I have a peach front conure(Ivy) and he (I don't know his actual gender) is almost 5 month old. I have been with him for about 2 months now, but he does not allow any touching except his foot. I had trained him to step up really well(no beak, foot only). And he can do a couple of tricks: wave, shake, spin, and target. He is kind of nippy but it's fine with me. he doesn't really poop on people unless he has to( he's not potty trained tho).
Ivy loves hanging out with me and he loves my presence, but here's the weird thing...
As I mentioned, Ivy doesn't like touchings, so it's really hard to groom him or give him a check up. He screamed like a machine gun during vet check up when the vet gently hold him with a towel(I’m not even kidding)! The vet also taught me how to give Ivy a quick check up once a while by looking at his stomach area to see if he’s too fat too skinny or normal. But I can’t do that cuz he won’t let me touch him, and it broke my heart when hearing him scream like that.( he will scream a little but not too much when his hand feeder hold him like that)
Any way, I decided to train him to allow touching but give him a star my mom fold with millets ( his only and favorite treat) in it. He loves the stars so he’s willing to trade a little touching for the star. But he has this tiny nah sound which means he doesn’t like it. He will make that sound every time I touch him.
And things got even weirder!
Ivy started molting, and got a couple pin feathers on his forehead that he could not reach... So, I went further when training him to be touched. I started to give him some scratches. He would bite on the star and I would started give him some scratches. He gave me those nah sounds at first THEN... he seemed to enjoy it a lot. He literally half closed his eyes and fluffed up his feathers! He looked so comfy!
BUT, as soon as I took back my hand he started make that nah sound again and doesn’t wan me to touch him...
I’m really confused about his behavior, please help me if you know something about this, thank you!