baby bobbing up and down

Dolphinheart · Post by **Dolphinheart** » Tue Dec 30, 2008 4:27 am

ok have a question that may seem a little elemental to you all but i will ask it all the same.

our baby IRN (roughly 9 weeks old) has weaned itself of its gruel stuff and only take s a little each night but when around us for a period of time does this little bobbing up and down dance squarking away jsut as she/he did when getting fed by the spoon. He/she will not eat of the spoon any more but continues to do the dance and the noise.

we are not alarmed or anything but wonder what it is all about ???!!!
Any one can shed any light on this little behavoiur please.

cheers

Fah · Post by **Fah** » Tue Dec 30, 2008 8:14 am

Its just a regular reaction, something some IRN's keep doing well into their 3rd and 4th month sometimes... really depends on the bird itself.

Its just a combination of excitement and desire. Feeding when a young bub, is a very exciting, and enjoyable thing heh... and even though its weaned off that 'experience' and moving on... its still young enough to show that same reaction when its going through another 'experience'. Some bubs can do it when they see you coming, some do it when they see new food... some do it just for the heck of being excited and not knowing how to express it, or just expressing it the way it feels it should.

Your lucky the bub doesnt eat from the spoon atm... I have a 4yo IRN who will push his way past anything young and old to get his beak around a spoon of hand rearing mix anytime.. anywhere.

Dolphinheart · Post by **Dolphinheart** » Tue Dec 30, 2008 6:16 pm

Fah i also have an older parrot that got the left overs of the gruel and yes attacked the spoon with such gustor figured it was a god time in her/his life -lol to have such fond memories of the spoon and the horrid gruel.

thanks for your answer to by the way

rose_2783 · Post by **rose_2783** » Tue May 05, 2009 9:53 pm

I use a syringe with a teat cannula on the end (a small plastic tip) to hand feed my babies. They slow down or stop the eating for a day or two until they fly for the first time. They too bob their heads with excitement. Also when they go to fly, the bobbing gets longer before they take off to fly. I feel that the bobbing is excitement, bonding and communication. These guys that I am feeding now can't wait to get out of the brooder and fly. They are about 6 to 7 weeks old and are really sweet right now, they hang on me like cling-on's, LOL.
The older three are 2 Gray and 1 Blue. The younger two are about two weeks old, 1 green and 1 blue.

U.S Marine · Post by **U.S Marine** » Wed May 06, 2009 10:21 pm

Yea, Its excitement. That is what you want
to see, Is the head bobbing. Check out this
You tube video of Stinky the Ring neck, This
is not my bird. This is not my bird. This is not
my bird.

NOT MY BIRD.
NOT MY BIRD.
NOT MY BIRD.

ENJOY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssxU_8qypCg

robin.s · Post by **robin.s** » Thu May 07, 2009 12:18 am

thats really odd. my female (the blue and white one, i do not know her mutation) did that head bobbing thing when we got our second bird a cockatiel. she seemed very upset. excited but upset. here eyes were pinning in and out.

she is right around a year old

rose_2783 · Post by **rose_2783** » Thu May 07, 2009 11:10 am

Your White and Blue baby could be a Pallid, (AKA Lacewing). If she is a year old, she could be starting to get sexually mature. I have tame breeder females that pin their eyes, lift their tail up and coo. They are in a trance like state and they allow me to pick them up with out them moving. One female would grab the locking dish and hold fast while I turned the dish and picked it up, she never flinched. I believe that this is a breeding thing and they hold fast for the male. The females are the ones that are fierce when breeding. I have had to replace a passive male with a more mature male so the female didn't hurt or kill the younger or less experienced male. The funny thing is that these females when not in breeding mode are the sweetest!