Thanks. I was taking a break from things.
I am sorry that Mango is being very loud. I would not pass her onto a breeder and I think passing her on to someone else might be difficult for her. I wish I had a solution for you but you need to try to see if you can figure out what is bothering her. Does she need some kind of new toy/toys to interact with? Does she need some foraging and problem solving toys where she has to use her brain power to figure out and something to keep her busy? Does she want some food item from you? Is she noisy like this when she is in her cage? She may be hormonal right now and once she gets through this she will quiet down. Can you use some earbuds and listen to some music so the noise doesn't bug you? Did this start after your return from your business trip?
A few of my birds can be very noisy. In fact I was on the phone this AM and Jaden just kept chatting and making all kinds of noise, add that to my dog barking I found it hard to hear what the person on the other end of the line was saying to me. Jaden can go on and on for a long time and then there are my cockatoos and one of my Amazons. They are VERY loud and when they get going and doing there round robin screaming it can get bad.
I really hope you can find a solution.
BTW, you may want to take her to the vet for a check up if you feel comfortable doing that to see if something physiological is going on?
I am soooo glad you are back!! I missed you and was actually starting to think something may have happened to you. I hope you had a nice break.
Yes, I do think Mango is hormonal right now. She is chewing perches like crazy and making some nesting sounds when she is near any cozy spaces. But what she has done over the last three days is very disheartening. Today, for example, she flew to her wall around 8:30 am and started the calling, which lasted until about 1:30 pm. At one point around noon, I was going nuts and I jumped up and yelled at her to shut up. She immediately flew around the room making her scolding noise and then went back to the wall and started calling louder and more frequently while looking directly at me. If I would glance up at her she would stare me down and intensify her calls. It was as if she were trying to get another rise out of me. I don't understand this. Cosmo never did anything like this.
After I introduced her to Banana, she was quiet for a while. I expected her to be more interested because of the way she clings to her bird videos. But she wasn't. Instead, she went back into her cage, and I closed the door. Anytime I walked up to talk to her, she gave me hard-core go-away dance, including the aggressive kind where she rubs her beak on her perch. She is acting like she is mad at me. Am I just projecting these human emotions onto her, or could a bird really be "angry?" It sure seemed like she is very angry at me.
I tried so hard to interact with her over the weekend, but she made it clear that she sees me only as a food source and has no intentions whatsoever of allowing a bond with a human. She wants companionship with birds only. As I said, I am ok with this. I tried my best to win her over, but she just isn't having any of it. Or, maybe it's just the hormones. I just don't know. Another possibility is that the bird videos have reinforced the idea of bird companionship in her mind. Trying to be a conure psychologist is not easy. They are complicated. I need to stop feeding her seeds. All that fat really triggers the hormones in females. But it is all she will eat. I don't want to starve her!
How are you doing??? Do you go anywhere during your time away? How is the flock? Ricky? Lucy? My buddy Speeeeeeeee???? Are you fully recovered from your fall?