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[adolia]

I just wanted to introduce myself and my birds! We have been bird owners for several years, first owning a sun conure which we lost 3 years ago. Our second bird was a Jardines Parrot named Stewart who is now 3 years old. A few weeks ago we Took in a Yellow Fronted Amazon named Odie who is 20 years old who needed to be rehomed.

Odie is a wonderful and loving bird who attached to me right away. He says about 30 words and is very loving. He came from a home with 12 rehomed birds that were all primarily kept in their cages.

We are having a few issues with Odie but we really want to make our home work for him. He does not like to go inside of his cage. He will bite, get far away from me, and refuse to let anyone get close enough to put him to bed at night. The second issue is he seems to be stalking stewart. He gets very aggressive, tail wagging, pinning, and if you come between them you will get bit, HARD!

I am looking forward to talking to people here who have some experience with birds to help us with Odie and Stewart. I will be browsing the forums for any information that is already here, but if you have any tips they would be appreciated!

 

[Allee]

Hello and Welcome to the forum!

Odie sounds like a great addition to your family, and he has quite the vocabulary!

I'll leave it to our Amazon experts to answer your questions about the conflict between Odie and Stewart. Good Luck and enjoy your stay!

 

[labell]

Right now it is Amazon breeding season so some of the issues you are having with him may diminish as soon as spring is over. Sounds like he is cage aggressive, not uncommon, as he gets more comfortable you are going to want to start training him to step up onto a stick. Training sessions will need to happen in another room on a t-stand where he cannot see his cage.

He may never like your other parrot and due to the size difference it is not something you want to risk. It maybe that they will always need separate time interacting with you and more distance between them overall.

 

[Mysterygirl]

Hello and Welcome!

 

[Turk]

Welcome to the forum!

 

[adolia]

Stewart has always been free in the house so having birds in their cage during the day is strange for us. You cant open Odies cage without him crawling up top immediatly, and once he is out he isnt going in again, period!

Their cages are on opposite sides of the kitchen, and for the most part Odie stays on his cage just fine. Stewart is usually on his play area in the living room, so they cant even see each other during the day unless i go get Odie.

If Stewart is on his Atom and I have Odie on me, then they are mostly fine. But if Stewart tries to come down Odie starts pinning and getting aggressive. I tell him no and most of the time he calms down, but a couple times i have had to restrain Odie (and get bitten in the process) because he was determined to get to Stewart.

My main concern is that i am having to lock stewart up in his cage if i leave the house because I cant actually get Odie into the cage once he is out.

I am not sure about having a stick for him to step up on, right now he steps onto my forearm just fine. He loves to ride around on my shoulder as well.

Odie also has been a bit aggressive towards my husband a few times. I think he is jealous of anyone coming near me. Except the dogs, he just ignores them.

Ideally I would like Odie to be able to be on his play top during the day, but I would like to find a way to get him into the cage at bedtime. Stewart has always put himself to bed at bedtime so i have never had an issue getting a bird to go into the cage.