Kiwi Discovers Her New Happy Hut

[Birdman666]

She's a very happy girl! Always has been, always will be...

It took her about two hours of dancing around the happy hut, and going in and out of the box, before she finally decided to go inside and check it out. Once she got in it... she stayed in it for several hours with a steady stream of happy noises...

 

[LaManuka]

All fixed!

 

[Birdman666]

Thank you! Can you fix the other pictures too please?

 

[SailBoat]

And such a Happy Girl she is!

We are up near the 45th parallel and our Julio (DYH) jumped into full on Hormonal Rush a full week ago! Yup, he is a full four weeks early this year. He has taken on the mantel of Christmas Coal Master this year. He is on Sun Schedule, so it is likely the extensive amount of sunny days we are getting.

Wow, your Parrots must have been supper sweet this year!

A Very Merry Christmas Good Friend!

 

[LaManuka]

Thank you! Can you fix the other pictures too please?

Have fixed up all the others - let me know if I've missed anything won't you?

 

[Birdman666]

Thank you. I posted a couple more in the mushball thread that went sideways on me... I don't know why it did that. It uploaded correctly when I opened them.

 

[Birdman666]

Kiwi's first hormonal year was last year. She hasn't ever been bad about it though. She is still super active, super talkative, super playful. She's been a great bird. I beak wrestle with that bird in full on wound up amazon mode nose to beak... with no ill effects. She's got two speeds, cuddle and play. Just like the macs...

 

[LaManuka]

Thank you. I posted a couple more in the mushball thread that went sideways on me... I don't know why it did that. It uploaded correctly when I opened them.

I don't know why they do that either. I used to mess about with mine and rotate them on my desktop several times until they finally decided to upload onto PF the right way up, but then I gave up on that and just started an Imgur account and haven't had a prob since

 

[texsize]

And such a Happy Girl she is!

We are up near the 45th parallel and our Julio (DYH) jumped into full on Hormonal Rush a full week ago! Yup, he is a full four weeks early this year. He has taken on the mantel of Christmas Coal Master this year. He is on Sun Schedule, so it is likely the extensive amount of sunny days we are getting.

Wow, your Parrots must have been supper sweet this year!

A Very Merry Christmas Good Friend!

So my Bingo wasn’t the only amazon to go into season early.
Misery loves company

 

[noodles123]

Very cute, but I'd seriously suggest avoiding things like this, as they can make hormonal behavior worse (even though your bird likes it).

 

[clark_conure]

As far as the posting pics from an android phone hold the phone sideways so the click button is on your right hand.

If you take it vertical open the photo in "paint". It will show up correct then copy over the original photo and it will post correctly. The regular picture viewer doesn't correct it but paint will.

 

[Birdman666]

Very cute, but I'd seriously suggest avoiding things like this, as they can make hormonal behavior worse (even though your bird likes it).

I've kinda been dealing with Amazons and hormonal behaviors for more than three decades. I know how to handle them...

I WROTE the behavior protocols that are used in most of the parrot rescues in the USA...

 

[wrench13]

Lets hope hormone season is early and short this year! Last years was a real humdinger!

Good to see you posting again Mark.

 

[Laurasea]

Lets hope hormone season is early and short this year! Last years was a real humdinger!

Good to see you posting again Mark.

I agree last year was the worst for my boys!, but not the girls

 

[Birdman666]

My zons haven't been bad.

Sally still acts like a princess when she starts becoming hormonal, but if anything, she and Kiwi both become even more affectionate than usual.

My RFM is a bit of a chronic egg layer. She has triple clutched the past two seasons. She's the one I worry about.

If you have a chronic egg layer, then I would not recommend happy huts... but other than that, a hormonal parrot WITH a happy hut will be just as hormonal... Just a little more vocal about it. THEY make nests. You can't train them out of hormonal behaviors. Those are instinctive and they just happen. Giving them an outlet for those behaviors actually CAN have the opposite effect. Calms them down. It's counter-intuitive, and it goes against some of the literature... But I've found the literature to be wrong anyway... Height dominance for example...

DIET can affect hormonal behaviors. Obviously, touching them in certain places during hormonal times, is like initiating foreplay... and your bird is already uncomfortably horny so it doesn't take much. Cage bound birds tend to become territorially aggressive.

Mine?! Notsomuch.

 

[noodles123]

My zons haven't been bad.

Sally still acts like a princess when she starts becoming hormonal, but if anything, she and Kiwi both become even more affectionate than usual.

My RFM is a bit of a chronic egg layer. She has triple clutched the past two seasons. She's the one I worry about.

