young poicephalus female's bites, more frequent

[Wolf]

There is a possibility of one of our members being able to take the bird and giving it a good home, but we would need to start with finding out your general location. Don't give any more than city and state on the forum and anyone interested can PM you for more information.

[FaunaB]

Orinda, California

[Pajarita]

I don't know how far you are from the Los Angeles, San Jose, San Francisco are but there is a very good rescue (they only work with approved foster homes) called Mickaboo (http://www.mickaboo.org/). I know a gentleman who fosters for them (for many years now) and I can attest to how careful they are of the birds under their care (they pay for good medical care and everything).

[FaunaB]

Sounds good, thank you. Amazing, I ran into a woman who houses many parrots. We spoke and the following day, I brought my bird, in her makeshift body cage I wear. We get our picture taken a lot. After clipping wings and seeing the bird and I together, she said it was obvious to her that the bird was completely bonded to me. And I to her. She encouraged me to break her of the biting. She said I could call her anytime. So I have found someone who may be of help. My bird also has an excellent vet. So... Is there a trick I can use to break her of this, other than me taking the bites calmly while looking right into her eyes, while saying no bite and then turning my back on her? Just wondered... I trained my veiled chameleon with a syringe barrel. Thank you again for all the valuable info. I hope this works out.

[Wolf]

I am very glad to hear that you have found someone local to you that is willing to help you. You don't have to look into the birds eyes when it bites to tell it " No Bite" but if it helps you, go for it. In addition to this you can use some small plush toy that she either like or one that she tries to get away from as a distraction when you see that she is excitable and might bite. You can also use it if she bites to stop her from biting more. The best way is to avoid getting bitten in the first place. I use all of these things with my birds.

[Pajarita]

In my personal experience (three of them), female sennies are the sweetest things as long as they are not overly hormonal and get enough out of cage time and attention so re-evaluate her light schedule, diet and interaction time (they do like to fly a lot so clipping her wings will work against you on this) and she will gradually stop doing this (but I would recommend you allow her feathers to grow because I don't know of a single sennie that is happy when clipped -my Zoey was so upset she did not only scream and bite, she also plucked when clipped.

[seagoatdeb]

Sounds good, thank you. Amazing, I ran into a woman who houses many parrots. We spoke and the following day, I brought my bird, in her makeshift body cage I wear. We get our picture taken a lot. After clipping wings and seeing the bird and I together, she said it was obvious to her that the bird was completely bonded to me. And I to her. She encouraged me to break her of the biting. She said I could call her anytime. So I have found someone who may be of help. My bird also has an excellent vet. So... Is there a trick I can use to break her of this, other than me taking the bites calmly while looking right into her eyes, while saying no bite and then turning my back on her? Just wondered... I trained my veiled chameleon with a syringe barrel. Thank you again for all the valuable info. I hope this works out.

There are lots of techniques with a biting parrot to stop the bites. With a new rehome parrot or baby though if they are scared it is better to take the bites and ignore it. When you are at a point where they are bonded to you and not scared of you now you can use more agressive approaches. In Nature no other parrrot would just let another parrot continually bite them

My favorite is learning to anticipate when a bite is most likely to occur and avoid it.

You can gently grab the beak on the side with two fingers and say "nice kiss", or whatever key word to start to teach them the kind of beak pressure you will allow.

When they are about to bite, you can gently move your hand up and down and they will need to keep there balance so will stop biting. Never do it so hard that they could fall or lose confindence in you.

Once they are very use to your fingers, and that you dont acept bites usually it becomes easy to avoid bites.

I am glad you have someone to help. Parrots bite, thats the way it is but, you can learn to be so good at communicating with your parrots that that can become a rarity or even an occurence that never happens with you.