Bird woman's flock

[Wolf]

When Kiki, Senegal first came here she chose my Lady to be her special person, which was fine with me although I was the one doing all of the work of caring for her and making sure she got out of her cage during the day. She would fly to me and bite me visciously over and over again. I did not harm her but can't say that it endeared her to me and I kept telling her no bite and putting her down. Then she one day decided that I would be her special person and ceased having much to do with my Lady, but this was no help for me as she still kept attacking me and to make matters worse, I was the only place that she wanted to be. Finally one day she flew over to me and bowed her head asking for a scratch, but everytime that I moved to scratch her head she met my fingers with a wide open beak, so I stopped and then she would bow her head again. It took me four or five times, maybe more before I just went with it. When I did not stop my approach to scratch her head, as soon as my fingers were within range she struck out and grabbed my finger in her beak. But she only held my finger instead of biting me. This officially ended the period of Kiki attacking and biting me, but by the time that she got over whatever it was that had her so angry, my hands and arms from my elbow down to my fingertips were covered with bites and scabs from earlier bites so that there was no place hardly left to bite without biting into a previous bite. Since that time she does not bite me very much.

[galeriagila]

I love that story, Wolf!

[seagoatdeb]

I had a Senegal Rajah that switched loyalties 17 years ago. It was my daughters older parrot rescue/rehome. Rajah bonded with my daugher and she kept it in her room, and the Senegal learned to keep a wide birth from Gaugan after he tried to attack Gaugan a few times. He was goood with the other parrots. Rajah was a screamer and needed a lot of attention and thats why he was rehomed. He screamed unless out of the cage and with his loved person, but he was not a nippy parrot. My daughter wanted me to spend some time with him during school hours and neither of us wanted the parrot to be alone too much.

I began bringing Rajah out to the living room to hang out with the other parrots. Everything got a lot better with Rajahs screaming.......BUT.....he bonded to me and did not want to be around my daughter much. Of course that lead to my daughter wanting a parrot that would be hers and more additions. These days I am very happy to be down to two parrots and have decided I will never go over 3 parrots at a time. "crossing fingers"

[Pajarita]

I love that story, Wolf!

And I can personally attest to the damage little Kiki did to his arms because I saw the bruises on them with my own two eyes! And let me add that, if a bird did that to my husband, it would have been out the window in no time at all!

[galeriagila]

No, it wouldn't have!

[seagoatdeb]

I know Pois can do damage like that, Gaugan had left big marks on the staff at the pet store, especially one man, when I met her. They really have a big beak for their size. Poor Kiki must have had something in her background very intense to cause that, but I am happy she is much better now and in a healthy situtation.

[Bird woman]

I try really hard to have all the parrots bond with my husband and myself but rarely does that work. Sexy riki the big brut mollucan female is strictly his bird . I am sloppy seconds at best in her eyes , but over the years she is a smart enough girl to know who's taking care of her and now shows me enough affection when he's not around to keep me cleaning up after her , cooking , bathing etc. She only will let me preen her head and will eat nothing my husband cooks. Smart girl . The only other time she gets real lovie with me is when she wants to make him jealous. She stomps her foot at me when she wants something or me to hurry up with meals. She's quite the character .Lilly the other mollucan is a lunitic , bonded with both of us but knows I'm a much bigger pushover than my husband. Me and just the girls have a special room that my husband gets ate up if he enters . Lilly is the one that runs him out. Every time. The new little aylah is the same way she does not want him in our special area either. This little girl has only been with me a short time and the best little girl you could ask for. My vet WAS this birds vet as I found out when I brought her in to fix her poor little head , all the blood work was in order so I didn't have to keep her in quarantine . He contacted the owner that was aylah's mom and just as I had suspected the injury didn't happen on her watch this woman got a dog right after the bird and you know the rest of the story. She is relieved I have aylah now and feels terrible this happened to her especially when I contacted her 6 months ago to work with her on finding a good home for the bird. She is in a wheel chair and can't do home checks. Well then Huie and mathew that's still an on going situation that I'm going to have to get this other bird room set up cause I think for all the other birds safety as well as mine they need a private suite all there own . mostly mine they don't pay attention to the other birds much. Delilah and Sammy are doin there own thing Sammy is everywhere I am and Delilah is with my husband. Pretty good little situation for a husband and wife that each wanted there own bird. They have a cage together again huge with lots of different perches and most of all the same size and height perches at the top so they are on even ground. Nobody is top dog at night and by god it worked. Lumi now has a buddy too , well we will see didn't feel comfortable talking about it for a bit but this little LSC came from the northwest bird club head honcho and it's another screwed up story I don't feel like getting into right now. Max the Quaker is the love of my life and I'm so relieved nobody even bats a feather at him , I guess he not big enough to threaten them , but he's with me 24/7 , nice the other birds don't notice. lumi loves the house keeper better than me I think she switched loyalities on me. I turn the I-pad on and put on the camera system and she just squeals when she sees her pull in. It's so dam cute. Little trader B---- anyway. Well gotta go put the gang to bed ! Good night all BW.

[Pajarita]

Well, it's good to have their loyalties split up like that - it works in your favor, Birdwoman.

Yes, another room would be a good addition because one never knows when a separate space is going to be needed - even if it's only temporary. I am thinking of removing the carpet in my husband's den so I can put Pookey there. I think she will benefit from the solitude as I could let her loose without worrying that she is going to end up hiding from another bird AND she has always preferred my husband over me, anyway.

[Bird woman]

The mathew and huie horror picture story is coming to an end. banner night, let the two shack up together in Mathews cage and huie is never caged. Not so much as a peep last night . 5:30 am started there breakfast and looked down and there were 2 fat monster heads looking at me from under there cover, it was so dam cute. By the time I got the camera they were already back on the perches. I let them out , put there dog bowl of food on top the cage and was able to clean change waters etc with no sign of aggression what so ever.OMG did I finally figure it out??? Well I put them out in the back avairy the one they can acsess from the bird room on there own and huie isn't even striking the window when I walk by. The only thing that really concerns me if mathew has a sieuzes when there in the cage together. That's when I'm probably going to get ate up. I still have to take up carpet up in 2 of the spare rooms but I'm having a he'll of a time trying to match the hard wood in the other areas. That's an old trick manufacturers do to get people to have to redo all the hard wood in whole house. ( they change it up every 5 or so years so if you don't buy extra of the lot it will never match) TRICKEY S--T. well if this keeps up with my 2 monsters life will be better than good . I'm praying that's all huie wanted and gets back to his usual self. BW

[Pajarita]

Awww, the sweet babies wanted to be together! And that's GREAT news!!! Hasn't the vet come back with Mathew's results and, if he has, wasn't there anything there that could have caused seizures?