Biting Shirts...

[SarahandEco]

My Eco keeps biting holes in all of my shirts. Does anyone have a guess to why this is? Is he scared? or does he not have enough toys to chew on? He has a few chew toys in his cage. Does he just like the texture of fabric on his beak or something? I think it may be the latter, so at the moment I'm making a toy with strips of old t-shirts tied together. Does anyone else's birdie do this? I try to get him to stop because I want him to know that it is unacceptable behavior, so I pull his beak off of my shirt when he starts to bite, but sometimes he isn't ready to give up the shirt and ends up biting me instead. He's a really sweet bird and I don't want the issue of him ruining all of my shirts to interfere with his outside-of-cage playtime.

[julie]

some people have a special shirt they wear when they have their birds out, this way it doesn't matter if the shirt gets chewed. Personally i would stop the bird doing it thou.
One of my aviary birds has a fascination with black t shirts, when I go in the aviary he comes up and lifts up the bottom of the shirt like hes trying to see up my top he also makes funny noises at black shirts too.

[Ringneck <3]

yeah at the bird store i want to get this IRN but my mom doesnt want me to so i just go and hold him like every day lol... but anyway.. every day he climbs up onto my shoulder and makes 1 small hole on my left shoulder right where the seam goes down the arm... its odd but then he doesnt bit it anymore lol

[SarahandEco]

Hey guys I found this blog post if anyone else is having this problem too. Hope this helps.
http://www.birdtricks.com/blog/help-my- ... -shirts-3/