tried the ābeak grabā trick as suggested by Birdman but that just makes her more intent on continuing her work! Gotta find a way to discourage this behaviour...
All in all, Iām quite happy about the progress weāve been making as the aggressive behaviour seems to have almost completely vanished. She is full of personality and I just canāt imagine how anyone could have put her up for sale...but hey, weāre GLAD they did!