I need help and advice please!!!

[jon3468]

I have a six month old sun conure, I've had her for 3 months now, she has been loving, playful would let me pet her nearly every where minus under the wings I would have to do that when she feels like it but the issue is we just recently got a 3 month old blue fronted Amazon and ever since she came home my sun conure seems to be acting more aggressive towards me and I don't understand why I still play with her and give her attention but now she tends to scream for no reason even when she is on her perch also when I try to pet her she tries to bite me it's like I can't even touch her. Please I need some advice

 

[wrench13]

Why did you get the second parrot?

 

[LeaKP]

My guess is your sun conure feels jealous. There are threads in the behaviour forum to help. I would suggest the sun be first in everything, first out, first for time together, etc. Don't take birds out together (i'm assuming you're quarantining the new one).

 

[jon3468]

Our plan was to get both of them at the same time, we have owned many parrots 1 sun conure that we had for 16 years and 2 Quakers. But the sun conure that we have now actually belongs to my daughter so we got it for her and the blue fronted belongs to my wife and I. But we were supposed to get them at the same time but the sun conure came to us first before the blue fronted Amazon. But ever since the blue fronted came home our sun conure started acting different. And I'm trying to see what I can do to change the behavior

 

[jon3468]

LeaKP

Yea for right now the new one is in quarantine so it can get used to our environment and of course to my family, but what you said I'll give it a shot see how it goes . I haven't taken them out at the same time since I noticed her reaction when she first came home

 

[wrench13]

Sounds like your Sunnie is jealous. I'm not much of a bird psychoanalist, but plenty of folks on here have dealt with introducing second, third.. 25th birds to a flock.

 

[jenphilly]

Are you sure about the age of your conure too? Conures go into sexual maturity between 9 and 18 months, year about average. And while there is always talk about the larger birds and how they get hormonal, in all honesty, conures go nuts, its not very often to find a conure that isn't a real handful during the 9 months to about 2 year age range. Just something you gotta suck up and work thru.

But, presuming its not just coincidence that your conure is upset about another bird being in the home, only being there 3 months, may not be as confident in their place in the flock, so feeling quite upset about another bird. Or as many conures are super social with all family members, there has to be some change for the conure with another bird coming into the home. Only so many hours in a day, so even tho you believe you are providing the same time and attention, chances are its not the same for the conure. Provide extra toys and activities to teach your conure independent play too, but start some easy training if you haven't already. Something like target or touch training, super simple and its just focused one on one with your conure. The biting and nipping, well, its a precursor to puberty so start working with that now. Redirection, stick training, reward for stepping up without using the beak. I'm guessing there are lots of threads in here too But, having 3 conures in our home personally that we had from very young and thru puberty, the nippy stage is a just push thru it type of problem. I also have the great fun of being the person that gets to work with and rehab many of the 'problem' conures that come into the shelter. I have only had 1 failure in the small birds I've worked with, and often with this type of behavior its either straiht up hormonal, anger or jealousy problems. All can be worked thru with time and patience. Start with positive reinforcement for good behavior, but don't ignore bad behavior. Remember that conures are very closely related to macaws, so when you hear about getting all the big bird personality in a tiny body, there is a lot of truth in that statement

Best of luck in dealing with both babies!

 

[jon3468]

Are you sure about the age of your conure too? Conures go into sexual maturity between 9 and 18 months, year about average. And while there is always talk about the larger birds and how they get hormonal, in all honesty, conures go nuts, its not very often to find a conure that isn't a real handful during the 9 months to about 2 year age range. Just something you gotta suck up and work thru.

But, presuming its not just coincidence that your conure is upset about another bird being in the home, only being there 3 months, may not be as confident in their place in the flock, so feeling quite upset about another bird. Or as many conures are super social with all family members, there has to be some change for the conure with another bird coming into the home. Only so many hours in a day, so even tho you believe you are providing the same time and attention, chances are its not the same for the conure. Provide extra toys and activities to teach your conure independent play too, but start some easy training if you haven't already. Something like target or touch training, super simple and its just focused one on one with your conure. The biting and nipping, well, its a precursor to puberty so start working with that now. Redirection, stick training, reward for stepping up without using the beak. I'm guessing there are lots of threads in here too But, having 3 conures in our home personally that we had from very young and thru puberty, the nippy stage is a just push thru it type of problem. I also have the great fun of being the person that gets to work with and rehab many of the 'problem' conures that come into the shelter. I have only had 1 failure in the small birds I've worked with, and often with this type of behavior its either straiht up hormonal, anger or jealousy problems. All can be worked thru with time and patience. Start with positive reinforcement for good behavior, but don't ignore bad behavior. Remember that conures are very closely related to macaws, so when you hear about getting all the big bird personality in a tiny body, there is a lot of truth in that statement

Best of luck in dealing with both babies!

When it comes to her age when we got her we were told that the eggs hatched between feb 12 to feb 19 but your right I didn't think of a hormonal issue either i guess to me it just seemed to much of a coincidence for her to get hormonal just as we brought the Amazon home but I've started some one on one time away and spent a some extra time with her and she seemed to really enjoy that. I'm taking all the advice you all are giving to me and putting it to some good use and I really appreciate that