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Shiloh45

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Hello,

I need some advice from experienced people.

I have a Olive IRN, I had him since he was about 6 weeks old. Shiloh is his/her name. It was handfed in the bird store for about 22 days. I would visit him everyday, so when I brought him home, he was use to being held and grabbed since, so there wasn't trouble there. When I bought Shiloh it was before I brought him home it was back in 4/5/17 he was almost 6 weeks then.

Now just 2 days ago I bought an Albino IRN. I named him/her Snow. The worker there told me that he was brought in with the batch prior to my bird like a week or so before. The people that were going to buy him, just paid the deposit to reserve him. But they never came for him and meanwhile that they never visited him either. He was handfed. So he's around like 3 months old or a bit older. He doesn't like being grabbed at all, he thrashes around when my hand goes near the cage like wiping his perching sticks for example. They adviced me to keep Snow in his cage next to Shiloh's. And to keep Snow in his for about 3 days. Shiloh and him show interest of trying to be together since today. So I let the bird get out by himself because he was biting on the cage bars kind off hard because he was trying to get out and I was afraid he would hurt his beak. So far they dont fight really bad. Just at times Snow tries to bite Shiloh to kick him off his own cage (not Snow's cage). So I tried to put him back with one of the long perches as far away as I could and put him back in his cage for a minute to calm down.

My question is, what more advice can you guys give me. What im doing wrong? What I should do? How long should i wait to try and tame him? What can I expect this time around with Snow?

Pic 1. is Snow
Pic 2. Is what I mean that Snow was trying to get out to go with Shiloh.
Pic 3. Shiloh's cage is the big one and Snow's the small one. It was Shiloh's old cage.
 

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Congrats on Snow...s/he is beautiful.

Obviously there's no quarantine for Snow. Have you had him/her to the vet for a wellness check yet? I'd highly recommend that you do so. Are you planning on getting a different cage for Snow? The one s/he is in now reminds me of Milton's travel cage. S/he will be needing a new cage soon...a large, DEEP cage...s/he will be needing a lot of space for her/his tail!

Since Snow was hand-fed, s/he might feel that Shiloh is a competitor for food. I'd slow down the meetings between the two...after all, Snow's just getting used to his/her new home...another bird could be upping his/her anxiety level...
 

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One more thing, dont show your hands near the cage and don't grab her, she will think a monster is coming to get her, just follow her lead. She is a cute baby
 

Shiloh45

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The Bird store where I bought them both. The owner is a Avian specialist as well. So I just go back to them for the wellness check ups and such.

The cage Snow is in, is temporary, it was Shiloh's old cage. Because the same day that I bought Snow I bought Shiloh's new cage the big one next to the white one. I was planning for them to share it eventually, if it was possible, if not then I will be buying Snow a bigger one as well.

When I had Shiloh in the small white cage, he only used it to sleep at night and he was out during the day.

Ok so this is what I know.

Snow was brought in with the batch, like a couple of days before Shiloh. In the Bird store, all the new babies share the same nursery room, and its seperated from the rest of the store. All the babies of course have different cages. Some of the birds share a cage if they are the same species and from the same batch, but only 2 in one cage. Snow was in the cage next to Shiloh's cage in the nursery, so It can be possible that they recognize each other, if that's even possible that they remember.

When I bought Snow he was alone in a similar cage as the one he has now, but there were other cages on top of his and next to his as well, and those cages had birds in there. He was out of the nursery room already and in the area next to all the young birds that were ready to go home. He was weened a while ago, because he is a bit older than Shiloh. And well in a way Snow isn't stranger to other birds or sharing a cage with another bird. But his reaction to Shiloh well i can't compare to Snows past experiences in the nursery and outside of it.

Shiloh on the other hand isn't aggressive, he tries to kiss Snow. But snow responses sometimes are to bite him, so i separate them.
I believe Shiloh's reaction isnt aggressive because when he was in the nursery, he was sharing his cage with his brother, from the same nest where they hatched. And Shiloh's brother was Albino as well. So maybe than is why Shiloh isn't responding badly.

The reason I let Snow out is because he's been like biting and climbing, just going crazy. I was afraid he was going to hurt himself. Because when i brought him 2 days ago. He didnt even want to move or get out. And slowly he showed signs of getting closer to Shiloh. Then he started going crazy wanting to get out. So I just opened his cage. They are fine close together most of the time. Just that sometimes Snow goes to Shiloh and tries to throw him off of the big cage. But I've tried seperating them in different rooms outside and they call each other and try to fly around looking for each other. But they have their wings clipped so then can crash easily to the floor. So I put them back in the same room so they can calm down.
 

Shiloh45

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Oh ok, that sounds like common sense. Why didn't I think about that. Thank you for telling me that...
 
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