Are Male Parrots Bigger Chewers?

[Michael]

In general, would you say that the male parrots tend to be bigger chewers and destroyers than females?

[Kim S]

Just have one senegal and I dont even know his sexe for sure.
But do re-read your subject title dear

Edit: thank you

[lzver]

In my house, Lucy by far is a bigger chewer than Jessie.

From what Cory has told me about Kylie (Meyer's), she is also a big chewer and shredder.

[Giantmoa]

I would think the females would be bigger chewers, with nesting instinct and all that? when my tiel got hormonal she would chew and shred waay more than usual. she was even more of a chewer than my gcc is now. I'm not sure whether my gcc is a male or female though...

what makes you think that males might generally be bigger chewers?

[Rue]

The Amazon is a girl...and she likes to go down to the bottom of her cage and shred the newspaper.

The CAG (presumed girl)...also shreds the newspaper, and will chew up pretty much anything chewable I give her.

The Pi (presumed boy)...never shreds paper...but will chew on some toys...but chewing isn't really his thing...

[Natacha]

I would say it depends on each individual bird.

My answer was both equal for that reason.

Here, Shade, Joey, Zuri and now Pixel tend to chew/destroy toys a lot.
Petey seems to like toys he can screw/unscrew and shake more.

[TheNzJessie]

i cant comment on this because both my lorikeets i have/had were not dna sexed so i dont know for sure, luka was a big chewer of his perches and not on his toys. jango loves to chew his toys but doesn't even touch his perches. i think it comes down to the species and the individual bird.

[bmsweb]

I would say it depends on each individual bird

I agree with this. I know with Green Cheek Conures the females bite harder

[captwest]

I can only speak intelligently about Amazons but males tend to be more into chewwing wood , this behavior comes from breeding in the wild , the female is simulated by the sight of the hole (black hole)in the tree and the male is stimulated my enlarging it, ie chewing. of course there're many other factors but i think males are more into chewing/shredding wood.

[MandyG]

I'd say it depends on the species and on the individual bird.

I only have one DNA sexed bird (Male Amazon) and he's a big chewer! His main goal in life is to thoroughly destroy every toy that he comes in contact with.