faithapaul1
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Howdy everyone!
My green cheek was hatched sometime between February and April of 2018, so I am guessing he is around ten months.
He's great, a cutie pie, and one of the biggest clowns, but he has started to show some aggression towards other women. For the last few weeks he's turned on my mom, who has done nothing but love him, feed him, and talk sweetly to him, but it's gotten so bad that he now throws himself at the bars of the cage when she passes by. My mom has done nothing wrong, I assure you. She loves birds and is quite bonded to my cockatiel. In particular he goes after her face and is quick to draw blood.
I've been trying to work with him and my mom on this. At first I attributed his behavior to molting, but now I am not so sure. It seems he will be fine with her one second, letting her scratch his head, and standing calmly on her hand, then the next he'll march up to her face or neck (or even jump to those places) and take a big chomp! He gets all fluffed up, too. With my mom he's actually ran across the table and tried to bite her hands several times.
I haven't witnessed this behavior with men, on the contrary he seems to adore men. My roommate who he used to love, same with every other woman except myself, he's started to act more and more aggressive towards, each time trying to go after their faces. He acts real sweet, really calm at first, mouth closed,then marches straight to the shoulder, poofs up and tries to bite and will not give up, just keeps biting until they manage to get him off or I take him off, and then he's fine -- no aggression towards me or them so long as they don't touch him. I don't understand it. And if anyone tries to prevent him from climbing to the shoulder area he bites extremely hard. It doesn't seem to matter if I'm there or not there.
My main question is do you think this is hormonal behavior? I realize something is going on, and I am taking the steps to correct it (i.e. cage time as soon as he acts aggressive). He's eating zupreem pellets and a cooked mash of veggies and Harrison's food. We do not know for sure if he's a boy, but even so, isn't he a little young to be getting hormonal?
Thank so much!
My green cheek was hatched sometime between February and April of 2018, so I am guessing he is around ten months.
He's great, a cutie pie, and one of the biggest clowns, but he has started to show some aggression towards other women. For the last few weeks he's turned on my mom, who has done nothing but love him, feed him, and talk sweetly to him, but it's gotten so bad that he now throws himself at the bars of the cage when she passes by. My mom has done nothing wrong, I assure you. She loves birds and is quite bonded to my cockatiel. In particular he goes after her face and is quick to draw blood.
I've been trying to work with him and my mom on this. At first I attributed his behavior to molting, but now I am not so sure. It seems he will be fine with her one second, letting her scratch his head, and standing calmly on her hand, then the next he'll march up to her face or neck (or even jump to those places) and take a big chomp! He gets all fluffed up, too. With my mom he's actually ran across the table and tried to bite her hands several times.
I haven't witnessed this behavior with men, on the contrary he seems to adore men. My roommate who he used to love, same with every other woman except myself, he's started to act more and more aggressive towards, each time trying to go after their faces. He acts real sweet, really calm at first, mouth closed,then marches straight to the shoulder, poofs up and tries to bite and will not give up, just keeps biting until they manage to get him off or I take him off, and then he's fine -- no aggression towards me or them so long as they don't touch him. I don't understand it. And if anyone tries to prevent him from climbing to the shoulder area he bites extremely hard. It doesn't seem to matter if I'm there or not there.
My main question is do you think this is hormonal behavior? I realize something is going on, and I am taking the steps to correct it (i.e. cage time as soon as he acts aggressive). He's eating zupreem pellets and a cooked mash of veggies and Harrison's food. We do not know for sure if he's a boy, but even so, isn't he a little young to be getting hormonal?
Thank so much!