Pajarita wrote:Young birds are insecure and spook much more easily than older ones - and he had some issues when he was a baby, too, didn't he?
He will be fine, feathers grow back - but I would recommend you even out his primaries so he doesn't feel a bigger drag on one side than the other.
Thanks. he seems to be doing better already he is acting normal and he is able to fly to me which is surprising, but he is a good flyer and very careful to land safely. Not like Gaugan who comes flying to me when she hears me get out of bed and i am around a corner so she has no idea where she is going to land and i have to put an arm out to catch her....lol.. so he is going to be fine and get around just not as good as before and has to work harder to fly.
i just get so worried about my babies. He is doing very well at getting where he wants to go...so may do one at a time...i hate to clip him at all but will a bit if i have to. He just looks like his confidence has been taken down a bit.
He even has a bit of his attitude back....lol...whenever i give him food he taps on the bars of the cage with his beak...he only doesn't tap if its a nut...i am sure he is trying to teach me what he likes and thinks i am a slow learner.
Pois do have phobic reactions just out of the blue......Gaugan has hardly ever had them...only to balloons and earthquakes. But something just spooks them and you never find out what it is sometimes. its the first time he has done this and he is 2 1/2 now....he used to freeze when scared, that was what i worried about when he was a baby, because he was never socialized properly and traumatized from all the moves he had to do but he grew out of it. He is a very happy confident parrot and very affectionate. He has learned a lot of ways to communicate what he needs to me. Gaugan is continuing to be extra nice to him so thats good too.