Need Help

[mstroup1]

We adopted a green cheek. His owner had died. He was only handled by a man. His niece took Cheeky in but it wouldn't let her in the cage. The only one that could get in his cage was her husband. He is an over the road truck driver so she was looking for a new home. He got along great with my boyfriend so we brought him home. We already have a Jenday. Our Jenday loves to be out of his cage and be handled several times a day. The green cheek attacks the bars on the cage if I get anywhere near him. Is it possible for him to come around? They say they think he is a couple years old. I do not want my Jenday to start acting up because of him. They are in separate cages. The Jenday is in a huge parrot cage that has a solid stop so we have the green cheek cage sitting on top of his. We don't know what to do to get him to come around. Some days he is fine around me but most of the time he tries to attack me through the bars or bite me.

[Chantilly]

We adopted a green cheek. His owner had died. He was only handled by a man. His niece took Cheeky in but it wouldn't let her in the cage. The only one that could get in his cage was her husband. He is an over the road truck driver so she was looking for a new home. He got along great with my boyfriend so we brought him home. We already have a Jenday. Our Jenday loves to be out of his cage and be handled several times a day. The green cheek attacks the bars on the cage if I get anywhere near him. Is it possible for him to come around? They say they think he is a couple years old. I do not want my Jenday to start acting up because of him. They are in separate cages. The Jenday is in a huge parrot cage that has a solid stop so we have the green cheek cage sitting on top of his. We don't know what to do to get him to come around. Some days he is fine around me but most of the time he tries to attack me through the bars or bite me.

Based on what you have what you have said, you have only very recently gotten your new parrot. If this is so, you dont want to have him in the same room as your jenday for atleast 30 days (I think that is the minimum quarantine period), because what if he is sick or unwell and then carries the disease to your Jenday?...not something you want to happen.
Also if you have just got him, he is flipping out! He just lost his owner and is in a brand new home, a new enviroment, different voices and faces and he needs to settle in! So I would put him in a different room to the Jenday, and try not to interupt him to much at first. When you are in the room with him sing and talk gently to him. Dont look him in the eyes, or directly at him it will freak him out.
If you only got him say, yesterdsy, I would also try to keep the room semi dark, dont open the blinds fully, only half way (if even) Just to help him calm down.
He will be able to eventually come allong well, but for now you need to let him settle in

[Pajarita]

Well, it might be too late for quarantine now but it can hurt but to try... And I would not recommend keeping a bird in twilight all day long, either. Parrots need bright light to feel happy, just like people do (it's the only way they can produce the 'happy' hormones in their brain).

First thing I would recommend is not to put your hand in his cage. Birds don't like strangers doing this and even though he might be tolerating it from your boyfriend, it's most likely due to the fact that he is in what we call the honeymoon period. He sounds very hormonal to me... GCCs are easy to get hormonal because they eat mostly fruits in the wild so when you free-feed seeds or pellets and don't keep them to a super strict solar schedule, they get hormonal -and males tend to be become quite aggressive and cage-possessive when this happens.

Make sure his diet is good (lots of fruits and veggies, cooked grains, etc and just a low protein seed mix for dinner), that he is following the solar schedule with full exposure to dawn and dusk and with a good quality full spectrum light for during the day (CRI 94+ and Ktemp between 5000 and 5500), allow him to come out to fly (just open his cage door and walk away -but make sure the room is 100% bird proof), don't give him a sleeping hut (for now, you can do it later when he is not behaving so aggressively) and just spend time with him without trying to interact physically until you see him completely relaxed even when you are near him or his cage -then start with target training but don't overdo it, just two sessions a day of not more than 10 minutes each.