My parakeet couple keeps fighting D:

[familymcfrienderson]

I've had 2 budgies for about 2 years. The male (Kiwi) is about 2 years old and the female (Sarah) is about 7 years old.

They mate with each other every once in a while, but I'm pretty sure Sarah is too old to produce eggs anyway. Recently I've noticed them fighting:

Kiwi will be trying to woo Sarah. Sarah will hop around the cage and the room and Kiwi will hop after her. After a few hops, one of them pins the other to the floor! After some struggle, the pinned one is able to escape. I think it's Sarah pinning Kiwi, but I'm not sure. They will go from having one of these fights to kissing each other in a matter of minutes or sometimes seconds. Sarah shows some aggressive body language, but Kiwi's body language is always playful or loving. The fights haven't resulted in injury yet, but they are pretty intense with a lot of flapping.

Is this just a simple lovers quarrel?

Also, my birds aren't tamed-tamed, so they don't want to be touched. What's the least traumatic way to break up these fights?

 

[SailBoat]

Sorry, that your Thread has gotten missed. Sadly, this does happen from time to time and with this Bump, you should get back up one the board. With hope on for our Parakeet experts can respond.

The easiest way to verify is to separate them.

Your older hen made be slightly off and/or just tied of dealing with the younger male. Illness and/or pain is always a possibility and a trip to the Avian Medical Professional maybe needed.