Blue and Gold...nippie

[dulphinz]

After seeing the other post, I didn't want to highjack it Thought I'd post my own! Glad to find said post. We've had our baby girl (3/30/2013) for almost a month now and she has been great with me. She's not so sweet with my husband and children and I've beeb trying to work on that. She nipped my daughter today...nothing too hard, but hard enough to leave a little mark. I've been trying to get them to give her scritches when she's on my arm and tell her how good of a girl she is. If I see her make a move I'll tell her to be gentle. If she continues, I put her in her cage or on the java tree for a few minutes. This afternoon, I had my daughter (the one who got bit) to keep some sunflower seeds. I had Tinker on my arm and my daughter came over and would talk to her and give her scritches. Then she's give her a see if she was gentle. We did it a few times and I plan on trying this everyday. I also try to have the other two kiddos interact with her as much as possible, my husband too. Am I dealing with the nipping correctly? I don't want to mess this up from the beginning. I want her to be as social as our eclectus is and I know it all starts now. Thanks!

 

[MikeyTN]

That's a good way to go about doing so!!!! As long as they don't show fear of the bird you guys should be fine. They catch on quickly if you act afraid of them. Your doing a lot better then I am doing as I couldn't get my partner to hold either macaw for nothing....lol

 

[dulphinz]

Haha! They are all doing really good. My husband isn't so patient so he keeps going to Coco! . Hopefully with time and patience we'll get it. I just didn't want to be taking a wrong step that would make it worst rather than better.