violet is my handraised baby that is 3 months old and i noticed that when i weaned her onto seed she started fighting with her brothers and sister but was still placid with me and loved sitting on my shoulder.because i was selling two of the babies and i wanting them to get use to being seperate before i sold them i move violet and runt into a cage with a 18month old male hoping that he might settle violet down. she was only in the cage for a week when i noticed tweety my older bird had stopped talking and would not come near me and runt was looking depressed. she had also started to bit me so i moved her into the aviary and now tweey is talking again and follows runt everywhere when they are out of the cage but is afraid of me. do you think he blames me for putting violet with him? violet is getting along with the birds in the aviary but is bacoming more aggressive with me and the kids. when i go into the aviary she will fly to me and sit on my shoulder but starts chirpy angrily at me and biting my ear and neck. it is so hard to act like she is not hurting so i take her off my shoulder and put her on a perch but she keeps coming back and landing on my hand or arm and biting me very hard. if the kids come in she will swoop at them. when i am filling their water and food bowls she will land on my hands and bite me.what would make a hand raised baby change so much and what can i do to help her. i miss the placid beautiful little girl that i raised.

Sounds like right now she is going through a "teenage" stage and you said she is around 3 months old so she is probably going to start molting and is hormonal. Her behavior is very normal. Merlin did this too me and he is completely tames. He would go after my fingers and hands and bite them. It will pass when he did it to me I said no and took him off my hands. Pretty would swoop me very much like her to get my attention, just let me know he was there or to be stinky. I think this stage will pass in a couple weeks.

 

Tweety and the runt may have been bossed around by Violet. Being that case that is probably he wouldn't go by you because he could have been scared too and the runt probably was not strong enough to with stand her behavior or could be sick. Has the runt perked up since Violet has been removed?

 

It is very common for talking birds to stop talking when they are around their own kind. Pretty stopped talking when I got Merlin. I know there is one member Una that all her keets talk but it is rare.

 

I am sure others will come in with good advice too. I hope this helps this is my perspective on what could be happening.

My hand raised lutino honey has also started to get into this stage i've experienced every hand raised bird do it. I call it the angry "fit" stage it's almost like temper tantrums. although mine never officially "bite" me they go into the angry hissy fits like a toddler and squabble at my fingers and so on. In my personal expeirence i've found it comes as soon as they learn to fly properly... so once they can soar away from you when they come back they start their little fights. I too do what you did with all my last birds and got fed and put them in the aviary.

 

Unfortunatly being in the aviary with untame birds will turn her even less tame in only a matter of days. If you genuinly want to keep her as a pet and wont be placing her in the aviary until fully grown i'd put in her in a seperate cage all of her own and if worst comes to worst with the training, clip her wings. But like discussed before, wing clipping is all a matter of opinion.

 

best of luck with your little girl

 

libby

thanks for all the helpful advice. i am glad it is normal. i was thinking i had done something wrong with her. i have put her in the aviary because she will be use for breeding not as a pet bed but because i go into the aviary twice a day to spend time with the birds when she first went in she was still coming to me and sitting on my shoulder and talking to me and then in the last week she has change which sounds like normal for her age. Runt is happy now and adores listen to Tweety talking to him. Tweety says hello to Runt and calls him a pretty boy but does not talk to me.

Slightly unrelated....BUT....the Princess parrots I handraised that are now in the aviary do the same kinds of things. They fly to me as they see me as their MUM, but they immediately start biting me. They get possessive over me and if one is on my shoulder, the others arent allowed to be. I spend most of my time in that aviary with 5 Princess parrots on shoulders, back, climbing up my legs and on my head. All the time they bicker over who gets closest to me ....and when they do get close, they bite me or bite my jewellery. glasses, or hair and they are all at "that age" too

Edited January 15, 200817 yr by KAZ

birds are so funny, they way they somethings decided to treats us when they see us as there mums. if my kids where behaving in the same way they would get in trouble.

last night i was teaching Runt to step up and he usually hops up and then back off again but last night because Tweety like to be with Runt when Runt got on my hand Tweety got on next to him. i know he only came near me to be with Runt but at least he came to me. it is the first time in a couple of weeks.Tweety follows Runt everywhere and gives he kisses. is that normal behaviour for two males. Tweety has been the only bird in the house for the last 12 months.He came into the house as a pet when he was 3 months old.

yes very normal for 2 males , Pretty and Merlin were the best of friends.