making Charlie and Polly play nice

[msdeb]

How do I go about introducing and allowing Charlie and Polly to interact without someone getting hurt? They mostly stay away from each other but every once in a while I have to intervene and remove one or the other because they are being aggressive with each other. What steps should I take is there a system or plan, how do you guys with multiple birds handle this? Any advice would be wonderfull

 

[thebirdnerd]

Unfortunately even if they were playing together, the nape could do serious damage to the little Quaker. I saw this happen to someone who had a yellow crown Amazon and a Quaker for a while.. All was good until the Amazon ripped off the upper part of the Quakers beak. I would only let them out under strict supervision.

 

[msdeb]

Unfortunately even if they were playing together, the nape could do serious damage to the little Quaker. I saw this happen to someone who had a yellow crown Amazon and a Quaker for a while.. All was good until the Amazon ripped off the upper part of the Quakers beak. I would only let them out under strict supervision.

Polly is the new Yellow Crowned Amazon, Little Bird is the Quaker. Polly is a new addition to our home, she came to us in November. She is 35-40 years old and she is aggressive with Charlie and he is defensive but doesn't seem to be jealous of her yet. I don't want them to hurt each other.

 

[SailBoat]

The last time I tried to 'make' my Amazon do anything, it did not turn out well. Whether a larger parrot or a small parrot, they are not puppets that we have full control over. Even when our parrots are well socialized, things can and do happen. It is important to understand that whether we are taking about children (and some adults) or parrots, there will be those that get along and those that just cannot. And, even when they appear to get along, well, everyone has a bad day. When both parrots are the same and have been friendly with each other, that bad day thing can still occur.

To a degree, having more than one parrot becomes a process of a third party trying to prevent a war. With great luck, some go along fairly easily and others it is an on going intervention. When you bring to this mix parties of greatly different size and therefore capabilities, when a bad day occurs, it can be very serious maybe even deadly to the smaller party.

So, you are responsible for maintaining separate areas and when there is a gathering, you are the one that must at all times manage (minimize) bad behavior. Remember, that there is nothing in Nature that would place these two parrots in the same place and time and assure harmony.

Good luck on your new role of peace keeper!