Indian ringneck

[Profesor]

Hello,

I have a blue indian ringneck that bites me occationally. The bird is 9 months old and i have bought it before 2.5 months. I have train it and it didn't bite but unfortunately one day when i try to step her up as usuall it bited me. At first i thought that is the bluffing that i read in the internet so i keep practising and ingoring the hard bitings and i train her the turn over trick but it pass one month and still biting. The thing is that the bird bites me in specific place. For examble in the same perche it bites me if i place my finger from the front side but if i placed it in the back side , the bird turn and step up ...
Any help ?

P.E. sry for the terrible english my mother language is greek.

Here is Killis

[spiral71]

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From what you have written its hard to tell what you mean. Dont worry, being bitten from time to time is just part of having a parrot. Micheal has posted a video on his blog on how to cope with random bitting. Maybe that could help?

You dont seem like you are doing too badly, persevere with the training of course but remember if you try to do to much too quickly with your bird, it could bite from fear or fustration. And for your bird to want to do something it has to want to do it for a reward of eather food priase or attention or maybe a combination of all these.

You may want to read michals articles on motivation in parrots.Sometimes we cause our birds to bite us by reacting to their bite in a paticuar way. You may have unintentionally reinfoced the biting behaviour, if the bird got what it wanted right afrer it bit you. I.E if it did not have to step up.

how about presenting your hand in a different way so that it is more difficult for the bird to bite that part of your finger?

The bird could be holding on to your finger to mayke it easier for the bird to roll over i have seen a sun conure do this before. you could look at the video of john dune Perry traing his sun conure apollo to roll over. It maybe useful for you ITS ON YOU TUBE.

jyst trype in appolo the sun conure and you should be able to find the video. good luck. i hope this helps.

[Profesor]

Thank you very much for u reply.
First he used before his beak to step up. But now he has been agressive to me but attacking my figer to bite it when it was in specific position of his stand. However this two days it didn't bite me at all.I hope that this phase past and was cause by hormones. Now we finally perfect turn but i have a question. My parrot use his beak to turn is there a way to make him not to use it cause it looks better without the beak.Thank you