Juicy wrote:Hi all,
thanks for the response. I agree with you all and I would never treat him like a toy! Never! But his behaviour is very deceiving. Once when I stroke him, he is fine. Cooes a bit and then suddenly out of nowhere he bits! This is what is confusing me. And I am starting to think that this is not normal but i just dont understand what I am doing wrong. I am seriously considering to give him to someone more experienced as I do not want him to get upset with me and I can clearly not do a thing wright by him
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I think others may not like this but this idea doesn't sound so bad at all-first you can make you and your bird both happier with giving him to someone who will know how to handle him and be affectionate to him too and you get yourself a truly tamed bird. I'm telling this from my own experience with a cockatiel I had once - it was a female who didn't like any of us at all! She would bite us, scream all the time and be completely unaffectionate to us. I gave her to my very good friend and imagine my surprise when I visited her in month or so -she was entirely different bird! She started talking, she was very cuddly, she would ask you to kiss her in head by bending her head down (like birds do often
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) and snuggle with you, they had windows open in rooms she would never go to window or try to fly out...you can't even imagine how different that bird was! She was cuddling with me too at their home but never when she was with us, she simply didn't like something there and wasn't happy, neither were we. If you had no luck with your IRN that might not be a bad idea gifting him/her to someone who you know can take good care of him. We bought young hand fed IRN and he is a very affectionate bird who really loves to cuddle, even at some moments he turns his beak towards a finger he will never bite it, he just goes for it but doesn't bite, and ofc when he goes like that I stop as I see he doesn't like that so we have no problem at all. He likes to test everything with his beak but he doesn't bite us and I can only imagine how strong their bites can be when he tries to take something from us that we don't want to give lol also if you don't want to give up yet simply move your hands near him/her and if he bites just put him in a cage so he knows he did a bad thing and ofc don't let him come near your place, bird like that can't be trusted.