Speckle's a pretty scared little bird and bites occasionally, and when she does bite, she doesn't just snap, she bites and doesn't let go, she'll hang off your hand by just her beak and not let go!! My partner has no patience for her, he'll give her the odd scratch every now and then if she'll let him, but he pretty much bought her as a companion for his hand-reared cockatiel(Ella) that he adores. Now that he's got Cheeky there to keep Ella company, I've been thinking of bringing Speckle to my house, I know she gets along with all my birds here because she's been here before, and she'll also have Cockatiel friends. Prince and Tim pretty much just ignore the Cockatiel, except for the odd tail pull for Prince
(<--i know that's not actually a Princess Parrot but it looks like a fat Princy). Anyway, my question is, I really want to stop Speckle's biting, and try some hand taming with her.
She's about 6 months old, she can step up, but chooses not to some times, some times she's really good, depends on if she's feeling harassed or not. She's fully flighted, well, as fully slighted as a 6 month old bird is that had her wings clipped when you got her. I think she'll just really benefit from some routine, but I'm not too sure how to go about fixing her biting. With my hand-reared birds if I ever cop the odd bite(my 1 yr old Cockatiel(Mali) has a nasty habit of trying to remove moles, or any other skin blemish for that matter) a stern word or a growl will stop it quick smart, or with Mali she just get pushed off my shoulder and told to rack off, she generally does a loop and comes straight back. If I did that to Speckle she'd off and hiding for the rest of the day.
