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Post by Sharshar on Mar 13, 2018 11:18:21 GMT -5
Hi, I've had a Quaker parrot called Frankie for a few days. But every time I give him food or water or put my hand anywhere near him he gets really agressive and bites me! He is also always making angry noises.
He is a year and a half old, he is refusing to be nice, no matter the training.
Can anybody help?
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Post by rickygonzalez on Mar 13, 2018 23:31:02 GMT -5
Been there, when you have time I would open the cage and let him come out. When he comes out I would offer a treat. After a little while I would see if he will step up, if he does I would give him lots of verbal praise and more treats. I would take him somewhere away from his cage and just let him be on your hand. More treats more praise. I would do that for probably 5-10 minutes and take him back to his cage. Do that a few times a day and before long he'll the idea and start to warm up to you. It is hormone season and quakers can be cage aggressive anyway and this time of year especially so. A few days isn't that long and your quaker is still settling in. I'm going through the same thing with my quaker. Patience and consistency is key to long term successe with parrots. It will get better in time.
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Post by biteybird on Mar 14, 2018 3:09:30 GMT -5
Yes, QPs are cage aggressive! Even our Bonnie, who is now 4 years old (we have had her since she was an 8-week old baby) still tries to bite our hands if she is in the cage when we change her food and water. As you have had Frankie for only a few days, I would not even try to put your hand near him. He needs some time to adjust to the change in surroundings, which could take weeks or even longer. Don't force him - just let him come to you when he's ready. Doing the food and water is a totally separate issue. What we did is we got Bonnie two cages - a 'day' cage and a 'sleeping' cage (in different rooms). We change her food and water in her day cage before we bring her out of her sleeping cage. One of us goes into her sleeping room with a beanie and says "good morning", then she crawls into the beanie and we carry her to the day cage. Then she goes straight to her food dish, no aggression. Welcome to the Forum!  |
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Post by julianna on Mar 18, 2018 14:22:04 GMT -5
Welcome for sure. My Quaker Oscar is 9 years old and he is still very protective of his food and water. It is best if they cannot get to you while you change them. Also for cleaning Oscar's cage... what I have noticed is that if I sing to him while cleaning the cage... he is distracted and won't attack me. He does love me very much... but when it comes to what is HIS... it is HIS... and we better not touch HIS stuff... lol.
I am allowed to hold Oscar on my hand and give him a handful of pellets. This he will eat like they are candy and I am allowed to have some of these too. I guess because it is on my hand and not in his food bowl.
Good luck.
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Post by mbkaya on Apr 26, 2018 14:10:22 GMT -5
hello. i am with sora for a month and a half. he got used to my arms shoulder hand etc. but he refuses to step up to my finger. he is not afraid since he eats food on my finger but when it comes to step up he just pushes with its beak and if i insist he bites slightly just to remove my finger.  do you have any ideas? should i wait for him to get used to finger? thanks in advance! |
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Post by cnyguy on Apr 26, 2018 20:15:59 GMT -5
You might try getting Sora to step onto a spare perch or a length of wooden dowel. My QP Ralph would do that when I first got him, before he was ready to step onto my hand, but it wasn't long before he was ready to climb onto an offered finger.
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Post by mbkaya on Apr 27, 2018 0:55:13 GMT -5
You might try getting Sora to step onto a spare perch or a length of wooden dowel. My QP Ralph would do that when I first got him, before he was ready to step onto my hand, but it wasn't long before he was ready to climb onto an offered finger. thank you for your advice i try to make him to step up on a perch but if he does not want it he refuses with his beak too he just pushes i just wait a couple of seconds and then take off the perch or my finger may be he is not ready yet ? |
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Post by biteybird on Apr 30, 2018 2:36:40 GMT -5
I remember that another Forum member (Julianna) had some success when she put her finger behind the bird and he stepped up backwards.
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Post by dinucci on Apr 30, 2018 5:59:37 GMT -5
The finger behind the knees thing works great when buddy is being stubborn. He has no other choice then,or.lose his balance and scream which is funny at times.
I use this if I pickup a bird in a pet store.
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Post by mbkaya on May 16, 2018 2:52:57 GMT -5
Sorry, since I wrote to other thread, I had forgotten to write here. He is stepping up to finger now! Although only if he wants. "finger behind the knees thing" did not work for us, he kept turning backwards or going away. maybe I was not patient and consistent enough. sometimes it feels like our attention spans are the same  |
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do you have any ideas? should i wait for him to get used to finger? thanks in advance!
