PLease help!Macaw attack

[MikeyTN]

Macaws will scream to get in on the conversation, that's nothing too unusual! You should just talk back to her by calling her name. Get a play stand and have her play on it. Try to perch train her to get her on it so you can put her away if she won't step up onto your hand so you can put her up if you needed to. Birds will scream so there's nothing you can really do to stop them by you can try by talking to her and get her to talk more then scream. They scream for attention and also scream to call as they're calling for their mate/flock. It will just take you time and patience to get her to calm down a bit.

She does have a play stand but the thing is that I cant be around when she is out even on the play stand. She wants to get off and chase after me. Today when she was on it I opened the door of the room where I was and looked at her. Right away, her feathers went up and she got red like she is super mad.
I cant be in the room if she is out.

Has she got off of the play stand to go after you? Most of the time they will show you the motion of leaning backwards and try to beak at you, that's a warning to say stand back or I'll bite you. If she's jumping off the play stand to go after you, then that's a different story. The more your acting like your afraid of her and not be in the same room she is while she is out. She will know!!!! Once you teach her that your afraid of her, she'll use it to her full advantage then it can become a bigger problem. I'm sure your play stand is high enough off the ground she's not gonna try to jump off. Unless she's one of those fly attack birds. Which I haven't seen any macaw that does it. Not even mine, he mainly just does the beak thing towards my partner. You should be the one that offers her treats at all times, don't let your husband do it! She needs to get used to you to be the sole feeder of food and treats. I let my partner do the treat part as I never give him any treats so Willie tolerates my partner.

 

[Tatiana]

Macaws will scream to get in on the conversation, that's nothing too unusual! You should just talk back to her by calling her name. Get a play stand and have her play on it. Try to perch train her to get her on it so you can put her away if she won't step up onto your hand so you can put her up if you needed to. Birds will scream so there's nothing you can really do to stop them by you can try by talking to her and get her to talk more then scream. They scream for attention and also scream to call as they're calling for their mate/flock. It will just take you time and patience to get her to calm down a bit.

She does have a play stand but the thing is that I cant be around when she is out even on the play stand. She wants to get off and chase after me. Today when she was on it I opened the door of the room where I was and looked at her. Right away, her feathers went up and she got red like she is super mad.
I cant be in the room if she is out.

Has she got off of the play stand to go after you? Most of the time they will show you the motion of leaning backwards and try to beak at you, that's a warning to say stand back or I'll bite you. If she's jumping off the play stand to go after you, then that's a different story. The more your acting like your afraid of her and not be in the same room she is while she is out. She will know!!!! Once you teach her that your afraid of her, she'll use it to her full advantage then it can become a bigger problem. I'm sure your play stand is high enough off the ground she's not gonna try to jump off. Unless she's one of those fly attack birds. Which I haven't seen any macaw that does it. Not even mine, he mainly just does the beak thing towards my partner. You should be the one that offers her treats at all times, don't let your husband do it! She needs to get used to you to be the sole feeder of food and treats. I let my partner do the treat part as I never give him any treats so Willie tolerates my partner.

So its almost a week since we bought her.. and I try to spend with her as much time as possible.. So I let her go and she plays... then suddenly she attacks me. If not my boots that are super extra thick (for heavy snow) that I put when I let her go to play.. she would probably have torn away my toe...
I am patient.. but my amazon started to hate her screams... he is super upset with her and I see he doesnt like that she is noisy (he is not noisy at all.. quiet all the time). It is like I feel that she disturbs his quiet atmosphere.
I feel sorry for Oliver and for my amazon.

Hard situation....

 

[MikeyTN]

You shouldn't allow her to be on the floor anyways cause they tend to get territorial when they're on the floor. You should let her play on her stand at all times where she can not get on the floor. Otherwise your fighting a losing battle. The screaming part is hard to avoid but over time she will be calmer and not scream as much.

 

[emmett518]

My greenwing took a month to settle in, and six months before she'd eat real food (instead of the awful Walmart parrot chow).

