I need help with my new gcc!!!!

[hamzaalajlouni]

I bought my gcc 2 months ago and i cant get him tamed, he's so scared of everything... if i get close to the cage he starts flying everywhere and hitting everything i tried all the ways possible to get him tamed but he's so scared idk what his past owner did to him does anyone know anything about taming a really scared gcc, its been 2 months and ive been patient but im not geeting any results

 

[LeaKP]

I know that it seems like there's no hope but things can change. I
Recommend patience and that you read the conure section there you'll find amazing advice. Please don't give up. Step. Ack it can take time. Good luck!!!

 

[promethuschow]

You need lots of patience with your GCC, may I suggest you read the GCC section and also use the search features to look for how to tame and train your GCC. Also please while you train your GCC be ready to be bitten but take it as a reward for all your hard work. That bitting won't be nerve wrecking but you will feel some pain. It took me a day to teach my GCC step up and down after I had her for 4 days. Boy she bit me quite a bit but with patience I showed her my hand is her friend not the enemy. Try the training with your GCC favotite treat that's works almost 99.99 time.

 

[IndySE]

Be slow, consistent, and patient.

Find out his favorite food, and use it ! Start out simple, just getting him to be calm around you when you're in the same room as him. Get as close as you can before he panics. Talk to him as you approach, so he knows you're not sneaking up him and trying to eat him. After you can get him used to this, get him used to your hands outside his cage. Drop his favorite food for him whenever he doesn't flutter, or when you're trying to clean out his cage or change his food or water. Read to him, or just talk to him and tell him how pretty he is.

You shouldn't bother much with the inside of his cage (except to change out food/water and cleaning) until he's calm when you move your hands outside his cage.

 

[Allee]

All birds are individuals, some adjust quickly, others according to their past experiences and temperaments have a harder time accepting everything new. Establish a routine, meal time, bedtime, time to interact with humans. As stated above, reading or talking to your bird from a distance that doesn't make him uncomfortable will give him a chance to build trust. It's better to let a frightened bird set the pace for training. Consistency, patience and understanding will go a long way to building a lasting bond, once you have that, the possibilities are endless. Best of luck, please keep us updated.

 

[EllenD]

Just as an FYI, 2 months is barely any time at all when it comes to taming an untamed bird, especially one that was just rehomed 2 months ago from possibly a bad situation or maybe even a physically and psychologically abusive situation. I've seen birds that were still very young, under a year old, that were not hand-raised and we're scared to death of hands and people in general. And I'm talking about birds that were never, ever abused in any way and we're never rehomed. They were simply baby birds that were never tamed. And it has taken 6 months to a year or more to get them to the point where they would simply step-up onto there owner's finger inside their cage for 5 seconds...So you just simply cannot bring home an adult bird that has just been suddenly moved to a completely new environment with completely new people and who was very likely abused by his prior people, work with him for only 2 months, and then be like "I've been patient but it's been 2 months and I'm not getting any results".

You need to pick one method of hand-taming, whether it be putting a chair as close to his cage as you can right before he starts to flip out, then sit in the chair and talk to him/read to him for an hour at a time a couple of times a day, every day. Then each day see if you can move the chair closer, until you get right next to his cage and you are able to sit there talking to him and he's OK. But you must do this at his pace, not yours. If just this process takes 6 months then that's what it takes. Once you get there then you open his cage and sit right next to him with just the door open talking to him. Then once he's good with that you simply place your hand right inside his cage door and just leave it there without moving it for an hour while reading and talking to him. Then each day you try to move your hand a bit closer, but at his pace. When your hand gets close enough that he can easily reach without moving a millet spray sticking out of it towards him, then hold a millet spray I your hand without moving. Do this until he starts readily eating from the millet spray. Once he will eat from the millet spray without moving then you pull a bit of the millet spray back, requiring him to move a bit towards your hand to eat it. You do this until he has to step-up onto your hand to eat the millet spray, and you do this until he willingly steps up onto your hand to eat the millet. Then you try to move your hand towards the cage door, very slowly, each day until finally you are able to get him to step up onto your hand and you can take him outside of his cage on your hand. But all at his pace!

This entire process I just summed up might take a year or more, that's the way it is. Some birds progress quickly, some take months and months, some progress quickly and then regress again, and then some are so untrusting due to what they have experienced that it takes literally multiple years for them to trust anyone again. That's the way it is when you adopt an adult bird from a private party or a rescue. But when you finally do earn their trust you'll have it forever, and the time you spent every day trying to earn it was all well worth it. But you need to choose one single taming method, whatever it may be, and stick to it. Trying multiple different taming methods will generally not work, this process is all about consistency and repetition, doing the same thing with your bird every single day, as often as you can each day.

