My sun conure citrus turned one in Januray. Her and I are very bonded and she has always been quite sweet to me. She wasn't biting me hardly at all anymore and only moderately nipping my husband. She knows a few tricks like spin, nod and wave. She eats a pellet diet, with millet every few days, nutri berries from time to time and watermelon when I have it. I've tried time and again to get her to eat other veggies but she just won't eat them. She bathes herself daily and seems healthy. Everything was really great until we moved.
We tried to keep the whole process as calm as possible for her and all our pets. We moved he quickly and set her cage up quickly at the new house. In a corner just like the old house. I didn't know until after that I should have arranged the toys the same way but it's too late for that now as we've been in our new home about a month. She loves shredding toys and I keep her cage full of them. I've kept some of her favorites in there and added some new ones. Everything has stayed the same food wise and schedule wise so it's not that. I've also taken her all over the house and talked to her to try to introduce her into the environment which hasn't helped.
The point is she wasn't nipping the way she is now before we moved but I'm not even sure that she is doing it for that reason. It could be that or it could be hormones in just not sure. I'm not sure where to go from here because I can't decide what the problem is or even where to start. She has her good moments and still kisses and let's us pet her half the time but when I tried the laddering technique she just bites my fingers when I do it and won't stop. I've tried saying no bite and putting her on her perch but then sometimes she just screams like someone's killing her. She never used to scream as long as I was in the room. If I left the room she would scream until I came back but now I'll be holding her even sometimes and she'll just start screaming. And it's a different kind of scream (a mother knows her baby's cry) than what she used to do. It's louder and short and quick. Like "look at me now!" But it's all a new behavior.
Please help. She's the only bird I've ever had and we had the sweetest most wonderful relationship until about a month ago and I don't wanna be the kind of bird mom that lets this spiral out of control until we both hate each other.
Thank you!