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Post by siobhan on May 26, 2015 19:22:04 GMT -5
Ever since the first few weeks with us, when cleaning Jade's cage meant I looked like I'd been a few rounds with a buzz saw, Jade has allowed cage cleaning and dish refilling without a fuss. She even let me empty it and give it a good cleaning and give her all new stuff for her birthday a couple of years ago, because all her toys and things were worn out. Today she wouldn't let me clean. She stood guard at the door and wouldn't move. I tried alternate ways of getting fresh paper in (threading it through the bars) and she took it away from me and shook it to death. Yet she wants attention and is almost turning inside out trying to get it. Yelling "Whatcha doin'?" and "Jade a good girl!" and showing me her pretty wings and wanting me to stroke her beak. All I can figure is hormones.
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Post by cnyguy on May 26, 2015 19:35:08 GMT -5
All I can figure is hormones. Probably-- it's that time of year in our part of the world.  |
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Post by siobhan on May 26, 2015 21:09:13 GMT -5
I got new glasses today. Clyde has been adamant that I can only wear a certain pair, which is two glasses ago now that I have these. He actually took the last new pair away from me and I had a heck of a time getting them back. However, he likes these, or at least he doesn't hate them, and after pecking at them and examining them, he decided I could wear them. To be fair, the last new pair didn't look that great on me and I wasn't crazy about them, either. I wonder if Jade was partly reacting to the new glasses, though they're not THAT different from the ones Clyde approved of, and she never reacted badly to me in the previous pair that Clyde hated. None of the other birds cares what I wear, though Ringo is like Clyde as far as hair ornaments go. She zeroes in on them and does her best to either destroy or remove them just like he does. Rocky doesn't seem to notice anything or care if he does. I can even wear a hat around Rocky and he just looks at it curiously.
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Post by aaron on May 27, 2015 7:41:14 GMT -5
Picky chickens.
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Post by easttex on May 27, 2015 12:39:46 GMT -5
I have yet to see any sign of hormones in Peppy, except that he wanted to feed me once. Allie was very hormonal very early in spring, but after laying one egg has been fine.
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Post by julianna on May 27, 2015 14:07:51 GMT -5
I always get a fuss out of Oscar when I am changing the newspaper in his cage. He will try to attack me but fortunately I just move him to another spot until I am done. When it comes to tearing out the tie-wraps from his big house he doesn't fuss one bit. Usually I have Kleenex in the bottom of the tie-wraps so that I just change the Kleenex daily. When he misses the Kleenex out comes huge handfuls of tie-wraps for cleaning. This he doesn't mind at all.... but holy smokes... do not touch the newspaper.
Hormones are getting a little better here. When he gives me that "I want to love you" face... I tickle him and it stops.. lol
Amazing with the glasses. It is fascinating that they can pick up on any change. I had work done on my front teeth and as soon as I held Oscar he went straight for my teeth... lol
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Post by siobhan on May 27, 2015 14:18:40 GMT -5
I've never seen Jade hormonal in all the time she's had us. I've only caught her using a toy as a love object once and that was years ago, and when she saw me looking (I didn't realize what she was doing, at first), she quit doing it. So it would be very odd for an almost 11-year-old girl to suddenly go hormone crackers on her mama after six years of normalcy (normal for her). Of course, she's a Quaker, and going crackers is kind of their modus operandi.
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Post by Jan and Shah on May 27, 2015 16:14:42 GMT -5
I just think that Shah is hormonal for 12 months - it is hard to notice any difference in his behaviour  |
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Post by biteybird on May 31, 2015 0:05:56 GMT -5
Jan, maybe Australian weather is the reason (?). It has been hot/cooler/hotter/cooler etc. and it seems like the seasons are even-ing out to me (no longer the sustained hot and cold extremes we used to have years ago). This could be confusing for the Quaker hormones. I don't know.
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Post by Jan and Shah on May 31, 2015 0:41:17 GMT -5
Biteybird, don't make excuses for the little horror. He is in a permanent bad mood. I have just been putting new toys in the cockatiels' cage as Spike loves playing with toys. His Royal Highness screamed abuse at me non-stop.
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