Introduction of baby Senegal to IRN

jprocky · Post by **jprocky** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 9:42 pm

Hi everyone,

I'm still fairly new at the forums, I thought I had made a breakthrough with Byrd-E (don't know if its a male or female). Anyways s/he still bites me, likes going up my shoulders, likes eating stuff from my fingers, but loves to bite me, whenever I go near the cage door to open it, he would come close just to jump and try to bitem I try to follow a bunch of peoples advice and not jump or yell. Anyways I think that s/he is just lonely and might need a friend, so I've contacted a breeder this time instead of going to a pet store, and he has a few baby senegals hatching in the next few days, when it's ready I will be bringing it home. Is this a good idea or not? sry for the long post.

julie · Post by **julie** » Wed Sep 05, 2007 7:27 am

Personally I would wait until your irn was tame before bringing in the sengal. Having another bird there may make the problems worse.

Melissa · Post by **Melissa** » Wed Sep 05, 2007 1:38 pm

i don't know that my two are a good example or an exception to the rule

when i went about looking for a "buddy" for fred (my IRN) i did a lot of research on types of birds trying to find somebody who wouldnt be killed by him ( i was told at a number of pet stores not to put ANY bird in with an IRN due to risk of injury) my senegal is actually the tough guy of the two. when i brought him home he was still being hand fed and wasnt yet strong enough to go in a (VERY LARGE) cage. he was kept in the bird room with fred in a separate tank until he was big and strong enough to move into the cage
right off the bat max was the tough guy..... in other words he's a little brother from hell! almost every other ring neck i have seen or come into contact with is somewhat aggressive unless they are comfortable with you where fred is a fraidy cat so i would be very careful about letting them be alone together and training two at a time is very difficult and you have to spend "alone" time with each of them to make any progress (or thats what ive found)!!!

jprocky · Post by **jprocky** » Thu Sep 06, 2007 9:21 pm

I've decided to wait a bit longer, training my IRN will hopefully work, i've always been doing it in another room, hes fine and wont bite as much, but once he is near the cage, he never wants to step up and bites 100 times as much, but hopefully he gets calmer soon

julie · Post by **julie** » Fri Sep 07, 2007 7:59 am

I think thats a pretty good decision you made

Indie gets a bit cranky when he is in his cage too. If I want him to come out I normally walk past with something I know he wants or depending what mood im in I stick my hand in and pat him anyway and tell him to behave. We have had indie for a few years now and I pretty muchly can tell by his body language if he will bite or not .