Marisa K.
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Hey guys,
I adopted a pair of green cheek conures from a local breeder some 2 weeks ago. They are a boy (Mac) and a girl (Linux), both hatched mid April this year. They are from different parents.
When they first came, they seem to get along really well. However, starting this week, I noticed them fighting occasionally. Mac sometimes bites Linux in her toes/wings (this happens ~3 times per day) kind of hard as I hear Linux squaks (not at the top of her lungs, though, just her normal volume). They do not fight all the time, and they still preen each other now and then. They still sleep next to each other on the prech at night, too. I'm kind of confused and not sure if they still like each other or not... Do I need to separate them apart?
Could this be jealousy? I do tend to interact with Linux more frequently since she's not afraid of me -- she eats from my hands since week 1, and is willing to fly onto my fingers; while Mac is still kind of cautious and won't stand on my fingers (he's a bit thick and nibbles me harder). But I did try my best to treat them equally and made sure they're given the same amount of treats (when Linux gets a sunflower seed, I give one to Mac, too).
Or could this be Mac's trauma? His beaks are fractured around his nose when I got him -- seems like he got into a fight with another bird back at the breeder's place. Plus there's some heavy construction going outside my apartment recently (but I can't remember if the fight started before the construction...) and I have to take them out in an outing cage. They seem pretty chill outside, though, and are willing to take sunflower seeds from my friends who haven't met them before.
They're pretty much free ranged in my living room -- I open their cage door at ~8:30 am and let them out, and send them back into the cage at ~9 pm each day to sleep. Sometimes I put them into the cage (a fairly large one, 30x20.5x54 inches) in the afternoon and leave the cage on the 8th-floor balcony so they can get some fresh air and sunshine. I feed them Hagen Tropican pellets as staple food, Hagen gormet seed mix as daily treats when I want to lure them into something, and bananas every other day (still trying to train them into eating carrots and peppers...).
Any suggestions would be really helpful and greatly appreciated!
I adopted a pair of green cheek conures from a local breeder some 2 weeks ago. They are a boy (Mac) and a girl (Linux), both hatched mid April this year. They are from different parents.
When they first came, they seem to get along really well. However, starting this week, I noticed them fighting occasionally. Mac sometimes bites Linux in her toes/wings (this happens ~3 times per day) kind of hard as I hear Linux squaks (not at the top of her lungs, though, just her normal volume). They do not fight all the time, and they still preen each other now and then. They still sleep next to each other on the prech at night, too. I'm kind of confused and not sure if they still like each other or not... Do I need to separate them apart?
Could this be jealousy? I do tend to interact with Linux more frequently since she's not afraid of me -- she eats from my hands since week 1, and is willing to fly onto my fingers; while Mac is still kind of cautious and won't stand on my fingers (he's a bit thick and nibbles me harder). But I did try my best to treat them equally and made sure they're given the same amount of treats (when Linux gets a sunflower seed, I give one to Mac, too).
Or could this be Mac's trauma? His beaks are fractured around his nose when I got him -- seems like he got into a fight with another bird back at the breeder's place. Plus there's some heavy construction going outside my apartment recently (but I can't remember if the fight started before the construction...) and I have to take them out in an outing cage. They seem pretty chill outside, though, and are willing to take sunflower seeds from my friends who haven't met them before.
They're pretty much free ranged in my living room -- I open their cage door at ~8:30 am and let them out, and send them back into the cage at ~9 pm each day to sleep. Sometimes I put them into the cage (a fairly large one, 30x20.5x54 inches) in the afternoon and leave the cage on the 8th-floor balcony so they can get some fresh air and sunshine. I feed them Hagen Tropican pellets as staple food, Hagen gormet seed mix as daily treats when I want to lure them into something, and bananas every other day (still trying to train them into eating carrots and peppers...).
Any suggestions would be really helpful and greatly appreciated!