Where did you get your green cheek from? Do you know any history on him? How old he is? Have you taken him to your avian vet for his wellness exam yet?

And something else that may help you quite a bit since your green cheek is so scared that he flutters all around his cage every time you approach him:

Where do you have his cage located in your home? This is especially important in your situation, because of how scared and completely unsocialized with people your bird is. I'm guessing (I could be wrong) you have his cage off in a spare bedroom or in a room you're designating as "the bird room". Wherever you have him, I'm guessing that he is not in your main living room, TV room, den, or whatever you call the main room in your home that you and others spend most of their time. That is the room he needs to be located in, and if I were you I would move his cage into that room immediately. I truly believe that if you do this it will totally kick his taming into high gear. He needs to simply just be around as many people as possible as often as possible, even if the people in the room aren't directly interacting with him. Just having his cage located in the same room where you sit on the couch and watch TV, or sit on the computer, or read, etc. will help him so much. Having people in your home walk past his cage often will help him tremendously. Seeing you walk past his cage often, having you just say hello to him as you walk past each time, him being able to sit inside his cage and be able to see you sitting across the room on the couch will help him so much! This is socialization and he needs it. You'll find that after a few days of having his cage relocated to where people usually are, he will be a totally different bird. He will relax, he will stop being terrified of people approaching his cage and will no longer flutter around his cage violently, and he will relax enough around people and feel so much more secure and safe around people and their voices that he will really enjoy playing with his toys in his cage and entertaining himself while you're near him doing your own thing too (I hope he has a lot of different toys in his cage, he needs them).




"Dance like nobody's watching..."

 

[gracebowen]

My gcc took a while too. Ive noticed that the birds i adopted are more easy going at night. With my gcc I would give him scritches for a few seconds at brdtime and he accepted them. I honestly didnt know how he felt about it but he tolerated it. Then one day he came over and demanded attention. He was timid at first though. I had to approach with a closed fist. Two days later he wanted scritches all the time.

 

[Sand1]

When mine was about two years old, i guess bcuz of hormones he bcame vicious & would fly at us n attack us and bite for blood.we took him to the vet for tests but she said it was hormones. She talked us through a lot of things then she said "please let me trim his wings they will grow back in a few months and he will stop biting you. I only recommend this because I see that people get rid of their Birds for biting and I know that this will fix him I believe this is only a phase he's going through and the trimming will help" so we grit our teeth and let her cut his feathers, it only took a half a day for him to return to his tame behavior & he was so loving (cuz he needed us to get around! ) we never trimmed him again, n he got over his attack mode

 

[EllenD]

When mine was about two years old, i guess bcuz of hormones he bcame vicious & would fly at us n attack us and bite for blood.we took him to the vet for tests but she said it was hormones. She talked us through a lot of things then she said "please let me trim his wings they will grow back in a few months and he will stop biting you. I only recommend this because I see that people get rid of their Birds for biting and I know that this will fix him I believe this is only a phase he's going through and the trimming will help" so we grit our teeth and let her cut his feathers, it only took a half a day for him to return to his tame behavior & he was so loving (cuz he needed us to get around! ) we never trimmed him again, n he got over his attack mode

This may be true, but it is my impression that this bird was rehomed from a bad situation, and has trust issues. I agree that clipping his wings, only the outermost 4-5 primary flight feathers on each wing, will make it much easier to train him once you're at the point that either he comes out of his cage on his own or you are able to take him out of his cage, but you can't just clip his wings and grab him, forcing him to come out. You have to earn his trust slowly, at his pace, especially if he came from a bad situation.

Clipping his wings will definitely make it easier once he isn't terrified of you though. But what he is doing right now with the flying violently around the cage when anyone approaches, banging himself off of the cage bars, this is absolutely no hormones or a phase, the bird is terrified of people and is not socialized. He needs to earn his trust and expose him to being around people by locating his cage in the high-traffic room of his house where he will be in the presence of people often. Hormones don't cause terror and a bird being extremely scared of people and hands, hormones cause aggression out of frustration. This bird is scared.

"Dance like nobody's watching..."

 

[GaleriaGila]

Lots of good thoughts above.
I really believe in time and love for terrified birds.
Spend time just being near to him as possible (that doesn't scare him), talking in quiet, reassuring tones, offering treats if they don't scare him, maybe tossing favorite seeds gently to him (and not giving them otherwise).