1. Bite slightly - Adapt the environment
Biting slightly is to know the new environment and things. It’s like dog smelling.
At this time, the breeder should let them bite.
In order to prevent to become a habit, you shouldn’t let them keep biting you.
2. Biting when playing - They are bored.
The breeder should give some toys, branch, or cloth to let them play thrillingly.
Otherwise, they may get the hair pulling.
Or you can hold the branches or something else to play with them.
3. Defending biting – When they are angry and show their threat
The defending biting includes scare, anger, and in the breeding period.
They would erect their body and feather and shrink their pupil.
4. Biting in rage – When they feel scary
Parrot would use many different ways to show their scare, including screaming, moving away,
flapping their wings, roaring, and having the strange movement or even biting.
5. Biting in menace – Territory and environment changed
This situation always happen when the environment or their territories have changed,
when they don’t want to be disturbed, the sudden motion, unexpected sound,
be abused from breeder or when they are neglected.
6. Biting for protection – When their accompany is in danger
The reason cause parrot bite is because they try to protect their accompany from danger.
7. Biting discontentedly – When they feel neglectful
Parrot may bite people when they think they don’t get the enough attention especially they are deposited in the cage for too long.
8. Biting in nervous – The changing hormone
The changing of their hormone may cause they bite. They would be nervous, somber, and tetchy when they molt and breed.
How to correct the biting habit?
1. Understand your parrot’s personality
You have to learn their personality. To observe when they want to be cared, when they want their privacy.
2. Teaching since they’re babies
The baby birds would consider your finger to be the feed. They would bite slightly from the beginning.
But they would bite more and more strongly as times by. Therefore, you need to claim directly and obviously that biting is forbidden.
3. Body language
Parrots also have body language Dozing, disheveling their feather mean that they’re busy. At this kind of situation, do not disturb your parrot.
4. Respond strongly
If your parrots t bite you powerfully, don’t use the negative way to respond them.
You need to tell them that is not right and put them back to their cage to limit them.
5. Stop interact with them
Neglecting them for a while means no interaction with them. It can help them to calm down.
They like to play with you instead of stopping the interact with you.
6. Keep the same respond
Keeping the same respond is important factor of biting habit.
That means you need to keep the same respond when they bite.
Therefore, they would remember your respond when they bite.
7. Don’t abuse
Do not hit their beaks or any part of their bodies when then they bite.
Do not shake them and throw them down.
Most important is, do not put them into the bathroom or wardrobe.
8. Train them on regular time
Always talk to them with gentle way to calm them down.
In the beginning of training, you should short the train times.
As training times increasing, your parrot would be your friend.
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