I did some research on the subject but I decided, why not submit it to you.
Many people seem to have the same issue with indian parakeets in hormonal periods: regurgitation. However I haven't found any clear solutions that could work for me.
Pesho, the old alexandrine boy, has started to regurgitate after we adopted him 5-6 years ago. Of course, since he is feather picking, we have encouraged him ever since to be more sociable, less scared of everything, and his sexual behaviors have reborn ever since: he regurgitates with his foot in his beak and to some favorite ball toys.
With time, we have learned to remove gradually the toys he regurgitates to, one by one, until the hormones are back to normal.
The problem we are having though is our young teenager, Akilles the indian ringneck.
When we resued Akilles he was a baby, 8 months old, and while growing up he learned most of his behaviors from big brother Pesho: flock calls but ALSO sexual behaviors.
Nowadays, and for the first time this year, Akilles has been masturbating on toys, regurgitating to toys, AND regurgitating just about anywhere else, on perches, onto metal cage screws, in his cage, on top of his cage.... pretty much everywhere.
He can spend 1 hour there regurgitating onto something and eating it back, then he goes in a food bowl and eats some food, then goes back to regurgitating....
This starts worrying me, especially because he is in perfect health and perhaps such frequent regurgitation could create acidity, and also clean up is virtually impossible because there is "puke" everywhere. I can remove the toys he "loves" but how do I remove the perches or the cagetop he "loves" so much too?
Usually Akilles keeps busy on his own, like a real bird should, but now how do I make him forget about regurgitating and do something else for a change?
thank you all for reading!
