Please backing me!! my lorikeet is getting crazy - HELP?
Hi all,
I would desperately need your help. I hold a red collard lorikeet and got it a bit more then a year ago. When i got it he be 3 months old and all ready train.
He never use to bite, and use to love seeing people and play with them but since few months his is ( i think he is a male) varying behavior a lot. First he is very often "dancing" on his perch while swelling his barb and having his eyes pupil changing sise ( getting very red later a bit less then again very red). He have now starting to bite, even me - he even made me bleed once, he screams all the time and do not adopt anybody except me to touch him and play with him.
He is my little baby and i love him to disappearance, but my boyfriend and family are starting to be over it and are asking me to do something. I really don't want to give him to someone, but it can not let him deed this way either. Please help me to fathom out his behaviour, and to change him.
I think that he may be getting sexually fully grown, and is trying to take control on the house. I all ready have his wings clipped a few weeks ago, it did change his behaviours slightly but he got even worth soon latter.
Please help me understand my baby.
Thank you adjectives
Chloe
Not a big problem, but one that will take time. All Lori'es get that process at maturity if their not handled plenty. All you need to do is move his cage near a fanlight in your home where he can see you coming and going from domestic.. and apply this to all aspects his involvement in your family. He wishes closeness, another lori for him would make it worse, so the more time you spend with him the better he will get, BUT, you can speed the process along by getting a shower pirtch from a pet shop and bathing him near you (no sope on him tho!) this will calm him and after he gets used to it you can start to dry him with a coat dryer (loris & cockatoos love wind) Whenyou'vee made it a week with out a bite, you then need to start tuition him tricks to keep his mind stimulated. Their vocabulary can reach over 70 words and 10 frazes when they win older so don't selll him, you will kick yourselff. :)
You have disrespected him surrounded by some way and he is trying to get revenge,this is true birds arent dumb they are intelligent animals.Just like humans they WILL capture revenge.Just try to get him some treats or give him some time alone.Dont give this trade the bird or give it away if its acting coarsely to you when you have been his master for 1 year then assume him with someone new?Just give him some space.He might be getting sexually alive and wants a mate or can be getting lonely.
http://www.letmegooglethatforyou.com/?q=...
If all failes then foot him over to a vet or some sort of bird handler and ask him/her to handle her behavoir.
Answers: It varies from bird to bird, but lorikeets reach sexual maturity at around 1 years of age. If it is sexual readiness, it is most likely temporary and will not last as long as you stick to doing what's right. In some birds (although I haven't hear of it being noticeable in lorikeets) they will do this for a short interval of time once a year and you have to just wait it out, it's chunk of owning a bird.
Dancing on the perch with their feathers up and eyes pinning is usually a sign of much excitement and playfulness when it comes to lorikeets. That's what it is most of the time. However, depending on other things your bird is doing, it can also be a sign of territorial aggressiveness or overexcitement, so learn to read this practice and know when it's safe to come close (he may just want to play).
Lorikeets are very nippy birds. They can bite from one too excited or if they want their own way. Again, watch what your lorikeet does a moment ago before he bites. He may have a certain type of routine and his feathers will be subtly in a certain way, notice you.
When he bites, glare at him and say a firm 'don't', put him somewhere away from you (not put money on in his cage) and leave him alone for a couple of minutes. That is, if he requests to be near you. You need to put him away from the article he wants. Do not yell out when he bites, as hard as it is.
When he scream - the worst thing you can do is give him attention. This includes going up to him, giving him food, covering the cage, etc. Attention is a reward for screaming. Instead, you involve to ignore his screaming and give him attention and reward him when he is being pious. You can teach him that he gets attention for doing another behaviour instead such as saw hello or ringing a bell.
If there are times when you know he will scream, such as when you have tea, endow with him food to distract him BEFORE he even thinks about screaming. This will make that time of time quiet.
Continue giving him time out of his cage and being around different nation. When his sexual phase passes for now, he will welcome everyone contained by the house again.
Good luck with your red collar. :)
Visit http://www.wikipetbird.com/parrots:swain... for more info (it's about the other sub species of rainbow lorikeet but still applies)
Chloe,
Obviously he needs some lend a hand. Write to an animal specialist or something. Maybe he just needs a companion of the opposite sex. If you do choose to attain him another companion, make sure that she is hand raise as well and that she like you. He will see this and get envious which can cause him to act nicer. Make sure that you are other playing with him. Even just letting him out and have him contained by the same room as you when you are doing something. Have him in your top pocket, he will really love the attention. Hope everything goes capably.
