Long time conure owners. You deaf yet?

[JojosBizarreAdventure]

I've owned Jojo for a year. He's actually very good compared to a lot of conures when it comes to screaming. But sometimes when he gets very excited he goes into a long screaming fit, like right now. In my ear!!! Youch!! I have terrible vision, I'd like to keep my hearing, please. So long time conure owners, can you hear? This must be loud enough to break glass. :11:

 

[GaleriaGila]

Screaming is such a challenge. The Rb loves the sound of his own shrieks so much that I catch him sometimes just doing a StevieWonder groove, eyes half-closed, just marveling at his own volume.
Ignoring screams and rewarding quiet is the key but to the extent that screaming is self-reinforcing, well... toys, distraction, fun foods...
Is there a nutritious treat that really sends him?
I can always get a bit of silence by tossing the Rb a fat, juicy green chile.

I recently had my hearing tested. It's normal, even in my much-victimized right ear, whereupon the Rb perches and has serenaded for 30+ years at 100-decibel levels!

Take heart... try to hear it as ... conure love!

 

[Iridal]

So funny you ask. Had our conure since January. I just posted a similar but more panicky question within a month. I thought I was going deaf, I had tinnitus... well I think it was allergies/TMJ. I had my hearing tested and it was the same as it was in 2007 +/- 5 db average, which is in the range of standard deviation and everything is normal. I've even been in rock bands since then... and being a musician my hearing is VERY important to me. Sooooooooooo that doesn't mean I'd encourage him to scream on your shoulder... :54: But so far so good here.

Mango doesn't scream too much. But he sure does love to scream the song of his people (and does this funny up, down, up down, with his head like he's dancing a bit) when he gets in to the music... especially if I'm singing... and I'm a singer. Not singing in the shower, but in bands, lessons, theater... so yeah. Freaking figures he'd have to choose THAT reaction, right? At least he seems happy with the performance?

Don't get me started on whistling. Songs with whistling in them are banned from being played in this house, the reaction is too strong.

 

[JojosBizarreAdventure]

Screaming is such a challenge. The Rb loves the sound of his own shrieks so much that I catch him sometimes just doing a StevieWonder groove, eyes half-closed, just marveling at his own volume.
Ignoring screams and rewarding quiet is the key but to the extent that screaming is self-reinforcing, well... toys, distraction, fun foods...
Is there a nutritious treat that really sends him?
I can always get a bit of silence by tossing the Rb a fat, juicy green chile.

I recently had my hearing tested. It's normal, even in my much-victimized right ear, whereupon the Rb perches and has serenaded for 30+ years at 100-decibel levels!

Take heart... try to hear it as ... conure love!

Conure love! I love that !
He’s been doing it a lot these last few days. Whenever I play energetic music, sing, or do anything generally excitable. He flys around the room, dances, and yells. For a while I discouraged it. I would say “quiet jojo. No no boy!.” And then I thought about it some more and realized he’s just being himself, and that it’s a sign of him being a happy healthy bird. I felt bad about ever scolding him! I certainly don’t want to encourage it, but if it won’t make me go deaf then a little screaming can’t hurt. After all, would he really be a jenday if he didn’t screech?

 

[LordTriggs]

"WHAT!?"

I know the feeling of the ear based echo chamber. I've gone to my fair share of heavy metal gigs and played enough myself but yeesh nothing really prepares you for the high pitched screech even a little Green Cheek can give

 

[EllenD]

My Green Cheek shrieks high enough to break glass! Easily!

I've played guitar in punk bands for years, and have played alto sax since I was 8, and never once has the sound level compared to Bowie on my shoulder screaming...

You Sun Conure owners are nuts!

 

[LordTriggs]

My Green Cheek shrieks high enough to break glass! Easily!

I've played guitar in punk bands for years, and have played alto sax since I was 8, and never once has the sound level compared to Bowie on my shoulder screaming...

You Sun Conure owners are nuts!

true that Ellen! Give me the loudest most wailing concert going and I love it, but a tiny little sun conure? Pass the earplugs!

 

[clark_conure]

I get the ear echo chamber occasionally but my GCC is pretty quiet, just mentioned this in another thread. Once a Gcc learns talking get more attention, they like to converse, even if it's just made up words....in a normal tone.

 

[Iridal]

Yeah I've been in rock bands for years and that didn't truly prepare me. I mean everyone said conures were REALLY loud, but I thought the music hobby would have compared. It doesn't.

 

[Jen5200]

I have two suns....and they love to “sing” along to most music and dance with more enthusiasm than most. But songs that have whistling.....wow, they really get into that! I tend not to discourage their enthusiasm, since they really enjoy the tunes . It’s probably a good thing that I have no close neighbors. I haven’t experienced any hearing loss so far from having a sun on each shoulder (but they are not allowed to sing and dance next to my ears lol).

 

[GaleriaGila]

My brother's a professional rock musician, and he agrees: "10" on the amp is nothing compared to the Rickeybird's song stylings!

 

[Skittys_Daddy]

What did you ask? I'm sorry, I couldn't hear you. lol.

 

[Skittys_Daddy]

My brother's a professional rock musician, and he agrees: "10" on the amp is nothing compared to the Rickeybird's song stylings!

So Rickeybird is also a rockiebird! lol

 

[JamesC]

I have some hearing loss. Though I can't tell if it is age, working in aviation, or near 20 years of Tootsie noise.

 

[Sunnyclover]

I have 2 conure who are somewhat quiet until they get really excited about something...which can be literally anything. I am not sure why it doesn't hurt my ears but it doesn't. Lucky me...I think I am ready for a Too!

 

[Skittys_Daddy]

I have 2 conure who are somewhat quiet until they get really excited about something...which can be literally anything. I am not sure why it doesn't hurt my ears but it doesn't. Lucky me...I think I am ready for a Too!

LOL, a 'too'? Good luck getting that by Ollie. If I so much as talk sweet in my 'birdy voice' to ANYTHING other than Skittles, he will pitch a fit. If you look up 'jealous' in the dictionary, you'll see a picture of Skittles.

 

[Sunnyclover]

Lol. Well Ollie accepted Finley into the flock (with some effort on my part) and I'm thinking one more loud annoying bird would would really round out my life. Also Skitty is plder and been alone longer, I think that might have something to do with it.

 

[Skittys_Daddy]

Well, I actually had Peaches FIRST, she was 16 when I got Skittles. He's only been alone since December of 2015, when Peaches passed. But thats 2 1/2 years.



I would LOVE another bird, truly, but Skittles keeps me plenty busy at the moment, so its not like starving for attention.