Have patience. Earning the trust of a bird takes weeks if not months, and is a slow process. I do think that sitting in the room with her while studying can't hurt. Neither can feeding her in the cage (watch fingers).

 

[Tatiana]

My greenwing took a month to settle in, and six months before she'd eat real food (instead of the awful Walmart parrot chow).

Have patience. Earning the trust of a bird takes weeks if not months, and is a slow process. I do think that sitting in the room with her while studying can't hurt. Neither can feeding her in the cage (watch fingers).

Thank you,

She still attacks me.. after i believe a month of being and spending time with her when I can. The problem is (maybe) my husband is in love with her now and he didnt follow the advise that one lady gave me here on the forum. He spends time with her and gives her more attention then I could provide (because he can watch the TV with her and have more fearless time with her then me)
I truly believe that one day she will get use to me.
Plus I have read on the internet that the hormones can affect the bird a lot. And nothing I can do with that. I have noticed that she tries to make a nest with the old cloth that I gave to her to play with, also she all the time shows her .. sorry.. butt to us when we try to approach her (while she is sitting in the cage) So I believe she goes through that period of time when she is trying to be a mother.
I believe that is the major reason why she loved my husband right away (like she saw him as his mate) but not me.

 

[Tatiana]

I just wanted to update everyone and thank everyone for the support that this forum gave me during tough time with my macaw!!!
She is really nice with me now! She loves me the way I do love her!!!
How did that happen? I dont know! I was just really patient with her and I give her treats everyday... she is like my little baby. and its been already 2 month how i can play with her like a little dog.
Now we just clipped her nails (there were really long so we had to do it). We took her to the avian. After it she seems so depressed! The problem also that she fall down today from her branch in the cage and I think the falling was harsh for her! Because the cage is huge and the branch was pretty high from the bottom of the cage.
I was thinking of putting the towels on the bottom of the cage but then I know that any kind of cloth (specially towels) promote her to laying eggs (which of course i dont want). Should I do anything about it? Or she will get used to her new short nails by herself?
Thank you a lot again for your help!!!

 

[noblemacaw]

That is great your macaw is accepting you and is giving and accepting your affection. That is too bad the nails were cut back too short.

I have a noble macaw (mini macaw)that has no tail or wing feathers so he has problems with balance. I put towels on the bottom but put newspaper on top of towels to catch the poopies. This might deter the nesting if towels are covered with newspaper but will still cushion her falls. Hopefully she will not fall anymore and will gain confidence with her groomed nails.

 

[MikeyTN]

Are the branches over sized that she can not get a good grip?? Sometimes they act goofy and play around in their cages and fall. Lola did that one day and it scared me. But she's not falling anymore as she learned not to do certain things that cause her to fall. Glad to hear she's doing much better for you though!!!

 

[Birdman666]

This I have lots of experience with. I was the person responsible for retraining the "evil" macaws when I volunteered down at the parrot rescue. So, I've done this about 100 times, and have been on both ends of the "attack."

First of all, Macaws are "pair bond" birds. This bird appears to be bonding with hubby, and trying to drive you out of the nest.

Second, all macaws test. You have to pass the test, or the bird thinks he is in charge. If he can scream, or bite (or chase you around the room) to get his way, he is...

Case in point, my daughter had a rescued "issue" (dominant male shamrock) macaw that bonded with her, and attempted to amputate my toes when ever possible... He got down on the floor and attempted to chase me... What did I do? For starters, I didn't run. I pulled the cushion off the couch and put it between me and the bird beak, and then used it to BACK HIS BUTT INTO A CORNER...

Needless to say, he didn't like that one bit, but I made him sit there and think about it a minute before carefully making him step up nice (with two fingers on the top of his beak to control it!) Do this once or twice, and he'll stop chasing! I guarantee it!!!

In the wild, BIG BIRD is in charge. Be BIG BIRD.

Permissive parenting with a dominant macaw tends to not work so well...

 

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