helppp why my alexandrine sooo panic???

[nikii]

hai im niki,im new here .my alexandrine already 1 month in my house.but he still really shaking everytime i go near him.he also poop everytime he sees people. now he start to take pomegranate from my hand but after that he fastly turn his body back.why my parrot behaviour is like that?is it normal?
is there anyways to make them get used to u faster??
im from indonesia n here is very rare people keep parrot as a pet, so i dont know what to do n who i have to ask everytime i have question

plsss hellppppp really appreciate for ur answer

[Kath]

Hi, I'm Kath, also quite new in here and I've never had a parrot before
I own a Lovebird, Ako and in the beginning he was acting the same way, only not for so long.
He was shaking and panicking in his cage everytime I came close to him - I was actually afraid that he may hurt himself by panicking so much.
I didn't know about this forum yet so I tell you what I came up with myself and it worked.
I decided I want him to get used to my voice so I was talking a lot to him, especialy his name but not comming near cage, only when changing food. After 3-4 days I was walking by a cage ignoring my parrot, like he wasn't there. When he stopped paying attention to me walking by I was giving him a short look.
And basicly this is it. I have him for 3 months and 1 week now and he's getting more tame every day.He even tries to say his name ;P
I reccomend you to read parrot training blog - helped me a lot too

Good luck

And remember to write if you had any progress, ok?

[nikii]

thxx kath, i hope he will be better soon
i just worried because he often shake his fur everytime i go near him,is he scared or mad?he also always poop when he see people.do you know why he always turn back his body everytime i give him fruit?after he eat the fruits he will come again to take the fruits n he turn back again. i dont know why he do that.
sorry my english is disaster hope u understand what i mean,hehe.
thx alot kath!!

[Polarn]

my guess if he poop everytime someone gets close is that he is scared and not angry. and its not from "oh shit, i was so scared i almost pooped my pants!" nah, birds have a natural reflex to poop when their getting ready to fly, so i think the pooping is actually him getting ready to fly to be able to get away from you. But as kath ses talk to him alot, some birds respond wery good to singing as well. just "push" yourself closer and closer every now and then talking/singing whatever you and your bird prefers to keep him conftible, if you see him starting to stress out, and i mean before he is panicking, just stand still and continue talking until he is calm again. as soon as he is calm just move back a couple of steps. give him some time to relax and feel content with the distance you just created. enter his space again maybe he will allow you an inch closer this time before he start to look paranoid, get him content and back off. if you repeat doing that he should be cool with you getting up to the cage pretty quick.
But if he actually walks upto the bars when you come with a treat, i would actually recomend playing with him, probably by targettraining him, giving him the reward every time he touches the stick. this should make him associate you and the targetstick to fun n games and lots of treats.

[nikii]

thanks polarn,u really give me a good advice..i will try to strart target training him.

[Kath]

Yes, I agree with Polarn Try to play with your parrot if it takes treats from you.
And don't worry about your English - it isn't my native language as well so if I can understand you then I think most of people here will

[nikii]

hiii i just realize today he dsnt poop at all when he see me(thats really great),hehehe
thxxxx guys for the help!!!

[nikii]

hi guys,seems my parrot start to driving me crazy.
this morning he scream VERY loud,he makes sound everyday but seems day by day he getting more worse.today he start to scream n i ignore him(he has his own room),i give my husband breakfast n chit chat without giving any attention to my parrot(because i dont want him to scream more).
but guess what happen,when he stop i came to him n give him fruits.he totally mad at me,he reject my food(which he never),he turn his body back at me,he dsnt stop go around his cage like crazy n scream.
finnaly my husband go to work n he silent.i went to his room,sit there try to talk to him n he seems relax. i try to give him fruit but he try to bite me n puff his fur.i leave him alone n in 10 minutes he give me a disaster screaming call again.
pls help me,any advice??what should i do?is it a sign of stress?

[Kath]

I'm afraid I cannot help you with this one. I guess your parrot just got angry with you
With Ako it was like this: in the beginning he was screaming like crazy, I had a feeling that my ears will explode from the inside, and I had to cover whole cage for the night because he was screaming as soon as he woke up (which is earlier than me when I have a day off). But it seems like it was passing along with being him more tame (sorry don't know how to write this sentence properly - hope you got the point). Now I can sleep as long as I want and he's quiet. Gets loud only for like an hour everyday around 5 p.m. - don't know why.

Oh, I just remembered something that might help
Since you wrote your bird has a separate room maybe it feels lonely or bored. As far as I know parrots dont like being alone in quiet place. Try to give him some toys in cage. My Ako likes a piece of hard paper (clean one of course) folded into half and I also gave him a small toy rocket. He seems to enjoy playing it.

If this won't help we can try to figure out something different, just give it a couple days to check how is your parrot doing

Best regards,
Kath and Ako

[nikii]

i think jojo(my parrot) got emotional problem.
seriously im very confused,which one is better:ignore him when he scream(which he gonna be very mad n bad mood) or respond it?if i respond it n stay with him sometime he puff his fur like saying 'im scared'.
jojo scream from 8am-11am n 2pm-5pm n its loud.
yeah i think u right,i will give him more toys.maybe he bored.
Ako seems really a nice parrot
thx kath for the good advice!!