Long, long, LONG hormone spell

[Siobhan]

Perhaps Rocky is finally coming out of his hormone attack, which has been going on for about two months now. He has decided he likes his daddy best and bites me, but he still wants to sit in my lap, which is awkward at best. But we are able to have longer intervals between bites now, and he isn't screaming QUITE as much.

 

[GaleriaGila]

A little thoughtI'll add...
Ever since the Rickeybird hit sexual maturity at about 3-4 years of age, I've had to manage his hormones! If kept on too steady a long day, and too much light, he stayed "in the mood" (aggressive, even louder than usual, pleasuring himself on my neck ) year round. If I keep him on a natural light schedule... up with dawn, down with dusk, year around... THEN he's only a little monster rooster from July to September). 2-3 months.
He has his own room, so I can do that easily.
If/when things get aggressive or toooooo risque, you may want to look into avoiding touching/rubbing the backside, maybe even a quick time-out for unacceptable behavior... maybe you already do these things. And of course, keeping in mind that a lot of parronts just tolerate quite a bit of this stuff as long as there is no aggression.
Good luck.
I'm glad things are chilling out!

 

[Scott]

That is a loooong period of hormonal possession! Hopefully Rocky is on his way to being nice again!

 

[AmyMyBlueFront]

A little thoughtI'll add...
Ever since the Rickeybird hit sexual maturity at about 3-4 years of age, I've had to manage his hormones! If kept on too steady a long day, and too much light, he stayed "in the mood" (aggressive, even louder than usual, pleasuring himself on my neck ) year round. If I keep him on a natural light schedule... up with dawn, down with dusk, year around... THEN he's only a little monster rooster from July to September). 2-3 months.
He has his own room, so I can do that easily.
If/when things get aggressive or toooooo risque, you may want to look into avoiding touching/rubbing the backside, maybe even a quick time-out for unacceptable behavior... maybe you already do these things. And of course, keeping in mind that a lot of parronts just tolerate quite a bit of this stuff as long as there is no aggression.
Good luck.
I'm glad things are chilling out!

Ms Gail..you have me thinking now about The Beebs He is now 2.5 years old (not sure when a male teil becomes a stud) but he is relentless with my hand,always attempting the chaa chaa. He goes to bed and gets covered at 10pm and I uncover him around 8...not enough zzzz time??
I don't ever recall Amy ever getting "randy" with anyone or anything.



Jim

 

[GaleriaGila]

I hate to part with the Rb on the natural schedule, especially in the short days of winter, buttttttt...
It's a necessary deprivation, with my little rooster!

 

[Siobhan]

Rocky doesn't have his own room. The others do, but they're smaller and he can't live with them. He goes to bed around 10:30 p.m. but he gets up with the sun and we can't make him go to bed earlier. He just sits in his cage and screams if we try, and we can't take it. The small parrots and my starling go to bed by 9 and I can shut off their lights and that's that til morning, so they get plenty of sleep.

 

[DiscoDuck]

I mostly wonder worry how the hormonal "shifts" are going to affect Rudy. While cross breeding behavior may not apply. what is consistent is that all males want the same thing. errrrr.... LOL

 

[EllenD]

Have you tried covering Rocky at night for bedtime and then turning the lights off, shut the door, etc.? The lack of sleep/non-natural light schedule is most-likely the reason for his hormonal raging...

 

[Siobhan]

Yes, but his cage is in the living room and we'd have to go to bed, too, to shut him up and have him go to sleep. As long as we're up and there's even one light on, he screams. We don't have another place to put him. We have actually discussed getting a TV for the bedroom so we could hide in there and put him to bed earlier.

 

[eagle18]

Yes, but his cage is in the living room and we'd have to go to bed, too, to shut him up and have him go to sleep. As long as we're up and there's even one light on, he screams. We don't have another place to put him. We have actually discussed getting a TV for the bedroom so we could hide in there and put him to bed earlier.

I thought you were going to get a smaller cage and put him in the bathroom at night?

I am kinda of bummed out that he prefers your husband now.

 

[Siobhan]

He freaks out when we try to take him out of sight of his cage. It's the only stable thing in his life.