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[Stephen777]

Sierra will bob her head real fast and then usually followed up with rubbing her beak on things. She has a cuddle bone in her cage but afraid she isnt using it or something.

 

[itzjbean]

Has she just eaten before this? Sounds like she's adjusting her crop/cleaning her beak from eating. Sounds like perfectly normal conure behavior. My cockatiel will rub his beak on different perches to clean it.

 

[clark_conure]

normal behavior.....my conure has no intrest in his cuttle bone but he likes to wipe his beak off on anything, perches, shirt, my face, my ear....

I wouldn't worry unless something els comes up

 

[Stephen777]

She seems to be biting a bit harder then normal. I assume its because she is so young. Trying to teach her the no bite with a soft tap on the beak.

 

[clark_conure]

try time out method, put the bird on the floor after a hard bite...like 10-15 feet way make it walk back to you, it see's it's beeing shinned and has time to calm down and walk back. opposite arm of the chair or whatever is safe that the bird can walk to you from. works every time.

 

[LordTriggs]

agreed with clark, some birds pick up the beak hold/tap but others learn to ramp up even harder when it happens and it ends up turning into a fight with finger and beak (one of these being far softer than the other)

time outs are closer to what happens in the wild where when a bird acts out the flock will either leave to a different branch or push the trouble maker to a different perch and ignore them

 

[EKSM]

Yep, time-out on the floor has worked for me every time, although sometimes it takes the behavior down to 50% and it has to be done again. But, it's never not effective at all.

 

[EllenD]

My male Green Cheek gets into these moods, they are "sassy" little birds that occasionally get the idea in their heads that they rule the roost! I think with Bowie (who is now almost 2 years old) it's partly hormonal, or at least it started out from the start of his puberty, and then he decided that he liked his new "badass" persona, lol...What he doesn't like, however, are "time-outs", lol...

I love these little guys so much, in my opinion they have more personality, charisma, and yes, attitude, than the huge birds do. That being said, you have to keep them in-check, otherwise they will take-over!

Time-outs work extremely well with Bowie, hell, just me totally ignoring him for 5 minutes and not answering his calls to me drives him nuts! If he starts to get nippy with me I just put him on the floor and start doing something different, with my back to him...That's when the calls start, he'll eventually start yelling "BABY! MY BABY!", and "GIMME KISSES!" followed by his kissing noise, and when I don't answer him at all he loses it. After about 10 minutes he's totally quiet and mopey, he usually retreats to his cage in defeat with his head hung low, and at that point I go get him, and he's on his best behavior again.