http://www.birdtricks.com/blog/fighting-birds/ Wed, 28 Jul 2010 11:44:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.birdtricks.com/blog/fighting-birds/comment-page-1/#comment-15747 RUTH KANTOR Mon, 14 Jun 2010 02:35:46 +0000 http://www.birdtricks.com/blog/?p=1119#comment-15747 I was really wondering about parrots in the wild when I wrote my question. What a very heartrending story! I have only one parrot, a 6 yr. old eclectus given to me 3 mos. ago. She was awhile getting to trust me and wasn't friendly - until she laid 4 eggs! She had been uprooted just at her 1st cycling and was hormonal. Now that we're friends she loves to play-fight with my hand. She grabs my knucles and pulls on them, and I put 2 fingers on the sides of her beak. It's very gentle play but is her favorite game. I hope that your birds are healed and are trusting again! I was really wondering about parrots in the wild when I wrote my question. What a very heartrending story!
I have only one parrot, a 6 yr. old eclectus given to me 3 mos. ago. She was awhile getting to trust me and wasn’t friendly – until she laid 4 eggs! She had been uprooted just at her 1st cycling and was hormonal.
Now that we’re friends she loves to play-fight with my hand. She grabs my knucles and pulls on them, and I put 2 fingers on the sides of her beak. It’s very gentle play but is her favorite game.
I hope that your birds are healed and are trusting again!

]]> http://www.birdtricks.com/blog/fighting-birds/comment-page-1/#comment-12878 Jenny Yen from India Fri, 16 Oct 2009 19:16:03 +0000 http://www.birdtricks.com/blog/?p=1119#comment-12878 Just read this one Patty..... A few minutes ago, I added my comment on escaped birds and told you about my 2 Alexandrians - the girl, hand-raised/fed from 4 wks old, now almost 2 yrs and the male 12 yrs old with us for 4 mths now. The sad thing is that they don't seem to have bonded and are always mock fighting. I call it "mock fighting" coz till now, thank God, they haven't really bitten one another. They are in the same cage and after reading this I'm wondering whether I need to separate them. Won't that make them grow further apart from each other? I was kind of hoping that they would become friends..... maybe when my little girl reaches adulthood in another year...... your advise needed pls...... Just read this one Patty….. A few minutes ago, I added my comment on escaped birds and told you about my 2 Alexandrians – the girl, hand-raised/fed from 4 wks old, now almost 2 yrs and the male 12 yrs old with us for 4 mths now. The sad thing is that they don’t seem to have bonded and are always mock fighting. I call it “mock fighting” coz till now, thank God, they haven’t really bitten one another. They are in the same cage and after reading this I’m wondering whether I need to separate them. Won’t that make them grow further apart from each other? I was kind of hoping that they would become friends….. maybe when my little girl reaches adulthood in another year…… your advise needed pls……

]]> http://www.birdtricks.com/blog/fighting-birds/comment-page-1/#comment-12500 Patty Wed, 09 Sep 2009 15:23:52 +0000 http://www.birdtricks.com/blog/?p=1119#comment-12500 Hi Steve, "Why take a chance when we really have little idea what they are thinking." is exactly the point of that article. That is what I hoped people would come away with. They aren't human, they don't think or reason like we do, and their priorities are entirely different. Kudos to you for your observance and supervision of your senegals. Patty Hi Steve,
“Why take a chance when we really have little idea what they are thinking.” is exactly the point of that article. That is what I hoped people would come away with. They aren’t human, they don’t think or reason like we do, and their priorities are entirely different. Kudos to you for your observance and supervision of your senegals.
Patty

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