If you have a chronic egg layer, then I would not recommend happy huts... but other than that, a hormonal parrot WITH a happy hut will be just as hormonal... Just a little more vocal about it. THEY make nests. You can't train them out of hormonal behaviors. Those are instinctive and they just happen. Giving them an outlet for those behaviors actually CAN have the opposite effect. Calms them down. It's counter-intuitive, and it goes against some of the literature... But I've found the literature to be wrong anyway... Height dominance for example...

DIET can affect hormonal behaviors. Obviously, touching them in certain places during hormonal times, is like initiating foreplay... and your bird is already uncomfortably horny so it doesn't take much. Cage bound birds tend to become territorially aggressive.

Mine?! Notsomuch.

For mine, a shadowy space amplifies unwanted behavior a lot. If she doesn't have access, she is a lot happier (even though she loves shadowy spaces). They tend to amplify her anxious/sexual behaviors (increasing drive and frustration). I know it can be case-by-case, but personally, mine is not a chronic egg-layer..Nevertheless, for Noodles, things like huts are major triggers for her. Just sharing my personal experience-- I know yours has been different though--- just putting it out there. Her diet is fine and she is definitely not cage-bound. She is also a cockatoo, so that probably plays into it (I don't touch her inappropriately and she has a very solid sleep routine of 12 hours). She is pretty happy, as U2s go, but when I got her initially, she was plucking etc---not anymore. She has only laid an egg 1x in nearly 14 years.


Shadowy spaces actually change their hormones (because light impacts them so much and a nest often signals to them that "now" is the time to act on all of that pent up sexual stuff), so best to just be careful. Yes, they seek out shadowy spaces instinctively, but it's kind of like how you shouldn't give a nest box to a bird if you don't want them laying. A bird may have a drive to do something, but they will be less inclined to do so if the environment isn't conducive.


Again- I respect your choices etc-- not telling you what to do, but I think it's a bit more complicated than stated above.

 

[Birdman666]

Doesn't actually "amplify it." Gives them an outlet to express it.

Whether they express it or not, they're just as hormonal. Don't believe me? Preen your bird's butt feathers... see how fast it goes straight up. (That was a joke. Please don't, unless you're prepared to give the poor bird a "happy ending.")

Demonstratively hormonal, and hormonal without an outlet is still hormonal.

Biological urges have a way of getting "expressed" one way or another.

Just sayin'...

Take the door off the teenagers bathroom... doesn't change WHAT he/she does. Only changes where he/she does it.

 

[Birdman666]

Birds get seasonally hormonal. They're designed to do that. Nothing we say or do changes that.

These are just facts.

Some have other unwanted behaviors triggered by the hormones. We can do stuff to reduce THAT... and if your bird is one, then by all means, do what you can.

Otherwise, just wait the season out... and if they are getting a tad "overly friendly" with a favorite toy... just ignore it.

 

[AmyMyBlueFront]

Birds get seasonally hormonal. They're designed to do that. Nothing we say or do changes that.

These are just facts.

Some have other unwanted behaviors triggered by the hormones. We can do stuff to reduce THAT... and if your bird is one, then by all means, do what you can.

Otherwise, just wait the season out... and if they are getting a tad "overly friendly" with a favorite toy... just ignore it.

BB gets "overly friendly" with my hand..I CAN'T ignore that!


Jim

 

[noodles123]

These may be worth a view:


Look at this first : https://books.google.com/books?id=GmRPyX1a9hMC&pg=PA239&lpg=PA239&dq=CAVITY+SEEKING+COMPANION+PARROTS+HORMONAL&source=bl&ots=50KYUInd9w&sig=ACfU3U1l4j0wPrsmu6975vz7kzcdc4hzRQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj6xtKP3uTtAhXPXM0KHWQuDKU4ChDoATAFegQIBhAC#v=onepage&q=CAVITY%20SEEKING%20COMPANION%20PARROTS%20HORMONAL&f=false


https://birdsupplies.com/pages/hormonal-behavior-in-parrots-easy-mean-parrot-strategies

https://www.beautyofbirds.com/sexualbehaviorinbirds.html

HANDLING HORMONES - Silver Sage Aviaries

https://birdtricksstore.com/blogs/birdtricks-blog/the-most-dangerous-parrot-cage-accessory

https://www.thatpetplace.com/articles/egg-laying-article


https://www.birdstreetbistro.com/your-parrot-and-hormones-5-ways-to-help-your-feathered-companion/


https://feistyfeathers.com/2016/09/17/preventing-hormonal-behavior/

Little Feathered Buddies hormone control

Coping With Hormones

https://blogpamelaclarkonline.com/tag/hormonal-parrot/