awww thats fab, but as always don't let them alone together, just for safety an please keep us up dated i do feel the after hunnymoon period bit is a bit of a shocker! lol
I know that I am not experienced (that is why I am looking on internet, reading books, and on here) with this kind of bird but I have had birds before. I thought he might be jealous of the baby but I really don't know. I also think that he hasn't been here but a week. It is bad when he yells and then the baby starts to cry because he is so loud. He trys to get me when I walk by after he yells and I have put the baby back down in his room. I have always wanted a Blue and Gold Macaw and was so excited to get him. I am trying to talk to him without touching I have been giving him treats either giving them to him or putting in his extra bowl. He acts like he wants me to get him at times but I just want to take it slow with him now that he has bite me especially when he wanted to come to me and then bite the heck out of me. I guess I should have gotten a baby and started from scratch so I knew what the bird has been through. The previous owner said that he wasn't getting the attention he needed because he was away at work everyday and they were fixing to sell the house and move into a condo so he wouldn't have the room he does right now. I just don't know what to do. I really like him but the bird was supposed to for me since I am the one at home all day and night. I just don't know if he ends like letting me do anything with him if it is fair to him to not get the hands on attention until my husband is home to give it to him.
Well, for one thing, YOU HAVE AN INFANT CHILD! ALL MACAWS ARE LOUD at some portion of the day. This can be usually in the mornings and the evenings and any portion of the day. I would never have even for a second considered getting any kind of a bird especially one the size of a macaw when I had young children in the house and especially an infant.
Even if you had gotten a baby or small young macaw, they can still be loud especially at feeding time. I have been around a few when it was time for their meal and they can still raise the roof even at only a few weeks old. So with 3 kids and one being an infant, when were you going to spend uninterrupted time with this bird and build some sort of bond with it? Yes, if you bring in a bird the size of a macaw into a family invironment, you should have went with a hand fed baby and let it grow with your family.
I was feeling sorry for you, but not anymore. I'm feeling sorry for this poor bird who is about to be re-homed for the FOURTH time or becoming cage bound and considerably more aggressive due to your lack of experience and lack of uninterrupted time to truely spend with this bird. But the rescue shelters are full of those "I WANT WHAT I WANT" birds rather than looking past the tip of their nose and what is best for the bird and their family as a whole.
I have a 27 year old macaw I just got over a year ago. He is very loud but he is attached to my autistic child. Sometimes birds do get attached to one specific person and I have no clue why. I feed mine all the time and he did bite me really bad recently but thats because he knew I was taking him back inside. He loves being outside and not in the home. I would try and take him outside. Also I would do what others have said by feeding him but without the baby around for now.
i do feel the after hunnymoon period bit is a bit of a shocker! lol
