Mating seasons

[Jackiebuckdaily]

Hello everyone. So for like a month now, Adrian whenever I give her attention or even just touch her once or use a sweet voice... she wants to mate with me.... I feel bad because she gets all worked up and makes weird grunting noises while lifting her butt up in the air. Rocky I think is also entering this phase too... but wants nothing sexually to do with Adrian... how long does this bird pattern normally last?

 

[Peppo]

When Paco gets a little too lovey in the spring it seems to last about a month or so. I am seeing nothing now other than usual loviness. He's 22. I am careful about potentiial nesting sites and only petting or rubbing his head and feet for any extended period of time. He is extremely bonded to me (maybe too much so) but I think he sees me as a mom (leader that is) and not a mate. That may be what is happening with you?

 

[JerseyWendy]

Amazon breeding season won't be for at least another 2 months or so (also depending on where you live), but they can be 'sexual' all year round. :54:

My Hunter's had it particularly bad all year this year. She's going on 17. I have to be ever so careful how I play with her or she'll start her clucking, butt in the air, etc. :21:

 

[Jackiebuckdaily]

How odd... maybe she's really attracted to me? She seems to do it all the time.

 

[Amanda_Bennett]

Amazon breeding season won't be for at least another 2 months or so (also depending on where you live), but they can be 'sexual' all year round. :54:

My Hunter's had it particularly bad all year this year. She's going on 17. I have to be ever so careful how I play with her or she'll start her clucking, butt in the air, etc. :21:

Wendy, could you maybe have a chat with Zilla and tell her she isn't supposed to be having her hormonal issues yet? She seems to have started in already this year and I've had to take away some of her favorite places & toys already! She is now resorting to trying to climb inside my shirt with me

 

[Aquila]

See, you all have problems with your amazons being hormonal, yet my breeding pair couldn't be LESS so, what the heck.

 

[Amanda_Bennett]

See, you all have problems with your amazons being hormonal, yet my breeding pair couldn't be LESS so, what the heck.

I could ship Zilla to you until about April when she starts getting over herself and her hormones!!! She has a really super annoying "nesty whine" as I like to call it, and if she thinks I'm not paying enough attention or maybe I'm not annoyed enough she just gets louder...

 

[JerseyWendy]

Wendy, could you maybe have a chat with Zilla and tell her she isn't supposed to be having her hormonal issues yet? She seems to have started in already this year and I've had to take away some of her favorite places & toys already! She is now resorting to trying to climb inside my shirt with me

Amanda, like this???

Hunter doesn't discriminate, LOL. Here she's 'trying' with my youngest son. :54:

 

[Jackiebuckdaily]

That's adorable. But I think Maine's cycle is confusing them.

 

[henpecked]

Oh , please say it isn't true. It can't be that time of the year again.

 

[Amanda_Bennett]

Oh , please say it isn't true. It can't be that time of the year again.

It's starting here already, but you're on the other side of the country, so maybe you won't have it starting yet?

 

[henpecked]

All you had to do was talk about it.I just picked up jake and she was all clucking and lovie dovie. i hate winter.

 

[Jackiebuckdaily]

AAAAAAAA HUH! So it does that time of that year again! How exciting.... lol

 

[Birdman666]

This year, the problem hormonal bird is Sally, my red lored.

Pinching me when I handle the other zons, and attacky with them...
AND CLINGY... I set her down, she flies back to me within minutes.

I handle another bird she flies back to me AND PINCHES... in a jealous rage.

This is the worst year I've ever had it with her hormone wise. I've been working with her on this, with limited success.

She's just super bonded, and very hormonal at the moment.

Coincidentally, she is also 17 years old.

 

[Amanda_Bennett]

Zilla is learning how to fly, she will be 30 this year, is super hormonal, and now flies.

I think maybe late Spring would have been a better time to let her learn to fly! She still isn't good with her aim...and ends up several feet away from where she intended to go. Like trying to follow me down the hall, but lands on the metal Gecko wall art about 2 feet away from the entrance to the hallway.

I think last year she was still too ill and we didn't know each other very well, but this year we are bonded so the pinching has started, and the "how dare you talk to those furry beasts" (meaning the cats) and lord forbid someone comes to visit and it's not all about her, her, and more her! She will peel the paint off the walls, or at least give it her best effort. Oh, and I almost forgot, I am not allowed to talk on the phone for any reason!

 

[Birdman666]

Sally is an amazing flier, and she's long clipped. (She can still fly across the house.) I've free flown her...

She pretty much ends up right back on my shoulder every time...

I don't want to short clip her if I don't have to. She's not engaging in arial combat anymore. Now it's mostly pinching me, unless one of the other zons gets too close to her.

None of them are particularly inclined to do so at the moment.

So, really it's about the cluster of bruises on my shoulder, which is getting very old.

 

[BIRDIGIRL]

Hee hee i came on here to see if there was any advice about males being hormonal only to find some great posts and pics about the girls. I have a boy White Fronted Amazon since yesterday and he wasnt so well when he arrived so I hand fed him from yesterday evening and offered him more food on a desert spoon...today I had the vet to him and he has a cold which was probably the result of him being outside in cold weather before I got him but after the vet left he came to life all of a sudden and came over beside me on his perch turned his back to me and tried to mate with the perch inside his cage beside me...I was wondering is that a come hither or a go away...my Conure did that too but always with one of his favourite toys and I dont remember him turning his back on me. With my Conure I would just ignore it and move away which is what I did here and the behaviour ceased with my WFA as soon as I left the room...I could still see him through the glass in the door. What does one do when a male WFA gets hormonal...I never asked anyone what to do when the Conure did it I just instinctively didnt encourage it and walked away

 

[JerseyWendy]

.... What does one do when a male WFA gets hormonal...I never asked anyone what to do when the Conure did it I just instinctively didnt encourage it and walked away

I'd try the same for your WFA and see if that'll do the trick.

Sorry to hear he's sick. Did the vet give you meds for him?

 

[BIRDIGIRL]

.... What does one do when a male WFA gets hormonal...I never asked anyone what to do when the Conure did it I just instinctively didnt encourage it and walked away

I'd try the same for your WFA and see if that'll do the trick.

Sorry to hear he's sick. Did the vet give you meds for him?

Thanks...vet isnt giving him any meds at the moment..he says that as he has improved so much since yesterday that for now rather than try to get meds into him and perhaps put him off the bit of food he is eating we will monitor him but should he get worse I have to call the vet immediately...the WFA (Mr Biggles) is only eating bits of food out of my hand and some Amazon food and licking water off a spoon...Ive been told its not unusual for them not to eat for a day or two in a new home so hope he goes to his bowls soon for he needs to build up his strength and get well....Thanks for the advice on how to handle him.